Core Faculty

Martin Berger, gender, race and representation in U.S. society

Raoul Birnbaum, Buddhist approaches to human vision, especially Chinese Buddhist representations and practices

Elisabeth Cameron, gender, performance, play and iconoclasm in Central Africa

Carolyn Dean, performance, costume and nonresemblant artifacts in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Spanish America

Maria Evangelatou, gender, politics and religion in ancient Greek and Byzantine art and visual culture

Jennifer González, installation and activist art, theories of race and representation, digital art

Donna Hunter, national identity in western Europe and America since 1750

Stacy Kamehiro, identity politics and colonial histories in Oceania

Boreth Ly, trauma, gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia and its Diaspora

Derek Conrad Murray, theory and criticism of contemporary art, cultural theory, identity and representation, art of the African diaspora, popular visual culture

Affiliated Faculty

Noriko Aso (History), Japanese history, cultural studies, gender and history, race and ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, Korean history, and popular culture

Karen Bassi (Literature), Greek and Latin literatures; gender; literary and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; historiography; visual and performance studies

Kathy Foley (Theater Arts), Southeast Asian drama and dance; puppetry

Dianne Gifford-Gonzalez (Anthropology), zooarchaeology, African archaeology, pastoralism, colonial New Mexico, interpretive theory, visual anthropology, emergence of pastoralism in East Africa; foodways as cultural practices in colonial encounters

Irene Gustafson (Film and Digital Media), producing across the boundaries between "theory" and "practice," non-fiction, gender and queers, production design

Christine Hong (Literature), Asian American literature and cultural criticism; African American literature and black freedom studies; Korean diasporic cultural production; Pacific Rim studies; postcolonial theory; critical race theory; human rights discourse; law and literature; narrative theory; film and visual studies

Peter Limbrick (Film and Digital Media), postcolonial and transnational cinemas, race, gender, sexuality, queer theory

David Marriott (History of Consciousness), literary theory, psychoanalysis, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, literary and visual cultures of modernism

Warren Sack (Film and Digital Media), theory and practice of digital media, software design and media theory

Shelley Stamp (Film and Digital Media), silent cinema, female filmmakers, film censorship, histories of moviegoing, early Hollywood