Faculty

Michael Fried
Professor, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities (History of Art): Modern art and literature, cirtical theory, modern poetry.
Dell House 302C
E-mail:mmf8@jhu.edu 

Neil Hertz
Professor Emeritus: Romantic and modern literature, Freud and psychoanalytic theory.
Dunning 301
E-mail:hertz@jhu.edu

Ruth Leys
Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities: History and theory of psychoanalysis, history of psychiatry and psychology, 19th- and 20th-century intellectual history, feminist theory.
Dell House 302B
E-mail:leys@jhu.edu

Richard A. Macksey
Professor (The Writing Seminars; History of Science and Technology): Comparative literature, critical theory, film studies.
Dell House 301B
E-mail:macksey@jhu.edu

Paola Marrati
Professor (Philosophy): Modern and contemporary French thought, phenomenology, philosophies of life (Bergson, Dilthey, Canguihem, Deleuze), philosophy and cinema, aesthetics.
Dell House 301A
E-mail:pmarrati@jhu.edu

Elizabeth Patton
Visiting Assistant Professor: Renaissance and early modern literature with special emphasis on women writers.
Dell House 301B
E-mail:epatton@jhu.edu
 
Neta Stahl
Assistant Professor: Comparative and Modern Hebrew literature, religion and literature, narrative theory, genre theory.
Dell House 302A
E-mail:nstahl@jhu.edu

Nancy S. Struever
Professor Emerita 

Hent de Vries
Professor, Russ Family Chair in the Humanities  (Director Humanities Center) (Philosophy): Modern European thought, history and critique of metaphysics, philosophies of religion, political theologies, concepts of violence, literature and temporality.
Dell House 301A
On Leave Fall 2008-Spring 2009
E-mail:hentdevries@jhu.edu
 

Joint Appointments

Christopher Celenza
Professor (German and Romance Languages and Literatures): Italian Literature.
Dell House 503A
E-mail:celenza@jhu.edu
 
Veena Das
Professor (Anthropology): Feminist movements, gender studies, sectarian violence, Medical Anthropology, post-Colonial and post-Structural theory; South Asia, Europe.
Macaulay 404-F
E-mail:veenadas@jhu.edu
 
Frances Ferguson
Professor, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Arts and Sciences, (English): Areas of interest: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature.
Dell House 1102A
E-mail:FF1@jhu.edu

Eckart Förster
Professor (Philosophy): Metaphysics, history of philosophy, kant and German idealism.
Gilman 342
E-mail:eckart.forster@jhu.edu
 
Yitzhak Melamed 
(Philosophy). Assistant Professor. Areas of specialization: Early Modern Philosophy; German Idealism; Metaphysics; Time; Humanism and its Critiques; Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Rabbinics

Stephen G. Nichols
James M. Beall Professor of French (German and Romance Languages and Literatures): Medieval language, literature and culture; interrelation of literature with history, philosophy, and art history.
Dell House 503B
E-mail:stephen.nichols@jhu.edu

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Associate Professor (Classics)
Ancient Greek literature and thought, archaic and classical sociocultural history, historical and comparative anthropology, Greek epigraphy and papyrology.
E-mail:yatroman@jhu.edu
 

Visiting Faculty 

Leonardo Lisi
Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow
Kierkegaard and German Idealism, European Modernism, 20th-century Latin-American literatures.
Dell House 202D
E-mail:leonardo.lisi@jhu.edu

Anne Eakin Moss
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2009): 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature, Soviet cinema and film theory, realism and the novel, concepts of friendship and community, charity and the gift
Dell House 202C
E-mail: aeakinmoss@jhu.edu

Sharlyn Rhee
Visiting Assistant Professor (Spring 2009)
Korean American fiction.
E-mail:mrhee1@jhu.edu