Faculty

Nicholas Dames is a specialist in the novel, with particular attention to the novel of the nineteenth century in Britain and on the European continent.  His interests include novel theory, the history of reading, and the aesthetics of prose fiction from the seventeenth century to the present. He is the author of Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870 (Oxford, 2001), which was awarded the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association; and The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction (Oxford, 2007). 

Jenny Davidson is an author and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Madeleine Dobie's teaching and research areas include francophone/postcolonial literatures and cinemas of North Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean and the cultural dimensions of migration and diaspora. She also teaches and writes about eighteenth-century French culture, particularly with regard to orientalism, colonialism and the history of slavery.

Kevin Fellezs joined our faculty as Assistant Professor of Music and African American Studies in 2012, in a joint appointment with the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia.  He was previously on the faculty of the University of California at Merced.  He holds the PhD in History of Consciousness (American Studies) from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Ana Fernández-Cebrián earned her B.A. in Hispanic Philology from Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, and Ph.D in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University. Her research focuses on the important historical shifts pertaining ideological production and the transformations of the public sphere from the Second Republic to late Francoist Spain, with a special emphasis on literature, cultural studies, film, and media.

Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1982.  He has also been a guest professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany, Yale University, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania.  He has lectured on music throughout the United States, and in England, France, Spain, Germany, and China.  His writings have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.

Emily Fuhrman is a data visualization designer and developer currently working at Two Sigma. Her expertise spans mapping, academic research, and the design and development of data-driven graphics.

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.