Interdisciplinary Studies Directory
Faculty
| Name | Title(s) | Research/Focus | Room | |
| Ahmed Idrissi Alami | Associate Professor | Arabic and Comparative Literature | aidrissi@purdue.edu | SC 161 |
| Emily Allen | Associate Professor | Nineteenth-century British literature, cultural studies, gender studies, narrative theory, history of the novel, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) | elallen@purdue.edu | SC 208 |
| Beate I. Allert | Professor | German and Comparative Literature and Film | allert@purdue.edu | SC 256 |
| Myrdene Anderson | Professor | Anthropological Linguistics, Semiotics | myanders@purdue.edu | STON 356 |
| David Atkinson | Associate Professor | American Foreign Relations, Global Migration History, International History, American and British Imperial History | atkinsod@purdue.edu | BRNG 6180 |
| Ashley Bellet | Assistant Professor, Costume Design | abellet@purdue.edu | PAO 2181 | |
| Jake Burdick | Associate Professor | burdics@purdue.edu | BRNG 4142 | |
| Robert Channon | Associate Professor | Linguistics | channon@purdue.edu | SC G021 |
| Elena Coda | Interim Head
Director // GSLA // JWST // REL // ISL Professor |
Italian and Comparative Literature | ecoda@purdue.edu | SC 143 |
| Cheryl Cooky | Professor | ccooky@purdue.edu | STON 338 | |
| H. Kory Cooper | Associate Professor | hkcooper@purdue.edu | STON 355 | |
| Alejandro Cuza | Professor | Spanish Linguistics, Morphosyntax | acuza@purdue.edu | SC 160 |
| Lori A Czerwionka | Associate Professor | Spanish Linguistics, Pragmatics | czerwionka@purdue.edu | SC 168 |
| Keith Dickson | Professor | Greek Literature and Comparative Mythology | kdickson@purdue.edu | |
| Paul B. Dixon | Professor | Spanish and Comparative Literature and Film | tudobem@purdue.edu | SC 155 |
| Olga Dmitrieva | Associate Professor | Experimental Phonetics, Phonology | odmitrie@purdue.edu | SC 166 |
| Catherine Dossin | Associate Professor | cdossin@purdue.edu | PAO 3157 | |
| Dino Franco Felluga | Professor | British Literature; Critical Theory; Digital Humanities | felluga@purdue.edu | SC 208 |
| Alexander Francis | Associate Professor | Speech Perception, Cognitive Effort | francisa@purdue.edu | Lyles-Porter |
| Elaine Francis | Professor | Syntax, psycholinguistics, relative clauses, grammatical categories, syntactic alternations, knowledge of grammar | ejfranci@purdue.edu | SC 124A |
| Ariel de la Fuente | Professor | delafuen@purdue.edu | BRNG 6164 | |
| Atsushi Fukada | Professor | Japanese Linguistics | afukada@purdue.edu | SC G020 |
| Matthew N Hannah | Assistant Professor | hannah8@purdue.edu | Stewart Center 154 | |
| Elizabeth A. Hoffmann | Professor | Law & Society | hoffmanne@purdue.edu | BRNG 1152 |
| Stacy E. Holden | Affiliated Faculty | Modern Middle East and North Africa, US Relations with the Arab World | sholden@purdue.edu | BRNG 6166 |
| Yonsoo Kim | Associate Professor | Spanish Literature | kim153@purdue.edu | SC 190 |
| Cara Kinnally | Associate Professor | Latin American and Latinx Literature | ckinnall@purdue.edu | SC 163 |
| Rebekah A. Klein-Pejšová | Affiliated Faculty | Human Rights History, Modern Jewish History, Modern (East Central) European History | rkleinpe@purdue.edu | BRNG 6156 |
| Laurence B. Leonard | Rachel E. Stark Distinguished Professor | xdxl@purdue.edu | Lyles-Porter | |
| Paula Leverage | Associate Professor | French Literature, Film, Cognitive Studies | leverage@purdue.edu | SC 157 |
| Jennifer Freeman Marshall | Associate Professor
Associate Interim Head |
jlfreem@purdue.edu | SC G068 | |
| Robert Marzec | Professor | Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial Ecologies, Biodiversity & Environmental Justice, Environmental Ethics, Postcolonial Literature, Environmental Literature | rmarzec@purdue.edu | SC 282 |
| James A. McCann | Professor | Public Opinion, Elections | mccannj@purdue.edu | BRNG 2216G |
| Silvia Z. Mitchell | Associate Professor | Early Modern Europe, Spanish Monarchy | mitch131@purdue.edu | BRNG 6120 |
| Trish Morita-Mullaney | Professor | tmoritam@purdue.edu | BRNG 4126 | |
| Colleen Neary-Sundquist | Associate Professor | Applied Linguistics | cnearysu@purdue.edu | SC 172 |
| Song No | Associate Professor | Spanish and Latin American Literature | sno1@purdue.edu | SC 188 |
| Dan Olson | Professor | dolson@purdue.edu | ||
| Daniel J. Olson | Professor | Spanish Linguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics | danielolson@purdue.edu | SC 178 |
| Jonathan Pettit | Assistant Professor | jeep@purdue.edu | ||
| Arkady Plotnitsky | Distinguished Professor | Critical and cultural theory, British and European romanticism; continental philosophy; modernism and postmodernism; relations among literature, philosophy, and science | plotnits@purdue.edu | SC 278 |
| Ashley M. Purpura | Director // WGSS // LGBTQ // CDIS
Associate Professor |
apurpur@purdue.edu | STON 341 | |
| Victor Raskin | Distinguished Professor | vraskin@purdue.edu | ||
| Thomas Rickert | Professor | Ancient and Contemporary Rhetoric; Digital Media and Technology; Post-phenomenology | trickert@purdue.edu | SC 268 |
| Felicia Roberts | Professor | Conversational Analysis | froberts@purdue.edu | |
| Kali Rubaii | Assistant Professor | displacement, ecologies of war, spatial politics, forensic ethnography, health justice, Middle East | jrubaii@purdue.edu | STON 306 |
| Aparajita Sagar | Associate Professor | Postcolonial literature and theory; feminist studies; 20th century literature; Asian American, South Asian, and Caribbean literature; critical race, gender, class, ableism, sexuality studies | asagar@purdue.edu | SC 257 |
| Ryan Schneider | Associate Professor | 19th-century American Literature; Transcendentalism; African American literature; Public Intellectuals and Intellectual History | pschnei@purdue.edu | SC 255 |
| Jeffrey Siskind | Associate Professor | Computational Linguistics | qobi@purdue.edu | EE 330 |
| Daniel Smith | Professor | Deleuze, Contemporary European Philosophy | smith132@purdue.edu | BRNG 7131 |
| Ronald J. Stephens | Professor | stephe87@purdue.edu | STON 336 | |
| Dawn F. Stinchcomb | Associate Professor
Affiliated Faculty |
Afro-Hispanic and Latin American Literature | Stinchcomb@purdue.edu | SC 192 |
| Jessica L. Sturm | Associate Professor | French and Second Language Acquisition | jsturm@purdue.edu | SC 186 |
| John Sundquist | Professor | Germanic Linguistics | jsundqui@purdue.edu | SC 170 |
| Margaret Mih Tillman | Associate Professor | mmtillman@purdue.edu | BRNG 6154 | |
| Monica M. Trieu | Director // AAS // AMST // ASAM // LALS
Professor |
mtrieu@purdue.edu | STON 338 | |
| Jeffrey Turco | Associate Professor | German and Medieval Literature | jturco@purdue.edu | SC 142 |
| Hongjian Wang | Associate Professor | Chinese and Comparative Literature | wang2512@purdue.edu | SC G022 |
| Mariko Moroishi Wei | Associate Professor | Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy | moroishi@purdue.edu | SC 174 |
| Paul Whitfield White | Professor | Drama history and dramatic theory; Shakespeare; medieval drama; religion and culture of Tudor and early Stuart England | pwhite@purdue.edu | SC 292 |
| Jen William | Professor | German Literature, Film, Cognitive Studies | jmwilliam@purdue.edu | SC 146A |
| Rua Williams | Assistant Professor | Technology, design, disability, policy | ||
| Daniel Winchester | Associate Professor | Religion | dwinches@purdue.edu | BRNG 1154 |
Staff
| Name | Title(s) | Room | |
| Rebecca Flaten | Lead Administrative Assistant | rflaten@purdue.edu | Stone 347 |
| Aimee Holdcraft | Graduate Coordinator, Schedule Deputy | aholdcra@purdue.edu | STON 333-B |
| Theresa Zea | Academic Program Manager | tezea@purdue.edu | STON 333-A |
Emeriti Faculty
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Margie Berns | berns@purdue.edu | |||
| Evelyn Blackwood | blackwood@purdue.edu | |||
| Tracey Jean Boisseau | tjboisseau@purdue.edu | |||
| Zinaida Breschinsky | zab@purdue.edu | |||
| Thomas Broden | broden@purdue.edu | |||
| Becky Brown | bbrown@purdue.edu | |||
| April Ginther | aginther@purdue.edu | |||
| Patricia Hart | phart@purdue.edu | |||
| Benjamin Lawton | lawton@purdue.edu | |||
| Howard Mancing | mancing@purdue.edu | |||
| Floyd Merrell | fmerrell@purdue.edu | |||
| Donald W. Mitchell | dmitch@purdue.edu | |||
| Bill Mullen | bvmullen@purdue.edu | HEAV G12 | ||
| Mary Niepokuj | niepokuj@purdue.edu | |||
| Nancy J. Peterson | American literature and culture; multicultural literature and Native American studies; women's literature and feminist theory; critical pedagogy | njp@purdue.edu | ||
| Charles Ross | rosscs@purdue.edu | |||
| Tony Silva | tony@purdue.edu | |||
| Marcia Stephenson | mstephen@purdue.edu | |||
Director // WGSS // LGBTQ // CDIS
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Ashley M. Purpura | Director // WGSS // LGBTQ // CDIS
Associate Professor |
apurpur@purdue.edu | STON 341 | |
Director // GSLA // JWST // REL // ISL
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Elena Coda | Interim Head
Director // GSLA // JWST // REL // ISL Professor |
Italian and Comparative Literature | ecoda@purdue.edu | SC 143 |
Director // AAS // AMST // ASAM // LALS
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Monica M. Trieu | Director // AAS // AMST // ASAM // LALS
Professor |
mtrieu@purdue.edu | STON 338 | |
Lecturer
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Stacey Smythe | Lecturer | ssmythe@purdue.edu | ||
Senior Lecturer
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Thomas Ryba | Senior Lecturer | ryba@purdue.edu | St. Tom's | |