UB Faculty Working on Transnational Literary and Cultural Practices

English Department

Carrie Bramen: American studies, Latino/a literature; critical race theory

Robert Daly: American studies; the Puritans; cultural theory

Arabella Lyon: human rights discourse; rhetoric

Damien Keane: Irish Studies, Transnational Late Modernism

Myung Mi Kim: Poetry and Poetics, Translingual poetics

Carine M. Mardorossian: diaspora theory; postcolonial and gender studies; Caribbean studies

Susan Moynihan: Asian-American Literature; Autobiography

David Schmid: cultural studies, popular culture, 20th C and contemporary British and American studies

Scott Stevens: early modern transatlantic literature, particularly the literature of New World encounter, seventeenth-century British culture, and Native American literatures.

Hershini Bhana Young: Contemporary black diasporic literature; African-American literature; South African literature

Faculty in other CAS Departments

James Bono: the cultural history of science and medicine during the Renaissance and early modern periods; medical humanities

Thomas Burkman (Asian Studies): Japan and the League of Nations

Jose Buscaglia (Romance Languages and Literature/Caribbean Master’s Studies): Caribbean studies; coloniality and post-national studies; travel narratives

Andreas Daum (History): German, European, and Transatlantic History from the late 18th to the 21st century; History of Science and Knowledge

Masani Alexis De Veaux: black diasporic writing, black women writers, black feminist theory

Greg Dimitriadis (Education): urban education and policies, critical ethnography, policy, cultural studies, postcolonial music, art, and literature

Christian Flaugh: (Romance Languages and Literature): Francophone studies, Négritude, bodies and normality

Keith Griffler (African American Studies): African-American studies; African diaspora history

Shaun Irlam (Comparative Literature): Postcolonial Studies; African literature and culture; Genocide studies

Hal Langfur (History): Colonial and post-independence Brazil; early modern Atlantic world; race relations; comparative indigenous history; cross-cultural encounters; cultures of violence.

Patrick McDevitt (History): the Atlantic world; Irish studies; imperialism

Carl H. Nightingale (American Studies): the history of race, world history, and urban history

Justin Read (Romance Languages and Literature): transamerican poetics with emphasis in Spanish-American vanguardismo, Brazilian modernismo, and U.S. modernism

Theresa Runstedtler (American Studies): transnational Black history encompassing English, French, and Spanish destinations; multiracial and multicultural histories; the history of empire and globalization, popular culture

Claire Schen (History): Cross-Cultural Contact in the Seventeenth Century

Erik Seeman (History): colonial North America: religion, Indians, African-Americans, death

Ramón Soto-Crespo (American Studies): Latina/o and Caribbean literature, Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, queer studies.

Gwynn Thomas (Global Gender Studies): feminist thought, gendered theories of nationalism and citizenship, women in Latin America, and international feminist movements.

Jean-Jacques Thomas (Romance Languages and Literatures): Francophone literatures of the New World, Modern French poetry

Margarita Vargas (Romance Languages and Literatures): Spanish-American theatre; Mexican literature; contemporary theory

Claude Welch (Political Science): National and International Human Rights Networks

Kari Winter (American Studies): history and literature of transatlantic slavery, resistance, dissent, and revolution

Cynthia Wu (American Studies): Asian American and comparative ethnic cultural studies

Jason Young (History): The Black Atlantic, U.S. Slave culture and religion, pre-colonial Kongo

Graduate Students

Swati Bandi (American Studies), sbandi@buffalo.edu

Amelia Bitely (English), arbitely@buffalo.edu

Asli Degirmenci (English), ad64@buffalo.edu

Jennifer Gray (Global Gender Studies), jegray@buffalo.edu

John Hyland (English), jhyland@buffalo.edu

Megan McDonald (Comparative Literature), mcm42@buffalo.edu

Keiko Ogata (English), ogata.keiko14@gmail.com

Banu Ozel (English), banuozel@buffalo.edu

Anamika Priyadarshini (Global Gender Studies), ap72@buffalo.edu

Henriette Recny (English), hmrecny@buffalo.edu

Melissa Schindler (English), mes57@buffalo.edu

Guy Witzel (English), gpwitzel@buffalo.edu

Gregory Young (American Studies), gdyoung@buffalo.edu