People

Bernadette Wegenstein

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

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Gilman 461
410-516-7511

Education: PhD, Vienna University

Wonjung Bae

Lecturer, Program in Film and Media Studies

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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

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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

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Gilman 182
410-516-0345

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

Education: PhD, University of Minnesota

Samuel Chambers

Professor, Department of Political Science

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280 Mergenthaler
410-516-7948

Research Interests: Political theory, cultural politics

Education: PhD, University of Minnesota

Laura Di Bianco

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

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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; Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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Gilman 470
410-516-7510

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

Education: PhD, Stanford University

Maia Gil’Adí

Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies

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San Martin Center Room 263

Research Interests: Latinx and Multiethic Literature

Education: PhD, George Washington University

Clara Han

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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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 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

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Gilman 184
410-516-0554

Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese art and media culture

Education: PhD, University of Chicago

Paola Marrati

Professor, Comparative Thought and Literature

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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

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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

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Anthropology

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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, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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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

Professor, Department of Comparative Thought and Literature

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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)