Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated 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.
Timothy Bewes
Department of English
Research interests in contemporary British/American fiction, aesthetic theory, poststructuralist and Marxist literary theory, postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the politics and ethics of literary form.
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.  
James Der Derian
Watson Institute for International Studies
Research and teaching is in international security, information technology, international relations theory, and the media. His most recent book is 'Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network, and he has produced two documentaries, "VirtualY2K', 'After 9/11', and is at work on the third, 'The Culture of War'.
Jacques Khalip
Department of English
Romanticism; Queer Theory; Sexuality Studies; Critical Theory, Aesthetics
Massimo Riva
Department of Italian Studies
Italian studies; italian cinema; digital culture; italian literature and culture; literary and cultural theory.
Rebecca Schneider
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Performance studies, "liveness," queer theory, photography, theatre, poststructural theory, phenomenology, mimesis.
Lingzhen Wang
East Asian Studies
Modern Chinese literature and culture, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, and Chinese cinema.  Her other research and writing projects include translations of Chinese women writers into English, a study of transnational feminism in the contemporary globalized world, and a critical re-examination of the socialist legacy on gender, politics, and identity formation.