2021-2022 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Graduate)
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American Studies
Website URL:
https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/american-studies/graduate/index.html
Department/School Head:
School Head and Program Head: Venetria K. Patton
Academic Programs:
Masters and Ph.D. Programs
Founded in the 1960s, American Studies program is invested in studying the ways American culture shapes and influences the ways people live. The program provides students with opportunities to explore American culture through a diversity of ideas, texts, objects, institutions, practices, and histories, as well as the complex social and political relationships that continue to shape the evolving configurations of Americanness. Our interdisciplinary program promotes the crossing of disciplinary boundaries and the exploration of questions that generate new understandings of colonization, disability, diversity, environmentalism, ethnicity, gender, incarceration, inequality, media, migration, protest, race, sexuality, technology, transnationalism, and violence.
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
Cheryl Cooky
John Duvall
Rayvon Fouche’
Leonard Harris
Robert Lamb
Alfred Lopez
Venetria Patton
Nancy Peterson
Kevin Stainback
Ronald Stephens
Sharra Vostral
Laura Zanotti
Associate Professor
David Atkinson
TJ Boisseau
Jake Burdick
Kathryn Cramer
Charles Cutter
Marlo David
Joseph Dorsey
Jennifer Freeman
Nancy Gabin
Kim Gallon
Elizabeth Hoffmann
Stacy Holden
Cara Kinnally
Christopher Lukasik
Shannon McMullen
Derek Pacheco
Yvonne Pitts
Ryan Schneider
Monica Trieu
Assistant Professor
Jake Burdick
Matthew Hannah
Jennifer B Kaufmann-Buhler
Kali Rubaii
Stephanie Zywicki
Emeritus
Susan Curtis
Christian Knoeller
Bill Mullen
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, 18th and 19th Century, Postcolonial, and Global studies. Our affiliated faculty represent interests in multiple literature, film, and theory.
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
Ariel de la Fuente
Global History, Latin American History, Latin American Literature, Literary Studies, Intellectual History.
Sandor Goodhart
Dramatic literature (Greek tragedy and philosophy, Shakespeare, modern drama), literary theory and criticism (structuralism and poststructuralism, the history of critical theory)
Patricia Hart
Spanish Literature and Film, Spanish XXth Century Literature
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
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
19th and 20th-century Italian literature
Catherine Dossin
Visual Art, Cultural Transfers, Exhibition History, and Historiography
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
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
Iberian Medieval and Golden Age Literature, Paleography, and Text Digitalization, Medicine and Literature, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, and Disability Studies.
Cara Kinnally
Spanish & Portuguese, Latin American Studies, 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
Italian Cinema and Literature 20/21st Centuries
Paula Leverage
Old French and Occitan Literature; Cognitive literary analysis; Memory and Rhetoric; Film; Comparative Literature
Aparajita Sagar
English, Women’s Studies, Indian Literature
Dawn F. Stinchcomb
Spanish and Portuguese Literatures, Latin American, African-American , Gender and Sexuality Studies
Margaret Tillman
Asian Studies, China, History
Jeffrey Turco
German Literature, Old Norse, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Germina N. Veldwachter
Francophone Literature, Postcolonial Studies, African-American Studies
Assistant Professor
Pedro Bassoe
Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature
Erin Moodie
Greek and Latin Literature, especially comedy and satire.
Hongjian Route Wang
Modern and contemporary Chinese Literature, film, theater, print media, cultural history; comparative literature, decadence, comedy the avant-garde reflexivity.
Emeritus Faculty
Charles Ross
Professor of English, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Howard Mancing
Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Comparative Literature, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Floyd Merrell
Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Latin American Studies, and Comparative Literature
Edie Clowes
Russian Literature
Anthony Tamburri
Italian and Comparative Literature and film
John Kirby
Antiquity, Classicism
Ute White
French and Comparative Literature and film and art, postmodern era
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:
Masters 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. They should also specify the faculty members they would like to work with.
Concentrations (Areas of Study):
- Theoretical and experimental approaches to syntax, phonetics, and phonology
- Bilingualism in children and adults
- Second land Heritage Language Acquisition
- L2 classroom instruction and pedagogy
- Sociolinguistics and pragmatics
- Sign Language
- Language contact and change
- Historical linguistics
- Fieldwork and language documentation
Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:
Professor
Myrdene Anderson
Elena Benedicto
Alejandro Cuza-Blanco
Atsushi Fukada
April Ginther
Victor Raskin
Felicia Roberts
Tony Silva
Ronnie Wilbur
Associate Professor
Robert Channon
Lori A Czerwionka
Olga Dmitrieva
Alexander Francis
Elaine Francis
Daniel J. Olson
Colleen Neary-Sundquist
Jeffrey Siskind
Jessica Sturm
John Sundquist
Mariko Moroishi Wei
Philosophy and Literature
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
Thomas Borden
Leonard 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.
ProgramsDoctoralMaster’sGraduate CertificateProfessionalCoursesAfrican American StudiesAmerican StudiesComparative LiteratureInterdisciplinary StudiesJewish StudiesLinguisticsWomen’s Gender and Sexuality Studies
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