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Committee Members | Faculty | Resource Faculty
| JAMES CHANDLER: | Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Committees on the History of Culture and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College; Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities. The Romantic movement in England; 18th- and 19th-century poetry; the historical novel; relations between politics and literature, history and criticism. |
| TOM GUNNING: | Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History, Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College; Chair, Committee on Cinema and Media Studies. International early and silent cinema; American avant-garde cinema; Hollywood film genres; film and narrative theory; classical film theory; film and still photography; Japanese cinema; early cinema and the experience of modernity. |
| MARK HANSEN: | Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College. New media. Under construction. |
| MIRIAM HANSEN: | On Leave Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities; Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, and the College. American and German cinema; international silent film; classical and contemporary film theory; theories of mass culture, modernism and modernity; theories of the public sphere; the Frankfurt School (Kracauer, Benjamin, Adorno, Kluge). |
| JUDY HOFFMAN : | Sr. Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts. Documentary cinema and video; video and film production; ethnographic film and issues of representation and cultural ownership; cinema verite and the participant camera; The Guerilla Television Movement; political film and video; Chicago Film History. |
| JAMES LASTRA: | Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College. American cinema after 1925; avant-garde film; sound in film and other media; history and theories of technology and representation; French film culture of the 20s and 30s, especially as it relates to Surrealism, colonialism, and ethnography. |
| LAURA LETINSKY: | Professor, Department of Visual Arts and the College; Chair, Department of Visual Arts; Director, MFA Program in the Department of Visual Arts. Photography: artistic practice of black and white and color photography; feminist issues of representation and identity in mainstream genres, in particular romance, erotica, and pornography; visual cultures of art and cinema. |
| DAVID LEVIN: | Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies; Committee on Theater & Performance Studies; and the College. German Cinema (Weimar and New German Cinema); theories of spectacle; melodrama; performance theory; intersections of cinema, theater, and opera. |
| MICHAEL RAINE : | Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, and the College. Youth, body, and subjectivity in Japanese cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, Japanese Political Modernism, "popular baroque" cinema, history of film theory, subtitling. |
| JOEL M. SNYDER: | Professor and Chair, Department of Art History; Committees on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities and the Visual Arts, and the College; Fellow, Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine. History of photography; theory of photography and film; late 19th-century scientific representation; history, theory, and practice of perspective; medieval visual theory; contemporary critical theory. |
| YURI TSIVIAN: | On leave William Colvin Professor, Departments of Art History and Slavic Languages & Literatures (acting chair), Comparative Literature, and the College. History of film styles; film and Russian/Soviet art; Dziga Vertov; Sergei Eisenstein; old versus new media; gesture and performance. |
| REBECCA WEST: | William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the College; Committee on Cinema and Media Studies. Italian and Italian-American cinema; film and literature; Italian film theory; feminist film theory; issues of gender and stardom. |
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