Faculty
The ECS faculty, drawn from the spectrum of disciplines in the liberal arts, has come to the program in the spirit of Brandeis’ commitment to connected learning: the idea that the various disciplines are linked together to form a larger whole.
Please note that ECS students are not limited to courses taught by committee members.
Committee Members
*Affiliated faculty (contributing to the curriculum, advising and administration of the department or program)
Expertise: Modern German literature and culture; European modernism; comparative literature (esp. comparing literature with other art forms); the novel as form; literature and philosophy; the avant-garde
Expertise: American literature, romanticism, composition, philosophy of education, literature of the American South, literature of the Civil War, poetr
Expertise: Domestic and international terrorism. Islam in the West. Immigration and social cohesion.
Expertise: The novel in Russia and Europe of the 19th century. The short story in Russia. The literature of childhood and children's literature.
Expertise: Late medieval and Renaissance poetry, prose and philosophy. Italian and comparative literature. Modern politics and literature, detective novels
Expertise: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of space and time, Simone Weil, Plato, Aristotle
Expertise: Modern Jewish history and thought
Expertise: Early modern European history, especially Germany, world history
Expertise: Poetry, including poetic form, renaissance. romanticism. theory. literature and philosophy. Film, behavioral economics, cognitive studies, Shakespeare, psychology of literature, evolutionary psychology.
Expertise: Romanticism, poetry, literature and philosophy: subjectivity and self-conflict
Expertise: Music of the "long" 19th century; Russian music, literature, and cultural history; history of opera; music and literature; music, politics, and law; Romanticism and realism; voice studies; music criticism; operatic acting.
Emeriti
Expertise: Art history. Modernism in Europe and America. Painting and sculpture from the French Revolution to mid-20th century.