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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

The author of some fifteen scholarly books and of five literary volumes, Laurent Dubreuil seeks to explore the boundaries of what we can think, say, and live, with a particular regard for the powers and nature of the extraordinary and of (artistic) creation. Dubreuil wrote about haunting, friendship, colonialism, literariness, disciplinarity, cognition, language, animals, politics, poetics, modernity, artificial intelligence, minds, or plants, working primarily, in a comparative and theoretical sense, on texts and images—across historical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries—, but also through experiments or experiences, and with “non-human” agents (be they great apes or computers).

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Naminata Diabate

Naminata Diabate is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University and a member of the Advisory Board of the Africa Institute of the Global Studies University (GSU) in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Her interdisciplinary work exemplifies why she is affiliated with diverse fields of study and intellectual communities. At Cornell, she is affiliated faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS), affiliated with Visual Studies, and in the graduate fields of Literatures in English; Romance Studies; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (LGBT); Performing and Media Arts (PMA); and Africana Studies and Research Center (ASRC).

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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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Professor Laurent Dubreuil chats with singer Peter Gabriel on screen.

Forum highlights the connections between humans and apes

In the early 1980s, Peter Gabriel sang “Shock the Monkey.” But about 15 years ago, the English musician became more interested in jamming with apes instead.Bonobos, specifically.“I had always been fascinated to see how we might interact musically,” said Gabriel. “I was blown away at the obvious intelligence of the beings that I was sharing the space with.”

Eve Glasergreen

Eve Glasergreen: ‘I have learned to truly think critically, to approach everything I do with curiosity and care, and not to set limits on myself’

Eve Glasergreen

English & French

Clinton, NJ

What are the most valuable skills you gained from your Arts & Sciences education?I have learned to truly think critically, to approach everything I do with curiosity and care, and not to set limits on myself. I have also learned how much I can learn from my peers who have different life experiences than I do!

Ivy Deng

Zhisheng Ivy Deng: ‘Challenge your own situatedness’

Zhisheng Ivy Deng

Anthropology & Comparative Literature & French & Fine Arts

Why did you choose Cornell?I came to Cornell specifically for the five-year concurrent degree program between the College of Architecture, Art and Planning and the College of Arts & Sciences. This opportunity has allowed me to pursue a rigorous art as well as liberal arts education.

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