Faculty and Staff
Sunka Simon
Professor
Department Chair, Film & Media Studies
Modern Languages & Literatures-German
Film & Media Studies
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Sunka Simon is the author of German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix (2023) and Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002), co-editor of Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (2015) and numerous articles on German literature, film, television, and popular music.
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Patricia White
Centennial Chair
Director, Aydelotte Foundation
Program Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Film & Media Studies
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Links
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Maggie Danna
Administrative Assistant II
Film & Media Studies
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Affiliated Faculty
Timothy Burke
Professor
Department Chair, History (co-chair)
History
Contact
Links
- Profile
- Easily Distracted: Culture, Politics, Academia, and Other Shiny Objects
- Aydelotte Foundation
Interests: Africa, cultural studies
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Will Gardner
Professor
Section Head, Japanese
Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese
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Links
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Haili Kong
Professor
On Leave - Fall
Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese
Asian Studies
Contact
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Maya Nadkarni
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology
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Links
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Carina Yervasi
Associate Professor
Executive Director, Global Engagement
Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies
Global Engagement
Global Studies
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Links
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