affiliated faculty

Please note that this list is updated as new faculty are affiliated and is more current than the General Catalog listing.

Gerardo Aldana
Associate Professor, 
Chicana and Chicano Studies

Prof. Aldana's research interests are Maya hieroglyphic history, Mesoamerican art, experimental archaeology, science studies, culture theory. His main publications include: Tying Headbands or Venus Appearing: New translations of k'al, the Dresden Codex Venus Pages and Classic Period Royal 'Binding' Rituals (2011); The Apotheosis of Janaab’ Pakal: Science, History, and Religion at  Classic Maya Palenque (2007).
Paul Amar
Associate Professor, 
Global and International Studies

Prof. Amar's research explores cultural and social texts and spaces, and retheorizes subjects of gender, nation, colonialism, risk, security, militarization and humanism/humanitarianism as they are articulated in the sites and imaginaries of megacities of the global south. His books include The Security Archipelago: ‘Human Security’ States, Sexuality Politics and the End of Neoliberalism (2011); Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East with Diane Singerman (2006); New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics (2010);  Global South to the Rescue: Emergent Humanitarian Superpowers and Transnational Rescue Industries (Routledge, 2011).
Silvia Bermúdez
Professor, 
Spanish and Portuguese

Research interests: Contemporary Iberian and Latin American studies, Spanish cultural Studies, Galician poetry and performance, music and popular culture.
Main publications: Las dinámicas del deseo: subjetividad y lenguaje en la poesía española contemporánea (1997) and La esfinge de la escritura: la poesía ética de Blanca Varela (2005), as well as the co-editor of From Stateless Nations to Postnational Spain/De Naciones sin estado a la España Postnacional (2002).
michael berry
Professor, 
East Asian Studies

Prof. Berry works on contemporary Chinese cultural studies. He is the author of numerous monographs and translations, including Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (2005-2008), A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (2008-2010) and Jia Zhangke’s The Hometown Trilogy (2009-2010). Current projects include a book-length collection of interviews with Hou Hsiao-hsien and a monograph on how the United States has been imagined through Chinese popular culture.
Maurizia Boscagli
Associate Professor, 
English

Research interests: Gender studies and Feminist theory, the body, theories of subjectivity, British and European modernism, fin de siecle literature, critical and cultural theory, theories of mass culture. Her main publications include Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century (1996); a translation of the book Constituent Power, by Antonio Negri (1999); and various articles on masculinity, Walter Benjamin, and James Joyce.

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