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.
Teaching: ArtHum 4410E

Cody Barteet

Associate Professor/Dept. Visual Arts

Research Interests / Specializations: Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture; architecture and urbanism; Latin American art; Pre-Columbian art; cross-cultural exchange; and gender and feminist studies
Teaching: ArtHum 2200E - fall term

Henri Boyi

Professor/Dept. of French Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: L’enseignement du français et de l’anglais langues secondes et étrangères; Littératures et théories postcoloniales
Teaching: ArtHum 3392G: Rwanda: Culture, Society and Reconstruction

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
Teaching: ArtHum 3380Y

Ivan Coyote

Alice Munro Chair in Creativity/Dept. of English and Writing Studies

Teaching: ArtHum 4410E

Laurence de Looze

Professor/Dept. of Languages and Cultures

Research Interests / Specializations: Medieval and Renaissance Culture (French, Icelandic, English, Spanish, Latin, Italian), theories of Textuality, history of the Book/Writing, literary Theory, Comparative Literature
Teaching: ArtHum 1020E - fall term

Joel Faflak

Professor/Dept. of English & Writing Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: British literature and thought 1750-1850; Romantic literature, philosophy, and culture; Romantic psychology
Teaching: ArtHum 1020E - winter term

Helen Fielding

Associate Professor/Dept. of GSWS and Philosophy

Research Interests / Specializations: My research is primarily in feminist phenomenology though my background, my teaching and writing are interdisciplinary in scope. I often write on artworks in order to think about certain questions from an embodied perspective. Thematically, I explore questions about the intersections of technology, art, embodiment, dwelling, sexuality and subjectivity.
Teaching: ArtHum 3391G: Continental Philosophy

Miranda Green-Barteet

Associate Professor/Dept. of GSWS and English & Writing Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: 19th-century U.S. literature written by women, contemporary Young Adult literature, women writers, Women’s and Gender Studies, Girlhood Studies
Teaching: ArtHum 3391F: Ballots and Bullets - US Literature and Civil Rights

Helen Gregory

Curator, McIntosh Gallery/ Instructor, Dept. of Visual Arts

Research Interests / Specializations: human/non-human relationships; taxidermy; bio art; intersections of art, science, and technology; museum studies
Teaching: ArtHum 3393F: Introduction to Exhibition Design and Museum Management

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)
Teaching: ArtHum 3390G: Critical Race Theory

Jason Sandhar

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

Research Interests / Specializations: Critical race and post-colonial theory
Teaching: ArtHum 2240F

Anthony Skelton

Associate Professor/Dept. of Philosophy

Research Interests / Specializations: History of Ethics, Normative Ethics, Practical Ethics
Teaching: ArtHum 2200E - winter term

Ruth Skinner

PhD Candidate/ Dept. of Visual Arts

Research Interests / Specializations: Histories and theories of photography; theories of representation and viewership; the ethics of archival interventions; intersections of art and esotericism; discourse studies.
Teaching: ArtHum 2230G