Robin Nagle, Director
B.A. 1987, New York, M.A. 1989, M.Phil., 1991, Ph.D. 1994, Columbia.

Research: Consumption, especially garbage; the anthropology of Latin America; religion; narrative ethnohistory.

Selected works: Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil (1997, Routledge): A Plague in the Villages, in Covering the Plague: AIDS and the American Media (1989, Rutgers).

Robert Dimit, Associate Director
B.A. 1972, Macalester, M.A. 1992, Ph.D. 2000, New York University.

Research: Early modern British and continental literature and culture; English Restoration and French neoclassical theater; history of affectivity; classical rhetoric; literature and music.

Affiliations: Modern Language Association, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Fellowships/Honors: Charlotte Newcombe doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 1996-97; Dean's Outstanding Teaching Prize 1995, New York University.

Larissa D. Kyzer, Administrator
MSLIS (in progress), Palmer School, Long Island University, B.A. 2006, New York University, Comparative Literature, Minor: Creative Writing.

Academic Interests: Danish language study, Scandinavian literature, Fiction writing, Literary criticism, Librarianship.

Georgia Jelatis-Hoke, Administrative Aide
B.A. 2002, Mount Holyoke College, English Literature, Minor: Dance

Academic Interests: Food (especially culture, sustainability, and hunger issues), Fiction writing, Contemporary literature.