Western Europe

Rachel Geer

Specializes in Medieval and early modern French literature; manuscript and book history; readership; digital humanities; literature and war; writing and gender; literary interpretation theory

Manuela Achilles

Specializes in Transnational German History and Culture, European Studies, History and Theories of Fascism, Democracy Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Historical Political Culture of Green Ideas and Practices

Paul Dobryden

Specializes in the intersections of media technologies and environmental design, German cinema of the silent period, role of architecture and environmental design in the production, exhibition, and aesthetics of cinema in Germany from 1900 to 1930, media studies, environmental humanities, and disability studies

Karen Simroth James

Specializes in approaches to teaching world language, teacher education and mentoring, French for professional purposes,, instructional technology for language acquisition and humanities education, sixteenth-century French literature, history of the book in early modern France

Julia Gutterman

Specializes in German and comparative literature of the late 18th, 19th, and early 20th century; contemporary German literature, Jewish studies, Black German literatures, translation theory and praxis.

Claire Lyu

Specializes in Modern French Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, French Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Science, Animal Studies and Eco-criticism

Rita Koganzon

Specializes in childhood, education, and the family in political thought, relationship between familial and political authority in English and French political thought from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries

Janet Horne

Specializes in Social and Cultural History of France (19th and 20th centuries), the history of French cultural diplomacy, Contemporary France, France in Global Context, French Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds

John Dillery

Specializes in ancient historical writing, chiefly Greek, particularly late Classical and early Hellenistic historiography, and the intersection of the cultures of ancient Greece, Egypt, and the Near East

Kevin Duong

Specializes in European political thought and intellectual history with a particular focus on modern France, democratic theory, queer theory, critical theory, visual culture, and the history of the left

Alison Joan Murray Levine

Specializes in twentieth and 21st century French cultural history and film studies, documentary cinema, French national identity, changing attitudes towards the place of rural, colonial, and postcolonial spaces and people, questions of space, place, and viewer experience in contemporary French documentaries

Anastasia Dakouri-Hild

Specializes in Aegean prehistory (3000-1100 BCE), ceramic analysis and technology, social aspects of technology and technique, memory and material culture, artifact and cognition, embodied and multisensorial approaches to material culture, the politics of the past, landscape archaeology and reconnaissance survey, remote sensing, LIDAR, and the uses of digital technology in the humanities.

Lona Martens

Specializes in Comparative literature 18th-20th centuries, modern German and Austrian literature, women's studies, GDR literature, poetry, narrative and narrative theory, autobiography, cognitive approaches to literature

Nizar Hermes

Specializes in medieval and early modern Euro-Islamic contacts, intercultural contacts in the premodern world, North African and Andalusian studies, world literatures and cultures

Eric Ramírez-Weaver

Specializes in the theological, philosophical, and scientific ideas that informed the creative decisions of artists living in eastern and western medieval cultures from the third to fifteenth centuries. Research foci: Carolingian manuscript illumination, Norman computus, and late medieval astronomy (in Prague and Vienna)

Ricardo Padrón

Specializes in the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly questions of empire, space, and cartography, including the role of the Pacific and Asia in Spanish concepts of the New World.

Douglas Fordham

A historian of art and the British empire, specializes in a wide array of visual art from the seventeenth century to the present in the Anglophone world including the representation of Indian cave temples, the indigenous and white settler communities of southern Africa, the Macartney expedition to Qing China, and contemporary Aboriginal printmaking in Australia.

Maya Boutaghou

Specializes in Comparative Literature, National and Cultural Identity construction in postcolonial contexts, Literary Theory and Aesthetics, Theory of the Novel, Theory of Postcolonial Subjectivity, Postcolonial Cultural Historiographies, Multiculturalism, Multilingualism, Cosmopolitanism, Identity politics and Gender Studies, Translation studies, and World Literature within the contexts of Literature of the XIX to XXI century, Mediterranean Studies, North Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, and Bengal.