School of Humanities and Sciences
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Justin Tackett
Ph.D. Student in English, admitted Autumn 2011
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI specialize in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American literature, with a focus on sound studies, technology, urban spaces, and poetry. I'm particularly interested in Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, John Clare, Stephen Crane, and Virginia Woolf.
Dissertation Committee: Roland Greene (chair), Sianne Ngai, and Claire Jarvis -
Melinda Takeuchi
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Art and Art History
Current Research and Scholarly Interestshorse culture of Japan.
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Elizabeth Tallent
Professor of English
BioElizabeth Tallent previously taught literature and creative writing at the University of California at Irvine, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of a novel, Museum Pieces, and three collections of short stories, In Constant Flight, Time with Children, and Honey, and a study of John Updike's fiction, Married Men and Magic Tricks. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, Grand Street, The Paris Review, and The Threepenny Review, and in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award collections. Her story "Tabriz" received 2008 Pushcart Prize Award. In 2007 she was awarded Stanford's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, and in 2008 she received the Northern California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's Excellence in Teaching Award, recognizing "the extraordinary gifts, diligence, and amplitude of spirit that mark the best in teaching." In 2009 she was honored with Stanford's Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching." Her short story "Never Come Back" appeared in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011.
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Kabir Tambar
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
BioKabir Tambar is a sociocultural anthropologist, working at the intersections of political anthropology and the anthropology of religion. He is broadly interested in the politics of history, performances of public criticism, and varieties of Islamic practice in Turkey.
Tambar’s first book is a study of the politics of pluralism in contemporary Turkey, focusing on the ways that Alevi religious history is staged for public display. More generally, the book investigates how secular states govern religious differences through practices of cultural and aesthetic regulation. Tambar is currently working on a new project that examines the politics and ethics of nonviolence in Turkey.
