Faculty Board
William Egginton
Director, The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; Decker Professor in the Humanities
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- egginton@jhu.edu
- Gilman 470
- 410-516-7510
Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American Literatures, comparative European literature and thought
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Virginia Jewiss
Associate Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; Teaching Professor
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- vjewiss1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 330D
- 646-549-0812
Research Interests: Italian literature and cinema, translation, monuments and memorials
Education: PhD, Yale University
Sean Carroll
Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy, Department of Philosophy; Faculty, Department of Physics & Astronomy
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Research Interests: Philosophy of Physics, Complexity, Emergence
Danielle Evans
Assistant Professor, Writing Seminars
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- devans63@jhu.edu
- Gilman 38G
- 410-516-0434
Research Interests: Creative Writing, The Short Story, African-American Literature, and Contemporary Literature
Yi-Ping Ong
Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Honors Program
Contact Information
- yi-ping.ong@jhu.edu
- Gilman 218
- 410-516-6500
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century literature and philosophy, the novel, modernism, existentialism, ethics and justice in contemporary world literature
Nandini Pandey
Associate Research Professor
Contact Information
- npandey3@jh.edu
- Gilman 112
- 410-516-0598
Research Interests: Latin literature; Roman history, politics, and visual culture; race, identity, and diversity; classical reception (especially across ages, media, and cultures); public humanities
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Plaster
Director, Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center
Contact Information
- jplaste1@jhu.edu
- Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Research Interests: Queer & trans U.S. history, public humanities, oral history, performance studies
Affiliated Faculty
Thomas Lippincott
Associate Research Professor, Computer Science and Director of Digital Humanities
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Research Interests: computational linguistics, machine learning for traditional scholarship, digital humanities, philosophy of language
Education: PhD, Cambridge University
Faculty Fellows
Sharon Achinstein (she/her)
Sir William Osler Professor of English
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Research Interests: Early Modern Literature, Poetry, And Poetics, Gender
Victoria Harms
Senior Lecturer
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Research Interests: 20th and 21st-Century European History, Cold War, Sports History, Racism, Democracy and Backsliding
Jared Hickman
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Research Interests: American Literature In Atlantic/World Context; Religious And Secular Studies; Critical Race Studies; Indigenous And Settler Colonial Studies
Anne E. Lester
John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History and Director of Graduate Studies
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Research Interests: Medieval Europe, Materialities, Crusade Cultures, Religious Movements And Monasticism, Women And Gender, Law And Society, Urban Life And The Environment
Lan Li
Assistant Professor; Co-Director of Online Program, HOM
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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
Stephen Nichols
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Medieval French Literature
Matt Roller
Professor of Classics
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Research Interests: Latin Literature; Roman Social and Cultural History; Graeco-Roman Philosophy
Bécquer Seguín
Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies
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Research Interests: Modern Spanish Literature, Political Theory, Intellectual History, Cultural Sociology
Staff
Shira Dingle
Sr. Administrative Coordinator
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- tdingle2@jhu.edu
- Wyman N600 / Mergenthaler 429
Sarah Ross (she/her)
AGHI Postdoctoral Fellow
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Research Interests: Nineteenth-century literature and culture; history and theories of the novel; critical theory; gender; race and postcolonialism; labor history and theory; public humanities
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University