Spatial Theory

Herman Beavers

Julie Beren Platt & Marc E. Platt President's Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies hbeavers@upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Drama, Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Short Story, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Narratology, Spatial Theory

Ashley Brock

Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish ashbrock@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Film, Novel, Short Story, Latin America, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Post-colonial, Spatial Theory

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

Sonal Khullar

W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in History of Art skhullar@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Historiography and Historical Writing, Life Writing, Auto/biography, South Asia, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Museum/Object Studies, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Spatial Theory

Rahul Mukherjee

Dick Wolf Professor of Television and New Media Studies Associate Professor of Englishmrahul@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Film, East Asia, South Asia, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Media Studies, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Spatial Theory

Kevin Platt

Interim Graduate Chair of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Professor of Russian and East European Studies kmfplatt@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Drama, Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Novel, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Diaspora, Eastern Europe / Russia, World Literature, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Formalism/ Structuralism, Marxism, Post-colonial, 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