Faculty
The Institute Faculty Speakers Bureau lists full- and part-time faculty members, their areas of scholarly and professional expertise, who teach in the Institute and are interested and available as guest lecturers to classes, consultants to the community, and collaborators on projects.| Erika Williams Scholar-In-Residence (2005) B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Dr. Williams wrote her dissertation on the relationship between aesthetics and subjectivity in the Harlem or New Negro Renaissance. She recently published an entry on W.E.B. Du Bois’s novel Dark Princess in Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Routledge Press, 2004). She is currently working on two projects: the revision of her dissertation into a book-length manuscript on the connection between aesthetic judgment and the African-American critical tradition and a presentation on the politics of cultural segregation in Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk for PAMLA’s standing session on African-American Literature (November 2005.) Her research and teaching interests include African-American literature and culture, American literature, women’s studies, critical race theory, and aesthetic theory. |
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Deirdre Conlon, Scholar-In-Residence Diana Sherry, Scholar-In-Residence |
Mirta Tocci, Artist-in-Residence Erika Williams, Scholar-In-Residence |
| Departmental Faculty Who Teach in the Institute | |
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John Anderson Elizabeth Baeten Flora Gonzalez Roger House Mark Leccese |
Wyatt Oswald Melinda Robins Murray Schwartz James Sheldon Stephen Shipps |
| Part Time Faculty | |
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Amy Aroopala Matthew Battles Steven Beeber Gaynor Blandford James Byrne Claudia Castaneda Robert Dulgarian Lance Eaton |
Nigel Gibson John Hodge Alden Jones Cynthia Miller Roseanne Montillo Jason Roush Meta Wagner |
