Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Michaela Hulstyn
SLE Associate Director, Structured Liberal Education
BioMichaela Hulstyn is the Associate Director of Structured Liberal Education (SLE), a first-year residential education program at Stanford University.
She is the author of Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness (University of Toronto Press, 2022.) Her research interests center on 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, phenomenology of the self and intersubjectivity, cognitive approaches to transcultural literature, and literature as ethical philosophy. Her work has appeared in MLN, Philosophy and Literature, and Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, among other places.
Michaela previously held academic appointments at Florida State University and Reed College. -
R. Alexander (Sandy) Hunter
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am a historical archaeologist and environmental anthropologist. I study the political ecology of colonial encounters, with a particular focus on the long-term ecological legacies of colonial land management. My research and teaching interests include the anthropology of climate change, agrarian studies, contemporary and industrial archaeology, GIS applications in archaeology, heritage management, and extractivism. I have research projects based in Cusco, Peru and in Ontario, Canada.
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Miikka Jaarte
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioMiikka Jaarte is a COLLEGE Lecturer in Stanford's Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program. He completed his PhD in Philosophy in 2025. His work lies at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics.
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Shiven Jain
Undergrad Peer Advisor, Anthropology
Undergraduate, Anthropology
Undergraduate, Art & Art History
Undergraduate, International Comparative and Area Studies
Sle Writing Tutor, Structured Liberal EducationBioI am an aspiring anthropologist of visual culture, media ecologies, queerness and sexuality, and anti-caste methodologies as they contour themselves across the South Asian subcontinent. I am currently a sophomore majoring in Anthropology and Film & Media Studies, alongside a minor in South Asian Studies.
I have two primary research interests, one of which I hope will eventually take the shape of a thesis. First, I am interested in how queer men in India navigate the rhetoric of exclusion along vectors of caste and religion on dating and cruising apps through both vernacular hierarchies and corporeal practices of kink. I am equally interested in how the many cine-workers within Nepal and Bhutan’s film industries channel aesthetic practices through networks of piracy, adaptation, and resistance to the hegemonic presence of Indian cinema across the South Asian subcontinent.
At Stanford, I have held, and continue to hold, various leadership and administrative positions in the Department of Anthropology, Center for South Asia, Caesura Academic Journal, The Stanford Daily, Stanford Indo-Pak Dosti Forum, Stanford South Asian Society, and more. Additionally, I have facilitated two student-initiated courses in my Frosh year, namely "SLE 99 - Novels and Nationhood: Toward Decanonical Thought" and "FILMEDIA/GLOBAL 88SI - Bollywood and Beyond: Cinematic Visions in the Postcolony." Finally, I am also currently undertaking research assistantships under Professor Lochlann Jain and Professor Krish Seetah, details of which can be found on my résumé. -
Joseph Kidney
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioJoseph Kidney is a Lecturer for Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE). He received a PhD in English Literature from Stanford University in 2024. An early modernist, his work looks at sixteenth-century literature, particularly drama, against the backdrop of the European and English Reformations. His dissertation examined the sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory projects of Reformation and Renaissance as they drastically reshaped intellectual culture and gave rise to new forms of vernacular literature. In this project and elsewhere, he has a particular interest in classical reception, rhetorical theory, early modern humanism, Renaissance comedy, and the cultural transformations regarding attitudes to the dead.
His academic publications include work on the dramatists Nicholas Udall, William Shakespeare, and John Webster, drawing on early modern thought ranging from theology to proto-scientific treatises. Other work supplements these historicist approaches with twentieth- and twenty-first-century methodologies derived from queer theory, considerations of metatheatre, and genre theory. He has also published on pedagogy, articulating strategies for teaching old plays in modern classrooms. He has taught, as instructor of record, classes on Shakespeare and on Renaissance Literature, and served as a teaching assistant for literary surveys from Beowulf to Jane Austen, as well as for Poetry and Poetics. He has worked as an assistant editor for the Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia and as a Graduate Coordinator for Stanford's Renaissances working group.
Outside of academia, he works as a poet. He is the author of Devotional Forensics (icehouse poetry), winner of the Griffin Poetry Canadian First Book Prize and a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry and are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, and TriQuarterly. He won a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Poetry and the Poem of the Year award from Arc Poetry Magazine. He has been supported by the Banff Centre, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Civitella Ranieri. -
E. Lia Kleinbock
SLE Lecturer, Structured Liberal Education
BioE. Lia Kleinbock is a Lecturer in the Program in Structured Liberal Education (SLE), a first-year residential humanities program at Stanford University.
Dr. Kleinbock's research puts modernist cultural production in the German, Soviet, and Anglophone spheres in conversation with the history of the human sciences and the intersecting traditions of Marxism, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science. Their current book project, growing out of their dissertation, looks at how modernist artists and intellectuals (e.g. Aleksandr Bogdanov, John Dewey, Bertolt Brecht, and Wilfred R. Bion) theorized and depicted processes of teaching and learning. Dr. Kleinbock's broader interests include poetry and poetics, experimental cinema, theater, pre-Freudian histories of the unconscious, and aesthetic and theoretical treatments of impersonality. They are also an occasional theater practitioner and director, with training in clown, commedia dell'arte, and Lecoq-style physical theater.
