AFFILIATED FACULTY

(** teaching in 2007-08)

• Lanier Anderson - Philosophy
  Areas of interest: History of late modern philosophy, especially Kant, Nietzsche, neo-Kantianism, 19th century philosophy. Recent publications include: "The Debate over the Geisteswissenschaften in German Philosophy: 1880-1910," forthcoming in the Cambridge History of Philosophy: 1870-1945, ed. T. Baldwin. "Truth and Objectivity in Perspectivism," Synthese 115: 1-32 (1998). "Overcoming Charity: the Case of Maudemarie Clark's Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy," Nietzsche-Studien 25: 307-41 (1996). "Nietzsche's Will to Power as a Doctrine of the Unity of Science," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 25: 729-50 (1994).

• **J.M. Apostolides - French and Italian
  
  Interests include Classical French literature (17th and 18th centuries); Avant-garde artistic movements: Dada, surrealism, situationist international; iconomie, literary theory and Francophone literature.

• Keith Baker - History
  Area of interest: Modern Europe. Publications include: Condorcet. From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1975; paperback ed., 1982). Condorcet: Selected Writings, translated, edited, and with an introduction (Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1976). "Report of the Commission on Graduate Education," The University of Chicago Record, vol. 16, no. 2 (3 May, 1982), pp. 67-180 (principal author and editor). The Old Regime and the French Revolution , edited with an introduction (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1987; volume 7 in University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization ). The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. vol.1, The Political Culture of the Old Regime, edited with an introduction (Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1987).

• **Helen Brooks - English, Humanities
  Earned a Joint Ph.D. in English and Humanities at Stanford in 1980. Publications on John Donne; on the poetry of John Donne and Adrienne Rich (forthcoming in The John Donne Journal, Vol. 26, November, 2007); on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola and early modern poetry; on the poetry of John Davies of Hereford for the Dictionary of Literary Biography; and served as a Contributing Editor for The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne: The Holy Sonnets, Vol. 7 published by Indiana University Press, 2005. Teaching includes courses on John Donne, Shakespeare, Renaissance/early modern poetry, texts in history, graduate seminars on Renaissance/early modern intellectual and cultural history (in the Graduate Program in Humanities), and theoretical approaches to literature. Other research and teaching interests include new historicism, reception theory, gender studies, interdisciplinarity, math and literature, modern poetry and drama, Virginia Woolf, and narratology. Appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of a new academic journal: Forum on Public Policy, published by Oxford Round Table and the University of Oxford (2005). Received The Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education at Stanford (1994).

• **Gregory Freidin - Slavic Languages and Literature, Humanities
  Modern Russian literature; modernism, modernist poetry, Russian literature of the Revolution and early Soviet period; Stalin and Stalinist culture; late Soviet and post-Soviet literature and culture; intersection of culture and politics in Russia; the Russian-Jewish nexus; Russian and European intellectual history; aesthetics and literary theory; Russian film and visual arts.

• Hester Gelber - Religious Studies
  Specializes in late medieval religious thought. She teaches courses in philosophy of religion, and religion and science, as well as medieval Christianity. She has written extensively on medieval Dominicans. Publications include Exploring the Boundaries of Reason: Three Questions on the Nature of God by Robert Holcot, OP.

• Denise Gigante - English
  Aesthetics, Poetic Form, the English Essay Tradition, Taste, Gastronomy, Life Science

• Thomas Grey - Music
  Special fields: Wagner, 19th-century opera, history of musical aesthetics and criticism, Romantic music and visual culture. Author of Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts, 1995. Editor and co-author of Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, 2000, and Cambridge Companion to Wagner, forthcoming.

• **Heather Hadlock - Music
  Special fields: 18th- and 19th-century French and Italian opera; music and literature; feminist criticism and gender studies; French Romanticism. Author of Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Princeton University Press, 2000.

• David Hills - Philosophy
  Aesthetics; History of Modern Philosophy, esp. Kant; Continental Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Ethics; Political Philosophy. Recently published "Aptness and Truth in Verbal Metaphor," Philosophical Topics 25.1 (1997): 117-153.

• Branislav Jakovljevic - Drama
  His areas of scholarly interests include the avant-garde (across disciplinesÑtheater, literature, visual arts, musicÑand periodsÑEuropean avant-gardes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, post-World War II avant-garde in Europe and America), theater history, dramaturgy, performance theory, philosophy of the event, and, most recently, performance and law. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in avant-garde, performance theory, and theater history. He has published essays on a broad variety of subjects, from history of late nineteenth-century theater, to Russian and Soviet avant-garde, to contemporary American experimental performance (The Wooster Group, composer John Adams, the site-specific performance group Skewed Visions).

• Matthew Jockers - English, Academic Technology
  Academic Technology Specialist and Consulting Assistant Professor in the Department of English. He also serves as a Manager of the Academic Technology Specialist Program. Jockers's work centers on the academic uses of technology for the study and teaching of literature. He holds a doctorate degree in English / Irish-Studies and has been working in Academic Technology and Humanities Computing since 1995.

• Joshua Landy - French & Italian
  Philosophical literature (Proust, Beckett); literary philosophy (Plato, Montaigne); philosophy of literature (Nietzsche, ethical criticism, narrative theories of selfhood); Symbolist poetry (MallarmŽ); the first-person novel.

• Pavle Levi - Art & Art History
  European cinema with an emphasis on Eastern Europe, aesthetics and ideology, encounters between film theory and practice, psychoanalytic theory of the media.

• **Andrea Nightingale - Classics
  Special Fields: Ancient philosophy; Greek and Latin Literature; Literature and Philosophy of Ecology. Representative publications: "Writing/Reading a Sacred Text: A Literary Interpretation of Plato's Laws," Classical Philology 88 (1993); "Towards an Ecological Eschatology: Plato and Bakhtin on Other Worlds and Times", forthcoming in Bakhtin and the Classics, ed. B. Branham (Northwestern University Press 1997).

• Hilton Obenzinger - Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Assoc. Director for Honors Writing
  Hilton Obenzinger writes fiction, poetry, history and criticism. He has most recently published the novel A*Hole. His other books include Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust by Zosia Goldberg as told to Hilton Obenzinger, an oral history of his aunt's ordeal during the war; American Palestine: Melville, Twain and the Holy Land Mania, a literary and historical study of America's fascination with the Holy Land; Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco, a novel of invented documents that recounts the history of San Francisco from the Spanish conquest to the 1906 earthquake and fire; New York on Fire, a history of the fires of New York in verse, selected by the Village Voice as one of the best books of the year and nominated by the Bay Area Book Reviewer's Association for its award in poetry; This Passover Or The Next I Will Never Be in Jersualem, which received the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation.

• Rush Rehm - Drama
  An actor, director, and professor of Drama and Classics, Rush Rehm publishes in the areas of Greek tragedy and contemporary politics. He also serves as Artistic Director of Stanford Summer Theater, a professional theater that presents a dramatic festival and symposium based on a major playwright each summer.

• Joan Ramon Resina - Spanish & Portuguese
  Professor Resina specializes in Spanish and Catalan literatures and cultures with emphasis in the modern period. He also serves as the Director of the Institute for Iberian Studies. He has held teaching positions at Cornell University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Northwestern University.

• Paul Robinson - History
  Interests include the history of European (and sometimes American thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Writing has focused on three topics. The first is the history of psychoanalysis. The second is the history of ideas about human sexuality, especially the experience of gays and lesbians. The third is the connection between intellectual history and the history of opera. At present, Professor Robinson is writing a book about what's happened to the reputations of the three most influential thinkers of the modern era: Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, and Sigmund Freud.

• Christopher Rovee - English
  18th- & 19th-century British literature and culture; aesthetics and politics; photography and literature; theory of the museum; Keats; Wordsworth; Wilde. He is the author of Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism (Stanford, 2006). His current project examines arguments about the value of poetry in the nineteenth century. He has recently taught courses on the romantic and postromantic lyric; 19th-c. visual culture; the gothic; literary interiority; the lyric from Milton to Blake; the Shelleys; and Keats.

• Michael Shanks - Classics
  Projects include: The Presence Project - understanding the presence of the past, the performance of presence, the presence effect of cultural memory - with sixteen of the world's foremost perfomance artists - 2005-2010. Life to the second power - building a memory palace with artist Lynn Hershman in the virtual world Second Life - 2006-2007. Cocreating Cultural Heritage - new models for the collaborative creation of archaeology and history. Books in progress: A Chorography of Central Greece. With Chris Witmore. A new kind of regional archaeology rooted in a reworking of antiquarian thought. To be finished by summer 2007; Archaeology: the discipline of things. With Bjornar Olsen, Chris Witmore and Tim Webmoor. A broad treatment connecting archaeology with anthropologies and philosophies of materiality and with design thinking. To be finished by the end of 2007.

• Priya Satia - History
  Modern British cultural and political history, colonialism and imperialism, the experience and practice of war, the history of humanitarianism, the history of the state and institutions of government, arms industry, political economy of empire. Publications include "The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control in Iraq and the British Idea of Arabia," American Historical Review (February 2006). "Developing Iraq: Britain, India, and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in World War I," forthcoming in Past & Present.

• Thomas Sheehan - Religious Studies
  Specializes in contemporary European philosophy and its relation to religious questions, with particular interests in Heidegger, Roman Catholicism, and Central American liberation movements. His publications include Edmund Husserl: Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Encounter with Heidegger; Karl Rahner: The Philosophical Foundations; The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity.

• Brent Sockness - Religious Studies
  Specializing in modern Western religious thought, his teaching covers a variety of exemplary figures, movements, and topics in the history of European, especially Christian, thought since the 17th century. His research focuses on German Protestant theology and ethics in the 19th century, most currently the ethical theory of the early 19th-century philosopher, theologian, and humanist, Friedrich Schleiermacher. He is author of Against False Apologetics: Wilhelm Herrmann and Ernst Troeltsch in Conflict and numerous articles on Herrmann, Troeltsch, and Schleiermacher. He has held fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the American Academy in Berlin, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is Chair of the Schleiermacher Group of the American Academy of Religion and Vice-President of the German Schleiermacher-Gesellschaft. He serves also as the Department's Undergraduate Director as well as on the steering committees of Stanford's programs in Ethics in Society and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. A Resident Fellow, he lives with his family in Lantana, Stanford's Humanities Focus House.