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

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
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