MCM Faculty & Staff

Nancy Armstrong - Director of Graduate Studies: semiotics, post-structuralism, feminist theory, history and theory of the novel, history and theory of photography, culture of capitalism

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.
Rey Chow: 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 -Undergraduate Honors Director for Art-Semiotics & Art-Semiotics advisor (juniors and seniors only): 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
Colleen Doyle - Archive Assistant & department computer coordinator
Liza Hebert - Administrative Assistant
Lynne Joyrich - Director of Undergraduate Studies Track i & track II: film and television studies, feminist and queer theory, sexuality studies, critical theory
Richard Manning - Film Archivist
Roger Mayer (emeritus): sound design for film and video, radio, marginal image practices: fax, copiers, lapsed technologies, etc., theories of representation
Susan McNeil - Department Manager
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: film theory and history, media, theories of culture and ideology, semiotic theory, theory and history
Robert Scholes (emeritus): semiotic theory, aesthetics, enlightenment, decadence, modernism, opera, narrative theory and textuality, the novel
Michael Silverman -Art-Semiotics advisor (juniors and seniors only): post-structuralist theory, film, the art world, commodities, machines, theories of subjectivity, discourses of gender
Leonard Tennenhouse: literature and society, cultural theory, ethnic and diasporic literature, colonial american, british enlightenment, culture of capitalism
Leslie Thornton: film and video production and distribution, script-writing, performance, experimental theater, contemporary art, the politics of travel, magrebi cultures
Mark Tribe - Study Abroad Advisor: art, media, networks, technology
David Udris - Media Facilities Manager
michael Udris - Adjunct Lecturer (spring 2008)

Elizabeth Weed (Pembroke Center): feminism, post-structuralist theory, gender
Clifford Wulfman - Modernist Journals Project Manager