Faculty Board
William Egginton
Director, The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; Decker Professor in the Humanities
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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
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
Sean Carroll
Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy, Department of Philosophy; Faculty, Department of Physics & Astronomy
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Research Interests: Philosophy of Physics, Complexity, Emergence
Danielle Evans
Assistant Professor, Writing Seminars
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- Gilman 38G
- 410-516-0434
Research Interests: Creative Writing, The Short Story, African-American Literature, and Contemporary Literature
Yi-Ping Ong
Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Honors Program
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- 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
Nandini Pandey
Associate Research Professor
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- Gilman 112
- 410-516-0598
Research Interests: Latin literature; Roman history, politics, and visual culture; race, identity, and diversity; classical reception (especially across ages, media, and cultures); public humanities
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
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
Affiliated Faculty
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.
Faculty Fellows
Jane Bennett
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities, Departments of Political Science and Comparative Thought and Literature
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- 194 Gilman
- 410-516-5230
Research Interests: Political theory, American political thought, ecophilosophy
Education: PhD, University of Massachusetts
Laura Di Bianco
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Advanced Media Studies, Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Environmental Science and Studies Program
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- Gilman 492
- 410-516-2022
Research Interests: Italian Cinema, 20th and 21st Italian Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities.
Education: PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Earle Havens
Adjunct Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, Director, The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries
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- Department of Special Collections, Brody Learning Commons
- 443-743-7849
Research Interests: History of the Book, Scribal Culture and the History of Reading, Catholic Reformation, Literary Forgery
Education: PhD, Yale University (History and Renaissance Studies)
Stuart W. Leslie
Emeritus Professor
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- Gilman 363
Research Interests: History of technology; history of science-based industry; regional economic geography; science and architecture
Education: PhD, University of Delaware
Alice Mandell
William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies Assistant Professor
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- Gilman 140
- 410-516-4701
Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Northwest Semitics; ancient Near Eastern history and religion; Sociolinguistic approaches to writing
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Craig Messner
Lecturer
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Research Interests: Non-standard (dialectal) English of 19th Century literature
Andrew H. Miller ((he/him))
Professor
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- Gilman 20
- 410-516-7553
Research Interests: Literature and moral philosophy; nineteenth century British literature; literary theory
Susan Weiss
Professor Emerita
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Research Interests: Medieval music and learning; music and memory
Education: PhD, University of Maryland
Staff
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
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
