Executive Committee

I am a historian of the nineteenth-century Americas and Atlantic and Pacific worlds, focusing on race, slavery, and emancipation. I earned my Ph.D. in Latin American History from Columbia University, where I was a Ford Foundation Fellow, and my B.A. in Philosophy and History from Brown University, where I was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and Beinecke Scholar.

Elisabeth Camp is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. She obtained her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to Rutgers in 2013. Her research focuses on thoughts and utterances that don’t fit within the standard philosophical model of the human mind as a propositional operator. In the realm of communication, this includes phenomena like...

I am a poet, writer, cartoonist, and scholar. In both my creative and scholarly work, I explore the themes of agency and pleasure in the lives of black women and girls. My current book project, tentatively titled Bad Black Feminism: A Long History of Black Women Writers and Sex-Positivity, focuses on black women writers of the twentieth century who have been construed as problematic or inconvenient to mainstream black feminism. My research/creative work has been supported by the Mellon...

Kristin Grogan is an Assistant Professor in English at Rutgers University. Her research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, labor history and theory, and gender and sexuality. She is finishing her first book, an account of the dynamic relationship between poetry and labor of various kinds—artisanal, mechanical, clerical, and reproductive work—with chapters on Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Lorine Niedecker. She is beginning a new project on...

Dr. Kitzinger is a Professor of Russian and the Acting Director of the Program in Russian and East European Languages and Literatures.

Professor of English

Professor Lupton's distinguished scholarship brings the rigor and historical depth of 18th-century literary studies to bear on contemporary media theory, establishing the history of reading as an indispensable framework for current work in media studies.

Professor Lupton is the author of several monographs and editor of numerous scholarly collections. Her award-winning first book, Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain (University of...

 Professor of English

Primary Areas of Specialization: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, Literatures of Empire and resistance, Global Anglophone Literature, World Literatures, particularly those of South Asia and South Africa, Modernity.

Field of Interest: Global Anglophone, Postcolonial, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century

Books: Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023)Literatures of Liberation: Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress...

I am a literary comparatist focusing on issues of translation, genre, feminist and postcolonial theory, and world literature. My specialization is in twentieth-century Hindi and Tamil literature and literary history with an emphasis on how these rich traditions converse with other literatures of India and the world. I approach the study of literature through close textual reading combined with a firm rootedness in how understandings of the relationship between literature and society have...

 Jorge Marcone is Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Program in Comparative Literature, at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. His current areas of interest are transdisciplinary and publicly engaged approaches in the environmental humanities, arts-based methods in social-ecological systems research, and the future of the Humanities in higher education. He is a senior Fellow of the South American Resilience and Sustainability Institute...

Carter Mathes is an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is a specialist in African American literature, twentieth-century Literature, and African diaspora studies. His first book, Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature After Civil Rights (2015) focuses on the relationship between sound and literary innovation during the 1960s and 1970s. He has also co-edited (with Mae G. Henderson) a volume on Black Arts Movement writer and critic Larry Neal, “Don’t...

Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a Distinguished Professor of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She is a music theorist and historian specializing in the analysis of American ultra-modernist musical works, the transpacific history of American music, and contemporary composers of East Asian heritage. Previously, she taught at Oberlin College and has held visiting professorships at the Curtis Institute of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Princeton University, and Bard...

Laura Weigert is Professor of Art History at Rutgers University. She specializes in Northern European art of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Professor Weigert has taught at the University of Nantes and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and was Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College before joining the Rutgers faculty in September, 2006. Her scholarship addresses the...