Research Fields: 19th- and 20th-century European literature (German, Italian, Polish); literary criticism; aesthetics; music and theater; epics and elegies; translation studies; travel literature; literary criticism; multiculturalism and migration, cross-cultural encounters; European intellectual history; comparative arts and intermediality; cities in literature.
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Research Fields: 18th, 19th, 20th-century English and French, German through early 20th century, Women’s studies, the novel, poetry;  cultural and political as well as aesthetic questions.

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Research Fields: 19th and 20th c. French literature (poetry, thought, travel writing); structural anthropology; postcolonial studies, relationality, créolité; French auteur cinema, especially Bresson and Rohmer; East Asian modernity (1860s-1940s, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea); contemporary Korean cinema; Hŏ Kyun studies; translation; world literature.
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Research Fields: The Black Renaissance (Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Alain Locke, etc.); American Expatriate Modernism (Lost Generation, Black Writers in Paris); Phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon); Walter Benjamin... Read more about Ernie Mitchell

Research Fields: The underpinnings of my research are rooted in critical theory, specifically questions regarding gender & queer theory in a postcolonial context. To explore these questions I look to 20th and 21st century Latin American, African American, and Middle Eastern literature and media. My most recent research has focused on how maringalized authors are using the margins of the page to facilitate an ethical and egalitarian discourse. That is to say, in looking at how disenfranchised authors experiment with a text’s form, I hope to see how they are compelling us to rethink the normative ways in which we read and are thereby renegotiating the power dynamic between individual and institution.... Read more about Victoria Queneau