People
faculty
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Bernadette Wegenstein
Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies
Professor of Media Studies, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures
PhD, Vienna University410-516-7511 berna@jhu.edu Gilman 461
affiliated faculty
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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 York410-516-2022 lauradibianco@jhu.edu Gilman 435
Research Interests: Italian cinema, modern and contemporary Italian literature, film studies, women’s and gender studies, ecocriticism
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Samuel Chambers
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
PhD, University of Minnesota410-516-7948 samchambers@jhu.edu 280 Mergenthaler
Research Interests: Political theory, cultural politics
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Veena Das
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Anthropology
PhD, University of Delhi, India410-516-0630 veenadas@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 441
Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe
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William Egginton
Department Chair and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures
PhD, Stanford University410-516-7510 egginton@jhu.edu Gilman 470
Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American Literatures, comparative European literature and thought
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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 Bloomington410-516-4615 cocuyo@jhu.edu Gilman 480
Research Interests: Latin American literature and cinema
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Clara Han
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
PhD, Harvard University410-516-2864 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
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Paola Marrati
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Thought and Literature
PhD, Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg, France410-516-0542 pmarrati@jhu.edu Gilman 220
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French philosophy, American pragmatism and skepticism, phenomenology, philosophy and cinema, feminist and queer theory
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Anand Pandian
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
PhD, University of California, Berkeley410-516-7267 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
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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
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Bécquer Seguín
Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures
PhD, Cornell University410-516-8571 becquer@jhu.edu Gilman 481
Research Interests: Modern Iberian literature, film, and culture; transatlantic studies; political theory; art history
