Hakem Al-Rustom
Affiliations: History / Anthropology / Armenian Studies Program
Theoretical Interests: Postcolonial Theory / Critical Theory / Settler Colonialism / Liberation Theology.
Engaging with: Walter Benjamin, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon
Teaches: History 430/594 and Anthropology 430: “History, Memory, and Silence: (Hi)Storytelling with Walter Benjamin”.
Clement Hawes
Affiliations: English Language and Literature / History
Theoretical Interests: Critical Theory / Postcolonial Theory / Critical Race Theory / Critical Geography / Gender & Sexuality / Literary Theory / Marxism
Engaging with: Eric L. Santner; Said; Appiah; Nabil Matar; E.P. Thompson; Gramsci; C. Hill; Stuart Hall; Benjamin; Adorno; Bloch; Habermas; N. Fraser; R. Williams; J. G. A. Pocock. Generally, I am engaging with the oeuvre of Jonathan Swift, a great and very early critic of British colonialism; most recent monograph The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique.
Teaches: English 540 Empire and Its Discontents: The Literature of the British Eighteenth Century.
Arvind-Pal Mandair
Affiliations: Asian Languages and Cultures.
Theoretical Interests: Critical Theory / Postcolonial Theory / Critical Race Theory / Liberation Theology / Queer Theory / Subaltern Studies / Postsecular Theory / Critical Religion Studies / Translation / Global Philosophies.
Engaging With: Deleuze, Nancy, Derrida, Bergson, Heidegger, Hegel, Esposito, Mignolo, Benjamin, Schelling.
Teaches:
- Asian 601: Critical Theory and Asia
- Asian 550: Critical Approaches to Asian Studies 1
- Asian 334: Race, Religion and Caste in the US and India
- Asian 303: War Machines
- Asian 305: Religion and Violence in a Secular World
- Asian 400: Indian Religions and Western Thought
Kate Jenckes
Affiliations: Romance Languages and Literatures / Comparative Literature.
Theoretical Interests: Critical Theory / Gender and Sexuality / Literary Theory / Deconstruction
Engaging with: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Alberto Moreiras, Patrick Dove, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaño, Juan Gelman, Cesar Vallejo; Chilean political-aesthetic theory: Willy Thayer, Federico Galende, Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby, Nelly Richard, Pablo Oyarzún
Teaches:
- Spanish 855: Thinking the Visual; Ideology, Aesthetics, and the Human: Theory and Literature in/and Latin America
- Spanish 870, Thinking With Borges
- Spanish 475, Roberto Bolaño: At the Intersection of Life, History, and Literature
Matthew Noble-Olson
Affiliations: Film, Television, and Media.
Theoretical Interests: Critical Theory / Critical Media Studies / Marxism.
Film theory, experimental film and media, history and theory of capitalism, media aesthetics, art and cinema.
Engaging with: Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes.
Teaches:
- FTVM 272: Classical Film Theory
Mrinalini Sinha
Affiliations: History / English Language and Literature / Women’s Studies / Center for South Asian Studies.
Theoretical Interests: Critical Theory / Postcolonial Theory / Feminism / Marxism
Engaging with: M K Gandhi; Romain Rolland; Antonio Gramsci; Walter Benjamin; Ernst Bloch
Teaches:
- Hist 425: Ideas of Equality: India’s 20th Century
- Hist 615: Introduction to the Practice of History
- Hist 240: Modern World History: The Making of the Modern World
- Hist 396: Gandhi, King, and Non-Violent Change
- Hist 496: Revolutionary Non-Violence: A Global History
- Hist 678/Asian 580/Eng 630: Modern South Asia
Scott Stonington
Affiliations: Anthropology / International Studies / Medicine
Theoretical Interests: Critical Theory / Postcolonial Theory / Feminism / Literary Theory / Critical Medical Epistemologies.
Teaches:
- ANTHCUL 548: Medical Anthropology Theory
- ANTHCUL 341: Globalization of Biomedicine
- INTLSTD 301: Concepts in Global Health
Sergio Villalobos Ruminott
Affiliations: Department of Romance Languages, Spanish.
Theoretical Interests: Critical Theory / Postcolonial Theory / Critical Race Theory / Feminism / Literary Theory / Marxism / Settler Colonialism / Indigenous Studies / Subaltern Studies / Latin American Marxism / Political Economy
Engaging with: Walter Mignolo (The Darker Side of Modernity), Frantz Fanon, Fred Moten (The Undercommons), Edward Said, Jacques Derrida.
Teaches:
- Spanish 439: Latin American Populism, Marxism and Inigenismo through the 20th Century
- Spanish 881: Reviews theoretical and cultural debates within Latin American and Hispanic Studies: Post-colonialism, Subalternism, Post-marxism, Post-hegemony