Art/ Media

Julia Alekseyeava

Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies jaleksey@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: C21/ Contemporary, C20, including Modernism, East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe / Russia, US, Diaspora, Film, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Formalism/ Structuralism, Film theory, Marxism, Media Studies, Art/ Media

Ashley Brock

Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish ashbrock@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Film, Novel, Short Story, Latin America, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Post-colonial, Spatial Theory

Vance Byrd

Presidential Associate Professor of German vbyrd@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Western Europe, C19, Long Eighteenth Century, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Media Studies, Race and Empire, Sociology of Literature

Jean-Christophe Cloutier

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Undergraduate Chair, Englishcloutier@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Comics Studies, Film, Folk Tale & Oral Literature, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Novel, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, US, Western Europe, World Literature, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Film theory, Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Media Studies, Translation

Ayako Kano

Professor of Japanese Literature, Performance, and Gender Studies akano@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Drama, Film, Novel, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Short Story, East Asia, Western Europe, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Film theory, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Translation

Sonal Khullar

W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in History of Art skhullar@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Historiography and Historical Writing, Life Writing, Auto/biography, South Asia, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Museum/Object Studies, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Spatial Theory

So-rim Lee

Korean Foundation Assistant Professor, Korean Culture, Performance, and Gender sorimlee@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Drama, Film, Diaspora, East Asia, C21/ Contemporary, Media Studies, Post-colonial

Rahul Mukherjee

Dick Wolf Professor of Television and New Media Studies Associate Professor of Englishmrahul@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Film, East Asia, South Asia, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Media Studies, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Spatial Theory

Kevin Platt

Interim Graduate Chair of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Professor of Russian and East European Studies kmfplatt@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Drama, Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Novel, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Diaspora, Eastern Europe / Russia, World Literature, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Formalism/ Structuralism, Marxism, Post-colonial, Sociology of Literature, Spatial Theory, Translation, Trauma

Jennifer Ponce de León

Associate Professor of English poncej@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Drama, Film, Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Short Story, Latin America, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Marxism, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Spatial Theory

Timothy Rommen

Chair, Department of Music Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College; Departments of Music and Africana Studiestrommen@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Media Studies, Post-colonial, Race and Empire

Fatemeh Shams

Associate Professor of Persian Literature fshams@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms, Short Story, Diaspora, Middle East/North Africa, Near East, World Literature, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Medieval (C6-C14 C.E), Deconstruction, Formalism/ Structuralism, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Marxism, Narratology, Sociology of Literature, Spatial Theory, Translation, Trauma