Faculty & Staff

• Joel O. Conarroe Professor of Classics

• Dana Professor of German Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Germany
• Holocaust
• Literary Translation
• Twentieth-Century German Literature and Culture
• Literary and Cultural Theory

• Chair & Professor of Russian Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Russian Literature
• Russia & the West
• Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Women Writers
• Voltaire
• Translation Studies

• Chair & Professor of Arab Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Syrian Television Drama and Film
• Translation from Arab and Persian Literature
• Eighteenth-Century French Orientalism

• Chair & Professor of Hispanic Studies | Vice Chair of the Faculty, pro tem | Director of Davidson in Madrid

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Literature and Culture of Contemporary Spain
• Literary Translation
• Memory Studies
• Pedagogy

• Chair & Douglas Houchens Professor of English

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Contemporary Literature
• The Arts

• Chair & Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Shi’i Islam
• Islam in South Asia
• Islamic thought, ethics, and spirituality
• Islam and modernity