MCM department
FACUlty & Staff

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 - study abroad advisor: modern literature and film (with emphases on asia and china, theories of culture, visual and other media, postcoloniality and ethnicity)
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: new media and comparative media theory, theoretical and historical studies of code and race
Anthony Cokes (ON LEAVE 2008/2009): video, multimedia installations, x-prz
Carolyn Dean: modern french cultural history, post-structuralist theory, history of sexuality, queer theory, psychoanalysis
Mary Ann Doane: film theory, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, semiotic theory, technology
stephen groening - postdoctural 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 - Director of graduate studies: 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 undergraduate studies & honors: 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: 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 (on leave 2008/2009): art, media, networks, technology
Elizabeth Weed (Pembroke Center)

feminism, post-structuralist theory, gender