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Cary Howie

At Cornell since 2003, Cary Howie received his B.A. in Literature from Bard College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University.

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Mitchell Greenberg

Mitchell Greenberg, who is theDistinguished Professor of Arts & Sciencesin Romance Studies, received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor of French literature specializing in sixteenth and seventeenth century French and Comparative Romance literatures, he is interested in modern critical readings of early modern texts. He teaches courses on the Baroque and Classical periods, Freudian and and post-Freudian psychoanalysis and Comparative Romance literatures.

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Laurent Dubreuil

In his research, Laurent Dubreuil aims to explore the powers of literary and artistic thinking at the interface of social thought, the humanities and the sciences. Dubreuil'sscholarship is broadly comparative and makes use of his reading knowledge in some ten languages. Professor Dubreuil is the founding director of theHumanities Lab, a place for reflexive dialogues between practitioners from the sciences and the discursive disciplines who wish to eschew reductionism.

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Naminata Diabate

A scholar of sexuality, race, biopolitics, and postcoloniality, Naminata’s research primarily explores African, African American, Caribbean, and Afro-Hispanic literatures, cultures, cinema, and new media.

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Anne Berger

Anne Emmanuelle Bergerholds an “agrégation de Lettres modernes” (1981), a doctorate from the University of Paris VIII (613 pages, 1990), as well as an “”Habilitation à diriger des recherches” (263 pages, 1999). Formerly Professor of French Literature and currently adjunct Professor in the department of Romance Studies at Cornell, she is now Professor of Gender Studies and French Literature at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis, where she co-chairs the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Féminines et études de genre. She is also the director of a newly created Institute, theInstitut du Genre, a nation-wide research unit backed by the French CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research).

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Ti Alkire

Ti Alkire has taught both French and Italian language at all levels and has received a Russell Award for Excellence in Teaching.During his time with the department, he has also developed several specialized language classes (Pronunciation of Standard French, French stylistics, French translation, French reading for graduates and Old French) as well as a course on the history of the Romance languages and a First-Year Writing Seminar on semiotics. Alkire received his B.A. and M.A. in French Language and Civilization from Middlebury College and his Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Cornell University. His graduate training also included study at Université Paris X (Nanterre) and at the Sorbonne’s Centre d’argotologie, Université Paris V (René Descartes). His dissertation, written under the direction of linguist and semiotician Linda Waugh, applies Jakobsonian and Peircean theory to the analysis of Raymond Queneau’sExercices de styleand its English and Italian translations.

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Gerard Aching

Gerard Aching is professor of Africana and Romance Studies. He specializes in 19th- and 20th-century Caribbean literatures and intellectual histories, theories of modernism and modernity in Latin America, and the relation of literature, philosophy, and slavery in the Caribbean. He is the author of The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design (Cambridge, 1997), Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean (Minnesota, 2002), and Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba (Indiana, 2015). Aching’s current research and teaching focus on subjectivity in slave narratives, slavery and philosophy, sugar production in the development of the modern transatlantic world, processes of gendered racialization in the Plantationocene, and the Underground Railroad. His collaborative Underground Railroad Research Project, which entails field work and community engagement in Central and Western New York, informs his new book project, The Promise of Rebirth: A Contemporary Approach to the Underground Railroad.

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