Affiliate Faculty
Beatrice Arduini, Associate Professor
Department of French & Italian Studies
Scholarly interests: Medieval Italian literature, Dante studies, manuscript culture, and textual studies.
Jennifer Baez, Assistant Professor
Division of Art History
Scholarly interests: Black Atlantic print culture, Hispaniola studies, the visual and material culture of Catholicism in the Afro-Iberian world, vernacular knowledge-making, Latinx artists addressing gender, race, and the diasporic experience.
Canan Bolel, Assistant Professor
Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Scholarly interests: History of the Ottoman Empire’s Jewish Communities. Languages and Literatures of Sephardic Jews during the Early Turkish Republic. Ladino Studies.
Laura Luna Castillo, Assistant Professor
Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media
Scholarly interests: Multimedia artist and musican. Experimental media. Data driven arts.
Jennifer Dubrow, Associate Professor
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
Scholarly interests: Print culture in South Asia, Hindi and Urdu literary modernisms in post-independence India and Pakistan.
Rhema Hokama, Associate Professor
Department of English (starting in January 2025)
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Scholarly interests: Early modern English literature and religious history, including the Renaissance lyric form, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; the English and European Reformation; English church history and popular divinity; Protestant radicalism and dissent; the afterlife of Reformation in the global Renaissance and early Enlightenment.
Jeffrey Todd Knight, Associate Professor
Department of English
Scholarly interests: Early modern English literature, particularly Shakespeare, and the history of books and reading. How the literatures of the past endure in the collective imagination, and how people’s interactions with past works—imaginatively, institutionally, physically—can change those works in turn.
Selim Kuru, Associate Professor
Department of Middle Eastern Languages & Civilization
Scholarly interests: History of Western Turkish literature and literary culture, formulations of gender in Ottoman and Modern Turkish literatures, literary circles and literary competition in Anatolian Turkic city-states and the Ottoman Empire.
Kathryn Medill, Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Scholarly interests: The Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. Statistical approaches to semitic languages and the socio-historical development of scribal norms in ancient Judah and other ancient Levantine communities.
Anna Preus, Assistant Professor
Department of English
Scholarly interests: Early 20th-century literature in English and data science in the humanities; how historical print cultures are being transferred online through large-scale text digitization efforts and in how digital resources can help us tell new kinds of stories about literary history. Director of Humanities Data Lab.
Juan Pablo Rodriguez Argente, Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Scholarly interests: Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature; intersections of Animal Studies and Political Theory. Medieval hunting manuals in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean world. Forthcoming book explores the royal hunt in Spain and its impacts on national decision-making, social commentary, and the distribution and configuration of land and landscape.
Gian Duri Rominger, Assistant Professor
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
Scholarly interests: Early Chinese literature; intellectual and cultural history of pre-imperial and early imperial China; philology and manuscript studies; sound studies applications of data science methods to humanistic and literary corpuses; applied Natural Language Processing.
Juliet Sperling, Assistant Professor
School of Art + Art History + Design
Scholarly interests: A scholar of American art, with research and teaching interests that concentrate in three intersecting thematic areas: the art and material culture of North America from colonial settlement to the mid twentieth century; the theories and objects of media studies; and the construction of categories of race, ethnicity, and difference in visual culture.
Joseph T. Tennis, Professor
Information School
Scholarly interests: Classification theory and examining how classification systems change over time, how diverse design requirements are invoked by different communities, and how these systems can interoperate in a web environment. Tennis is increasingly interested in the ethics of information organization, and novel ways to evaluate structures in diverse and varied work practice contexts and discourses.
Geoffrey Turnovsky, Associate Professor
Department of French & Italian Studies
Scholarly interests: Literary and cultural history of early modern France and Europe, with an emphasis on print culture, early modern media, the profession of authorship, and on readers and publics in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Melanie Walsh, Assistant Professor
Information School
Scholarly interests: Data science, digital humanities, cultural analytics, contemporary literature, and library and information science. Walsh investigates how data and computational methods shape contemporary culture — such as the publishing industry and public libraries — and how they can be used to understand culture in turn.
Helene Williams, Teaching Professor
Information School
Scholarly interests: More than 25 years of experience in academic and public libraries, and in addition to teaching in the iSchool, Williams is a consultant to libraries, consortia, and arts organizations. She teaches graduate courses ranging from the core introduction to issues in the profession to digital humanities librarianship, academic librarianship, and collection development; in addition, she manages the MLIS directed fieldwork program.
Librarians
Kat Lewis, Assistant Book Arts and Rare Books Librarian
University Libraries
Deb Raftus, Librarian for French & Italian Studies, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and German Studies / Arts & Humanities Team Leader
University Libraries
Elliot Stevens, English Studies & Research Commons Librarian
University Libraries
Aubrey Willians, Open Scholarship and Digital History Librarian
University Libraries