Trauma
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Max Cavitch
Associate Professor of English
cavitch@english.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Britain, Global Anglophone, US, Western Europe, World Literature, Deconstruction, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Narratology, Psychoanalysis, Sociology of Literature, Translation, Trauma
![David L. Eng](/sites/default/files/styles/profile_list/public/profile/DavidEng.jpg?itok=qRCnCRa2)
David Eng
Richard L. Fisher Professor of English
Faculty Director of the Program in Asian American Studiesdeng@english.upenn.eduWebsite
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David Kazanjian
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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
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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