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
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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).
Heather Love
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Ania Loomba
Interests
David Kazanjian
David Kazanjian received his PhD from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley, his M.A. in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, and his B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. His area of specialization is transnational American literary and historical studies through the 19th century. His additional fields of research are political philosophy, continental philosophy, Latin American studies (especially 17th through 19th-century Mexico), colonial discourse studies, and Armenian diaspora studies.
Suvir Kaul
Research Interests:
Eighteenth-century British literature, contemporary South Asian writing in English, and literary and critical theory.
Ayako Kano
Research Interests:
Gender, sexuality, feminist studies, modern Japanese literature, theater, and film studies. Author of Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor; Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism.