People

  • faculty

  • Bernadette Wegenstein

    Bernadette Wegenstein

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

    PhD, Vienna University

  • affiliated faculty

  • Laura di Bianco

    Laura di Bianco

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

    PhD, City University of New York
    • 410-516-2022
    • lauradibianco@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 435
    • Research Interests: Italian cinema, modern and contemporary Italian literature, film studies, women’s and gender studies, ecocriticism
  • Samuel Chambers

    Samuel Chambers

    Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

    PhD, University of Minnesota
    • 410-516-7948
    • samchambers@jhu.edu
    • 280 Mergenthaler
    • Research Interests: Political theory, cultural politics
  • Veena Das

    Veena Das

    Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Anthropology

    PhD, University of Delhi, India
    • 410-516-0630
    • veenadas@jhu.edu
    • Mergenthaler 441
    • Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe
  • William Egginton

    William Egginton

    Department Chair and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures

    PhD, Stanford University
    • 410-516-7510
    • egginton@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 470
    • Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American Literatures, comparative European literature and thought
  • Eduardo Gonzalez

    Eduardo Gonzalez

    Professor and Director of the Spanish Subdivision and Undergraduate Studies for Spanish,
    Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures

    PhD, Indiana University Bloomington
    • 410-516-4615
    • cocuyo@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 480
    • Research Interests: Latin American literature and cinema
  • Clara Han

    Clara Han

    Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

    PhD, Harvard University
    • 410-516-2864
    • clarahan@jhu.edu
    • Mergenthaler 463
    • 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
  • Paola Marrati

    Paola Marrati

    Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Thought and Literature

    PhD, Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg, France
    • 410-516-0542
    • pmarrati@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 220
    • Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French philosophy, American pragmatism and skepticism, phenomenology, philosophy and cinema, feminist and queer theory
  • Anne Eakin Moss

    Anne Eakin Moss

    Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Thought and Literature
    Co-Executive Editor, Modern Language Notes, Comparative Literature Issue

    PhD, Stanford University
    • 410-516-6503
    • aeakinmoss@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 224
    • Research Interests: Russian literature and Soviet cinema, comparative cinema studies, with particular interests in revolutionary and avant-garde culture, gender theory, film phenomenology, and theories of spectatorship and immersivity
  • Anand Pandian

    Anand Pandian

    Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology

    PhD, University of California, Berkeley
    • 410-516-7267
    • pandian@jhu.edu
    • Mergenthaler 454
    • Research Interests: Ecological and philosophical anthropology; sensory ethnography and experimental writing; posthumanist and postcolonial criticism; environmental ethics; anthropological method; India, America, Earth
  • Derek Schilling

    Derek Schilling

    Professor and Director of the French Subdivision, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures

    PhD/Doctorat du 3e cycle, University of Pennsylvania/University of Paris 8 (Vincennes/Saint-Denis)
    • 410-516-4626
    • dschill4@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 426
    • Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French literature; film esthetics and theory; geocriticism; urban and suburban studies
  • Bécquer Seguín

    Bécquer Seguín

    Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures

    PhD, Cornell University
    • 410-516-8571
    • becquer@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 481
    • Research Interests: Modern Iberian literature, film, and culture; transatlantic studies; political theory; art history