faculty
Bernadette Wegenstein
Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies, Professor of Media Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- berna@jhu.edu
- Gilman 461
- 410-516-7511
Education: PhD, Vienna University
Wonjung Bae
Lecturer, Program in Film and Media Studies
Contact Information
- wbae2@jhu.edu
- Film Centre - Suite 204
- 410-462-7577
Research Interests: Impact storytelling; realism; direct cinema; international co-production
Marina Bedran
Assistant Professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- mbedran@jhu.edu
- Gilman 481
- 410-516-5358
Research Interests: Amazonia, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, visual culture, media theory, film, and literary theory and translation
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Rebecca M. Brown
Professor, Department of the History of Art
Contact Information
- rmbrown@jhu.edu
- Gilman 182
- 410-516-0345
Research Interests: Modernism, colonialism, 18th-20th c. South Asia
Education: PhD, University of Minnesota
Samuel Chambers
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Contact Information
- samchambers@jhu.edu
- 280 Mergenthaler
- 410-516-7948
Research Interests: Political theory, cultural politics
Education: PhD, University of Minnesota
Veena Das
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Anthropology
Contact Information
- veenadas@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 441
- 410-516-0630
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
Laura Di Bianco
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian
Contact Information
- lauradibianco@jhu.edu
- Gilman 435
- 410-516-2022
Research Interests: Italian cinema, modern and contemporary Italian literature, film studies, women’s and gender studies, ecocriticism
Education: PhD, City University of New York
William Egginton
Decker Professor in the Humanities; Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
Contact Information
- egginton@jhu.edu
- Gilman 470
- 410-516-7510
Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American Literatures, comparative European literature and thought
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Maia Gil’Adí
Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and affiliated faculty in the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLxS)
Contact Information
- giladi@jhu.edu
- San Martin Center Room 263
Research Interests: Latinx and Multiethic Literature
Education: PhD, George Washington University
Clara Han
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Contact Information
- clarahan@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 463
- 410-516-2864
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
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
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
Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art
Contact Information
- yliu529@jhu.edu
- Gilman 184
- 410-516-0554
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese art and media culture
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Paola Marrati
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Thought and Literature
Contact Information
- pmarrati@jhu.edu
- Gilman 220
- 410-516-0542
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
Marcelo Nogueira
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- marcelonogueira@jhu.edu
- San Martin Center 265
- (410) 516 8768
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary poetry, literary history, media theory, sonic and visual cultures, sound studies, ethnomusicology; Latin American avant-gardes, Brazilian concrete poetry, and the art of songwriting in Latin America.
Education: PhD, Duke University
Anand Pandian
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
Contact Information
- pandian@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 454
- 410-516-7267
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
Professor and Director of the French Subdivision, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- dschill4@jhu.edu
- Gilman 426
- 410-516-4626
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
Research Professor, Department of Comparative Thought and Literature
Contact Information
- pschmel2@jh.edu
- Gilman 224
- (410) 516-6503
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
Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art
Contact Information
- cschopp2@jhu.edu
- Gilman 169
- 410-516-7121
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art, Critical Theory
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Bécquer Seguín
Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- becquer@jhu.edu
- Gilman 481
- 410-516-8571
Research Interests: Modern Iberian literature, film, and culture; transatlantic studies; political theory; art history
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Kyle Stine
Senior Lecturer, Program in Film and Media Studies
Contact Information
- kylestine@jhu.edu
- 65 Gilman Hall
- 410-462-7577
Research Interests: film and media theory; new media and social change; philosophy of technology
Education: PhD, University of Iowa
Meredith Ward
Senior Lecturer, Program in Film and Media Studies
Contact Information
- mward1@jhu.edu
- Film Centre - Suite 204
- 410-462-7577
Research Interests: Film and media history and theory; popular culture; sound theory
Education: PhD, Northwestern University