Visiting Speakers

Bernard Rhie is Associate Professor of English at Williams College, where he teaches courses on modern literature and on the connections between philosophy and literature. His courses range from traditional genre and single-author surveys to interdisciplinary seminars that investigate a particular topic (like time or the human face) by integrating the study of literature, philosophy, art, and even developmental and cognitive psychology.

Sung Rno’s plays include Galois, Happy, wAve, Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen, Behind the Masq, Weather, Cleveland Raining, Gravity Falls From Trees, Drizzle and Other Stories, New World, and The Trajectory of a Heart, Fractured. Honors include the New Dramatists Whitfield Cook Prize, a New York Fringe Festival Best Overall Production Award, two Van Lier Fellowships (with New Dramatists and New York Theater Workshop), and first prize in the Seattle Multicultural Playwrights’ Festival.

Camille Robcis is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Cornell University. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum in 2008-2009 and a Fellow at LAPA (Law and Public Affairs) at Princeton in 2011-2012. Her first book, The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell University Press, 2013) examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization. More broadly, her research and teaching interests have focused on the historical construction of norms, the intellectual production of knowledge, and the articulation of gender and sexuality in the social sciences and particularly in psychoanalysis.  

Moss Roberts is a professor of Chinese at New York University.

Klas Rönnbäck is an economic historian at the University of Gothenburg. He specializes in European colonial trade during the early modern period.

Caitlin Rosenthal is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her PhD in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University in 2012, where she wrote her dissertation on the relationship between quantification and control, particularly focusing on accounting practices. She is currently working on developing her dissertation into the book From Slavery to Scientific Management: Accounting for Control in Antebellum America.

Juan Ruiz Jiménez obtained his PhD from Granada University in 1995. In 2007 he published his book La Librería de Canto de Órgano: Creación y pervivencia del repertorio del Renacimiento en la catedral de Sevilla. His research and publications focus mainly on sacred and instrumental music in early modern Spain. He is currently working on different aspects on Urban Music in Seville city and prepares a large study about the impact of musical endowments in the development of the ritual, musical forces and the creation of repertory in this city.  

Dr Russell came to Corpus in 2015, after holding positions as lecturer at King’s College London, fellow of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University, and fellow of the Mahindra Center for the Humanities at Harvard University. He obtained his PhD in English from Princeton University.