Faculty

Laura C. Balladur

Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, Democratic Republic of Congo, ecology of bodies in movement, French Cinema, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance, Translation Studies

Raluca Cernahoschi

Associate Professor of German

contemporary German literature and film, East-Central European literature and film, film adaptation, German literature and culture since the 19th century, German literature and film, intercultural literature and film, literatures and cultures of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, poetry, Romanian-German literature, spatial constructions in literature and film

Francesco G. Duina

Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology

economic sociology, globalization, international political economy, political sociology, sociology of culture

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

Jakub J. Kazecki

Associate Professor of German

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media

Francisca López

Professor of Hispanic Studies

20th and 21st century Spanish literature and culture, cultural representations of history, discourse analysis, feminist analysis, gender studies, memory studies, narrative fiction, television

Ben Moodie

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Economics and European Studies

James G. Richter

Professor of Politics

Central and Eastern European Politics, civil society, international politics, national identity and foreign policy, politics of memory, Russian politics

Caroline E. Shaw

Associate Professor of History

diasporas, foreign refugees and the birth of modern humanitarianism since the 17th century (1685-1950), history and memory, history of the British Empire, humanitarianism and the development of rights claims, imperial Britain, modern Britain since 1688, sexual slander and defamation law, slavery and anti-slavery