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Lillian R. Nayder

Charles A. Dana Professor of English

Hathorn Hall, Room 311

lnayder@bates.edu | 207-786-6315

biography, Charles Dickens, Dickens studies, life writing, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Victorian authorship, Victorian fiction, Victorian gender studies, Wilkie Collins

Charles I. Nero

Benjamin E. Mays '20 Distinguished Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

Pettigrew Hall, Room 303 | Pettigrew Hall, Room 303

cnero@bates.edu | 207-786-6415

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

Anita S. Charles

Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of Secondary Teacher Education

Pettengill Hall, Room 308

acharles@bates.edu | 207-786-8349

adolescent literacy, comparative education, public education reform, special education, teacher education

Mayumi Fukushima

Assistant Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 169

mfukushima@bates.edu | 207-786-6311

asymmetric security alliances, extended nuclear deterrence, international politics of East Asia, international relations, international security, international security alliances, nuclear deterrence, technology and conflicts

Peter J. Steenstra

Lecturer in Physical Education

Alumni Gymnasium,

psteenst@bates.edu | 207-786-6363

Todd A. Kahan

Professor of Psychology

Pettengill Hall, Room 367

tkahan@bates.edu | 207-786-6180

attention, cognitive psychology, human memory, psycholinguistics, psychological models of word reading, visual perception

Mary T. Rice-DeFosse

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 411

mricedef@bates.edu | 207-786-6279

19th century French literature, critical theory, cultural studies, Franco-American culture and identity, Franco-American history and literature, French feminist theory, French women writers of the 19th century, literature, literature as history, narrative, post-structuralist theory, race and ethnicity, representations of political and social change, women and gender studies

Francesco G. Duina

Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology

Pettengill Hall, Room 263

fduina@bates.edu | 207-786-6319

economic sociology, globalization, international political economy, political sociology, sociology of culture

David R. Cummiskey

Professor of Philosophy

Hedge Hall, Room 306

dcummisk@bates.edu | 207-786-6286

biomedical ethics, Buddhist moral and political philosophy, clinical medical ethics, intercultural bioethics, intercultural ethics, Kantian ethics and consequentialism, moral philosophy, political philosophy, rawls and political liberalism