SASAH Fellows

Aara Suksi

Director, SASAH/Dept. of Classical Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Greek literature and culture, ancient Greek language, ancient Greek myth, gender in ancient Greece, materiality and ancient Greek bodies, receptions of the ancient Greek literary tradition.

Barbara Bruce

Assistant Professor, Experiential Learning Coordinator, SASAH

Research Interests / Specializations: Student Professional Development; Classic Hollywood Cinema; Film History, Theory, and Criticism; Popular Culture; Canadian Literature and Culture; Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory; Museum Studies

Joel Faflak

Professor/Dept. of English & Writing Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: British literature and thought 1750-1850; Romantic literature, philosophy, and culture; Romantic psychology

Erica Lawson

Associate Professor/Dept. of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Motherhood studies; grief, bereavement, and maternal activism; critical race studies, Black feminist studies; gender and post-conflict reconstruction (with a focus on Liberia)

Mary Helen McMurran

Associate Professor/Dept. of English and Writing Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Eighteenth-century literature

Kim Solga

Professor/Dept. of English and Writing Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Modern feminist performance, early modern performance, and contemporary urban performance.

Christine Sprengler

Professor/Dept. Visual Arts

Research Interests / Specializations: Cinematic installation art; new media art; relationships between cinema and the visual arts; cultural memory and nostalgia in visual culture; representations of history in contemporary cinema and television (British and American)

Kate Stanley

Associate Professor/Dept. of English and Writing Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, philosophy, and culture, with an emphasis on the modernist period.

Bernd Steinbock

Associate Professor/Dept. of Classical Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Social Memory, Archaic and Classical Greek History, Greek and Roman Historiography, Classical Rhetoric and Oratory, Roman Republican History, Late Antiquity.

Charles Weijer

Professor/Dept. of Philosophy and Medicine

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioethics, Research Ethics