MCM department
Roster
faculty
- Réda Bensmaïa (Department of French Studies)
- university professor. doctorat de troisième cycle, ecole pratique des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, paris. 20th century literature and literary theory; francophone studies; literature and film. author of the barthes effect, 1987; alger ou la maladie de la mémoire, 1997; experimental nations: or the invention of the maghreb. rochambeau house 207; phone ext. 3-2741.
- Anthony Bogues (department of Africana Studies)
- Contemporary critical theory , cultural studies , African and Caribbean literature and cinema , intellectual history , post-colonial theory, African and African Diasporic critical thinkers.
- Rey Chow(on leave 2009/2010)
- modern literature and film (with emphases on asia and china, theories of culture, visual and other media, postcoloniality and ethnicity)
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun study abroad advisor
- new media and comparative media theory, theoretical and historical studies of code and race
- Anthony Cokes undergraduate track 2 advisor
- video, multimedia installations, x-prz
- Carolyn Dean
- modern french cultural history, post-structuralist theory, history of sexuality, queer theory, psychoanalysis
- Mary Ann Doane undergradaute studies director
- film theory, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, semiotic theory, technology
- stephen groening - postdoctoral fellow (2009-2011)
- global media flows, history of communication technologies, critical theory, mobility studies, film studies, television studies, cultural studies.
- jacques khalip - (department of English)
- writes on and teaches British romanticism, 19th- and 20th-century poetry, queer theory, and critical theory. His current research and teaching addresses two areas of thought: the anxious rhetoric and ethics of interiority in romantic literature and culture; and the relation of queer theory to aesthetic and ethical reflection.
- Lynne Joyrich
- film and television studies, feminist and queer theory, sexuality studies, critical theory
- Roger Mayer (emeritus)
- sound design for film and video, radio, marginal image practices: fax, copiers, lapsed technologies, etc., theories of representation
- Massimo Riva (Department of Italian Studies)
- italian studies; italian cinema; digital culture; italian literature and culture; literary and cultural theory.
- Ellen Rooney - Department Chair
- feminist theory, marxism and theories of ideology/subjectivity, the novel, post-structuralism, literary theory, the problem of women's writing
- Philip Rosen - Director of graduate studies
- film theory and history, media, theories of culture and ideology, semiotic theory, theory and history
- rebecca schneider (Theatre arts and performance studies)
- performance studies, "liveness," queer theory, photography, theatre,
poststructural theory, phenomenology, mimesis
- Robert Scholes (emeritus)
- semiotic theory, aesthetics, enlightenment, decadence, modernism, opera, narrative theory and textuality, the novel
- Michael Silverman undergraduate track 2 advisor
- post-structuralist theory, film, the art world, commodities, machines, theories of subjectivity, discourses of gender
- Leslie Thornton
- film and video production and distribution, script-writing, performance, experimental theater, contemporary art, the politics of travel, magrebi cultures
- Mark Tribe undergraduate honors director
- art, media, networks, technology
- Elizabeth Weed (Pembroke Center)
- feminism, post-structuralist theory, gender
STAFF
- Colleen Doyle - Archive Assistant & department computer coordinator
Mark gaipa - Modernist Journals Project Manager, Senior research associate
Liza Hebert - Administrative Assistant
Richard Manning - Film Archivist
Susan McNeil - Department Manager
David Udris - Media Facilities Manager
graduate students
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kia afra
erika balsom
david bering-porter
eugenie (genie) brinkema
anna fisher
joshua guilford
hunter hargraves
margaret (maggie) hennefeld
andrew lison
michael litwack
linda liu
aniruddha maitra
matthew noble-olson
jeremy powell
pooja rangan
julie levin russo
paige sarlin
michael siegel
anton (braxton) soderman
matthew tierney
min zhang