Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture
Columbia University
Jeremy Dauber's research interests include older Yiddish literature, Yiddish and Hebrew literature of the Jewish Enlightenment and the nineteenth century, and Yiddish theater.
Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History
Columbia University
Mamadou Diouf's research interests include urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa.
Chair of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
Dr. Stuart Firestein is the Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biological Sciences where his colleagues and he study the vertebrate olfactory system, possibly the best chemical detector on the face of the planet. His laboratory seeks to answer that fundamental human question: How do I smell?
Professor of Film
Columbia University
Jane Gaines is the award-winning author of two books: Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice and the Law and Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era, both of which received the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Executive Director
Heyman Center for the Humanities
Eileen Gillooly, Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, is the Executive Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows.
Professor of French
Barnard College
Having received a B.A. in French History and Literature and Afro-American Studies from Harvard University and a PhD in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University, Kaiama L. Glover joined the faculty of Barnard College as Assistant Professor of French in 2002. Her teaching and research interests include francophone literature, particularly that of Haiti and the French Antilles, colonialism and postcolonialism, and African cinema.
Graduate Student in Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Columbia University
Marta Ferrer Gómez received her B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Salamanca (Spain). She also holds two master's degrees: a M.Phil. in Avant-Garde and Post Avant-Garde Cultures from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and a MSc in Visual and Material Cultures from the School of History at Edinburgh University (UK). As a visiting researcher, she worked on an M.Phil. thesis in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge (UK).
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Professor Edwards specializes in African-American and African diasporic literature, 20th-century poetry, Francophone literature, translation theory and jazz.
