Simon Richter
Research Interests:
18th-century German literature, art, history of medicine, queer theory and gender studies.
Karen Redrobe
Research Interests:
Film theory, war and the academy, violence and media, community media, animation theory, feminism and terrorism, death penalty photography, the relationship between cinema and contemporary art, and cinematic tempo.
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Research Interests:
20th century modernism, Joyce, psychoanalysis, critical theory. Joyce Upon the Void: The Genesis of Doubt.
Gerald J. Prince
Research Interests:
20th century French literature, the modern novel, narratology. Narrative as Theme, Guide du roman de langue française (1901-1950).
Kevin M. F. Platt
Research Interests:
Representation of history, history and memory, Russian poetry and poetics, global Russian culture. Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths.
Deven Patel
Research Interests:
Classical Indian literature and aesthetics, with a special focus on Sanskrit poetry and poetics; the regional cultures of South Asia; Indian philosophy; myth; critical theory and translation studies. Text to Tradition: The Naisadhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2014).
Benjamin Nathans
Research Interests:
Politics and culture in the Russian and Soviet empires, modern Jewish history, history of human rights. Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia.
Sheila Murnaghan
Research Interests:
Greek tragedy, Homeric poetry, gender studies, twentieth-century reception of the Classics; Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey.
E. Ann Matter
Research Interests:
Ann Matter teaches and studies the history of Christianity in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, with special attention to the history of spirituality and devotion, the interpretation of the Bible, and the roles of women. Her focus is on the Latin tradition, and on textual studies and editing, especially in Latin and Italian.
Joseph Lowry
Research Interests:
Medieval Islam; Islamic Law.Early Islamic Legal Theory: the Risala of Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (E. J. Brill, 2007); editor (with D. Stewart and S. Toorawa) of Law and Education in Medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of George Makdisi(E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2005) and (with D. Stewart) of Essays in Arabic Literary Biography II: 1350-1850 (Harrasowitz, 2009).