J. W. Traphagan is an anthropologist and lecturer in the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture.  He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and his MA in ethics from Yale University.  He has over thirty years of experience conducting ethnographic research, largely in Japan.  His work has appeared in The Harvard…

Christina Gerhardt is the Leir Chair and Professor. She is also the Co-founding Co-Director of the Environmental Humanities at Clark University; former Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities at the High Meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University (2021-2022); and a former Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center (2022). Professor Gerhardt is the author or editor of…

Eduard Arriaga is a researcher of language, literature, culture, and digital humanities. He develops interdisciplinary research at the intersection of fields such as critical race studies, Afro-Latinx and Afro-Latin American Studies, digital studies, and digital humanities. He is currently writing a book under contract with Vanderbilt University Press that examines the way Afro-Brazilian marginal communities…