Faculty Experts
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Literature
Eloise Briére
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Literatures, cultures, and language issues of the Francophone areas of the world, particularly West Africa, the Caribbean (Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe), and North America (Quebec, New England, Louisiana); cinema of Francophone West Africa, Caribbean and Quebec
Zelma Catalan-Balinova
Visiting Professor
Department of English
English literature; Victorian literature; William Makepeace Thackeray; Charles Dickens; irony
Rob Edelman
Lecturer
Department of Art
Baseball and film
Susanna Fessler
Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
Japanese literature and culture of the modern era
Michael K. Hill
Chair
Department of English
Race studies; "whiteness", U.S. minority relations; civil society; history of democracy; relation between "print culture" (the novel) and politics
Hilde Hoogenboom
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Catherine the Great; Russia; Russian; women writers; autobiography; memoirs
Pierre Joris
Professor
Department of English
Contemporary literature, especially poetry and poetics, of the U.S., U.K., Europe, North Africa, and beyond; theory of the avant-garde and diaspora studies; comparative literature and translation studies; North African culture
Judith A. Langer
Distinguished Professor
Department of Educational Theory and Practice
Student learning; literacy; reading; writing; instruction; literature; English; testing; school success
Olimpia Pelosi
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Italian and comparative literature; women mystic writers of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque; Italian theatre of the Renaissance and Baroque
William Rainbolt
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of English
Journalism; media ethics; media history; film; documentary studies; historical fiction
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Edward Schwarzschild
Associate Professor
Department of English
Fellow
New York State Writer's Institute
Fiction writing; creative writing; novels; short stories; American literature; contemporary American literature; literature and the visual arts
Timothy D. Sergay
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Russian language; Russian-English translation; 20th century Russian literature
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Leonard A. Slade Jr.
Professor
Department of Africana Studies
Adjunct Professor
Department of English
Black literature; black history; black poetry; and 19th century American literature, particularly author Herman Melville
Mary B. Valentis
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of English
Mythology and gender studies; cultural studies; interpersonal relationships
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Oscar Williams
Associate Professor
Department of Africana Studies
African American history and literature; American slavery; black nationalism; black conservatism; slavery in New York
David Wills
Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Department of English
French and comparative literature; contemporary French philosophy, particularly post-structuralism, deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida; film theory; theories of technology
