Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Tamsin Lorraine

Professor

Program Coordinator, Interpretation Theory

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8423
  2. Beardsley Hall 211A
  3. Office Hours: F'25 Tuesday & Thursday 12:35-2:00pm and by appointment

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory

Professor Tamsin Lorraine

Kelly Gomez Zimmer

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5048
  2. Trotter Hall 107

Links

  1. Profile
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Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Administrative Support, Classics

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110
  3. Trotter Hall 107
Deb Sloman

Program Committee

Sabeen Ahmed

(she-her-hers-herself)

Assistant Professor

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8428
  2. Office Hours: F'25:

Links

  1. Profile

Interests:  Political Philosophy of Race; Philosophy of Law; Colonial/Imperial Studies; Foucault

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Farid Azfar

Associate Professor

On Leave - Fall

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5765
  2. Office Hours: On leave Fall 2025

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

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Rachel Buurma

Associate Professor

On Leave - Fall

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8666
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 302
  3. Office Hours: Wednesday 12:30-2 in LPAC 302 and by appointment.

Links

  1. Profile
  2. rachelsagnerbuurma.org
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Paloma Checa-Gismero

Assistant Professor

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5671
  2. Beardsley Hall 203
  3. Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 4-5pm and by appointment.

Links

  1. Profile
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Sibelan Forrester

Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Comparative Literature

Interpretation Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8162
  2. Kohlberg Hall 340

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Homepage

Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory

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Grace Ledbetter

Professor

On Leave - Spring

Classics

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8372
  2. Trotter Hall 204
  3. Office Hours:  Please email gledbet1@swarthmore.edu for zoom link; on leave Spring 2026

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Plato, Ancient Philosophy, Greek poetry

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Tamsin Lorraine

Professor

Program Coordinator, Interpretation Theory

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8423
  2. Beardsley Hall 211A
  3. Office Hours: F'25 Tuesday & Thursday 12:35-2:00pm and by appointment

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory

Professor Tamsin Lorraine

Rosaria Munson

J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor

On Leave - Fall

Classics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8370
  2. Trotter Hall 113
  3. Office Hours: On leave Fall 2025

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East

Rosaria Munson

Maya Nadkarni

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8111
  2. Kohlberg Hall 244
  3. Office Hours: By appointment
    Wednesdays 11:30am- 12:30pm and Thursdays 3:00- 4:00pm.
     

Links

  1. Profile
Professor Maya Nadkarni

Donna Jo Napoli

Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8422
  2. Parrish Hall 213

Links

  1. Website
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Sangina Patnaik

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8150
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 304
  3. Office Hours: Thursdays, 2:30-4:30 by appointment  

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Schedule Appointment
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Christopher Robison

Visiting Assistant Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8680
  2. Kohlberg Hall 309

Interests: 19th-century French literature and culture (the Naturalist and Decadent novel in particular); animal studies/animal ethics; history of the life sciences from the Enlightenment onwards; 18th- and 19th-century philosophy and religion.

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Olivia Sabee

Associate Professor

On Leave - Spring

Dance

Comparative Literature

Interpretation Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8237
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 6

Links

  1. Profile
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Eric Song

Professor

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6223
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 204
  3. Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday,  1:30 - 3:30.

Links

  1. Profile
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Patricia White

Centennial Chair

Director, Aydelotte Foundation

Program Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8148
  2. Martin Hall 109
  3. Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:00pm-4:00pm, Thursdays 12:40pm-1:30pm, and by appointment

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Aydelotte Foundation
Patricia White Headshot