Faculty Expertise
Throughout your time at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, you will work with faculty in classes,
lab and field work, internships, and more. Faculty serve as teachers and mentors,
and as advisors for your Senior Capstone Experience (SCE). On this page, explore the
research interests of the faculty who serve on the board overseeing the humanities
major, but check the faculty expertise pages for the contributing departments as well. Humanities majors might end up working with any of them.
Humanities Faculty
Nicole Grewling
Director of the Humanities Program
Associate Professor of German Studies
Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures
Director of the European Studies Minor
Nicole Grewling
Director of the Humanities Program
Associate Professor of German Studies
Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures
Director of the European Studies Minor
Areas of Expertise
19th century German literature and culture, German colonialism, travel writing, feminist criticism
Research
My research focuses on 19th century German literature and culture, German colonialism, travel writing, and feminist criticism.
Clayton Black
Barbara Townsend Cromwell '55 Associate Professor of History
Clayton Black
Barbara Townsend Cromwell '55 Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Russia in the 1920s
Research
My first area of research has been factory labor and Communist party politics from 1923 to 1934, but in recent years I have moved into the study of popular culture, especially pulp literature and films that speak to fears of war, conspiracies, terrifying new weapons (gas, airplanes, death rays, etc.), and spies. In fact, however, I’m interested in the 1920s just about everywhere in the world.
Katherine Charles
Associate Professor of Eightheenth and Nineteenth-Century Literature
Katherine Charles
Associate Professor of Eightheenth and Nineteenth-Century Literature
Areas of Expertise
Transatlantic literature, the novel, gender studies
Research
I teach and study transatlantic literature of the long eighteenth century, with a special focus on the history of the novel and gender studies.