Faculty

University Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 317
860-685-2306

Director, College of Letters

kweil@wesleyan.edu

BA Cornell University
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University

COL206 - 01
Remembering the Self

COL239 - 01
Paris, 19th Century

COL246 - 01
Senior Colloquium

Personal Homepage:
http://kweil.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

T/W 2:30-4 and by appt.

Research Interests:

My most recent interests are at the crossroads of literary theory, feminist theory and animal studies during the modern period in Europe and the United States.

Scholarly Keywords:

19th and 20th century French and Comparative Literature; Feminist Theory, Animal Studies

Publications:
http://kweil.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Visiting Writer
41 Wyllys Avenue 322
860-685-2276

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
41 Wyllys Avenue 2276

cmbarber@wesleyan.edu

BA Harvard University
MFA Columbia University

COL213 - 01
Writing Short Fiction

COL201 - 01
Writing Nonfiction

PSYC331 - 01
Narratives Illness & Recovery

Assistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 220
860-685-2326

Assistant Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 325
860-685-2326

jcastro@wesleyan.edu

BA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
MA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
PHD Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

CHUM356 - 01
Interest and Pleasure

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: Wed. 11-12 (PAC 220) and 3-4 (41 Wyllys 325), or by appointment.

Research Interests:

Public forms of literature (satire, theater) and the formation of the public sphere in early modern Madrid. The Spanish Empire as a global entity.

Scholarly Keywords:

Early Modern Spain and Spanish Empire Satire and political life (16th-17th centuries) History and literature

Academic Associations:

American Historical Association

BA Harvard University
PHD Duke University

COL108 - 01
Language

COL112 - 01
European Novel

HUMS651 - 01
The Novel as Epic

COL115 - 01
How to Read a Literary Text

COL244 - 01
Junior Colloquium

COL338 - 01
Stuff amd Nonsense

BA Harvard University
PHD Stanford University

Office Hours:

Wednesdays, 4-5pm and by appointment (Squash 319) 

Research Interests:
My current book project examines the role of systematicity in Kant's philosophy. I argue that, despite its regulative status, the principle of systematicity must be considered a necessary condition for the possibility of experience on a par with the categories. Appreciating the true import of the principle of systematicity not only forces us to reconsider central tenets of Kant's epistemology, but also, and more generally, it helps us to recognize the deeper connection of theoretical philosophy to aesthetics, teleology, and practical philosophy.

Scholarly Keywords:
Kant, History of Modern Philosophy History of Early Modern Philosophy Aesthetics

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 13 LL
860-685-4462

Assistant Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 321

tirani@wesleyan.edu

BA Colgate University
PHD Northwestern University

COL241 - 01
Sophomore Colloquium

PHIL201 - 01
Philosophical Classics I

Office Hours:

On leave 2012-2013.

Research Interests:

My research interests focus primarily on Ancient Greek philosophy, particularly the dialogues of Plato, though I have ancillary interests in ethics and in issues surrounding the practice of philosophical inquiry and argument.

I'm currently at work on a book, Lovers of Argument: A Study of Plato's Moral Psychology, that explores issues at the intersection of Plato's views in ethics and politics. The central claim is that the way in which we approach argument typically reveals something at a deeper level about our desires and motivations; in particular, since the power of argument lies in its ability to influence others, a proper engagement with argument demands a proper engagement with others. On this reading of Plato, the key to engaging in argument correctly is found in his understanding of erôs. I develop this reading by focusing on the theme of philologia (literally: "love of argument") in Plato's moral psychology and its appearance in four of his works that deal with the topic of love, rhetoric, and the practice of philosophy: the Gorgias, Symposium, Republic, and Phaedrus. When complete, this book will offer the first systematic study of Plato's views on the role of human motivation in argument and on the role of argument generally in civic life.

Scholarly Keywords:

Plato; Ancient Greek philosophy; moral psychology; ethics (classical and contemporary)

Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 202
860-685-4479

Professor of Letters
College of Letters
860-685-2323

Director, Center for the Humanities
95 Pearl Street
860-685-4479

Executive Editor

ekleinberg@wesleyan.edu

BA University Calif Berkeley
MA University of California LA
PHD University of California LA

CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship

COL245 - 01
Senior Colloquium

CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship

HIST256 - 01
Existentialism in Film

Office Hours:

Spring 2013:

BA University of Caen
MA University of North Carolina
PHD University of North Carolina

COL241 - 01
Sophomore Colloquium

FREN215 - 01
Composition and Conversation

COL298 - 01
Minorities in French cinema

FREN305 - 01
Negotiating French Identity

Office Hours:

M: 12:30-1:30pm and W: 10:50-11:50am (COL 323) + by appointment

Research Interests:

My first book, _Le Corps mondialise': Marie Redonnet, Maryse Conde, Assia Djebar_ (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007) deals with the impact of the globalization of the media on the female body in Francophone literatures from France, the Caribbean, and the Maghreb. (Book and e-book available at link provided below + fnac.com + amazon.fr) My second research project analyzes diverse case studies in the Francophone world that redefine Francophone Postcolonial theory. Issues covered include: 1/ Accident and postcolonial subjectivity in Maryse Conde's detective fiction, 2/ Occidentalism in Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir _Persepolis_, 3/ The veil affair in Quebec, etc. More to come!

Scholarly Keywords:

Francophone Postcolonial Studies. (identity, citizenship, immigration, globalization). Caribbean Studies. Maghrebi Studies.

Publications:
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=25129

Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382

Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382

William Armstrong Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382

Professor, Medieval Studies
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382

lnussdorfer@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MA Princeton University
MSC London School Econ & Political
PHD Princeton University

COL104 - 01
Baroque Rome

FGSS269 - 01
Gender and History

COL244 - 01
Junior Colloquium

Personal Homepage:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Spring 2013:  Mondays and Wednesdays 2:45-4:05 in Squash (41Wyllys) COL 313.

Research Interests:

I'm a historian of early modern Rome (1500-1800). My research explores a wide range of topics in political, social, and cultural history from popular politics, print culture, urban space, and legal practices to artists' organizations and men's households. Recently I published the book Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Currently I'm working on Baroque Rome as a "city of men," where males substantially outnumbered females and the clergy held the reins of both domestic and political power.

Scholarly Keywords:

early modern Italy, Baroque Rome, notaries and notarial documents, history of masculinity

Academic Associations:

American Historical Association, Society for Italian Historical Studies

Grants:

Rome Prize, SSRC, ACLS, APS

Publications:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/

Editorial Boards:

Roma Moderna e Contemporanea

Board Memberships:

Wesleyan University Press (2007-09)

Leadership Positions:

Vice President, Society for Italian Historical Studies (2010-12)

BA Wesleyan University
MA University Calif Berkeley
PHD Columbia University

Office Hours:
Monday-Thursday, 4:00-5:00 PM

BA Harvard University
MA University of Rhode Island
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Brown University

COL243 - 01
Junior Colloquium

ENGL295 - 01
Reading Theories

COL249 - 01
Narrative and Ideology

COL256 - 01
The Globe and the World

Office Hours:
Fall 2011: Tuesday 3:00-5:00PM and by appointment Office:College of Letters - Room 416C

Research Interests:
How the increasing level of migration and dispersion brings new populations to the West, how these dispersions become ethnic and diasporic, and how these reshape the nations that host them, in culture and politics.

Scholarly Keywords:
Diasporas and transnationalism
The work of Thomas Pynchon
Armenian history, literature, and culture

Academic Associations:
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Society of Armenian Studies (SAS)
Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ)
Zoryan Institute for Armenian DFocumentation and Rsearch (ZI)

BA Oxford University
BS Yale University
MA Oxford University
PHD Columbia University

Office Hours:
M, W, 2.45-4 p. m., or by appointment

Professor of Letters, Emeritus

freeve@wesleyan.edu

BA Princeton University
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Columbia University