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Stephanie Kelley-Romano

Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

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

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

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

Charles I. Nero

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

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

Ian Khara Ellasante

Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

African American cultural studies, Black feminisms, Community-Engaged learning, cultural studies, Decolonizing methodologies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Youth and Young Adults, North American Indigenous feminisms, North American Indigenous literatures, Peoplehood matrix, race and ethnicity, reproductive justice, Reproductive justice, Settler colonialism, transgender studies

Lisa R. Gilson

Assistant Professor of Politics

American political thought, contemporary political theory, democratic theory, history of political thought, literature and politics, political theory, Social Movements

Sawyer F. Sylvester Jr.

Professor Emeritus of Sociology

Lucy C. Britt

Assistant Professor of Politics

African American Political Thought, Feminist Political Theory and Pop Culture, Memorials and Memory, political theory, Race and Politics, Race and Whiteness in U.S.

Adriana J. Salerno

Professor of Mathematics

arithmetic dynamical systems, arithmetic geometry, arithmetic mirror symmetry, computation of congruent zeta functions, experimental number theory, hypergeometric functions, multiple zeta values, number theory, p-adic methods in arithmetic geometry

Peter N. Wong

Phillips Professor of Mathematics

algebraic topology, geometric group theory, geometry, history of mathematics, history of wasan and sangaku, topological fixed point theory, topology

Katie M. Adkison

Assistant Professor of English

16th- and 17th- century English drama, 16th- and 17th- century English poetry, affect theory, critical making, digital humanities and digital archives, early modern broadside ballads, early modern literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, historical phenomenology, history of the senses, phenomenology, print culture and history, printmaking, Renaissance politics, Shakespeare, sonnet cultures, theories of embodied voice, tragedy