Faculty

Director

Associate Professor of Art and Art History and, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Communication
Department:
Art & Art History
Shane Denson is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. His research and teaching interests span a variety of media and historical periods, including phenomenological and media-philosophical approaches to film, digital media, comics, games, and serialized popular forms. He is the author of Discorrelated Images (Duke University Press, 2020) and Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface (Transcript-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2014). He is also co-editor of several collections: Transnational...

Director of Graduate Studies

J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature
Department:
German
My research focuses on the long nineteenth century, in particular questions of gender in literature, music and philosophy. My first book, "Zwillingshafte Gebärden": Zur kulturellen Wahrnehmung des vierhändigen Klavierspiels im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (Königshausen & Neumann, 2009), traces four-hand piano playing as both a cultural practice and a motif in literature, art and philosophy (an English edition of the book recently appeared as Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014)). My second book Uncivil Unions - The Metaphysics...

Committee in Charge

Communication
American Studies
Art & Art History
Communication
Law School
History Department
Theater and Performance Studies
Philosophy
East Asian Languages and Cultures

Affiliated Faculty

Religious Studies
Theater and Performance Studies
Art & Art History
History Department
Anthropology
English
German
History Department
Law School
Anthropology
French and Italian
History Department
Philosophy
Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Sociology
English
Anthropology
French and Italian
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Art & Art History
Philosophy
Anthropology
Sociology
English
Political Science
Theater and Performance Studies
History Department
Comparative Literature
Theater and Performance Studies
Political Science
History Department
Comparative Literature
History Department
Religious Studies
Communication
Art & Art History
English