Lisa Barca 's research interests include rhetoric and writing; Italian language and literature; comparative literature; women writers; critical animal studies; ecofeminism; language and ideology; mass media.

Don Fette teaches at Barrett, the Honors College. His teaching interests and experience entail a number of areas and disciplines.

Olenina specializes in Russian literature and visual culture, as well as media theory with an emphasis on performance and embodied spectatorship.

David Agruss specializes in Victorian literature and culture.

Johnson's teaching and research interests range widely, but mainly focus on the literatures and cultures of early modern Spain, Germany, England, and the Americas.

Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Culture and Language, working on Japanese ethnographic film and visual culture.

Williams studies and translates classical Chinese poetry, and also works in related areas such as medieval Buddhism, Sino-Japanese literature, and translation studies.

Dr. Steven Hartman is Founding Executive Director of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition in UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations programme.