Marxism

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

Siarhei Biareishyk

Senior Lecturer biar@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Central Europe, Eastern Europe / Russia, Western Europe, C20, including Modernism, Long Eighteenth Century, Film theory, Formalism/ Structuralism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Sociology of Literature

James English

John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanitiesjenglish@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, Novel, Britain, Global Anglophone, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Marxism, Sociology of Literature

Gregory Goulding

Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies Chair of Graduate Studies, Department of South Asia Studiesggouldin@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Poetry/ Poetics, South Asia, World Literature, C20, including Modernism, Marxism, Post-colonial

David Kazanjian

Professor of English and Comparative Literature (On Leave, 2025-2026) 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, 2026 kazanjia@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

Hilah Kohen

Ph.D. Candidate Website

Fields of Study: Folk Tale & Oral Literature, Historiography and Historical Writing, Diaspora, Eastern Europe / Russia, Jewish Studies, Middle East/North Africa, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Linguistic Theories and Culture, Marxism, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Sociology of Literature, Translation

Benjamin Nathans

Associate Professor of History bnathans@history.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Eastern Europe / Russia, Jewish Studies, C19, C20, including Modernism, Formalism/ Structuralism, Marxism, Museum/Object Studies

Kevin Platt

Professor of Russian and East European Studies kmfplatt@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Central Europe, Diaspora, Eastern Europe / Russia, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Film theory, Formalism/ Structuralism, Marxism, Post-colonial, Psychoanalysis, Sociology of Literature, Spatial Theory, Translation, Trauma

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

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

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