Faculty Who Teach in the Humanities
Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies
B.A., Universite Moulay Ismail (Morocco); M.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Binghamton University
I teach Arabic literature and language
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of Georgia; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Poet, human rights activist, literary critic. Interested in Jewish literature and literature of human rights in the Americas; women writers of Latin America; migration, identity, and ethnicity.
Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
B.A., Williams College
Focused on suiting the word to the action and the action to the word.
Senior Lecturer in Writing and Anthropology
B.A., Wilfred Laurier University (Waterloo, ON); M.A., Ph.D., McMaster University (Hamilton, ON)
Research focuses on experimental ethnography, anthropology of exchange, Iceland, Micronesia and the Faroe Islands, as well as island cultural ecology and ghost towns.
Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies
B.A., Harvard University Extension School; M.A., Tufts University
Research focuses on Italian language pedagogy and 20th century Italian cultural studies.
Professor Emerita of Education
A.B., Radcliffe College; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University
Historian of education and of childhood, teacher education, and education reform; preschool policy and advocacy
Professor of Art
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Art Historian focusing on the art and visual culture of the United States. Interests include the intersection of art and science, ecocriticism, landscape imagery, sentimentalism, and Disney.
Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art
B.A., Hampshire College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Art historian specializing in the art and visual culture of the late 19th-, 20th-, and 21st centuries.
Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music
B.Mus(Hons), Royal College of Music; M.Mus., King’s College, University of London; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Scholarly interests focus on the music of French composers including Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Delage; the practice of ornament in French music and the visual arts during the early twentieth century; music and aesthetics; music and orientalism/exoticism/colonialism-decolonialism; and Sikh devotional music (Sikh Kirtan)
Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of English
B.A., University of California (Riverside); A.M., Harvard University
An award-winning poet, Bidart won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize, 2018 National Book Award and was previously a finalist for both awards.
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Specializes in French culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the relationship between literary texts and the socio-historical contexts in which they emerged.
Catherine Mills Davis Professor Emeritus of Music
B.A., Amherst College; M.M., D.M.A., Yale University School of Music
Composer of concert music; historian of early modern music, especially music during the Cold War in relation to other arts.
Associate Professor of English
B.A., Queens College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Teaches modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography.
Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program
B.A., Dickinson College; M.A., University of Sussex (Brighton, England); Ph.D., University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Interested in modern and contemporary American literature, the cultural study of science and technology, gender and women's writing, academic and professional writing, and film criticism and theory.
Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program
A.B., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Specialist in twentieth-century British and Irish literature; writer.
Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Expert in nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature; Shakespeare; and modernism in the arts.
Professor of Political Science
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Interested in the political dimensions of human development, especially policies that promote education, employment, health, and dignity in Southern Asia.
Associate Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Professor of linguistics; research interests include artificial language learning and acquisition of phonology.
Professor Emerita of Art
B.A., Barnard College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Primary research in the field of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting, with specialized work on Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rubens, and Rembrandt.
Michael and Denise Kellen '68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies
B.A., Howard University ; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Carter Jackson's research focuses on slavery and the abolitionists, violence as a political discourse, historical film, and black women’s history.
Associate Professor of Art
B.A., Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge); M.A., University of Texas (Austin); Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Art and architectural historian specializing in the ancient Mediterranean.
Senior Lecturer in English
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., City University of New York
Author of two novels and a screenplay. Fields: fiction-writing, screenwriting, postcolonial studies and modern British literature.
Senior Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Shanghai Teachers’ University; M.A., University of Iowa
Interested in Chinese language pedagogy and second language acquisition.
Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English
B.A., Amherst College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Poet and critic.
Visiting Lecturer in Art
B.A., Ithaca College ; MFA., Indiana University (Bloomington)
Painter working with the history, imagination and construction of female-centric communities.
Associate Professor of Peace and Justice Studies
B.S., Università degli Studi di Firenze; M.A., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Scholar and activist around issues of peace and gender.
Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
B.A., University of California (Riverside); M.A., University of California (Santa Barbara); Ph.D., University of California (Santa Cruz)
Engaged in research on Asian American visual history and Native American cultural studies including sacred horse cultures.
Professor of Africana Studies
B.A., M.A., Fordham University; Ph.D., Cornell University
Expert on Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history.
Senior Lecturer Emerita in Spanish
M.A.T. School for International Training/World Learning; Ph.D., University of Florida
Engaged in research on teaching and learning processes. Specializes in Spanish language and culture courses. Teaches courses on diversity in education and classroom interaction.
Professor of French and Francophone Studies
A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Specialist of French cultural and intellectual history.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Victoria University; M.A., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Works on philosophy of literature and moral philosophy, with a focus on personal narration, memoir and meaning in life.
Professor Emeritus of Art
Montserrat School of Visual Art, Diploma in Sculpture
Sculptor known for public installations and sculptural work in stone.
Professor of Classical Studies
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., University of California (Santa Barbara); M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Specializes in the literature and culture of Ancient Greece; teaches Greek drama and myth, and the theme of travel in literature.
Professor of Religion
B.A., Stetson University; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Harvard University
Scholar of the history of Christianity and contemporary Catholicism with special attention to the Virgin Mary and to women’s spiritual writings.
Senior Lecturer in Russian
M.A., Moscow University; Ph.D., Academy of Sciences Institute of World History (Russia)
Teaches Russian language; Wintersession in Moscow Program Director; at Wellesley since 1998.
Professor of American Studies
A.B., Harvard College; B.A., M.A., Trinity College (Cambridge); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Interdisciplinary scholar with focus on American literature; biographer of the James family; historian of the Belle Époque.
Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor Emeritus of Music
A.B., Harvard College; M.M.A., D.M.A., Yale University School of Music
Engaged in thinking and writing about the repertoire I perform as a pianist, and psychological and philosophical issues in music.
Lecturer in Africana Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University
African Diasporic cosmologies, sacred ontologies; Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions and identity; slavery and the Afro-Atlantic world; sacred sexualities and gender.
Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music
B.A., Oberlin College; Certificate, The Royal Conservatory of The Hague; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Research and Teaching Interests: Early Music, Women Composers, Symphonic and Chamber Music Repertoire, J.S. Bach
Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art; Professor of Art
A.B., Radcliffe College; M.Phil., University of London; Ph.D., Harvard University
Interested in building an interdisciplinary, feminist approach to architecture through research, teaching, and public education.
Associate Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies
B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A.R., Iliff School of Theology; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Ethics of US health care, health policy, and public health with emphases on gender, race, and class; bioethics; theories of justice; global health.
Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies
M.A., Ph.D., Boston University
Academic focus includes authorship, textual strategies, and the fashioning of subjectivity. Passionate about teaching and her commitment to students.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Works on ancient Greek philosophy, with emphasis on ancient ethics and moral psychology.
Professor Emerita of Spanish
Licenciatura, University of Madrid; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Researches topics from Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature and feminist studies, to Spanish postmodernism and Spanish and Mexican cinema; an educator who intends to teach a higher spiritual and ethical attitude toward life.
Professor of Religion
A.B., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Interests include the Jewish and Christian communities of the Roman Empire, women in the Biblical world, and the history of Jerusalem.
Edith Stix Wasserman Professor in Asian Studies; Professor of History
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Yale University
Historian of China/Inner Asia; research on intersection of empire and ethnicity in the 1700s, and on the links between business, state-building, and inequality in the 20th century.
Professor of Classical Studies
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Interests include gender, sexuality, and the erotics of place and time in the ancient world, as well as using Classics to foster interdisciplinary discussion.
Associate Professor of English
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University
Queer literary studies, including representations of HIV/AIDS; transatlantic Modernism, including the Harlem Renaissance; and the 20C Novel.
Associate Professor of Japanese
B.A., Westmont College; M.A., Columbia University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Focused on Japanese language, literature, and culture.
Evelyn Barry Director of the Choral Program; Senior Lecturer in Music
B.A., Sonoma State College; M.M., D.M.A., University of Southern California
Conductor of Choral Program, including Choir, Chamber Singers, and Choral Scholars.
Associate Professor of History
B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Historian of early American and Native American history, English colonialism and cultural encounters, environmental history, and violence in American history.
Associate Professor of Art
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware
Art historian examining African and African American identities, music, the body, and feminism in 20th century and contemporary art.
Associate Professor of History
B.A., Beloit College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Historian of race, gender, and culture in 20th century U.S. with focus on African American business and visual culture.
Associate Professor of History
A.B., Harvard University; M.Phil., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe.
Professor of French and Francophone Studies
B.A., Cornell University; D.E.A., Ecole Normale Superieure & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; J.D., Ph.D., New York University
Specialist of contemporary French society. Interested in the media, gender and sexuality in France and the European Union.
Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Specializes in gender, race, and philosophy of language in colonial Latin American literature and visual culture; digital humanities and blended learning; history of clothing and of food; cultural exchanges between Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., Soka University of America; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Specialized in 19th and 20th century Latin American literature and culture; also interested in trans-pacific studies.
Senior Lecturer in Spanish
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Specialized in 19th- through 21st-century literature with a focus on Hispanic American narrative and the literary and cultural history of modern Mexico, I am a bilingual scholar, book editor, translator and teacher.
Associate Professor of German Studies
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Focuses on gender, identity, and subjectivity in German film, literature, and culture; teaches at all levels of German curriculum; research on independent films made in Austria in the 1930s and on Weimar cinema.
Professor Emeritus of German
B.A., M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Harvard University
A primary research interest of his has been German exile literature from the period 1933–1945, an area in which he wrote his dissertation and has published several articles.
Elizabeth Christy Kopf Professor Emerita of Art
B.F.A., M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design
Painter focused on representing both seen and unseen (observed by the other senses) elements of the environment.
Associate Professor of English
A.B., Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Specialist in English Romanticism; teaches Romantic Poetry and other literature courses with an emphasis on poetry.
Professor of Russian
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Oxford University; A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests include history of 19th-century Russian literature, Russian nature writing, and Russian music.
Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.F.A., Brandeis University
A professional scenic designer based in Boston.
Artistic Director Emerita of the Wellesley College Theatre
B.A., Mundelein College
Engaged in teaching and directing, original works, new scripts and classics. I am involved in the professional future of students.
Lecturer in Portuguese
B.A., University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth); M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Research interests include Contemporary Lusophone African, Brazilian and Portuguese Literature and Film in general, and the short story in particular.
Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program
B.A., Haverford College; Ph.D., Yale University
I am the director of the Writing Program and senior lecturer in writing.
Associate Professor of Music
B.A., Barnard College; M.M., Manhattan School of Music; Ph.D., New York University
Composer, sound artist, and music scholar.
Assistant Professor of Art
B.Arch, University of Houston; M.F.A, New York University
Video and installation artist working at the intersection of landscape, history, and memory.
Elizabeth Kimball Kendall and Elisabeth Hodder Professor of History
B.A., Universiteit van Amsterdam; M.A., University of London; Doctoraal, Ph.D., Universiteit van Amsterdam
African historian focusing on Somalia and Sudan with a long-term research and teaching focus on the history of Africa, the Middle East, and Islam in Africa; translator of historical and popular culture texts in Arabic and Somali.
Professor of English
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Cambridge University (Clare College); Ph.D., Yale University
Shakespearean engaged in bringing theatre and academia into greater dialogue; can also be found at home with kids or on soccer field.
Professor of Religion
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
An educator and a scholar in the comparative and historical study of religion with a focus on Asia, as the word "Asia" is understood historically and broadly to include West Asia, South Asia and East Asia.
Professor Emeritus of German
Staatsexamen, Universität Hamburg; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Researching Goethe and Kafka; teaching across the curriculum; involved in college governance.
Professor Emerita of Chinese
B.A., National Taiwan University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Interested in China's contemporary issues, especially those concerning the Mongols and the Tibetans.
Knafel Assistant Professor of Humanities; Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., Vassar College; M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Visual artist interested in the photographic representation of Latinx and immigrant communities.
Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies
B.A., University of Bari (Italy); M.S., University of Edinburgh; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York (Buffalo)
In my research I examine representations of violence against women in world cinema and media. I am the Principal Editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, and I teach Italian culture and European cinema.
Professor of Korean
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yonsei University; Ph.D., Ohio State University
Director of Korean program; focused on Korean language and culture, particularly corpus-based linguistic analysis and learner corpus research
Anne Pierce Rogers Professor in American Literature; Professor of English
A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Yale University
My research and teaching span two areas, British eighteenth and nineteenth century prose fiction, and Asian American literature.
Margaret Clapp ’30 Distinguished Alumna Professor Emerita of French and Linguistics
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of linguistics and French. Interested in language learning and speech perception and production.
Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor of Art
B.A., Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages (China); M.A., Southern Methodist University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Asian art historian and specialist in Chinese painting of the Song dynasty (960-1279).
Professor Emeritus of French
B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: intellectual history of the French Renaissance; confessional writing; post-war Paris; exploring the power of interactive media to teach language and culture.
Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Lecturer in Art
B.A., Brown University; M.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Princeton University
Research focuses on the city of Venice, Renaissance to the eighteenth-century.
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
B.A., Baika Women’s College (Japan); M.A., West Virginia University; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University
Co-director of Japanese program; interested in Japanese narratives, Japanese pedagogy, second language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.
Sophia Moses Robison Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History
B.A., Skidmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University
Director of Jewish Studies, research in Jewish and European history, founding member of Digital Heritage Mapping and Diarna project.
Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies; Professor of Religion
B.A., Dickinson College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Academic historian and public interpreter of religion in America during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National periods.
Professor of Religion
B.A., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor Emerita of French
Licence, Maîtrise, Université de Haute Bretagne (Rennes); Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
B.A., M.A., New Mexico State University; Ph.D., University of California (San Diego)
Interests include Chicana/Latino literature and culture; and analysis of gender, labor, immigration, sexuality, and representation in cultural production.
Professor Emeritus of History
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Japanese specialist focusing on Japanese imperialism, nationalism of the Meiji era, and the history of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director, The Camilla Chandler Frost ’47 Center for the Environment
B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Researches and teaches the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of cultural heritage, art, and the environment.
Elizabeth Christy Kopf Professor of Art
B.F.A., M.F.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Visual artist working in a range of graphic media, i.e. prints, drawings, artist books, photomontages, and installations.
Margaret Clapp ’30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor of metaphysics, philosophy of language and law; also teaches logic and various seminars.
Virginia Onderdonk ’29 Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Main interests: philosophy of mind, moral theory, the history of moral philosophy, especially 18th-century British moral psychology.
Professor of English
B.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., University of California (Los Angeles); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Literary critic specializing in Victorian and American literature. Children's author.
Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies
B.A., Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Paris III
Film Theory and Media Aesthetics, Media Ecologies, History of Ideas, French Culture and Intellectual History, Surveillance Studies, Environmental Humanities.
Senior Lecturer in Art; Director of 3D Arts
B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
A visual artist interested in the tangibility of materials, the aesthetics and functionality of objects and the performance process of their creation and use.
Professor of Art
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.
Professor of English
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Interested in 18th-century British literature and culture, literary theory, and Milton.
Professor of German Studies
Staatsexamen, Universität Tübingen; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Comparative Literary Studies and Chair of German Studies at Wellesley College. Research and teaching in the fields of comparative literature, Jewish Studies, media studies, and German culture and literature.
Grace Slack McNeil Professor Emeritus of the History of American Art
B.Arch., Washington University in St. Louis; M.Arch. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., Harvard University
Leading American architectural historian, author, lecturer, editor, and consultant who taught for many years at Wellesley College.
Senior Lecturer in Art
B.A., Yale University; J.D., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Yale University
Specialist in Latin American art, focusing on modern Mexican art and architecture, through museum as well as academic projects.
Associate Professor of Art
B.A., University of North Florida; M.A., University of South Florida; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Associate Professor of Art
B.F.A., University of Washington (Seattle); M.A., M.F.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
New media artist interested in collaborative and interactive experiences using both traditional and experimental visual techniques.
Associate Professor of History
B.A., M.A., New York University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Scholar of urban history and political culture in the Spanish Habsburg world.
Professor of Italian Studies
Laurea in Lettere, Universitˆ degli studi di Torino (Italy); M.A., Ph. D., Brown University
Teaches Italian language and literature, literary theory, and writing; works as a translator.
Professor Emeritus of English
A.B., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Tim Peltason was a member of the English Dept. from 1977 until his retirement in 2021, serving three times as chair of the department and from 2004-2009 as the first faculty director of the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities.
Professor of French and Francophone Studies
B.A., Reed College; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Engaged in studying French poetry in its relation to contemporary French, philosophy, aesthetics, and intellectual history.
Associate Professor of History
B.A., University of Tennessee (Knoxville); M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Historian of slavery, space and governance in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies; Director of Theatre and Theatre Studies
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Antioch University
As performer, teacher, director, and writer, I aim to strike a balance between irreverence, honor, gleeful failure, discipline, and fervor.
Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literary Studies; Professor of Spanish
Licenciatura, Universidad Central de Barcelona; M.A., Emerson College; Ph.D., Boston University
Teaching and research focused on 19th, 20th and 21st century Spanish peninsular literature and cultural history.
Associate Professor of History
A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Medieval historian of southern Italy and the Mediterranean, with special interest in the relationship between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities.
Associate Professor of History
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Scholar of urban history and urban economic and political development in South Asia.
Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., Mount Holyoke College; A.M., Harvard University
Language & Literature Pedagogy; social justice- race and class; Print & Audiovisual Interactive Resources; immersion; study abroad; I am a teacher, author, editor and teacher-trainer
Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas; Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies
B.S., Cornell University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Boston University
Historian of American health care, women, race, and public health with a focus is on equality and ethics.
Barbara Morris Caspersen Professor of Humanities; Professor of Art
M.F.A., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
Visual artist doing work that attempts to understand the object quality of images.
Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
B.S., Emerson College; M.A., Lesley College
Passionate about developing and presenting creative works for the stage and film, bringing performance opportunities to artists of all ages, and producing community-focused events.
Professor of English
B.A., Wellesley College; J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D., Boston University
Research and teaching focuses on the 19th-and 20th-century British novel.
Professor of History and Classical Studies
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; B.A., University of London; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Classicist and historian of Greek and Roman history, ancient religion and warfare, Alexander the Great, and Jewish History.
Anne Pierce Rogers Professor Emeritus of American Literature; Professor Emeritus of English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Americanist, translator, performer (music, theater), verse-writer, pacifist.
Lorraine C. Wang Professor Emerita of English
B.A., Radcliffe College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Teacher and scholar of English and comparative literature.
Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of the South; M.A., Ph.D, University of Kentucky
Research and teaching center on 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and cinema.
Professor of English
A.B., Princeton University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Studies and teaches American poetry and film, focusing particularly on contemporary poetry and classic Hollywood cinema.
Professor of Religion
B.A., M.A., Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (India); M.Div., Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests include arts in religious/cultural history of South Asia; the divine and the human feminine in Hindu traditions; Gandhian thought and practices; the self and the other in South Asian philosophical traditions and history.
Senior Lecturer in English
B.A., M.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Teaching focuses on creative writing, mainly fiction and travel writing.
Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas; Professor of History
B.A., Lewis & Clark College; Ph.D., New York University
Historian of modern Europe and the world.
Lecturer in Korean
B.A., M.A, Ph.D., Yonsei University
Focused on Korean linguistics, language teaching, learner corpus, and dictionary.
Professor of Chinese
B.A., Shandong University; M.A., Fudan University; Ph.D., Columbia University
Specializing in modern Chinese literature and intellectual history, science fiction, youth culture, posthuman theories, and the Neo-Baroque aesthetics
Theodora Stone Sutton Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies; Professor of Classical Studies
B.A., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor); M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Focuses on Roman literature and culture; law; the sociology of Roman literature and education; political communication; media studies; and Augustus.
Professor Emerita of Africana Studies
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Boston University; B.Litt., D.Phil., Oxford University
Studies of global gender systems and hierarchies; Africa and African Diaspora; social and environmental justice; international consulting.
Senior Lecturer Emerita in Spanish
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Nanjing Normal University; M.A., Fudan University
Specialized in teaching Chinese as a foreign language; also a translator of literary fiction from English to Chinese.
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
B.A., Kansai University (Osaka); Ed.M., Ph.D., Boston University
Co-director of Japanese Program; study abroad advisor in Japan; applied linguist.
Theatre Production Manager
M.F.A., Purchase College (State University of New York)
Theatre production lecturer, production manager, and professional set designer.
Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies
D.U.T., Institut Universitaire de Technologie, (Brest); M.A., State University of New York (Stony Brook); Ph.D., University of California (Santa Barbara)
A specialist of the 19th-century French novel; interests include the French novel, pedagogy, cultural studies, and the autobiography.
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies; Professor of History
B.A., University of Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Historian of Russia, current research on Russian historical memory of the Soviet past.
Professor of Environmental Studies
B.S., Washington and Lee University; A.M., Brown University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Researcher on the recent history of U.S. environmental politics and policy, including climate change, the clean energy transition, and public lands management.
Associate Professor Emeritus of English
B.A., Southwestern University (Memphis); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Teaching interests include Southern literature, British cinema, and lyric traditions in gospel music.
Professor of Spanish
A.B., Columbia University; A.M., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Harvard University
Spanish literature, hagiography, gender issues, study-abroad theory and practice.
Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
Laurea in Lettere Moderne, University of Genova; Ph.D., University of Oregon
Professor of cinema and media studies doing research on Surrealism, the Neo-Baroque, and the cinema of Raúl Ruiz, and teaching film history and European cinema.
Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Writing Program
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., J.D., Boston College
Associate Professor of English; Faculty Director, Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching Center
B.A., Wellesley College; M.Phil, Oxford University (St. John's College); Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests include Renaissance literature, book history, and the history and theory of literary genre.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
Researches and teaches topics in early modern philosophy, with a focus on theories of human freedom and philosophical method in both rationalist and empiricist traditions.
Professor of Italian Studies
B.A., University of East Anglia (England); M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Pier Paolo Pasolini; Carlo Levi; Piero Gobetti; Italian antifascist culture; 21st century Italian mystery writers; contemporary Italian narrative; postmodern narrative; narrative theory
Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researches at the intersection of philosophy of language and cognitive science, focusing especially on figurative language.
Professor of Russian
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Teaches Russian language and literature; at Wellesley since 1994.
Associate Professor of English
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D. Duke University
Researches and teaches late medieval English literature, the history of race, religious and cultural conflict in the Middle Ages, and the modern literary and political uses of medievalism.
Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of East Asian Studies
B.A. Wellesley College; M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
I study traditional Chinese fiction, history of Chinese women's writing, history of the book in China, and missionaries to East Asia.
Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Writing Program
B.A., University of Illinois (Urbana); M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Interests: language, writing, media, film. How students learn to write; how writing differs across settings; electronic discourse.
Senior Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Nanjing University; M.A., Clark University
Interests include language teaching methodology, cross-cultural communication, Chinese pedagogical grammar, and language and culture.
Lecturer in Arabic Language
B.A., M.A., University of Michigan
Teacher of Arabic language; aligns Arabic teaching pedagogy with current research in second language acquisition.
