Paula Mae Carns is the head of the Literatures and Languages Library.
What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research?
My research focuses on the material culture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England and France. One vein of scholarship looks at how aristocratic and royal patrons fashioned personal, familial, and social identities through commissioning...
Joseph Clougherty is a professor in the Department of Business Administration. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Joe's research interests are interdisciplinary (combining management, industrial organization, and political economy) and international in both scope and nature. He employs an applied economics approach to research questions in both...
Brian Deal is a Professor at Landscape Architecture. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Urban Sustainability, building energy, climate mitigation planning, and landscape scaled modeling and analysis What classes do you teach? What are some of the topics of those classes? I teach Landscape architecture...
Sara Benson is an Associate Professor and Copyright Librarian, University Library, Affiliate faculty at the School of Information Science, the EU Center, and the Center for Global Studies. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Currently, I am engaged in research during my sabbatical on international legal norms surrounding...
Richard J. Brazee is a NRES Associate Professor. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Mathematical modeling of forest economic issues. What classes do you teach? What are some of the topics of those classes? ACE 310 Natural Resources Economics MDIA 223 Watching the Environment NRES 285 Environment and Society...
Nicholas C. Burbules is a Professor in Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell, and Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Primary research areas are philosophy of education; the ethics of communication; teaching through dialogue; and technology and education. What...
Antoinette Burton is a Professor in the Department of History. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I work on the 19th and 20th century British empire through decolonial, feminist and intersectional methods. I'm interested in world histories from below, whether via the human or nonhuman world. Do you have any recent awards, honors, or...
Eduardo Ledesma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I study contemporary cinema and media through a transatlantic / transnational perspective, examining the flows of films, filmmakers and formal influences between...
David Cooper is an Associate Professor in and the Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I am wrapping up a long-term book project on the Czech forged manuscripts, a series of fake medieval manuscripts that were "discovered" in...
Anna Torres-Cacoullos is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My research interests are interdisciplinary and span a broad range of topics in literature, film, and philosophy. While I specialize in late...