On July 1, 2023, the Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomed 16 new faculty:
Marié Abe, Department of Music: Marié Abe joins the division as an associate professor in the Department of Music and focuses on the intersection between improvisation and composition.
Nicholas Baer, Department of German: Nicholas Baer joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of German and specializes in film and digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, and intellectual history.
Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Department of Comparative Literature: Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and specializes in modern Arabic literature, with a particular focus on how pre-modern Islamic concepts of time negotiate postcolonial transformations within the region’s political economy.
Iggy Cortez, Department of Film & Media: Iggy Cortez joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of Film & Media and specializes in world art cinema; digital media ecologies; queer theory; comparative critical race studies; and American independent film.
Timmia Hearn DeRoy, Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies: Timmia Hearn DeRoy joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, where she focuses on Caribbean theater practice and how to use this practice more broadly in community-oriented and social change focused theater.
Grace Erny, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies: Grace Erny joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and specializes in the archaeology of early Greece from the end of the Late Bronze Age through the Archaic period.
Veronica Gomez, Department of Philosophy: Verónica Gómez Sánchez joins the division as an assistant professor in the campus Department of Philosophy, where she focuses on the metaphysics of science and the philosophy of cognitive science.
Cathy Park Hong, Department of English: Cathy Park Hong joins the division as a professor in the Department of English and holds the Class of 1936 First Chair in the College of Letters and Science. Park Hong is a writer and poet who has published three volumes of poetry, with her creative nonfiction book Minor Feelings (2020) being both a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.
Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed, Department of Middle Eastern Languages & Culture: Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages & Culture with a specialization in the continued life of Islamic philosophy as it was absorbed and transformed in Islamic theology and mysticism.
Darian Longmire, Department of Art Practice: Darian Longmire joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of Art Practice where he utilizes his artwork to articulate the dichotomy of Blackness through invisible matter, black holes and time warps
Henry Ravenhall, Department of French: Henry Ravenhall joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of French with specializations in medieval French literature and manuscript culture.
Luanne Redeye, Department of Art Practice: Luanne Redeye joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of Art Practice, where her works share her experiences and perspective of navigating the modern world as a Native woman.
Juan David Rubio Restrepo, Department of Music: Juan David Rubio Restrepo joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of Music and specializes in Chicanx music culture and history.
Nicole Starosielski, Department of Film & Media: Nicole Starosielski joins the division as a professor in the Department of Film & Media and specializes in the global distribution of digital media.
Liesl Yamaguchi, Department of French: Liesl Yamaguchi joins the division as an assistant professor in the Department of French with a specialization in linguistics and translation.
Xueyin (Snow) Zhang, Department of Philosophy: Zhang’s research interests also comprise of philosophy of probability and statistics, decision theory, philosophy of science and Chinese philosophy. Her research on conditionalization and probability have been featured in a variety of publications, including the Review of Symbolic Logic, Algebra and Logic and Philosophy of Science.