Past Visiting Fellows

2019-2020

Christopher Wood 
Professor of German at New York Unviversity 

Rebecca Jordan-Young 
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College

Sarah Richardson
Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Profesor of the History of Science at Harvard University

Brian Cantwell Smith 
Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Information, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, & the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology 

Emily Greenwood
Professor of Classics at Yale University

2018-2019

2017-2018

Kathryn Bond Stockton
Interim Associate Vice President Equity and Diversity Dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at The University of Utah 

Gayle Rubin
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women's Studies at The University of Michigan 

Tommie Shelby
Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University

Benjamin Kahan
​Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University

Aamir Mufti
Professor of Comparative Literature at UCLA

Anne Knowles
McBride Professor of History at The University of Maine 

Alexander Nehamas
Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University 

2016-2017

Ursula Heise, UCLA

Laura Snyder, St John's University 

Lorraine Daston

​Sianne Ngai, The University of Chicago

Robert Rheed-Pharr, Harvard University

​Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge and Trinity College 

Ta-Nehisi Coats

John Durham Peters, Yale

2015-2016

Stefan Collini, University of Cambridge

Susan Wells, Temple University

Stephen Ramsay, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Neilesh Bose, University of Victoria 

Lydia Goehr, Columbia University

2014-2015

Nancy Struever
​Professor Emerita at Johns Hopkins University

Randall Balmer
The Dartmouth Professor in the Arts & Sciences and Chair of the Department of Religion at Dartmouth University

Robert Hariman
​Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University

Gary Tomlinson
John Hay Whitney Professor of Music and the Humanities and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University

John Brewer
Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of History and Literature at Caltech

Ben Lerner
Professor of English at Brooklyn College

2013-2014

Dudley Andrew
R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University

Martha Hodes
Professor of History at New York University

Ruth Y. Y. Hung
Assistant Professor of English Language & Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University

Lauren Berlant
George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago

2012-2013

Susan McClary
Professor of Musicology at Case Western Reserve University

Amy Kaminsky
Professor of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota

Dror Wahrman
Ruth N. Halls Professor of History at Indiana University

Roberto Dainotto
Professor of Romance Studies and Italian Studies at Duke University

2011-2012

Emily Apter
Professor of French and Comparative Literature at NYU

David Eng
Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, Professor in the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, Professor in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Rick Altman
Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa

Katie Trumpener
Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University

2010-2011