Faculty

Glenda Carpio

Professor of English and African and African American Studies

Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Glenda Carpio’s Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery illustrate

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Leviathan

"Leviathan," a new film by Lucien Castaing-Taylor (VES and Anthropology) and co-director Véréna Paravel was recently described by the New York Times as "perhaps the most radical work yet to emerge from the lab and certainly the one that goes furthest in striving for an immersive cinematic experience. Shot entirely aboard a fishing trawler off the Massachusetts coast, largely with small, waterproof digital cameras that were variously tethered to the fishermen, tossed in with their dead or dying catch and plunged into the roiling ocean, the film had its premiere in competition last month at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where it won the international critics' prize." It was shown at the Toronto Film Festival, in the Wavelengths section for innovative cinema and will be shown in October at the New York Film Festival.

Xiaofei Tian

Professor of Chinese Literature

The book Visionary Journeys explores the parallel and yet profoundly differe

Homi K. Bhabha

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language

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Helen Vendler

Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive r

Robert Levin

Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music

Pianist Robert Levin, a passionate advocate of new music and a noted theorist and Mozart

James Simpson

Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English

When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric.

Stephen Greenblatt

John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities

Stephen Greenblatt was recently awarded the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The Swerve

Maria Polinsky

Professor of Linguistics

At the Polinsky Language Sciences Lab at Harvard University, language diversity me

Tom Conley

Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures

An Errant Eye studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed litera

Doris Sommer

Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies

The Cultural Agents Initiative explores and promotes the arts and humanities as social resources.

Werner Sollors

Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies

"[A New Literary History of America] is a vast, inquisitive, richly surprising and consistentl

Alina Payne

Professor of the History of Art and Architecture

From Ornament to Object, one of four new books authored in the past year by Alina Payne, identifies a shift

P. Oktor Skjaervo

Aga Khan Professor of Iranian

As one of the world's great religions, Zoroastrianism has a heritage rich in texts and cultic practices.

Stephen A. Mitchell

Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore

In Witchcraft and Magic in the Middle Ages,

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