The MCLLC faculty in the Cultural Studies cluster explores global arts, texts, performances, discourses, ideas, movements, relationships, institutions and material objects, to name a few, from multidisciplinary perspectives. We examine how these cultural practices have been expressed within changing political, economic and social contexts. In exploring the multitude of cultural practices, we address questions of nationhood, identity, race-ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality, power, history, post-colonialism, post-modernity, globalization, the environment and other issues of theoretical significance:
Molly T. Blasing, 20th-century Russian culture; visual arts; photography and writing; madness in Russian literature and culture; political performance in contemporary Russia; media and internet culture.
Jianjun He, Early Chinese intellectual history; Classical Chinese poetry and late-imperial vernacular fiction.
Harald Höbusch, German Studies; Weimar Germany; Sport, Gender, Nation; Alpinism; Himalaya Mountaineering.
Masamichi Inoue, Ethnography in Okinawa, in Japan and in the United States.
Jeffrey Peters, Early Modern French literature and culture; philosophies of space; masculinity and rhetoric.
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Russian rituals in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras; vernacular religion and the legend tradition from the 19th century to the present.
Douglas Slaymaker, Film; visual arts; 20th-century Japanese fiction; Japanese experience of France; travel and travel writing.