Faculty
| Name | Home Department | Research Interests | Email Address |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicole Asquith | French | French poetry from the French Revolution to the present | nvasquith@ucdavis.edu |
| Emilio Bejel | Spanish | Authors such as Lezama Lima, Carpentier, Borges, Sarduy, and Arenas; Topics such as ideology, poetics, gender transgressions, and globalization. | ebejel@ucdavis.edu |
| Gina Bloom | English | Feminist theory, performance studies, theories of play, and masculinity studies. | gbloom@ucdavis.edu |
| Anna Maria Busse Berger | Music | Medieval and Renaissance Music History and Theory | amberger@ucdavis.edu |
| Nathan Brown | English | Ontology (Heidegger, Whitehead, Deleuze, Badiou); contemporary French philosophy (Nancy, Rancière, Stiegler, Meillassoux); Speculative Realism; Materialism; Poetics; Media/Technology Studies. | ntbrown@ucdavis.edu |
| Joshua Clover | English | The intersection of politics and poetics; Left postmodernism; and the Situationist International, radical urbanisms, and spectacle theory. | jclover@ucdavis.edu |
| Elizabeth Constable | Women & Gender Studies | 19th and 20th century literature and cultural studies; 19th century nationalisms and imperialisms, with a focus on gender; the fin-de-siecle and decadence as textural and cultural phenomena; French politics and society in the 1930s and 1940s; literatures, cultures and cinema of French Africa and the French Caribbean; contemporary cultural theory, post-colonialism and feminist theory. | elconstable@ucdavis.edu |
| Gregory Dobbins | English | gjdobbins@ucdavis.edu | |
| Frances Dolan | English | Feminist theory, critical legal studies, historical or materialist criticism, historiography, and theories of evidence. | fdolan@ucdavis.edu | Donald Donham | Anthropology | Forms of power, the ways that economics systems intertwine with cultural forms in those transformations; historical methodology as it applies to ethnography, marxist and post-marxist social theories; the history of cultural anthropology; and the ways that race, gender, sexuality, and class interact in transnational settings. | dldonham@ucdavis.edu |
| Margaret Ferguson | English | Feminist theory, literacy, sociolinguistics, and historical and theoretical work on imperialism; my main historical base is the long early modern period in England, Europe, and the Americas. | mwferguson@ucdavis.edu | Gail Finney | Comparative Literature & German | European realism, naturalism, fin-de-siecle, and modernism; drama and performance; psychoanalysis and literature/film, esp. trauma theory; visual culture; gender studies. | gefinney@ucdavis.edu |
| Jaimey Fisher | German | film studies, twentieth-century German literature and intellectual history. His theoretical emphases are in film theory, Critical Theory, and psychoanalysis. | jrfisher@ucdavis.edu | Jeff Fort | French | Comparative literature, especially nineteenth and twentieth century French and German literature; German philosophy from Kant to Heidegger and Adorno, and its French reception; twentieth century French thought; aesthetics and aesthetic theory; psychoanalysis. |
jpfort@ucdavis.edu |
| Elizabeth Freeman | English | Queer theory, feminist theory, theories of time and temporality | esfreeman@ucdavis.edu | Kathleen Frederickson | English | Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality studies, political theory, histories of science, nineteenth-century cultural studies. | kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu |
| Gayatri Gopinath | Women & Gender Studies | ggopinath@ucdavis.edu | |
| Noah Guynn | French & Italian | Medieval literature and drama; French literature; theater history and performance studies; critical theory; sexuality studies; literature and ethics; literature and history; literature and philosophy; literature and music. | ndguynn@ucdavis.edu | Lynette Hunter | Theatre & Dance | philosophical issues to do with the condition of women and with feminism; the moral ethical concerns of the late-twentieth and early twenty-first century philosophy and theory | lhunter@ucdavis.edu |
| Robert Irwin | Spanish | Cultural studies theory, Inter-Americas studies, border studies, gender/sexuality studies, Mexico. | rmirwin@ucdavis.edu |
| Mark Jerng | English | American literature; politics and philosophy of race; psychoanalytic theory; literary theory; law and literature | mcjerng@ucdavis.edu |
| Suad Joseph | Anthropology and Women & Gender Studies | The interface of gender, family and state in the Middle East, with a focus on Lebanon, and comparisons with Iraq. | sjoseph@ucdavis.edu |
| Caren Kaplan | Women & Gender Studies | cjkaplan@ucdavis.edu | |
| Neil Larsen | Comparative Literature | Latin American literature, postcolonial studies, and general literary and critical theory. | nalarsen@ucdavis.edu |
| Kari Lokke | Comparative Literature | Romanticism; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women writers; aesthetics; feminist theory; theories of myth and history. | kelokke@ucdavis.edu |
| Sheldon Lu | Comparative Literature | World cinema, postsocialist cinema, transnational Chinese cinemas, modern Chinese literature and visual culture, traditional Chinese narrative, cultural theory, globalization studies, East-West comparative poetics. | shlu@ucdavis.edu | E. Dean MacCannell | Environmental Design & Landscape Architecture | Landscape, community, and culture. | edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu |
| John Marx | English |
Twentieth-century British and Postcolonial fiction; colonial and postcolonial theory; globalization studies | jmarx@ucdavis.edu | Zoila Mendoza | Native American Studies | Sociocultural Anthropology; Ethnomusicology; performance and dance studies. | zsmendoza@ucdavis.edu |
| Karl Menges | German | krmenges@ucdavis.edu | Colin Milburn | English | Relations of Science and Literature; Science Studies; Posthumanism, Media Theory; Science Fiction; Gothic Horror; History of Biology; History of Physics. | cnmilburn@ucdavis.edu |
| Elizabeth C. Miller | English | Feminist theory and gender studies; film theory; visuality, media, and print studies; literature, culture, and politics of 19th-c. Britain. | ecmill@ucdavis.edu | Flagg Miller | Religious Studies | Media theory, sociolinguistics, poetry, Islam; language ideology in contemporary Muslim reform; and militancy in the Arab World, especially Yemen. | fmiller@ucdavis.edu |
| Timothy Morton | English | Literature and the environment; psychoanalysis; Marxism; deconstruction; religion and literature; continental philosophy (from Kant to C21); food and literature; romanticism. | tbmorton@ucdavis.edu |
| Robert Newcomb | Spanish | Comparative Luso-Hispanic studies, Luso-Brazilian literature and culture, the essay, theories of history, theoretical and methodological bases for comparative literature. | rpnewcomb@ucdavis.edu |
| Leslie Rabine | Women & Gender Studies | lwrabine@ucdavis.edu | |
| Gerhard Richter | German | Literary, cultural, and media theory; literature and philosophy; history and politics of aesthetic theory; intellectual history (18th century-present); Frankfurt School and French Thought. | grichter@ucdavis.edu |
| Juana Maria Rodriguez | Women & Gender Studies | juarodriguez@ucdavis.edu | |
| Seth Schein | Comparative Literature | Greek and Roman literature, culture, and thought; receptions of Greek and Roman literature, culture and thought; literary theory and its history; literary representations of history and of social institutions and values; gender and interpretation; and translation. | slschein@ucdavis.edu |
| Scott Shershow | English | Deconstruction; Marxism; the political; critical legal theory; and history and theory of drama. | scshershow@ucdavis.edu |
| Juliana Schiesari | Comparative Literature and French & Italian | Psychoanalysis, feminist theory and gender studies, posthumanist theory with special research interests in animals and human culture | jkschiesari@ucdavis.edu |
| Julia Simon | French | 18th-century French literature and culture, especially the philosophes and Rousseau; Kant; German idealism; Frankfurt School; Ethics and social thought. | jsimon@ucdavis.edu |
| David Simpson | English | Romanticism and literary theory. | desimpson@ucdavis.edu |
| Smriti Srinivas | Anthropology | Specialties: religion, the cultural construction of memory, urban cultures, cultures of performance and the body, and alternative/plural modernities. Areas: South Asia, India. | ssrinivas@ucdavis.edu |
| Blake Stimson | Art History | Postwar and Contemporary Art, History of Photography, Aesthetic Theory, and Critical Theory. | bstimson@ucdavis.edu |
| Matthew Stratton | English | 20th century American literature and literary culture; irony; politics of aesthetics; literary radicalism | mstratton@ucdavis.edu | Baki Tezcan | History | Late medieval and early modern Middle Eastern history; alternative "early modernities;" Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography; Ottoman perceptions of Western Europe before the eighteenth century; pre-modern ethnic identities and race relations; and pre-modern ethics as a domain to discuss the political. | btezcan@ucdavis.edu |
| David Van Leer | English | American Literature; Sexuality Theory; Identity Theory; Philosophy and Literature; Philosophy and Religion; and Performance (theatre, film & music). |
dmvanleer@ucdavis.edu | Stefano Varese | Native American Studies | Indian community development, agroecological and sustainable development, cultural/economic/political self-determination, territorial management, rural-urban migration, transnational migration, cultural resource management, poverty alleviation strategies, human rights. | svarese@ucdavis.edu |
| Evan Watkins | English | epwatkins@ucdavis.edu | Aram Yengoyan | Anthropology | Cultural theory, mostly German Cultural Theory with special emphasis on Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart and Thomas Mann. | aayengoyan@ucdavis.edu |