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Faculty

 

 

 

Michael Fried
Professor, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities (History of Art): Modern art and literature, cirtical theory, modern poetry.
Gilman 112
E-mail:mmf8@jhu.edu

 

 

Neil Hertz
Professor Emeritus: Romantic and modern literature, Freud and psychoanalytic theory.
Dunning 301
E-mail:hertz@jhu.edu

 

 

Ruth Leys
Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities (Director): History and theory of psychoanalysis, history of psychiatry and psychology, 19th- and 20th-century intellectual history, feminist theory.
Gilman 115
E-mail:leys@jhu.edu

 

 

Richard A. Macksey
Professor (The Writing Seminars; History of Science and Technology): Comparative literature, critical theory, film studies.
Gilman 114
E-mail:mphilip@jhu.edu

 

 

Paola Marrati
Professor (Philosophy): Modern and contemporary French thought, phenomenology, philosophies of life (Bergson, Dilthey, Canguihem, Deleuze), philosophy and cinema, aesthetics.
Gilman 117
E-mail:pmarrati@jhu.edu

 

 

Elizabeth Patton
Visiting Assistant Professor: Renaissance and early modern literature with special emphasis on women writers.
Gilman 108
E-mail:epatton@jhu.edu

 

 

Nancy S. Struever
Professor Emerita

 

 

Hent de Vries
Professor (Acting Director), Russ Family Chair in the Humanities (Philosophy): Modern European thought, history and critique of metaphysics, philosophies of religion, political theologies, concepts of violence, literature and temporality.
Gilman 116
E-mail:hentdevries@jhu.edu

 

 

 

Joint Appointments

 

 

 

Christopher Celenza
Professor (German and Romance Languages and Literatures): Italian Literature.
Gilman 407
E-mail:celenza@jhu.edu

 

 

Veena Das
Professor (Anthropology): Feminist movements, gender studies, sectarian violence, Medical Anthropology, post-Colonial and post-Structural theory; South Asia, Europe.
Macaulay 404-F
E-mail:veenadas@jhu.edu

 

 

Marcel Detienne
Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor (Classics): Greek, social history, cultural history, mythology, anthropology and classics.
Gilman 121
E-mail:dyono@jhu.edu

 

 

Frances Ferguson
Professor, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Arts and Sciences, (English): Areas of interest: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature.
Gilman 138
E-mail:FF1@jhu.edu

 

 

Eckart Förster
Professor (Philosophy): Metaphysics, history of philosophy, kant and German idealism.
Gilman 342
E-mail:eckart.forster@jhu.edu

 

 

Stephen G. Nichols
James M. Beall Professor of French (German and Romance Languages and Literatures): Medieval language, literature and culture; interrelation of literature with history, philosophy, and art history.
Gilman 237
E-mail:stephen.nichols@jhu.edu

 

 

 

Visiting Faculty

 

 

 

Sharlyn Rhee – on leave
Visiting Assistant Professor (Academic Year 2006-2007): Korean American fiction.
Gilman 312
E-mail:mrhee1@jhu.edu

 

 

Anne Eakin Moss
Melon Post Doctoral Fellow
Lecturer (Academic Year 2007-2008)
Gilman 112A
E-mail: aeakinmoss@jhu.edu