51ÁÔÆæ Welcomes New Faculty for 2024-25
“It is with a great deal of excitement that I welcome a strong cohort of new faculty this year, and I’m thrilled to see them finding their way around campus and getting started in their classrooms and research projects,” said Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo. “These new faculty bring a lot of energy to the Hill that epitomizes the excitement we all feel with the start of a new season of hunkering down to commit ourselves again to the project of learning and exploring together.”
Among this year’s newcomers are:
- A visual artist, dancer, and educator who grew up weaving and learning traditional folk dances
- A government professor who investigates sexist and racist attitudes and how threats to economic, social, and political power affect American’s political attitudes
- A former mathematician at the Air Force Research Laboratory who focuses on optimization theory and its practical applications to signal processing and machine learning
Other new faculty members come with expertise on such topics as creating wireless networks for rural areas, and the ways that psychological and social forces affect gender, racial, and other gaps.
19th-century Russian literature and culture; history of Imperial Russian ethnography; transgression and criminality in literature; language pedagogy
South Asian history, Sufism, Persian and Urdu Literature, History of Medicine, early modern Islam, Histories of Madness
Painting, drawing, printmaking, weaving, performance
Intersections of film, literature, and painting in Italian culture; Neorealism and Italian art cinema; women writers and filmmakers; Italian feminist thought; linguistic diversity; translation; adaptation; Mediterranean visual culture; transnational Italian studies
Contemporary dance technique, choreography, dance theory and history, Asian and Asian American performance
Directing, movement-based performance, devised theatre, physical theatre, visual and puppet theatre, Lecoq-based pedagogy
18th century British literature, 19th century British literature, 18th and 19th century British legal history, critical theory
Energy policy and justice, environmental politics, behavioral experiments, computational social science
Deep learning, computational biology, bioinformatics
Computational chemistry, electronic structure theory, physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry
Jazz, composition, jazz pedagogy, jazz pedagogy in European Sinti communities
South Asian languages and literature, religion, Jainism, textual studies, poetics, Sanskrit, classical and modern Hindi, manuscript culture, art history
20th and 21st century Indigenous literature and culture; Andean and Mesoamerican cultures; Anthropocene, environmentalism, and ecosocialism; Indigenous intellectual production; anticolonial discourses in the Americas
Wireless networks for rural areas; spectrum sensing and analytics; spectrum sharing and coexistence
Twentieth and twenty-first century Germanic literatures, cinema studies, media theory, narratives of migration, translation studies
Early Modern European art and visual culture; Italian identity construction; cross-cultural relations; print media, sculpture and architecture; trends in replication; religious art; digital humanities
Teaching through the use of games, knowledge transmission based on the characteristics of group learners
Early modern Hispanic literatures and cultures; early modern art and visual culture; death and memory studies; gender studies; the supernatural; history of the book
Tiao-Guan Huang
Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Chinese linguistics, teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language, learning and teaching strategies
American politics, political economy, gender, race, and inequality, quantitative research methods
Organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry
Intersection of social systems of power, cultural foodways, environmental shifts
Solid-earth processes, volcanology, rock-fluid interactions
Stress and resilience, posttraumatic stress disorder, fear learning, psychophysiology, genetics and gene expression, public health
Montiniquë McEachern
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Black feminism, podcasting, queer of color mental health, digital feminism, queer liberation movements
Housing, platforms, ethnography, feminist science and technology studies, political economy, racial capitalism, social movements, trans studies
Japanese language and pedagogy, language acquisition
XX and XXI century Italian literature and cinema, film theory, urban studies, visual and performance studies, postcolonial and transcultural studies, food studies, ecocriticism
Medieval French literature, Old French romance, Chrétien de Troyes, farce theatre, codicology and philology, reception theory, gender and sexuality studies
Moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Chinese philosophy, philosophy of sport and games, philosophy of race
Samodh Porawagamage
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Elegy, disaster writing, postcolonial poetry, literary activism, and the bildungsroman
Labor economics, behavioral economics
Amy Searight
Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs
Asia policy
Creative writing, poetry and poetics, short fiction, digital studies, queer theory, waste
Roman historiography and rhetoric, early Christian historiography and doctrinal development, Late Antiquity, Greek and Roman educational methods, Latin lexicography
Mathematical optimization, machine learning, signal and image processing
Latin American literatures and cultures, Gothic literature, genre studies, gender studies and ecocriticism
Frank Vlossak ’89
Distinguished Lecturer in American Public Policy and Practice
Chinese language and pedagogy, language acquisition
Ancient comedy, ancient gender and sexuality, classical reception studies, pedagogy
Chinese language and pedagogy, language acquisition
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