Africa & the Caribbean
S. Pearl Brilmyer
Assistant Professor of English
brilmyer@upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Novel, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Africa & the Caribbean, Britain, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, Deconstruction, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Formalism/ Structuralism, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Psychoanalysis, Race and Empire, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics
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
David Kazanjian
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Graduate Chair, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory; Research Resident, Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, New York Public Library, 2025; Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2026kazanjia@english.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, US, C19, Long Eighteenth Century, Deconstruction, Formalism/ Structuralism, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Marxism, Post-colonial, Psychoanalysis, Race and Empire, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, Trauma
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
Liz Rose
Ph.D. Candidate
lizrose@sas.upenn.edu