Editorial Board
- History in the Humanities Section
- Literature in the Humanities Section
- Philosophy and Classics in the Humanities Section
- Film, Television, and Media Studies in the Humanities Section
- Cultural Studies & Critical Theory in the Humanities Section
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: ecocriticism; contemporary environmental writing; critical animal studies; film and media studies; literature and science; canadian literature
Interests: Greek and Latin philology; John Malalas and the Byzantine chronicle tradition; the Excerpta Latina Barbari and Christian world chronicles; Euhemerus of Messene and the Euhemeristic tradition; Nonnus of Panopolis; Philo of Alexandria; the Alexander Romance and the late antique and medieval Alexander Tradition; the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius; Greek and Roman conceptual approaches to Ethiopia and India; Ancient and medieval fiction and historiography: Euhemeristic texts, Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius, the Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin; Greek and Roman myth, comparative mythology; interpretation of myth in pre-modern scholarship, particularly the historicization of myth; interactions of Classical paideia and Christian literature under the Roman Empire; Robert E. Howard, twentieth-century pulp fiction and weird fiction
Interests: folklore (particularly narrative, festival, and games, Religion, Culture conflict, Symbolic analysis; Martial arts
Interests: literature and politics in the english renaissance, especially republicanism; spenser and sixteenth-century poetry; shakespeare; early modern ireland; travel writing; national identity; colonialism; britain and britishness; and life writing
Interests: nineteenth-century United States and transatlantic literature; literature of slavery and emancipation; U.S. sectional and Civil War literature; literature and disability; literature and memory
Interests: Romantic literature; the Anthropocene; philosophical pessimism; nature writing; culture and climate change
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Interests: humanities; environmental history
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Interests: postcolonial literary/cultural studies; environmental humanities; animal studies; tourism studies/travel writing; contemporary film
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Interests: Children's culture; media studies; animation; American culture
Interests: normative ethics and meta-ethics; the nature and ethics of personal relationships, particularly friendship and romantic love; the ethics of terrorism and war; the nature of reasons and the relations between moral and other reasons; and aesthetics, in particular philosophy of poetry and music.
Interests: Homeric epic; Greek tragedy; translation; performance and reception; fandom; serial poetics across media; contemporary televisual narrative
Interests: Cultural studies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); Arabic popular culture; Maghrebi literature and culture; Comparative Literature (Arabophone, Francophone and Anglophone); Arab diaspora and cultural politics
Interests: literature; philosophy; psychoanalysis
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Interests: American & European Romanticism; William Blake studies; literature and science, literature and psychology
* Dean of the Emeritus College & Emeritus Professor of English & Sustainability
Interests: contemporary Irish literature and film; health humanities; medical rhetoric
Interests: 20th- and 21st-centuries Spanish cultural studies; ecocriticism, ecocinema, environmental humanities; contemporary Spanish cinema and prose fiction; Latin American, U.S. & World Cinemas
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Interests: U. S. and diasporas literatures and cultures; academic intellectuals and popular politics; national literatures in global contexts; translation studies; the institutional and theoretical implications of the contemporary humanities.
Interests: Greek and Latin literature; Greek tragedy especially Euripides; Greek history and historiography; Imperialism, both Greek and Roman; ideas of national character.
Interests: food and identity; migration literature; Italian-American literature; Renaissance Italy; Italian language; L2 pedagogy
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Interests: French, European and comparative literature; contemporary critical theory and practice; textual configurations of marginalization and the poetics of desire; post-colonial literary and cultural studies; Afro-Romance and Afro-Atlantic writers
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Interests: 19th-century American literature; literary theory; American cultural studies
Interests: phenomenology; aesthetics; political philosophy; romanticism
Interests: computational theories of mind; the relation between psychology and neuroscience; consciousness; and intentionality
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Interests: ecocriticism; ecopoetics; ecophilosophy and ecotheology
Interests: Latin language and literature; Roman literature and culture; classical philology; modern philosophical and political thought; comparative literature
Interests: modern drama; film studies; modernist fiction (British; American; French); feminist criticism; gay and lesbian literature; media studies; medical humanities
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Interests: discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics; museum discourse, literature studies (notably, James Joyce and Modernism); critical theory and narratology; intercultural communication; gender and queer studies
Interests: poetry; digital humanities; feminist criticism & theory; lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender studies; american literature; biography & autobiography; textual studies; women's studies & women's history; popular culture; cinema
Interests: American, later, gender/sexuality studies; Latina/o studies; post-colonial fiction, theory & criticism; film/visual culture
Interests: American literature and culture (especially the 19th Century); American studies; Civil War; Slavery and Abolitionism; protest literature; religion and literature; American novel; Autobiography; photography and/or visual culture