Department of Modern Culture and Media

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Affiliated Faculty

  • Timothy Bewes

    Professor of English, Department of English
    Research Interests Contemporary British/American fiction, aesthetic theory, poststructuralist and Marxist literary theory, postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the politics and ethics of literary form.

  • Anthony Bogues

    Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Diretor of Slavery and Justice, Department of Africana Studies
    Research Interests Contemporary critical theory, cultural studies, African and Caribbean literature and cinema, intellectual history, post-colonial theory, African and African Diasporic critical thinkers.

  • John Cayley

    Professor of Literary Arts, Department of Literary Arts
    Research Interests Research and practice explores the extraordinary potential for digital language art: writing in digital media, and writing [transitive] digital media.

  • Jacques Khalip

    Professor English, Department of English
    Research Interests Romanticism; Queer Theory; Sexuality Studies; Critical Theory, Aesthetics

  • Kiri Miller

    Professor of American Studies
    Research Interests Participatory culture; interactive digital media; popular music, and virtual/visceral performance practices.

  • Richard Rambuss

    Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres, Professor of English, Department of English
    Research Interests Gender and sexuality studies; queer theory; film and photography; the men's film; Kubrick

  • Ivan Ramos

    Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
    Research Interests transnational Latino/a American aesthetics, contemporary and historical violence, aesthetic, ethics of difference

  • Lukas Rieppel

    Associate Professor of History
    Research Interests Historian of the life, earth, and environmental sciences; the history of museums, and the history of capitalism, especially in nineteenth and early twentieth century North America.

  • Massimo Riva

    Royce Family Professor of Teaching and Excellence and Professor of Italian Studies, Department of Italian Studies
    Research Interests Italian studies; italian cinema; digital culture; italian literature and culture; literary and cultural theory.

  • Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg

    Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Comparative Literature and Italian Studies
    Research Interests Italian and German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, psychoananlysis and literary and cultural theory, with particular interests in the construction of gender.

  • Peter Szendy

    David Herlihy University Professor of Comparative Literature and the Humanities

  • Lingzhen Wang

    Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, East Asian Studies
    Research Interests Modern Chinese literature and culture, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, and Chinese cinema.

Emeriti

  • Roger Mayer

    Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media and Visual Art
    Research Interests Sound design for film and video, radio, marginal image practices: fax, copiers, lapsed technologies, etc., theories of representation.

  • Philip Rosen

    Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media
    Research Interests Film theory and history, with special attention to question of culture and ideology, and to historiography and tempoarlity in the contexts of a variety of national cinemas.

  • Robert Scholes

    Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media, English, and Comparative Literature
    Research Interests Semiotic theory, aesthetics, enlightenment, decadence, modernism, opera, narrative theory and textuality, the novel

  • Michael Silverman

    Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media
    Research Interests Post-structuralist theory, film, the art world, commodities, machines, theories of subjectivity, discourses of gender.

  • Leslie Thornton

    Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media
    Research Interests influence of technological progress on our day to day lives, the organizing structure of narrative, and the a-verbal construction of an argument or position through the use of image, sound and time.

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