faculty
Bernadette Wegenstein
Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies
Professor of Media Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
PhD, Vienna University
Gilman 461410-516-7511
berna@jhu.edu
Marina Bedran
Assistant Professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
PhD, Princeton University
Gilman 481410-516-5358
mbedran@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Amazonia, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, visual culture, media theory, film, and literary theory and translation
Laura di Bianco
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian
PhD, City University of New York
Gilman 435410-516-2022
lauradibianco@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Italian cinema, modern and contemporary Italian literature, film studies, women’s and gender studies, ecocriticism
Rebecca M. Brown
Professor, Department of the History of Art
PhD, University of Minnesota
Gilman 182410-516-0345
rmbrown@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Modernism, colonialism, 18th-20th c. South Asia
Samuel Chambers
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
PhD, University of Minnesota
280 Mergenthaler410-516-7948
samchambers@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Political theory, cultural politics
Veena Das
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Anthropology
PhD, University of Delhi, India
Mergenthaler 441410-516-0630
veenadas@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe
William Egginton
Decker Professor in the Humanities; Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
PhD, Stanford University
Gilman 470410-516-7510
egginton@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American Literatures, comparative European literature and thought
Eduardo Gonzalez
Professor and Director of the Spanish Subdivision and Undergraduate Studies for Spanish,
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
PhD, Indiana University Bloomington
Gilman 480410-516-4615
cocuyo@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Latin American literature and cinema
Clara Han
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
PhD, Harvard University
Mergenthaler 463410-516-2864
clarahan@jhu.edu
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
Jacob Haubenreich
Assistant Professor of German, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
jhauben2@jhu.eduResearch 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
Paola Marrati
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Thought and Literature
PhD, Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg, France
Gilman 220410-516-0542
pmarrati@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French philosophy, American pragmatism and skepticism, phenomenology, philosophy and cinema, feminist and queer theory
Anand Pandian
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Mergenthaler 454410-516-7267
pandian@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Ecological and philosophical anthropology; sensory ethnography and experimental writing; posthumanist and postcolonial criticism; environmental ethics; anthropological method; India, America, Earth
Derek Schilling
Professor and Director of the French Subdivision, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
PhD/Doctorat du 3e cycle, University of Pennsylvania/University of Paris 8 (Vincennes/Saint-Denis)
Gilman 426410-516-4626
dschill4@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French literature; film esthetics and theory; geocriticism; urban and suburban studies
Bécquer Seguín
Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
PhD, Cornell University
Gilman 481410-516-8571
becquer@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Modern Iberian literature, film, and culture; transatlantic studies; political theory; art history
Kyle Stine
Lecturer, Program in Film and Media Studies
PhD, University of Iowa
65 Gilman Hall410-462-7577
kylestine@jhu.edu
Research Interests: film and media theory; new media and social change; philosophy of technology
Meredith Ward
Senior Lecturer, Program in Film and Media Studies
PhD, Northwestern University
Film Centre - Suite 204410-462-7577
mward1@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Film and media history and theory; popular culture; sound theory