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Jane Bennett
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities, Departments of Comparative Thought and Literature (CTL) and Political Science,
Director of Graduate Studies (CTL)
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- Gilman 194
- 410-516-5230
Research Interests: Political theory, American political thought, ecophilosophy
Brahim El Guabli (He/his/him)
Associate Professor
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- (410) 516-7619
Research Interests: Amazigh Studies, Arabic Studies, Francophone Studies, Jewish Studies, Tamazghan Studies, Memory Studies, Historiography, Indigenous Studies, and Desert Studies
Evelyne Ender
Senior Lecturer
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- Gilman 242
- 410-516-4884
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century literatures, literary criticism and theory, psychoanalysis, feminist criticism, and gender, memory studies, body-mind issues
Satoru Hashimoto
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- 410-516-7619
Research Interests: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literatures and cultures; modernities and modernisms; comparative literature, aesthetics, and intellectual history; aesthetics and justice; post-secularism; world literature
Katarzyna Jerzak
Lecturer
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- Gilman 246
Research Interests: Exile, East Central European literature and culture, Henryk Grynberg, representations of time-space (chronotope)
Leonardo Lisi (he/him)
Associate Professor, Diversity Champion, Executive Editor, Comparative Literature Issue, MLN
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- 410-516-8359
Research Interests: European literature of the long 19th century, European modernism, Kierkegaard and German idealism, tragedy and the tragic, philosophical aesthetics and literary forms
Paola Marrati
Professor and Department Chair
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- Gilman 220
- 410-516-0542
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary French Philosophy, American Pragmatism and Skepticism, Moral Perfectionism, Cinema and Philosophy, Gender Studies
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
Elizabeth Patton
Senior Lecturer
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- Gilman 161
- 603-321-9692
Research Interests: English and continental literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; early modern women writers; post-Reformation English Catholicism and women’s networks; the evolutionary history of the Petrarchan sonnet
Peter J. Schmelz
Professor
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- Gilman 224
- (410) 516-6503
Research Interests: 20th and 21st-century music, Soviet and post-Soviet music and culture, aesthetics, polystylism, modernism and the avant-garde, popular and experimental music, jazz, film, Alfred Schnittke, Valentyn Sylvestrov (Valentin Silvestrov)
Nana Sharikadze
Visiting Professor
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- Gilman 224
Research Interests: 20th and 21st-century music and culture, experimental music, Soviet and Post Soviet music and culture, Georgian music, politics, and its influence on culture, identity and music, colonization and decolonization in Soviet music, center-periphery relationships
Lisa Siraganian
J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor
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- Gilman 226
- 410-516-2367
Research Interests: American literature, modernism, law and literature, literary and legal theory, aesthetics, philosophy of action, pictorial modernism, film, 20th century intellectual history
staff
Marva Philip
Department Administrator
Graduate Admissions Coordinator
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- Gilman 213
- 410-516-7619
Education: MBA, Johns Hopkins University
Mackenzie S. Zalin
Librarian for Modern Languages and Literature & Comparative Thought and Literature
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- (410) 516-0215
Education: PhD, MSLS
professors emeriti
Eckart Förster
Professor, Department of Philosophy
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- Gilman 292
Research Interests: Metaphysics; history of philosophy; Kant and German idealism
Michael Fried
Professor Emeritus of the Humanities
Academy Professor, Johns Hopkins University
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- Gilman 222
- 410-516-7618
Research Interests: Modern art, literature, criticism, and theory; Italian painting in the age of Caravaggio
Ruth Leys
Professor Emerita of the Humanities
Academy Professor, Johns Hopkins University
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Research Interests: The history of 20th- and 21st- century psychiatry, psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, the cognitive neurosciences, and the philosophy of mind
Gabrielle Spiegel
Professor Emerita, Department of History
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- 410-516-5075
Research Interests: Medieval history, with special interest in historiography and linguistic analysis
Hent de Vries
Professor Emeritus of the Humanities
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Research Interests: Modern European thought, history and critique of metaphysics, philosophies of religion, political theologies, religion and media, literature and temporality
postdoctoral fellows
Christopher Taylor
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Research Interests: Media theory and history; animation and new media; Japanese cinema and literature; comparative film theory; philosophies of technology; history, philosophy, and aesthetics of artificial life
associates
Frances Ferguson
Associate, Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of English at the University of Chicago
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Philip Fisher
Associate, Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English, Harvard University
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Affiliated Faculty
Sharon Achinstein
Sir William Osler Professor of English, Department of English
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- Gilman 24
- 410-516-5575
Research Interests: Early modern literature, poetry, and poetics, gender
Shane Butler
Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Classics
Director, Classics Research Lab
Director of Graduate Studies, Classics
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- Gilman 106
- 410-516-3835
Research Interests: Latin literature, classical reception, sensation, aesthetics, queer theory, media theory
Jennifer Culbert
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
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- Mergenthaler 339
- 410-516-7541
Research Interests: Political theory, jurisprudence
Veena Das
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Anthropology
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- Mergenthaler 441
- 410-516-0630
Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe
William Egginton
Decker Professor in the Humanities
Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
Chair, Modern Languages and Literatures
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- Gilman 470
- 410-516-7510
Research Interests: Literature and philosophy; psychoanalysis; foundations of physics; early modern European literature and thought; modern Latin American literature
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
Professor and William Kurrelmeyer Chair in German
Director of Graduate Studies in German
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- Gilman 416
- 410-516-7509
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy; Phenomenology; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature; Cognitive Literary Theory; Philosophy of Imagination; Modern German Literature and Thought., Literary Ecology and Environmental Studies
Naveeda Khan
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Anthropology
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- Mergenthaler 460
- 410-516-7274
Research Interests: riverine society, nature philosophy and nature in Islamic theology, migration and memory, global warming and everyday life, animal-human relations, framings of the future, national and global climate governance, Bangladesh and Bonn
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy
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- Gilman 274
- 410-516-0568
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, German idealism, metaphysics
Christopher Nealon
Professor, Department of English
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- Gilman 18
- 410-516-6046
Research Interests: American literature, aesthetic theory, poetry and poetics, intellectual history
Derek Schilling
Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Director of the Centre Louis Marin
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- Gilman 426
- 410-516-4626
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French literature; film esthetics and theory; geocriticism; urban and suburban studies
Michael Williams
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Philosophy
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- Gilman 270
- 410-516-7030
Research Interests: Epistemology, philosophy of language, history of modern philosophy
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Associate Professor, Department of Classics
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- Gilman 104
- 410-516-7557
Research Interests: Greek papyrology, ancient Greek vase inscriptions, archaic and classical social and cultural history, ancient Greek vase painting, historical and comparative anthropology