Affiliated Faculty

Faculty affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory

Elizabeth Abel

Professor and John F. Hotchkis Chair in English

Charles Altieri

Professor Emeritus; Former Rachael Anderson Stageberg Endowed Chair

Nicholas Baer

Assistant Professor

Rakesh Bhandari

Lecturer; 2022 Acting Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Field

Interdisciplinary Studies

C. D. Blanton

Associate Professor

Natalia Brizuela

Associate Professor; Class of 1930 Chair, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Spanish and Portuguese

Film & Media Studies

Wendy Brown

Professor Emerita

Political Science

Michael Burawoy

Professor Emeritus

William Burton

Assistant Professor

Judith Butler

Distinguished Professor, Graduate School; Former Maxine Elliot Professor

Comparative Literature

Anthony Cascardi

Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor

Comparative Literature

Sharad Chari

Associate Professor, Geography; Critical Theory Co-Director; Critical Theory Advisor

Department of Geography

Lawrence Cohen

South and Southeast Asian Studies

Stephen Collier

City and Regional Planning

Marianne Constable

Raúl Coronado

Associate Professor

Whitney Davis

Ivonne Del Valle

Associate Professor

Spanish and Portuguese

Mary Ann Doane

Class of 1937 Professor of Film & Media

Film & Media Studies

Samera Esmeir

Associate Professor

Karen Feldman

Professor; Chair, Department of German

Keith Feldman

Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies

Catherine Flynn

Associate Professor; Director, Irish Studies; Director, Berkeley Connect

Anne-Lise François

Associate Professor

Comparative Literature

Daena Funahashi

Assistant Professor

Deniz Göktürk

Film & Media Studies

Amanda Goldstein

Associate Professor

Marcial González

Professor Emeritus

David Singh Grewal

UC Berkeley School of Law

Suzanne Guerlac

Distinguished Professor Emerita

Jocelyne Guibault

Gillian Hart

Professor Emerita

Charles Hirschkind

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman

Associate Professor

Seth Holmes

Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Medical Anthropology

Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Shannon Jackson

Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor; Chair, Department of History of Art

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Abdul JanMohamed

Professor Emeritus

Martin Jay

Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus

Donna Jones

Associate Professor

Anton Kaes

Class of 1939 Professor of German and Film & Media

Film & Media Studies

Robert Kaufman

Associate Professor

Celeste Langan

Associate Professor

Niklaus Largier

Comparative Literature

Grace Lavery

Associate Professor

Zeus Leonardo

Berkeley School of Education

Michael Lucey

Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor of Comparative Literature and French

Comparative Literature

Colleen Lye

Associate Professor

Saba Mahmood, In Memoriam

Professor Emerita

Salar Mameni

Assistant Professor

Francine Masiello

Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor Emerita

Comparative Literature

Spanish and Portuguese

Tom McEnaney

Associate Professor; Director, Berkeley Center for New Media

Comparative Literature

Spanish and Portuguese

Ramsey McGlazer

Associate Professor

Comparative Literature

Ramona Naddaff

Associate Professor

Alva Noë

Professor; Chair, Department of Philosophy

Maura Nolan

Associate Professor

Andreja Novakovic

Associate Professor

Fumi Okiji

Assistant Professor

Stefania Pandolfo

Professor; Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Diego Pirillo

Associate Professor

Italian Studies

Djordje Popović

Assistant Professor

Slavic Languages & Literatures

James Porter

Distinguished Professor; Irving Stone Chair in Literature

Harsha Ram

Associate Professor

Slavic Languages & Literatures

Comparative Literature

Juana María Rodríguez

Poulomi Saha

Associate Professor; Co-Director, Program in Critical Theory

Leslie Salzinger

Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Gender and Women's Studies

Gender and Women's Studies

Debarati Sanyal

Professor; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry

Kevin Shadel

Assistant Professor

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Hans Sluga

William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor Emeritus

Barbara Spackman

Distinguished Professor Emerita; Former Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair of Italian Literature

Italian Studies

Comparative Literature

Eric Stanley

Associate Professor; Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity

Gender and Women's Studies

Mario Telò

Comparative Literature

Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Soraya Tlatli

Associate Professor

Christopher Tomlins

Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law

UC Berkeley School of Law

Sarah E. Vaughn

Associate Professor

Leti Volpp

Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice

UC Berkeley School of Law

Loïc Wacquant

Rhiannon Noel Welch

Associate Professor; Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair of Italian Literature

Italian Studies

Nathaniel Wolfson

Assistant Professor

Spanish and Portuguese

Damon Young

Associate Professor

Film & Media Studies

Alexei Yurchak

Nasser Zakariya

Associate Professor