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

Fields of Study: Novel, Short Story, South Asia, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Law, Media Studies, Post-colonial, Sociology of Literature

Apurva Prasad

apurvap@sas.upenn.edu

Fields of Study: Novel, Short Story, South Asia, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Law, Media Studies, Post-colonial, Sociology of Literature

Apurva Prasad

apurvap@sas.upenn.edu

Fields of Study: Novel, Short Story, South Asia, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Law, Media Studies, Post-colonial

Apurva Prasad

apurvap@sas.upenn.edu

Fields of Study: Novel, Short Story, South Asia, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Law, Media Studies, Post-colonial

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