People Type: Faculty

Neyrat, Frédéric

Interests Environmental Humanities, Cosmos Studies, Technology Studies, Theory Website Atopies Biography Degrees and Institutions Select Publications Books: Articles and Book Chapters: Book Project What I propose in my next book project, The Planetary Condition, is to think together the human and the inhuman, the environmental and the astronomical, the urgent time of the endangered environment …

Nguyen, Beth (Bich Minh)

Biography Research Interests Creative writing, creative nonfiction, fiction Degrees and Institutions MFA, University of Michigan Recent Publications Nonfiction books: OWNER OF A LONELY HEART (Scribner) and STEALING BUDDHA’S DINNER (Viking) Fiction books: SHORT GIRLS (Viking) and PIONEER GIRL (Viking) Essays in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Best American Essays, and more. Courses Taught Graduate …

Olson, Christa J.

Research Interests Rhetorical history, theory, and criticism; visual culture; Latin America; public memory; historical methods and methodological pedagogy; publics, democracy, nationalisms, & transnationalism; coloniality and anti-colonialism Teaching Areas I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in visual culture, research methods, and the history & theory of rhetoric. I enjoy working with students as they encounter, provide …

Ortiz-Robles, Mario

Interests 19th-century literature, critical theory, the novel, animal studies Biography Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Books: Articles and Book Chapters: Personal Statement My work is situated at the intersection of literature and theory, with an emphasis on the question of the “literary” and its historicity. I am currently working on a book-length project on the …

Ozier, Amadi

Website amadiozier.com Linkedin linkedin.com/in/amadiozier/ Twitter twitter.com/amadiozier Biography Degrees and Institutions Bio Amadi Ozier is a scholar specializing in black American diasporic literature and performance, with a particular interest in race, humor, lynching culture, capitalism, and black cultural history. Ozier is currently working on a book entitled Humor Among Uppity Negroes at the Turn of the …

Plants, Jen

Biography Plants’ research and teaching interests include verbatim and devised theatre, performance and the experience of race, contemporary theatre making practices, and dramaturgy. Recipient of the 2021 The Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts, Plants is currently focused on making site-specific work designed to reach new audiences in unexpected places. As a …

Purnell, Thomas C.

Interests Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology Biography Degrees and Institutions Courses Taught English Department Language Sciences Program Integrated Liberal Studies (First-Year Interest Group Courses) Edited Volumes Selected Publications Current Projects I am currently working on a book with Eric Raimy (English) and Joseph Salmons (German, CSUMC) Modularity in phonology to appear in the Cambridge University Press Key Topics …

Raimy, Eric

Interests cognitive science, generative grammar, phonology, morphology, phonetics, syntax Biography Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Current Research There are two projects continuing my work on reduplication. The first is a collaboration with Bill Idsardi (University of Maryland) on a book that contains our work on computational aspects of reduplication, reduplication in Sanskrit and artistic uses …

Rollins, Alison

Biography Alison C. Rollins, Assistant Professor, (MFA: Brown University) is the author of the poetry collections Black Bell and Library of Small Catastrophes which was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. Rollins was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. In 2021, …

Shreve, Porter

Biography Porter Shreve is the author of the novels The Obituary Writer, Drives Like a Dream, When the White House Was Ours, and The End of the Book, which have been on best of the year lists in many newspapers and magazines including the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times. …