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Anne Vila

Anne Vila received her Ph.D. in French literature from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and joined the faculty of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that same year. She has also taught at Emory University and…

Brooke Tybush

Brooke Tybush is a dual-title PhD student in the French and Francophone Studies department and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality department at Penn State. She received her B.A. in French and History from East Carolina University in and her M.A. in…

Brynne McBryde

Brynne McBryde is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at Penn State University. She received her B.A. in History of Art and English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in 2005 and her M.A. in Art History at George…

Christian Haines

Christian Haines is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He specializes in nineteenth-century and post-WWII U.S. literature, biopolitics, Marxist critical theory, continental philosophy, gender studies and queer theory, and utopian…

Cindy Ermus

Cindy Ermus is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, where she teaches courses on early modern Europe, the Age of Revolutions, and the history of disasters. Her work looks at catastrophe and crisis management in…

Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Michigan State University. His research interests are in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French drama, history of sexuality, and translation studies. After studying French literature at…

David Michael McCarthy

David McCarthy served most recently as a Visiting Lecturer at Central Michigan University, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses on music history and ethnomusicology. He studies interdependencies between modern ideologies and acts of…

E. L. McCallum

E. L. McCallum is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University where she teaches film studies, critical theory, queer and feminist theory, and LGBTQ literature. Her most recent book is Unmaking The Making of Americans: Toward an…

Elena Ruíz

Elena Ruíz is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Global Studies at Michigan State University. She is also core faculty in American Indian and Indigenous Studies and the Center for Gender in a Global Context. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy…

Elizabeth Tuttle
Graduate Fellow, Summer 2018

Elizabeth is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of French and Francophone Studies at Penn State University. Her research interests include colonial and feminist history, material culture studies, and the relationship between politics and literature.…

Grant Wythoff

Visiting Fellow with the Center for Humanities and Information at Pennsylvania State University interested in the history and theory of media technologies, twentieth century American literature, the history of method in the humanities, and science…

Jasen Erbeznik

Jasen Erbeznik is a Graduate of Michigan State University’s James Madison College and College of Arts and Letters. His study focused on Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, Comparative Cultures and Politics, and French. Jasen is currently…

Jeannie N. Shinozuka

Jeannie N. Shinozuka received her PhD from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in American history. She has taught at a number of institutions, most recently the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington. Her…

Jeffrey Harrison

Jeffrey Harrison is an undergraduate assistant to the project that helped with developing the website. He is currently studying international relations and social policy at Michigan State University. Contact: Harr1377@msu.edu

Jessica Suzanne Stokes

Jessica Suzanne Stokes is a disabled poet/performer/educator/scholar currently pursuing her PhD in English at Michigan State University. As an academic, she draws on disability studies, feminist materialisms, and queer of color critique to rethink…

John Grey

John Grey is an Academic Specialist in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses on the history of modern philosophy, logic, and metaphysics. He previously taught at Boston University, where he received his…

Jorge Felipe

Jorge Felipe Gonzalez is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at MSU. He received his undergraduate degree in History at the University of Havana in 2007. During a couple of years after graduation, he taught different courses at…

Katie Greulich
Graduate Fellow, Summer 2018

Katie Piper Greulich is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at Michigan State University, specializing in Euro-American modernism and media studies. Her dissertation investigates the intersections of modern literature, film and ecological…

Kyle Whyte

Kyle holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability, a faculty member of the Environmental Philosophy & Ethics graduate concentration, and a faculty…

Mark Sentesy

Mark Sentesy is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the Pennsylvania State University working on the history of science, metaphysics, philosophy of nature, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of technology. For the Legacies of…

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