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Penn Faculty Fellows

  • Rita Barnard

    Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Project: The Aesthetics of Transition: On South Africa’s Staggered Revolution

    Rita Barnard is Professor of English and past director of the Comparative Literature Program, as well as the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at Penn. She works broadly on Global Modernisms, but her... (more)

  • Akira Drake Rodriguez

    Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning

    Project: Seeding the Plot: Black Women Architects of 20th Century US Social Movements

    Akira Drake Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. Her research examines the ways that disenfranchised groups re-appropriate their marginalized spaces in... (more)

  • Gregory Goulding

    Assistant Professor, South Asia Studies

    Project: Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literary Culture, 1940–1980

    Gregory Goulding is an assistant professor in the department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests lie in the modern history of the literary cultures of northern South Asia.... (more)

  • Jasmine Henry

    Assistant Professor of Music

    Project: The Right to Rave: Resistance, Revolution, and the Black Feminist Imagination in Electronic Dance Music

    Jasmine Henry is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in twentieth and twenty-first-century popular music. Her current research focuses on topics of Black electronic dance... (more)

  • Rahul Mukherjee

    Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies and Associate Professor of English

    Project: Data Revolution

    Rahul Mukherjee is the Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies and Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His academic preoccupations often meander into imaginings... (more)

  • Jennifer Ponce de León

    Associate Professor of English

    Project: Imperialism, Internationalism, Revolution: Art and Politics across the Americas

    Jennifer Ponce de León is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies, affiliated faculty in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies... (more)