Affiliated Faculty

• Brooke A. Ackerly
  Professor of Political Science
  Specialties: Feminist methodologies; feminist theory; political thought; intersections of environmental/economic/gender justice
• Candice Amich
  Assistant Professor of English
  Specialties: Transnational performance; feminist aesthetics; poetics & politics; literary globalization studies; postcolonial studies
• Ellen Armour
  E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Religion and Gender and Sexuality
  Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
  Associate Professor of Feminist Theology
  Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
  Specialties: Feminist theology; theories of sexuality, race, gender, disability, and embodiment; contemporary continental philosophy
• Houston Baker
  Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies
  Specialties: African American literary criticism & theory; black & Afro-American literature; modernism
• Vanessa Beasley
  Associate Professor of Communication Studies
  Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
  Specialties: Presidential rhetoric; US political communication; rhetorical criticism & theory
• Sophie Bjork-James
  Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  Specialties: Political ethics; American evangelism; contemporary white supremacy; national movements; critical race theory
• Melinda F. Brown
  Librarian for Inclusion Initiatives and Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Robert Campany
  Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities
  Professor of Asian Studies
  Specialties: Late classical and early medieval Chinese religious history; East Asian Buddhism
• Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter
  E. Bronson Ingram Chair and Professor of Economics
  Director of the LGBT Policy Lab and Public Policy Studies
  Specialties: Public policy interventions on health behaviors
• Laura M. Carpenter
  Associate Professor of Sociology
  Specialties: Gender, sexuality, health, and medicine
• Ellen Clayton
  Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics
  Professor of Law and Health Policy
  Specialties: Law & genetics; intersection of law, medicine, and public health
• Beth Conklin
  Associate Professor of Anthropology
  Specialties: Ethnographies; anthropology; death & mourning; politics of indigenous rights; religion & ritual
• Amy Cooter
  Senior Lecturer of Sociology
  Specialties: Nationalism; race & ethnicity; gender
• Cynthia Cyrus
  Vice Provost for Learning and Residential Affairs
  Professor of Musicology
  Specialties: Historical musical literacy; women’s monastic writings
• Kate Daniels
  Edwin Mims Professor of English
  Specialties: Art of medical writing; creative writing
• Colin Dayan
  Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities
  Professor of Law
  Specialties: American literature; English & French Caribbean literatures; Haitian historiography; American legal scholarship
• Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller
  Associate Professor of French and Jewish Studies
  Director of Graduate Studies for French & Italian
  Specialties: Feminism and Jewish studies; francophone literature
• Rory Dicker
  Director of the Margeret Cuninggim Women’s Center
  Specialties: Third wave feminism and history of the US
• Idit Dobbs-Weinstein
  Associate Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies
  Specialties: Aristotle; Medieval Judaism; political philosophy; philosophy of history; critical theory
• Bonnie J. Dow
  Professor of Communication Studies
  Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Arts & Science
  Specialties: Rhetoric & representation of the first & second waves of feminism in the US
• Lynn E. Enterline
  Nancy Perot Chair Professor of English
  Director of Undergraduate Studies for English
  Specialties: Early modern literature; histories of sexuality; rhetoric & emotion in the English, Latin, Greek, and Italian traditions
• Elizabeth Christin Essin
  Associate Professor of Theatre
  Director of Undergraduate Studies for Theatre
  Specialties: Cultural roles of theatre designers during the modern development of their profession
• Jennifer Fay
  Chair of Cinema & Media Arts
  Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and English
  Specialties: Film & cultural politics; contemporary cinema of ecological displacement; cinema & film theory
• Julia A. Fesmire
  Principal Senior Lecturer of English
  Specialties: Critical legal theory; world literature; women & gender studies; colonial & post-colonial literature
• Gerald Figal
  Chair of Asian Studies
  Professor of Asian Studies and History
  Specialties: Modern Japanese cultural & intellectual history; Postwar Okinawa; war memorialization; critical theory; cultural studies; Japanese animation
• Earl E. Fitz
  Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature
  Specialties: Brazilian literature; comparative literature; Spanish-American literature; Inter-American literary studies
• Vivien G. Fryd
  Professor Emerita of History of Art
  Specialties: American art; colonial art history; American studies; gender studies
• Kathy L. Gaca
  Associate Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies
  Specialties: Women, war, and emergent humanitarian concerns in antiquity & the modern day
• Gilbert Gonzales
  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society
  Specialties: LGBT health; health disparities; population health; health care reform
• Tracey E. George
  Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
  Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty
  Professor of Political Science
  Specialties: State judicial systems; judicial elections; multi-district litigation; legal education; contract law
• Teresa Goddu
  Associate Professor of English and American Studies
  Specialties: Slavery & antislavery; race & American culture; print culture; material & visual culture;  genre studies
• Derek M. Griffith
  Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

  Director of the Center for Research on Men’s Health

  Associate Professor of Health Policy

  Specialties: Men’s health; health disparities & equity; qualitative research; community-based participatory research

• Aimi Hamraie
  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society
  Specialties: Critical disability theory; feminist science studies; feminist theory; urban studies; philosophy of science & medicine
• Joni Hersch
  Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Professor of Law and Economics
  Co-Director of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics
  Specialties: Labor economics; discrimination; law & economics
• Jessie Hock
  Assistant Professor of English
  Specialties: English & French poetry; classical reception history; history of science; materialist thought; aesthetics & poetics; contemporary philosophy & critical theory
• Sara E. Igo
  Andrew Jackson Chair in American History
  Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology
  Dean of Strategic Initiatives for the College of Arts & Science
  Specialties: Modern American cultural & intellectual history; history of the human sciences; sociology of knowledge
• Rolanda L. Johnson
  Assistant Dean for Diversity & Inclusion and Academics
  Associate Professor of Nursing
  Specialties: Health promotion of African-Americans; black racial identity; genetics; obesity
• Cathy L. Jrade
  Chancellor’s Professor of Spanish
  Specialties: Modernismo and modern Latin American poetry
• Scott Juengel
  Associate Professor of English
  Specialties: Catastrophic events in literature; relationship between cosmopolitan hospitality, human rights, and novel worlds in romantic era fiction
• Christina Karageorgou-Bastea
  Associate Professor of Spanish
  Specialties: Critical theory; Latin American literature; utopian literature; Spanish literature
• Shaul Kelner
  Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies
  Specialties: Jewish diaspora studies; contemporary Jewish political identities
• Claire Sisco King
  Associate Professor of Communication Studies
  Director of Undergraduate Studies for Communication Studies
  Specialties: Critical/cultural studies; gender politics
• Vera M. Kutzinski
  Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English
  Professor of Comparative Literature
  Director of the Alexander von Humboldt in English (HiE) Project
  Director of Graduate Studies for English
  Specialties: American, Caribbean, and Latin American literary and cultural history; translation studies
• Amy-Jill Levine
  Mary Jane Werthan University Professor of Jewish Studies
  University Professor Emerita of New Testament Studies
  Specialties: New Testament studies & early Christianity; Jewish studies; feminist theology
• Melanie Lowe
  Associate Professor of Musicology
  Specialties: 18th-century music; difference; electropop; scholarship of teaching
• Luis Leyva
  Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
  Specialties: Math education; gender studies; higher education
• Elizabeth S. Meadows
  Principal Senior Lecturer of English
  Associate Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
  Specialties: Social & material power of literary form in the Victorian period; sexuality & gender
• Jonathan M. Metzl
  Director of Medicine, Health, and Society
  Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society
  Professor of Psychiatry
  Specialties: Psychiatry; race & health; history of mental health; gender & politics
• Adam S. Meyer
  Associate Professor of Jewish Studies
  Specialties: Twentieth-century American literature & culture; relations between Blacks & Jews
• Holly J. McCammon
  Professor of Sociology and Law
  Specialties: Social movements; women’s legal rights; political sociology
• Thomas A.J. McGinn
  Professor of History, Law, and Classical and Mediterranean Studies
  Specialties: Latin literature; Roman law; social history
• Richard McGregor
  Associate Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies
  Specialties: Islamic intellectual & mystical traditions; Qu’ran interpretation; Sufism; study of Islam
• Tracy G. Miller
  Associate Professor of History of Art
  Specialties: History of art & architecture in East Asia; ritual & garden architecture; temples
• Bonnie Miller-McLemore
  E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Emerita
  Specialties: Religion, psychology, and culture; practical theology; women and childhood studies; pastoral care
• Catherine Molineux
  Associate Professor of History
  Specialties: Early modern British Atlantic world; race, slavery, and empire
• Michelle N. Murray
  Assistant Professor of Spanish
  Specialties: Spanish literature; film; literary theory; gender studies; cultural studies
• Dana D. Nelson
  Chair of English
  Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English
  Specialties: American literature; citizenship; democracy; US government
• Ifeoma C. Nwankwo
  Associate Professor of English
  Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships
  Specialties: African-American & Caribbean literature and culture; paradigms for intercultural interactions
• Elena Olazagasti-Segovia
  Principal Senior Lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese
  Specialties: Contemporary Spanish women novelists; Latina writers; Puerto Rican women writers
• Emanuelle Oliveira
  Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian Literature
  Specialties: Afro-Brazilian literature; race relations; the Afro-Diasporic experience; literature of human rights; Brazilian cinema & popular culture
• Kelly Oliver
  W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy
  Specialties: 19th and 20th Century continental philosophy; contemporary French philosophy
• Bridget E. Orr
  Associate Professor of English
  Specialties: Cultural encounter & empire in the Restoration and 18th century English theatre; writings about and by New Zealanders, Maori, and Pacific Islanders
• Courtney S. Peterson
  Senior Lecturer of Medicine, Health, and Society
  Director of Undergraduate Major Advising for Medicine, Health, and Society
  Specialties: Sociology of mental health; social psychology & gender; sexuality & sexual identity
• JuLeigh Petty
  Assistant Director, Director of Graduate Studies, and Director of Evaluation for Medicine, Health, and Society
  Principal Senior Lecturer of Medicine, Health, and Society
  Specialties: Regulation of research ethics; organizational & institutional effects of medical research on HIV clinics; interaction of race, stress, and premedical education
• Richard N. Pitt
  Associate Professor of Sociology
  Specialties: Academic identity; professional identity; religion
• Lynn Ramey
  Professor of French
  Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Humanities
  Specialties: French culture & literature; computing applications for the humanities
• Alice Randall
  Writer in Residence for African American and Diaspora Studies and English
  Specialties: Creative writing; soul food; African-American’s children’s literature; African-American film
• Nancy Reisman
  Professor of English
  Specialties: Creative writing; short fiction
• Alex Dubilet
  Assistant Professor of English
  Specialties: Contemporary continental philosophy; critical theory; political theology; philosophy of religion; modern & contemporary political theory; history & theory of Christian mysticism; secularity; secularism; film & film theory
• Ruth Rogaski
  Associate Professor of History
  Specialties: History of Qing & Twentieth-century China; history of medicine & science, women’s & gender history; social & cultural history in modern East Asia
• Alexandra A. Sargent
  Senior Lecturer of Theatre
  Costume Designer and Costume Shop Manager
  Specialties: History of fashion
• Virginia M. Scott
  Professor Emerita of French & Applied Linguistics
  Professor of Education
  Specialties: Dynamic models of multilingualism and impact of critical language awareness on student identity
• Allison H. Schachter
  Chair of Jewish Studies
  Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English
  Specialties: Modern Jewish literature & culture; modernism; transnationalism; diaspora studies
• Laurel C. Schneider
  Professor of Religious Studies
  Specialties: Modern and postmodern Christian thought; gender theory; sociology of religion; Native American religious studies; postcolonial theory; queer theory
• Mark L. Schoenfield
  Professor of English
  Specialties: Law & literature; romantic constructions of the self
• Kathryn Schwarz
  Professor of English
  Specialties: Shakespearean sexualities; Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century prose fictions; feminist & queer theories
• Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting
  Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French
  Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies
  Director of the Callie House Center for the Study of Global Black Cultures and Politics
  Specialties: 18th and 19th century literature and culture; Jazz Age; Black diaspora women writers
• John M. Sloop
  Professor of Communication Studies
  Specialties: Rhetorical theory & criticism; public discourse; gender studies
• Melissa Snarr
  E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Ethics and Society
  Specialties: Religion; social change; political ethics
• Terrie Spetalnick
  Lecturer of Sociology
  Specialties: Intersectionality; citizen agency; social justice
• Hortense J. Spillers
  Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor Emerita of English
  Specialties: Black culture & women; early Republican formations; the early modern black subject
• Emilie M. Townes
  Dean of the Divinity School
  Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society
  Specialties: Christian ethics; cultural theory & studies; postmodernism & social postmodernism; womanist theology
• Benigno L. Trigo
  Professor of Spanish
  Specialties: Latin American literature; women’s writing; psychoanalysis; Puerto Rican studies
• Arleen M. Tuchman
  Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Chair in History
  Professor of History
  Specialties: Cultural history of health & disease; medical constructions of gender & sexuality
• Holly A. Tucker
  Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities
  Professor of French
  Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
  Specialties: Narrative medicine; medicine & literature; early history of medicine
• Susan Verberne-Sutton
  Senior Lecturer of Chemistry
• Kimberly M. Welch
  Associate Professor of History
  Assistant Professor of Law
  Specialties: Slavery, race, and the law in the American South
• Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
  Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
  Specialties: History of African-American religion; religious consciousness & the body
• Meike Werner
  Associate Professor of German and European Studies
  Chair of French & Italian
  Director of Graduate Studies for German, Russian, and East European Studies
  Specialties: German literature; print media; intellectual history
• Isaac West
  Associate Professor of Communication Studies
  Specialties: Rhetorics of law; legal studies; cultural studies; queer/LGBTQ studies; social movements; popular culture
• Edward Wright-Rios
  Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities
  Professor of History
  Chair of History
  Specialties: Modern Mexico; Latin America; cultural history; religious change; Catholicism