School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Graduate)

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School of Interdisciplinary Studies

• Graduate Certificate in African American Studies

American Studies

Website URL:

https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/american-studies/graduate/index.html

Department/School Head:

School Head:  Venetria K. Patton
Program Head: Rayvon D. Fouche

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

American Studies introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of America as a place, a political and social idea, a set of values and traditions, and people. The program provides students with the opportunity to examine America through the diversity of its ideas, texts, objects, institutions, practices, and histories as well as the complex social and political relationships that have shaped and continue to shape the world to which they belong. The interdisciplinary emphasis of American Studies allows students to explore the nation’s complexity and the dynamics of its national culture and countless subcultures from multiple vantage points and through multiple media. American Studies students have the opportunity to showcase their research, creative work, and community engagement while networking with internationally-known scholars at the annual student-organized academic conference held on campus each spring.

M.A. and Ph.D. degrees

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

• Activism, Resistance, and Social Movement Studies
• Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
• Design and Material Cultural Studies
• Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies
• New Media and Popular Cultural Studies
• Science, Technology, and Environment Studies
• Transnational American Studies

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Kristina Bross
Susan Curtis
John Duvall
Rayvon Fouche’
Leonard Harris
Christian Knoeller
Robert Lamb
Alfred Lopez
Bill Mullen
Venetria Patton
Nancy Peterson
Kevin Stainback
Ronald Stephens

Associate Professor

David Atkinson
TJ Boisseau
Nadia Brown
Kathryn Cramer
Cheryl Cooky
Charles Cutter
Marlo David
Joseph Dorsey
Jennifer Freeman
Nancy Gabin
Elizabeth Hoffmann
Stacy Holden
Christopher Lukasik
Shannon McMullen
Derek Pacheco
Yvonne Pitts
Ryan Schneider
Monica Trieu
Sharra Vostral
Laura Zanotti

Assistant Professor

Jake Burdick
Kim Gallon
Matthew Hannah
Jennifer B Kaufmann-Buhler
Cara Kinnally
Stephanie Zywicki

Comparative Literature

Website URL:

https://www.cla.purdue.edu/complit/graduate/

Department/School Head:

School Head: Venetria K. Patton
Program Head: Beate I. Allert
Graduate Contact: Brandi Plantenga 765-496-9629 - bplante@purdue.edu

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

Comparative Literature takes as its special mandate the teaching and comparing of world literature not only as social documents but also as works of art whose full appreciation depends on the study of languages, an understanding of diversity and globalization, and an appreciation of various media.

Comparative Literature is a Master of Arts and Ph.D. granting program.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

Comparative Literature at Purdue is especially geared towards studies that cut across traditional national, linguistic, and temporal boundaries, such as Medieval, Renaissance, Postcolonial, and Global studies.

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Beate I. Allert
German and Comparative Literatures, esp. 18th & 19th centuries; literary theory and culture studies; optics & metaphor; Ekphrasis, visual/verbal; travel lit; fables; poetry; sense perceptions; cognition; aesthetics & ethics; international cinema studies

Dorsey Armstrong
British Literature; Arthurian Literature; Medieval Romance; Anglo-Saxon; Gender and Feminist Studies

Thomas Broden
20th-Century French Literature; Semiotics; Fashion and Modern French Culture; History of Modern French Linguistics

Keith Dickson
Comparative Mythology; Ancient Medicine; Greek Literature

Paul B. Dixon
Literature; Literary Theory; Cinema; Comparative Literature

Angelica Duran
British Literature; 16th-century and 17th-century literature, natural philosophy/science, and educational reforms; Comparative Literature

Dino Franco Felluga
British Literature, nineteenth-century literature (especially poetry), media studies, and critical theory

Sandor Goodhart
Dramatic literature (Greek tragedy and philosophy, Shakespeare, modern drama), literary theory and criticism (structuralism and poststructuralism, the history of critical theory)

Shaun Hughes
Old Norse/Icelandic Literature and Culture, Old and Middle English Language and Literature, History of the English Language, British Literature, Postcolonial Literature and World Literatures

Alfred Lopez
English, Latin American Studies

Robert Marzec
Contemporary British & Postcolonial literature

Daniel Morris
20th Century American Literature; American Poetry, 20th Century American Art; Popular Culture; American literature, poetry, and drama; the relationship between American poetry and drama; Jewish-American literature, visual arts

Manushag (Nush) Powell
British Literature

Charles Ross
Romance epic, literature and law, and law in the English Renaissanec

Jennifer William
20th & 21st century literature and film; cognitive approaches to literature; Jewish Studies; Women’s Studies

Associate Professor

Ahmed Idrissi Alami
Arabic and Comparative Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Studi

Elena Coda
19^th and 20^th century Italian literature

Catherine Dossin
Cultural Transfers, Exhibition History, and Historigraphy

Geraldine Friedman
British Literature, Literature and culture of Romanticism and Sensibility, critical theory, poststructuralism, women’s writing, feminist theory, and theory and history of sexuality

Ariel de la Fuente
Global History, Latin American History, Latin American Literature, Literary Studies, Intellectual History.

Stacy Holden
Modern Middle East and North Africa, U.S. Engagement with the Arab World

Daniel Hsieh
Chinese and ancient Comparative Literature; poetry

Yonsoo Kim

Cara Kinnally
Mexican and Mexican American Literature; Latino/a Studies and Literature; Border Studies; Empire Studies and (Post) Colonia Theory; Critical Race Theory.

Clotilde Landais
Literary Translation (theory and Practice); Postmodern theories, Digital Humanities, French

Benjamin Lawton

Paula Leverage
Old French and Occitan Literature; Cognitive literary analysis; Memory and Rhetoric; Film; Comparative Literature

Song No

Aparajita Sagar
English, Women’s Studies, Indian Literature

Dawn Stinchcomb

Jeffrey Turco
Afro-Hispanic Literatures and Culture, Hispanic Caribbean Literature, Spanish

Germina N. Vedlwachter
Francophone Literature, Postcolonial Studies

Assistant Professor

Pedro Bassoe
Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature

Erin Moodie
Greek and Latin Literature, especially comedy and satire.

Margaret Tillman
Asian Studies, China

Hongjian Route Wang
Modern and contemporary Chinese Literature, film, theater, print media, cultural history; comparative literature, decadence, comedy the avant-garde reflexivity.

Linguistics

Website URL:

https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/linguistics/graduate/index.html

Department/School Head:

School Head: Venetria K. Patton
Program Head: Alejandro Cuza-Blanco

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

Purdue Linguistics offers thorough training in theoretical and applied linguistics. One of its main strengths is the analysis of bilingual language systems and the characterization of the linguistic and psycholinguistic development of bilingualism.    

• Students can be admitted at the M.A. level, Ph.D. level, or in the dual M.A./Ph.D track.  Students should specify in their applications the program or track into which they seek admission.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

• Theoretical and experimental approaches to syntax, phonetics, and phonology
• Bilingualism in children and adults
• Second language acquisition
• L2 classroom instruction and pedagogy
• Heritage language development
• Sociolinguistics and pragmatics
• Sign Language
• Language contact and change
• Historical linguistics
• Fieldwork and language documentation
• Language testing and assessment

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Myrdene Anderson
Elena Benedicto
Margie Berns
Alejandro Cuza-Blanco
Atsushi Fukada
April Ginther
Shaun Hughes
Victor Raskin
Felicia Roberts
Tony Silva
Ronnie Wilbur

Associate Professor

Robert Channon
Lori A Czerwionka
Alexander Francis
Elaine Francis
Daniel J. Olson
Colleen Neary-Sundquist
Mary Niepokuj
Jeffrey Siskind
Jessica Sturm
John Sundquist
Mariko Moroishi Wei

Assistant Professor

Olga Dmitrieva

 Philosophy and Literature

Website URL:
https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/phil-lit/

Department/School Head:

School Head: Venetria K. Patton
Program Head: Daniel W. Smith

Academic Programs:

Purdue’s interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Philosophy and Literature allows graduate students to develop a plan of study and research that lies at the intersection of the fields of philosophy and literature, broadly conceived.  The program seeks to foster critical and independent thinking while providing cohesive professional training.

Masters and Ph.D. Programs:

Ph.D. only

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Sandor Goodhart
Leonard Thomas Broden Harris
Jacqueline Mariña
Robert P. Marzec
William L. McBride
Arkady Plotnitsky
Thomas J. Rickert
Daniel W. Smith
Jennifer William
Christopher Yeomans

Associate Professor 

Elena Coda
Geraldine S Friedman
Ahmed Idrissi Alami

The following Programs are offered by the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, the American Studies Program, Comparative Literature Program, and Linguistics Program.  

Programs

• American Studies, PHD
• Comparative Literature, PHD
• Linguistics, PHD
• Philosophy & Literature, Ph.D

• American Studies, MA
• Comparative Literature, MA
• Linguistics, MA

• African American Studies Graduate Certificate
• African American Studies, SIS

Courses

• AAS 57400 - Research Methods In African American Studies
• AAS 57500 - Theories Of African American Studies
• AAS 59000 - Directed Readings In African American Studies

• AMST 59000 - Directed Readings In American Studies
• AMST 60100 - Introduction To American Studies
• AMST 60200 - Contemporary Issues In American Studies
• AMST 60300 - American Studies Interdisciplinary Project
• AMST 60400 - Transnational American Studies
• AMST 60500 - Theory And American Culture
• AMST 61000 - Transnational American Studies Abroad
• AMST 62000 - Archival Theory And Practice
• AMST 63000 - M A Research Seminar
• AMST 65000 - Reading Seminar In American Studies
• AMST 69500 - American Studies Service Learning/Internship
• AMST 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• CMPL 59000 - Directed Reading In Comparative Literature
• CMPL 63000 - Comparative Literature: Function And Methods
• CMPL 65000 - Seminar In Comparative Literature
• CMPL 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• IDIS 59000 - Directed Reading In Interdisciplinary Studies
• IDIS 59100 - Selected Topics In Interdisciplinary Studies

• JWST 59000 - Directed Readings In Jewish Studies

• LING 50000 - Introduction To Linguistics
• LING 50100 - Language Acquisition
• LING 51100 - Phonology I: Descriptive Analysis
• LING 51200 - Phonology II: Theoretical Approaches
• LING 52100 - Syntax I: Syntactic Analysis
• LING 52200 - Syntax II: Issues In Syntax
• LING 53100 - Semantics I: Lexical And Sentential Semantics
• LING 53200 - Semantics II: Formal And Grammatical Semantics
• LING 54100 - Historical Linguistics And Language Change
• LING 56000 - Service Learning In Languages And Linguistics
• LING 56300 - Language Acquisition
• LING 56500 - Sociolinguistics
• LING 57000 - Field Methods In Linguistics
• LING 57600 - Latin American Indigenous Languages And Cultures
• LING 59000 - Directed Reading In Linguistics
• LING 59100 - Special Topics In Phonology
• LING 59300 - Special Topics In Semantics
• LING 59400 - Special Topics In Historical Linguistics
• LING 59800 - Special Topics In Linguistics
• LING 61900 - Seminar In Phonology
• LING 62900 - Seminar In Syntax
• LING 68900 - Seminar In Linguistics
• LING 69000 - Individual Seminar
• LING 69800 - Research MA Thesis
• LING 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• WGSS 58500 - Feminist Art Criticism
• WGSS 59900 - Selected Topics In Women’s Gender And Sexuality Studies
• WGSS 68000 - Feminist Theory
• WGSS 68100 - Contemporary Issues In Feminist Scholarship
• WGSS 68200 - Issues In Feminist Research And Methodology

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