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Stephanie Kelley-Romano

Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

skelley@bates.edu

feminist approaches to politics and television, genre studies, genre studies of conspiracy and captivity, myth and narrative in popular and political culture, mythic and narrative construction of alternative belief systems, rhetorical theory and criticism, television genres

Courtney P. Smith

Associate Professor of Theater

Schaeffer Theatre, Room 130

csmith5@bates.edu | 207-786-6190

Alexandre E. Dauge-Roth

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 406

adaugero@bates.edu | 207-786-6281

20th and 21st century French and Francophone, AIDS literature, autobiography and testimony as genre, genocide against the Tutsi, genocide studies, identity politics, literary and cinematic analysis, post-genocide in Rwanda, writing of history

Marcus C. Bruce

Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies

mbruce@bates.edu

African American culture, African Americans in France, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American religious history, American religious studies, cultural studies

Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 213 | Pettengill Hall, Room 213

mplastas@bates.edu | 207-786-8313

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

Christopher F. Petrella Ph.D.

Visiting Lecturer

cpetrell@bates.edu

African Diaspora Studies, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American studies, Black Panther Party, black power, blackness, critical theory, cultural studies, race, race and science, racism, radical pedagogy, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 305 | Roger Williams Hall, Room 305

dgeorge@bates.edu | 207-786-8347

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

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

Dale E. Chapman

Professor of Music

Olin Arts Center, Room 252 | Olin Arts Center, Room 252 | Olin Arts Center, Room 252

dchapman@bates.edu | 207-755-5905

20th century American music, African American music, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, historical musicology, jazz studies, popular music studies

Jamie A. Haverkamp

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 111

jhaverkamp@bates.edu | 207-786-8268

Chicanx and Latinx studies, climate change studies, environmental anthropology, environmental justice/climate justice, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, political ecology, postcolonial studies, science and technology studies

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