Faculty Roster
Faculty Who Teach in the Humanities
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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
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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.
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
B.A., Williams College
Focused on suiting the word to the action and the action to the word.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Catherine Mills Davis Associate 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 (particularly ideas concerning ephemerality, nothingness, and atmosphere); music and orientalism/exoticism/japonisme; Sikh devotional music (Sikh Kirtan).
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor 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.
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Associate Professor of French
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Professor of Classical Studies
B.A., University of North Carolina; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Archaeologist leading an excavation in central Greece, studying cultural interaction and trade in the ancient Mediterranean, pursuing digital technology in teaching and research.
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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.
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Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Interested in political dimensions of human development, on policies that enhance education, employment, health, and dignity.
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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.
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Knafel Assistant Professor of Humanities; Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
B.A., Howard University ; M.A., Columbia University; 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.
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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.
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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.
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Senior Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Shanghai Teachers’ University; M.A., University of Iowa
Interested in Chinese language pedagogy and second language acquisition.
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Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English
B.A., Amherst College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Poet and critic.
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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.
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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.
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Professor of Africana Studies
B.A., M.A., Fordham University; Ph.D., Cornell University
Expert on Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history.
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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.
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Professor of French
A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Specialist of French cultural and intellectual history.
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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.
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Professor Emeritus of Art
Montserrat School of Visual Art, Diploma in Sculpture
Sculptor known for public installations and sculptural work in stone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Associate 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.
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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.
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Visiting Lecturer in Africana Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University
African Diasporic cosmologies, sacred ontologies; Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions and identity; slavery and the Afro-Atlantic world; sacred sexualities and gender.
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Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music
B.A., Oberlin College; Certificate, The Royal Conservatory of The Hague; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Scholar of the history of music with specialization in early music and women composers.
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Visiting Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., M.A., National Taiwan University; Ph.D, University of Connecticut
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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.
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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.
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Lecturer in French
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Professor of History
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Yale University
Historian of China/Inner Asia; research on intersection of empire and ethnicity in 1700s, and 20th century transnational trade networks.
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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 in the ancient world, as well as using Classics to foster interdisciplinary discussion.
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Assistant 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.
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Assistant Professor of Japanese
B.A., Westmont College; M.A., Columbia University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Japanese language, literature, and culture
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Evelyn Barry Director of the Choral Program; 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.
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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.
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Assistant 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.
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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.
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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.
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Professor of French
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Associate Professor of German Studies
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Focuses on gender, identity, and subjectivity in Germany; teaches at all levels of German curriculum; research on horror films from the 1920s.
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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.
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Elizabeth Christy Kopf Professor Emerita of Art
B.F.A., M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design
I am a passionate painter focused on representing both seen and unseen (observed by the other senses) elements of the environment.
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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.
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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.
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Lecturer in Theatre Studies
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.F.A., Brandeis University
A professional scenic designer based in Boston.
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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.
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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.
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Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian Studies & English
B.A., M.A., University of Catania (Italy); Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy)
Teaches medieval Italian and comparative literature; works on the manuscript trasmission of late medieval texts and reading practices.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Visiting Lecturer in Korean
B.A., Seoul National University ; M.A., New England Conservatory
Interested in sharing and teaching Korean language and culture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Associate Professor of Korean
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yonsei University; Ph.D., Ohio State University
Focused on Korean language and culture, particularly corpus-based analysis of Korean and learner error corpus
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Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies; Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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.
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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).
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Boston University
Playwright and performer, with plays produced at the Huntington Theatre, Steppenwolf, and off-Broadway.
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Professor 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.
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Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Specialist in Chaucer, medieval dreaming, literary and cultural biography, cultural geography, gender, and food; advocate for the humanities and freedom of expression on campus. -
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.
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Senior Lecturer in Japanese
B.A., Baika Women’s College (Japan); M.A., West Virginia University; Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard University
Japanese Program co-director, interested in Japanese narratives, Japanese pedagogy, second language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.
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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.
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Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies; Professor of Religion
B.A., Dickinson College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Academic and public interpreter of religion in American history in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National periods.
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Professor of Religion
B.A., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
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Professor of French
Licence, Maîtrise, Université de Haute Bretagne (Rennes); Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
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Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities; 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.
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Professor 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.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and French
B.A., Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Paris III
Film Theory and Media Aesthetics, French Culture and Intellectual History, Media Ecologies, History of Ideas, Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities.
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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.
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Professor of Art
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art.
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Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas; 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.
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Professor of German Studies
Staatsexamen, Universität Tübingen; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
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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.
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Senior Lecturer in Art
B.A., Yale University; J.D., University of Virginia; M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Specialist in Latin American art, focusing on modern Mexican art and architecture, through museum as well as academic projects.
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Diana Chapman Walsh Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., University of North Florida; M.A., University of South Florida; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Art historian focusing on 18th- and 19th-century Europe and South Asia, colonialism, Indian Ocean trade, and intersections of art and science.
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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.
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Associate Professor of History
B.A., M.A., New York University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research focuses on politics and urban culture in the Spanish Habsburg Empire. Teaching focuses on the Spanish American and Iberian worlds.
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Lecturer in Africana Studies
B.A., Moi University; M.A., University of Nairobi
Research focuses on Swahili proverbial language and the sociocultural theory.
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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.
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Professor of English
A.B., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Tim Peltason teaches and writes about nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature and about Shakespeare.
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Professor of French
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.
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Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature; Professor of French
B.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University (India); M.A., Purdue University; Ph.D., Duke University
Works in postcolonial studies, Francophone studies, cultural theory (especially French theory), cinema studies, African studies.
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Associate Professor of History
B.A., University of Tennessee (Knoxville); M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Historian of race, slavery, space, and the state in the late colonial and early national eras.
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Lecturer in Theatre Studies; Interim 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Associate Professor of Art
M.F.A., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
Visual artist doing work that attempts to understand the object quality of images.
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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.
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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.
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William R. Kenan, Jr. 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 western civilizations.
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Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature; Professor of English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Americanist, translator, performer (music, theater), verse-writer, pacifist.
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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.
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Assistant 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.
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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.
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Associate Professor of South Asia Studies
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.
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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.
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Associate Professor of History
B.A., Lewis & Clark College; Ph.D., New York University
Historian of modern Europe and the world.
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Visiting Lecturer in Korean
B.A., M.A, Ph.D., Yonsei University
Focused on Korean linguistics, language teaching, learner corpus, and dictionary.
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Associate Professor of Chinese
B.A., Shandong University; M.A., Fudan University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
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Theodora Stone Sutton Professor of Classics; 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.
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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.
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Senior Lecturer Emerita in Spanish
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
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Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Nanjing Normal University; M.A., Fudan University
Specializing in teaching Chinese as a foreign language; also a translator of literary fiction from English to Chinese.
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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.
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Theatre Production Manager
M.F.A., Purchase College (State University of New York)
Theatre production lecturer, production manager, and professional set designer.
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Senior Lecturer in French
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.
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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.
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Associate 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 public lands, climate change, and science and technology.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Writing Program
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., J.D., Boston College
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Associate Professor of English
B.A., Wellesley College; M.Phil, St. John’s College (Oxford University); Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests include Renaissance literature, book history, and the history and theory of literary genre.
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Assistant 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.
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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
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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.
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Professor of Russian
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Teaches Russian language and literature; at Wellesley since 1994.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
