Film

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

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

Anat Dan

Ph.D. Candidate anatdan@sas.upenn.edu

Fields of Study: Film, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Film theory, Media Studies, Post-colonial

David Eng

Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Faculty Director of the Program in Asian American Studiesdeng@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, Novel, Diaspora, East Asia, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Deconstruction, Film theory, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Post-colonial, Psychoanalysis, Race and Empire, Trauma

James English

John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanitiesjenglish@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, Novel, Britain, Global Anglophone, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Marxism, Sociology of Literature

Kathryn Hellerstein

Professor of Germanic Languages Ruth Meltzer Director of Jewish Studies Programkhellers@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Short Story, Central Europe, Diaspora, East Asia, Jewish Studies, Near East, US, Western Europe, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Religion, 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

Corine Labridy

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies labridy@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, World Literature, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Post-colonial, Translation

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

Professor of Russian and East European Studies kmfplatt@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

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

Donovan Schaefer

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies doschaef@upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Religious Texts & Hagiography, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Britain, US, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Deconstruction, Film theory, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Media Studies, Race and Empire

Whitney Trettien

Assistant Professor of English trettien@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, Poetry/ Poetics, Digital Humanities, Media Studies

Javier Vendrell

Assistant Professor German Affiliated Faculty in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studiessamperja@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Novel, Western Europe, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Race and Empire

Chenshu Zhou

Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Studies Assistant Professor of History of Artcszhou@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, East Asia, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Film theory, Media Studies