Faculty

Giuseppe Gerbino joined the Columbia faculty in 2001. His research interests include the Italian madrigal, the relationship between music and language in the early modern period, early opera, and Renaissance theories of cognition and sense perception.

Alex Gil specializes in twentieth-century Caribbean literature and Digital Humanities, with an emphasis on textual studies. His recent research in Caribbean literature focuses on the works and legacy of Aimé Césaire.

Todd Gitlin(link is external) has written 16 books, including history from the last century (“The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage(link is external)”) and contemporary (“Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street(link is external)”); sociology (“The Whole World Is Watching:  Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left(link is external)”); communications theory (“Media Unlimited(link is external)”); and three published novels, including “Sacrifice,” which won the Harold Ribalow Award for fiction on Jewish themes. He is a columnist for Tablet and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and many magazines. 

Lydia Goehr is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. In 2009/2010 she received a Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award, in 2007/8 The Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC)'s Faculty Mentoring Award (FMA), and in 2005, a Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. She is a recipient of Mellon, Getty, and Guggenheim Fellowships.

Pamela M. Graham serves as the Director of the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research.  She also directs the Global Studies division of the Libraries. 

Professor Edwards specializes in African-American and African diasporic literature, 20th-century poetry, Francophone literature, translation theory and jazz.

Joseph A. Howley joined the department in 2011 after earning a PhD in Latin (2011) and an M Litt in Ancient History (2007) from the University of St Andrews, Scotland.  He also holds a BA (2006) in Ancient Studies from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).  He teaches Latin, Book History, and Columbia’s Literature Humanities course.  He was a 2014-2016 Mellon Fellow in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School, and is Secretary of RBS’s Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.

My work engages with a range of anthropological, philosophical and literary debates about temporality, personhood, the human senses and their technological extensions in the Lusophone world. I am currently working on two projects. The first is on the flourishing of Byzantine imaginary in urban São Paulo, Brazil through the practices of a media-savvy urban religious movement and the second is on experiences of impasse particularly among Portuguese youth in the context of the Southern European financial crisis and how today Portugal reimagines its peripheral position in regard to its colonial past. My ethnographic work has been supported by Fundação para Ciência e a Tecnologia, Lisbon, Forum for Transregional Studies, Berlin, ICI-Berlin, and Rework: Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, at Humboldt University in Berlin.