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Benoit Y. Vallee

Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 304

bvallee@bates.edu | 207-786-6322

(trans)nationalism, Afro-Latin America, Blackness, Caribbean studies, Dominican Republic, Dominicans in Hip-Hop, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, Latin American Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies, New York Afro-Latina/o/x and Latina/o/x, New York Hip-Hop history, Quisqueya-Hispaniola, race and ethnicity, urban anthropology

Katalin Vecsey

Senior Lecturer in Theater

Schaeffer Theatre, Room 303

kvecsey@bates.edu | 207-786-6378

contemporary theater and productions in Hungary; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia, post-1989 central European drama and productions, vocal health and pedagogy, voice abuse prevention, voice and speech training for actors, voice and speech training for professional voice users

Laura C. Balladur

Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 409

lballadu@bates.edu | 207-786-8318

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, Democratic Republic of Congo, ecology of bodies in movement, French Cinema, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance, Translation Studies

Hiroya Miura

Associate Professor of Music

Olin Arts Center, Room 254

hmiura@bates.edu | 207-786-6136

composition and music theory, contemporary and 20th century music theory, contemporary performance practice, Japanese court music

Karen Melvin

Thomas Hedley Reynolds Professor of History

Pettengill Hall, Room 123 | Pettengill Hall, Room 123

kmelvin@bates.edu | 207-786-8208

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

Jakub J. Kazecki

Associate Professor of German

Roger Williams Hall, Room 231 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 231

jkazecki@bates.edu | 207-753-6984

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media