Eda Derhemi is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian.
What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research?
The beauty of teaching in a language department is that linguistics naturally fuses with literature, culture, ideology, law and politics, not just in meetings between colleagues of different fields sharing...
Faculty Spotlights
Cynthia Buckley is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and an affiliate of the EU Center and WGGP. What is the focus of your current work and/or the subject of your current research? As a social demographer, my research focuses on the main drivers and implications of demographic change and population displacement. Regionally, I focus primarily on the regions of the former Soviet...
Stephanie Hilger is a Professor in Germanic Languages & Literatures as well as in Comparative and World Literature. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Research Areas: Medical/Health Humanities -- Eighteenth-Century European Studies I am currently completing work on my manuscript "Liminal Bodies: Hermaphrodites in the...
Eman Saadah is the Director of the Less Commonly Taught Languages Program and the Arabic Language Program in the Department of Linguistics. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I always utilize different resources and conduct research that inform my teaching practices. My recent research compares morphological acquisition of second...
Brett Ashley Kaplan is a Professor of Comparative and World Literature and Director of the Initiative in the Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is also an affiliate faculty of the European Union Center. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I am currently working...
Brian Gaines is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an affiliate faculty of the European Union Center. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? What do publics in established democracies regard as "fair" levels of taxation? What classes do you teach? What are some of the topics of those...
Helga Varden is a Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is also an affiliate faculty of the European Union Center.
Judith Pintar is Teaching Professor at the iSchool and Director of Game Studies & Design & Faculty Affiliate at the EU Center. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I study propaganda, persuasion, and suggestibility, and have a regional interest in south-eastern and central Europe. I have ongoing research and design...
David O'Brien is a Professor of Art History at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an affiliate faculty of the European Union Center. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Currently I am writing a book about how Napoleon was remembered through objects (relics, clothing, accessories, knick-...