Research Areas: Media Theory, Media History, Film Studies, French Cinema, Conceptual Humanities
Faculty
Victoria Bergstrom
Taïeb Berrada
Research Areas: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, North African Literatures and Cultures, Film, Graphic Novels, Rap Music, Critical and Postcolonial Theory
Tom Chen
Director of Asian & Asian American Studies Program
Associate Chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
Research Areas: Chinese, Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Dawn Keetley
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Research Areas: Horror film, fiction, and TV, Folk Horror, Gothic, Ecogothic/ecohorror
Michael Kramp
Research Areas: Men and masculinity; Jane Austen; critical theory, with an emphasis on the relationships between nation, gender, and race; visual culture, specifically film and early photography
Lindsey Reuben
Research Areas: Modern and contemporary Spanish cultural production that span a breadth of critical points of reflection intersecting in urban studies, gender studies, and political theory
Vera Stegmann
Director of Film and Documentary Studies Program
Research Areas: Modern German literature, culture, and film; aesthetics of music and the arts
Affiliated Faculty
Nobuko Yamasaki
Research Areas: literature, film, and art from the perspectives of gender & sexuality, affect & trauma theories, and memory & history
Emeriti Faculty
Jack Lule
Director of LVAIC Minor in Documentary Storymaking
Research Areas: News and Mythology; News Language; News and Metaphor; Media and Migration