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Bernadette Wegenstein

Bernadette Wegenstein

Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies
Professor of Media Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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Education: PhD, Vienna University

Wonjung Bae

Wonjung Bae

Lecturer, Program in Film and Media Studies

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Research Interests: Impact storytelling; realism; direct cinema; international co-production

Marina Bedran

Marina Bedran

Assistant Professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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Research Interests: Amazonia, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, visual culture, media theory, film, and literary theory and translation

Education: PhD, Princeton University

Laura di Bianco

Laura di Bianco

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian

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Research Interests: Italian cinema, modern and contemporary Italian literature, film studies, women’s and gender studies, ecocriticism

Education: PhD, City University of New York

Rebecca M. Brown

Rebecca M. Brown

Professor, Department of the History of Art

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Research Interests: Modernism, colonialism, 18th-20th c. South Asia

Education: PhD, University of Minnesota

Samuel Chambers

Samuel Chambers

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

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Research Interests: Political theory, cultural politics

Education: PhD, University of Minnesota

Veena Das

Veena Das

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe

Education: PhD, University of Delhi, India

William Egginton

William Egginton

Decker Professor in the Humanities; Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute

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Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American Literatures, comparative European literature and thought

Education: PhD, Stanford University

Clara Han

Clara Han

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Research Interests: Violence, care, urban poverty and everyday life; affliction and illness experience; death and dying; anthropology and philosophy
; Chile, the Southern Cone, Latin America; the United States; and connections and intersections with Asia

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Jacob Haubenreich

Jacob Haubenreich

Assistant Professor of German, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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Research Interests: 19th-21st century German literature, posthermeneutics, theory and history of media, Schriftbildlichkeit, book history, writing process, archival theory and practice, experimental literature, literature and the visual arts, new materialism, multilingualism

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Lan Li

Lan Li

Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Online Program, Department of the History of Medicine

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Research Interests: History of East Asian medicine; global Chinese medicine; STS; graphic genre; medical metaphors; anatomical representation; histories of neuroscience; postcolonial science studies; race and racism in health care access

Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mia Yinxing Liu

Mia Yinxing Liu

Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art

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Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese art and media culture

Education: PhD, University of Chicago

Paola Marrati

Paola Marrati

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Thought and Literature

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Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French philosophy, American pragmatism and skepticism, phenomenology, philosophy and cinema, feminist and queer theory

Education: PhD, Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg, France

Anand Pandian

Anand Pandian

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology

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Research Interests: Ecological and philosophical anthropology; sensory ethnography and experimental writing; posthumanist and postcolonial criticism; environmental ethics; anthropological method; India, America, Earth

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Derek Schilling

Derek Schilling

Professor and Director of the French Subdivision, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French literature; film esthetics and theory; geocriticism; urban and suburban studies

Education: PhD/Doctorat du 3e cycle, University of Pennsylvania/University of Paris 8 (Vincennes/Saint-Denis)

Peter J. Schmelz

Peter J. Schmelz

Research Professor, Department of Comparative Thought and Literature

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Research Interests: 20th and 21st-century music, Soviet and post-Soviet music and culture, aesthetics, polystylism, modernism and the avant-garde, popular and experimental music, jazz, film, Alfred Schnittke, Valentyn Sylvestrov (Valentin Silvestrov)

Caroline Lillian Schopp

Caroline Lillian Schopp

Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art

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Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art, Critical Theory

Education: PhD, University of Chicago

Bécquer Seguín

Bécquer Seguín

Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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Research Interests: Modern Iberian literature, film, and culture; transatlantic studies; political theory; art history

Education: PhD, Cornell University

Kyle Stine

Kyle Stine

Senior Lecturer, Program in Film and Media Studies

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Research Interests: film and media theory; new media and social change; philosophy of technology

Education: PhD, University of Iowa

Meredith Ward

Meredith Ward

Senior Lecturer, Program in Film and Media Studies

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Research Interests: Film and media history and theory; popular culture; sound theory

Education: PhD, Northwestern University