Short Story
Herman Beavers
Julie Beren Platt & Marc E. Platt President's Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies hbeavers@upenn.eduWebsite Fields of Study: Drama, Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Short Story, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Narratology, Spatial Theory
Scott Francis
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Undergraduate Chair, FIGSfranciss@sas.upenn.eduWebsite Fields of Study: Drama, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms, Religious Texts & Hagiography, Short Story, Western Europe, Early Modern (C14-C17), Medieval (C6-C14 C.E), Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Religion, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics
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
D. Kim
Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies dbkim@sas.upenn.eduWebsite Fields of Study: Drama, Novel, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Short Story, East Asia, Eastern Europe / Russia, Western Europe, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, Long Eighteenth Century, Digital Humanities, Linguistic Theories and Culture, Sociology of Literature, Translation
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
Apurva Prasad
Ph.D. Candidate apurvap@sas.upenn.edu
Gerald Prince
Professor of French and Francophone Studies gprince@babel.ling.upenn.eduWebsite Fields of Study: Novel, Short Story, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Formalism/ Structuralism, Narratology
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