People in the Humanities Council

Affiliated Faculty

The Council appoints Lecturers to teach courses in American Studies, European Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Humanistic Studies.

Bridget Alsdorf

2023-2024 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Professor of Art and Archaeology

Byron T. Ahn

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

Supratik Baralay

Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, Classics and in Humanistic Studies

Yelena Baraz

Director, the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts; Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature; Professor of Classics

Sandra Bermann

2023-2024 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature

Allison M. Bienas

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Program in Linguistics

Noah Buchholz

Lecturer in the Humanities Council and the Program in Linguistics; ASL Course Sequence Head

Andrea Capra

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and French and Italian; Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows

Allison Carruth

Professor of American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Steven Chung

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies; Acting Chair, Committee for Film Studies

Benjamin Conisbee Baer

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Program in South Asian Studies

Matthew Delvaux

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, History and Humanistic Studies; Haarlow-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows

Jeff Dolven

Professor of English; Acting Chair, Department of English

Marc Domingo Gygax

Director, Program in the Ancient World; Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics

Sierra Eckert

Perkins Fellow, Humanities Council; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Digital Humanities

Laura F. Edwards

2023-2024 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty; Professor of History

Adam Elga

Professor of Philosophy; Director, Program in Linguistics

Lacy Feigh

Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and History

Christiane Fellbaum

Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Council of the Humanities, the Program in Linguistics, and Freshman Seminars; Acting Director, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication

Akil Fletcher

Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology

Devin Fore

Chair, Department of German; Chair, Committee for Film Studies; Professor of German; Co-Director, Program in Media and Modernity

Elena Fratto

Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Alexander Göbel

Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Program in Linguistics

Lara Harb

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies

Brooke Holmes

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Classics; Director, Gauss Seminars in Criticism

William Jordan

Director, Program in Medieval Studies; Dayton-Stockton Professor of History

Laura Kalin

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

Beatrice E. Kitzinger

Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council; Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology; Harold Willis Dodds University Preceptor

Eve Krakowski

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies

Marcus Lee

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and African American Studies; Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in LGBT Studies in the Society of Fellows

Yiyun Li

Director and Professor of Creative Writing

Florian Lionnet

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

Stephen Macedo

Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values

Daniel Maier

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Program in Linguistics

Meredith A. Martin

Director, The Center for Digital Humanities; Associate Professor of English

Nolan McCarty

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs; Vice Dean for Academic Assessment in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty

Forrest Meggers

Associate Professor of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Co-Director, Program in Architecture and Engineering.

John T. M. Merrill

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Program in Linguistics

Yair Mintzker

Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council; Professor of History

Simon Morrison

Director, Fund for Canadian Studies; Professor of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Kinohi Nishikawa

Director, Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows; Associate Professor of English and African American Studies

Ayah Nuriddin

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and African American Studies; Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows

Elaine Pagels

Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion

Helmut Reimitz

Director, Program in Medieval Studies; Steering Committee, Comparative Antiquity Initiative; Professor of History

Effie Rentzou

Director, Program in European Cultural Studies; Professor of French and Italian

Sarah Rivett

2023-2024 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Professor of English and American Studies

Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Spanish and Portuguese; Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows

Esther Schor, Chair

John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor ; Professor of English; Chair, Council of the Humanities; Director, Stewart Seminars in Religion; Director, Program in Humanistic Studies

Milena Šereikaitė

Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Program in Linguistics

Daniel Sheffield

Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies; John Witherspoon Bicentennial Preceptor

Bailey Sincox

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, English and Humanistic Studies; Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows

Guy St. Amant

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Religion; Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows

Joe Stephens

Director, Program in Journalism; Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence

Michael Wachtel

Acting Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Christy Wampole

Director, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities; Associate Professor of French and Italian

Autumn Womack

Associate Professor of African American Studies and English

Xiaoyu Xia

Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and East Asian Studies

Carolyn Yerkes

Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology; Chair, Committee for Renaissance and Medieval Studies

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