Western Europe

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

Francesco Aresu

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies faresu@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Poetry/ Poetics, Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms, Western Europe, Ancient (pre-C6 C.E), Early Modern (C14-C17), Medieval (C6-C14 C.E), Digital Humanities, Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Narratology, Philology, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics

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

Eva Del Soldato

Associate Professor of Italian Studies (FIGS) Graduate Chair--Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (FIGS)evadel@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms, Western Europe, Early Modern (C14-C17), Medieval (C6-C14 C.E), Material Texts, Manuscript Studies and Archival Studies, Philology, Translation

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

Andrea Goulet

Professor of French and Francophone Studies Graduate Chair--Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (FIGS)agoulet@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Novel, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, Deconstruction, Spatial Theory

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

Sheila Murnaghan

Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek smurnagh@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Drama, Historiography and Historical Writing, Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms, Western Europe, Ancient (pre-C6 C.E), Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Translation

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

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

Emily Steinlight

Associate Professor of English emily.steinlight@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Novel, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Britain, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, Formalism/ Structuralism, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Marxism

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

Adelheid Voskuhl

Associate Professor avoskuhl@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Central Europe, US, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, Long Eighteenth Century, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Psychoanalysis, Sociology of Literature