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Henry J. Walker

Senior Lecturer in Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 204

hwalker@bates.edu | 207-786-8320

ancient languages and literatures, ancient myth and society, how literature and myth reflect social and religious institutions in ancient Greece and India

Lisa Maurizio

Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 206

lmaurizi@bates.edu | 207-786-8391

Archaic and classical Greek religion, Greek and Roman history and religion, Greek and Roman mythology and literature, mythology, oral poetry, oral studies and gender studies, women’s history

Marina Filipovic

Visiting Lecturer in Russian

Roger Williams Hall, Room 227

mfilipov@bates.edu | 207-786-8348

20th century Russian literature, gender, post-Yugoslav cinemas, Russian avant-garde, Russian Film, Russian media, socialist realism, Soviet cinema, Soviet history of science, Stalinism, technology, Yugoslav cinema

Justine K. Wiesinger

Associate Professor of Japanese

Roger Williams Hall, Room 211 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 211

jwiesing@bates.edu | 207-755-5938

Laurie O'Higgins

Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Pettengill Hall,

dohiggin@bates.edu

18th century Irish history, classical reception, Greek literature, Greek religion, Greek religion, Homer, women in classical antiquity

Raluca Cernahoschi

Associate Professor of German

Roger Williams Hall, Room 232 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 232

rcernaho@bates.edu | 207-786-6285

contemporary German literature and film, East-Central European literature and film, film adaptation, German literature and culture since the 19th century, German literature and film, intercultural literature and film, literatures and cultures of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, poetry, Romanian-German literature, spatial constructions in literature and film

Beverly J. Johnson

Charles A. Dana Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences

Carnegie Science Hall, Room 214

bjohnso3@bates.edu | 207-786-6062

archives of sea level rise, biogeochemical cycling in Maine lakes and nearshore environments over a variety of time scales, carbon storage and sequestration in salt marshes, environmental and stable isotope geochemistry, mechanisms of salt marsh formation

Cristina Morales Segura

Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 308

cmoralessegura@bates.edu | 207-786-6086

America-Spain relationships, cultural studies, film studies, intersections of law and literature and media culture, literary analysis

Claudia Aburto Guzmán

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 302

caburtog@bates.edu | 207-786-6049

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Integration of humanistic and natural science pedagogical approaches, Latin American culture, Latin American intellectual inquiry on coloniality, Latin American literature, Latin American literatures and cultures of the 19th- 21st centuries, Latin American Photography and Social Art, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women's literatures and feminist inquiry, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, Latinx poetry and translation, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 203 | Hedge Hall, Room 203

cbaker@bates.edu | 207-786-6308

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible