Faculty Board
Jeanne-Marie Jackson
Director, The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; Professor of English
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 30A
- 410-516-5845
Research Interests: Theory of the novel, literature and philosophy, sub-Saharan African literature, Russian realism, global regionalisms
Virginia Jewiss
Director of Public Engagement, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; Teaching Professor
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- Gilman 330D
- 646-549-0812
Research Interests: Italian literature and cinema, translation, monuments and memorials
Education: PhD, Yale University
Yi-Ping Ong
Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Honors Program
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 218
- 410-516-6500
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century literature and philosophy, the novel, modernism, existentialism, ethics and justice in contemporary world literature
Lucy Allais
Miller Professor of Philosophy
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 292
Research Interests: Kant, forgiveness, punishment, moral psychology
Education: D.Phil., Oxford
Daniel Desormeaux
William D. and Robin Mayer Professor, Head of the French Subdivision
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- [email protected]
- Gilman Hall 482
- 410-516-7727
Research Interests: French and Caribbean literature and thought of the “long” 19th century; Haitian Revolution, race, and slavery; comparative analysis of Caribbean literature and religion; history of the book and French literary history; Fin-de-Siècle literature and transatlantic anthropology
Dora Malech
Professor and Chair of the Writing Seminars; Editor in Chief of The Hopkins Review
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 80
- 410-516-0820
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Poetry, Contemporary Literature, Translation, Literary Editing and Publishing
Andrew Perrin
Chair, Sociology; Professor, SNF-Agora
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- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 556 & Wyman Park 302
- 410-516-2370 & 410-516-2006
Research Interests: Cultural & Political Sociology
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Elizabeth Thornberry
Associate Professor
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- Gilman 338E
Research Interests: History of gender, sexuality, empire, and law in Southern Africa and across the continent
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Affiliated Faculty
William Egginton
DGS, Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies Program (IHS)
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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
Thomas Lippincott
Associate Research Professor, Computer Science and Director of Digital Humanities
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Research Interests: computational linguistics, machine learning for traditional scholarship, digital humanities, philosophy of language
Education: PhD, Cambridge University
Aamir R. Mufti
Ralph S. And Becky G. O’Connor Professor
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- Gilman14
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century English and Anglophone literatures; modern Urdu literature; the history and legacies of the British Empire; South Asian Studies; Middle-Eastern and Islamic Studies; modern European Jewish Studies; minorities and minoritization; religious cultures and secularism; citizenship and statelessness; exile and cosmopolitanism.
Joseph Plaster
Director, Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center
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- [email protected]
- Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Research Interests: Queer & trans U.S. history, public humanities, oral history, performance studies
Staff
Shira Dingle
Sr. Administrative Coordinator, AGHI; CDH; GSHI
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- Mergenthaler 427
Alessandra Amin (she/her)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Global South Humanities Initiative
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Research Interests: Arab art and visual culture, 19th-21st centuries; imaginaries of exile and statelessness; intersections of gender, sexuality, and nationalism; history of photography, 19th-20th centuries
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
