Affiliated Faculty
Linda Austern (School of Music)
Literary-musical relations, music and the other arts in early modern Europe, music and critical theory, music and gender.
Tracy Davis (Department of English)
Nineteenth-century British theater history, gender and theatre, economics and business history of theatre, performance theory, research methodology, museum studies, Cold War studies.
Scott P. Durham (Department of French and Italian)
20th-century literature, film, and theory, especially Foucault, Deleuze, and the Marxist critical tradition.
Christine Froula (Department of English)
Interdisciplinary and transnational modernism; late 19th-20th C literature, art, aesthetics; contemporary literary and gender theory; western literary traditions; textual scholarship; translation studies.
Lucille Kerr (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Twentieth-century Latin American literature, the Boom and post-Boom eras, literary culture since the mid-twentieth century, literary theory, Latin American Jewish literature and culture.
Jörg Kreienbrock (Department of German)
j-kreienbrock@northwestern.edu
German literature from the nineteenth to the twenty- first century with an emphasis on contemporary literature, popular culture and literary theory.
Ilya Kutik (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Russian poetry of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries; Russian film, particularly in its interaction with Spanish, French, and German avant-garde; modernist era; Russian and Scandinavian (Swedish and Danish) realist visual arts; Scandinavian (Swedish and Danish) poetry.
Yarí Pérez Marín (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Colonial Latin American literature and culture, history of science, Caribbean literature, film studies.
Susan McReynolds Oddo (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Russian and German literature and philosophy, the evolution of nationalism and anti-Semitism, Romanticism, New Economic Criticism, issues of modernization, and Dostoevsky.
Marcus Moseley (Department of German)
Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, autobiography.
Martin Mueller (Department of English)
martinmueller@northwestern.edu
Digitally assisted text analysis, Homer, Shakespeare and his sources, the reception of Greek epics and tragedy in early modern literature.
Barbara Newman (Department of English)
Medieval religious culture (especially in England and Germany), medieval poetry, women’s spirituality.
Rainer Rumold (Department of German)
Avant-garde and modernism in literature and the visual arts; focus on Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism; history and critical theory (Nietzsche, Benjamin).
Vivasvan Soni (Department of English)
Eighteenth-century British literature, and critical and literary theory; the rise of the novel; moral and political theory; narratology; theories of tragedy; utopian writing; theories of modernity.
Alejandra Uslenghi (Deparment of Spanish and Portuguese)
Nineteenth-century Latin American literature, comparative modernisms, theory of the novel, travel literature, visual culture.
Alexander Weheliye (Department of English)
African-American and Afro-Diasporic literature and culture, critical theory, and popular culture.
