Bill Brown, Deputy Dean for Academic and Research Initiatives and the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture in the Department of English, currently focuses his research on the intersection of literary, visual, and material cultures, with an emphasis on what he calls "object relations in an expanded field."

Thomas Christensen, Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean, is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Department of Music. His research centers on the history of music theory. Fundamental to his work has been a desire to situate the many intellectual frames, arguments, and linguistic models used by writers in the early modern period deeply with cultural discourses.

Jason Merchant, Deputy Dean for Languages and Professor in Linguistics, focuses his research on syntax and the syntax-semantics interface. His work has concentrated on elliptical phenomena, exploring especially the connections to theories of A'-movement and islands on the syntactic side and to questions of how varieties of meaning are represented on the semantic and philosophical side.