Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Penn State University
Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University.
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History
Harvard University
Professor Ann Blair specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), with an emphasis on France.
Research Professor in the Department of Sociology
University of California at Davis
For the last six years, Fred Block has been researching the activities of the U.S. government in support of the commercialization of new technologies. In a series of papers, he has documented that these efforts are far more widespread and more successful than most analysts have recognized.
Professor of English, Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature
University of Minnesota
Timothy Brennan works on the relationship between comparative literature, world literature, and global English. He is a member of both the departments of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, and English, and is a member of the graduate faculty of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Global Studies and the Institute for Advanced Studies. His essays and course offerings deal with issues of intellectual history, cultural theory, the Marxist and phenomenological traditions, the avant-gardes, theories of colonialism and imperialism, problems of translation, and popular music.
Associate Professor of History and American Studies
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Martin Burke is an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the City University of New York.
Maxine Elliot Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History
The University of Texas at Austin
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor of English
National University of Ireland, Galway
Daniel Carey is a graduate of McGill University, Trinity College Dublin, and Oxford University where he took his D.Phil. His book on Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2006, and he is currently completing a cultural history of travel in the Renaissance for Columbia University Press.
