Department of Modern Culture and Media
People
Faculty
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Ariella Azoulay
Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Professor of Comparative Literature155 George St., Room 209Office Hours On Leave, AY 2025-2027 -
Anthony Cokes
Room 205Office Hours TBD -
Joan Copjec
Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Director of Graduate Studies155 George St., Room 201Office Hours TBD -
Veronica Fitzpatrick
155 George St., Room 102Office Hours TBD -
Elisa Giardina Papa
155 George St., Room 204Office Hours TBD -
Macarena Gómez-Barris
Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media155 George St., Room 206Office Hours TBD -
Lynne Joyrich
Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Affiliated Faculty in American Studies and Theatre Arts and Performance Studies155 George St., Room 212Office Hours TBD -
Jinying Li
Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Study Abroad and Transfer Credit Liaison155 George St., Room 207Office Hours TBD -
Jennifer Montgomery
135 Thayer Street, Room 205Office Hours TBD -
Madison Moore
John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts, Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media155 George Street., Room 211Office Hours Sabbatical, Fall 2026 -
Ellen Rooney
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence, Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Professor of English, Professor of Gender Studies155 George St., Room 105Office Hours TBD -
Alexander Weheliye
Malcolm S. Forbes Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Departmental Chair155 George St., Room 202Office Hours TBD
Affiliated Faculty
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Timothy Bewes
Professor of English, Department of EnglishResearch 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 StudiesResearch 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 ArtsResearch 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 EnglishResearch Interests Romanticism; Queer Theory; Sexuality Studies; Critical Theory, Aesthetics -
Kiri Miller
Professor of American StudiesResearch 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 EnglishResearch Interests Gender and sexuality studies; queer theory; film and photography; the men's film; Kubrick -
Ivan Ramos
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance StudiesResearch Interests transnational Latino/a American aesthetics, contemporary and historical violence, aesthetic, ethics of difference -
Lukas Rieppel
Associate Professor of HistoryResearch 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 StudiesResearch Interests Italian studies; italian cinema; digital culture; italian literature and culture; literary and cultural theory. -
RaMell Ross
Associate Professor of Visual Art -
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Comparative Literature and Italian StudiesResearch 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 StudiesResearch Interests Modern Chinese literature and culture, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, and Chinese cinema.
Emeriti
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Bonnie Honig
Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political ScienceResearch Interests: Intersection of political theory, media, and cultural studies, focusing on received scripts that limit or launch collective action in democratic settings -
Roger Mayer
Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media and Visual ArtResearch 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 MediaResearch 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. -
Rebecca Schneider
Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and MediaResearch Interests Media, performance, and the porous borders of the so-called "live." -
Robert Scholes
Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media, English, and Comparative LiteratureResearch Interests Semiotic theory, aesthetics, enlightenment, decadence, modernism, opera, narrative theory and textuality, the novel -
Michael Silverman
Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and MediaResearch Interests Post-structuralist theory, film, the art world, commodities, machines, theories of subjectivity, discourses of gender. -
Leslie Thornton
Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and MediaResearch 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.
Graduate Students
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Adel Ben Bella
Research Interests visual culture, documentary, photography, cultural activism, representation, Algeria, colonial France, postcolonialism, personal and collective identity formations, personal histories. -
Elizabeth Berman
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Alexandra Boone
Year Entered 2023 -
Lachlan Kermode
Research Interests Critique of political economy; computer sciencehistory of computing and mathematics; capitalism; psychoanalysis. -
Yayo Meza
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Jordan Mulkey
Research Interests 20th-Century Black Expressive Cultures, Antebellum Sexual Cultures, Black Arts Movement, Performance Theory, AIDS Theatre, Queer Theory, Literary Theory, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, German Idealism and Romanticism, Aesthetic Philosophy -
Helene Nguyen
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J.M. Nimocks
Research Interests: Visual culture, literature and literary theory, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, environmental humanities, semiotics, autotheory, performance studies -
Amira Olingou
Year Entered: 2025 -
Henry Osman
Research Interests media theory; history of science; philosophy of technology; environmental media -
Monica Ren
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Rosa Stern Pait
Year Entered 2024 -
Urvi Vora
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Gee Wesley
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Dominic Yarabe
Staff
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Liza Hebert
155 George Street, Room 104 -
Janai Perry
155 George Street, Room 104 -
David Udris
Media and Technical Director, Lecturer in Modern Culture and Media135 Thayer Street, Room 104