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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.


Full Time Faculty

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
John Anderson
Elizabeth Baeten
Flora Gonzalez
Roger House
Mark Leccese
Wyatt Oswald
Melinda Robins
Murray Schwartz
James Sheldon
Stephen Shipps
Part Time Faculty
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
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