PhD Advisors at University of Southern California 南加州大学
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Aaron Daniel Cote
Associate Professor of Computer Science Practice · USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Energy-Efficient Online Algorithms, Online Multi-Network Packet Scheduling, Randomized K-Server on Hierarchical Binary Trees
Aaron Hewus
Assistant Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy · USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
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Aaron Lauda
Professor of Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Categorification, representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and topological quantum computation
Aaron Wirthwein
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Physics and Astronomy · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Abhishek Balakrishna
Assistant Professor (RTPC) of Mathematics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Adam Knight Gilbert
Professor · USC Thornton School of Music
Allusion and Attribution in Fifteenth-Century Song and Mass; Improvisation and Compositional Processes, 1400-1700; Pastourelles and Symbolism; Shawms and Bagpipes: Performance Practice, Iconography and Symbolism; Performance Practice
Adam MacLean
Associate Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Systems biology; dynamical systems theory; statistical inference; computational methods for data analysis; dimensionality reduction
Admire Mseba
Associate Professor of History · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Afroditi Angelopoulou
Associate Professor of Classics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Greek literature and Poetics; Athenian Drama, Performance and Embodiment; Plato and the Senses; Aesthetics and Ethics
Afshin Nikzad
Associate Professor of Economics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Market and Mechanism design, Matching Markets
Afua Hirsch
Professor of Journalism · USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
History, Policy and Law, Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Social Justice
Agnes Andor
Assistant Professor of Clinical Management and Organization · USC Marshall School of Business
Ethics, diversity, and leadership; examines the unexpected causes and consequences of unethical behavior; the ways in which men and women are perceived differently in the workplace
Agustina Czenky
Simons Collaboration Assistant Professor (RTPC) of Mathematics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Ahmed Elbanna
Professor of Earth Sciences · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Aiichiro Nakano
Professor of Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy and Quantitative and Computational Biology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Aimee Aguillon
Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy · USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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Aimee Bender
Distinguished Professor of English · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Interests: Contemporary fiction, surrealism, magical realism, experimental fiction, classic and new tellings of fairy tales, the short story, the novel, the short-short, the novella, the process of writing, the curious world of the writing workshop.
Aimee M. Diaz, PT, DPT, SCS, ATC
Associate Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy · USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
Dr. Aimee Diaz is the clinic director of USC Physical Therapy (University Park Campus [UPC]), providing patient care to faculty, staff, students and community patients and overseeing physical therapy outreach services to multiple groups on the UPC campus. She is a board-certified…
Aimei Yang
Associate Professor of Journalism · USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Global, Groups, Organizations and Networks, Public Diplomacy, Race and Ethnicity, Social Justice, Social Media
Aisling Kelliher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts · USC School of Cinematic Arts
Aisling Kelliher, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts at USC, with expertise in interactive media, human-computer interaction, and AI-driven design. Her research explores AI, machine learning, and design across healthcare, arts, and everyday rituals, published in l…
Akira Lippit
University Professor, The T.C. Wang Family Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
History and theory of cinema, Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, critical and literary theory, visual culture
Alaina Morgan
Associate Professor of History · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
African-American History, African Diaspora History, Islam, Muslims in the Americas, Modernist Islamic Thought, Black Intellectual History, Mass Incarceration, Urban History, Black Political Movements
Alan Abrahamson
Associate Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism · USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Sports
Alan E. Willner
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professorial Chair and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · USC Viterbi School of Engineering
• Optical Communication Systems
• Optical Signal Processing
• Optical Switching and Networking
• Optical Devices and Subsystems
• Optical Sensing
Alan G. Green
Professor of Clinical Education · USC Rossier School of Education
Urban Education • Achievement in Mental Health Among African American Teen
Alan Mittelstaedt
Associate Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism · USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Digital Media, Ethics, Los Angeles, Media Literacy, Policy and Law, Politics, Social Justice
Alan Watts
Professor of Biological Sciences, Physiology and Biophysics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
My work focuses on understanding how the brain contributes to the development, manifestation, and complications of diabetes and obesity, primarily on how this happens at the neural network level. In particular, I am interested in how interoceptive and exteroceptive signals intera…
Alan Willner
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering-Electrophysics and Physics and Astronomy · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Alessio Filippi
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Italian · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Ph.D. Department of Italian, UCLA. Dissertation filed in the fall of 2006. Degree to be awarded in 2007.
Dissertation Topic: Food, body, sins in the Church in medieval Italy; Christianity, medieval philosophy; Italian medieval "novelle" (from Boccaccio to mid XV century; female s…
Alex Robinson
Associate Professor · USC School of Architecture
Landscape architect, researcher, and scholar with expertise in landscape infrastructure, sustainable design, and community engagement. Currently focusing on the Los Angeles River's revitalization through innovative infrastructure design and community-centered approaches.
Alexander Benderskii
Associate Professor of Chemistry · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Nonlinear optical spectroscopy and ultrafast dynamics of condensed-phase surfaces and interfaces
Alexandra Billings
Associate Professor of Acting · USC School of Dramatic Arts
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Alexandra Brewer
Assistant Professor of Sociology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
medical sociology; work, organizations, and occupations; economic sociology; social inequalities; race, gender, and class; qualitative methods
Alexandre Roberts
Associate Professor of Classics and History · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Byzantium and the Middle East, Greek and Arabic philology, classical traditions, intellectual history, history of science and religion, history of chemistry
Alexis Wellwood
Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Linguistics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Semantics, Philosophy of Language and Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Experimental Philosophy
Alfredo Torrico
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering · USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Ali Abbas
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering · USC Viterbi School of Engineering
• Decision analysis (broadly defined)
• Utility theory (risk aversion).
• Multiattribute utility theory.
• Probability encoding.
• Behavioral decision making
• Risk analysis for Homeland Security (Broadly defined)
• Risk measures and valuation of risky assets.
• Investment s…
Ali Pearl
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Writing · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
race, gentrification, place-making, archives, surveillance, policing, digital technology, critical race studies, feminist methodologies, social justice activism, cultural memory
Alice Baumgartner
Associate Professor of History · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
19th Century United States, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Slavery, Transnational History
Alicia Chavez
Associate Professor (Teaching) of American Studies and Ethnicity · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Alicia Chávez researches the history of Latinx workers in Los Angeles, the postwar economy and labor relations, and the interplay between unions and social movements. Her work has focused on the history of activists and organizers in the United Auto Workers and the United Farm Wo…
Alisa Kim
Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy · USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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Alisa Sanchez
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Alison D'Amato
Assistant Dean of Academic & Faculty Affairs · USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance
choreographic scores, generative and indeterminate notation, relationships between choreographic authority, inscription, agency and archival
Alison Dundes Renteln
Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy and Law · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
International Law, Human Rights, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Political and Legal Theory
Allison Frickman
Assistant Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy · USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
Dr. Ally Frickman provides care in the acute care setting at the Keck Hospital of USC. She has clinical interests in neurologic physical therapy, including early ICU mobility; motor learning in the context of cerebellar dysfunction; and the acute PT role in early identification o…
Aluizio Prata
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Applied electromagnetics; applications of electromagnetic theory to microwave, millimeter-wave, infrared, and optical passive devices and antennas.
Amanda Bloom
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Suppositionality in eighteenth-century literature; the history and development of the novel; new character studies
Amanda Hobmeier
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition, cross-cultural perspectives on educational development, writing for specific purposes (fellowships, scholarships, grants, manuscripts, application dossiers), learner autonomy and motivation, second language writing, translingualism
Amanda Speights
Associate Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy · USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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Amber Bennett
Associate Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy · USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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Amber Foster
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Amelia Jones
Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design and Professor of Art and Design, Art History and American Studies & Ethnicity · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Contemporary art history; performance studies; feminist and queer visual theory; race, gender, sexuality and visual culture.
Amir Khastoo
Assistant Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy · USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
Amir Khastoo teaches Clinical Management of the Patient with Musculoskeletal Dysfunction to first-year students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program. Additionally, he is in private practice in Santa Monica, where he focuses on orthopedic, sports and neurological rehabilitati…
Amy Brown
Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy · USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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Amy Cannon
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Amy Knight Powell
Associate Professor of Art History · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Northern European art and visual culture, late medieval through early modern (1400 – 1700), with an emphasis on painting, from early Netherlandish to baroque, in a global context. Issues of particular interest include untimeliness, iconoclasm, abstraction, technology, economy, an…
Amy Meyerson
Professor (Teaching) of Writing · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Amy Ogata
Professor of Art History · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Architecture and design of the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and the US; material culture; history of childhood and children's spaces; European Art Nouveau; history of applied arts
Amy West
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Psychology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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An-Min Wu
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Spatial Sciences · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Dr. Wu’s main research interests are in the intersection of socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability. Her current research focus is in the environmental pollution particularly on the distributions of lead (Pb) contamination, its impact on community health, and i…
Anahit Hakoupian
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Spanish · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andrea Abad De Guzman
Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy · USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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Andrea Ballestero
Associate Professor of Anthropology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
My research combines political and legal anthropology, STS, and social studies of finance and economics. I am particularly interested in spaces where the law, economics and techno-science are so fused that they appear as one another.
Andrea Hollingshead
Professor of Communication and Psychology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andrea Maria Hodge
Fluor Professor in Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering · USC Viterbi School of Engineering
My group research focus is on the synthesis of engineered microstructures with nanoscale precision, which allows for tailored properties and/or functionality. Our experimental approach includes characterization and testing leading to a fundamental understanding of processes and m…
Andrea Martin Armani
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Chemistry · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Research in the Armani Lab combines optics and material synthesis to enable biological and chemical detection as well as therapeutic development. Current projects in photonics are focused on integrating optical components on silicon for telecommunications and biosensing applicati…
Andrea Parra
Professor (Teaching) of Spanish · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andreas Molisch
Solomon Golomb - Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · USC Viterbi School of Engineering
WIRELESS PROPAGATION: As new wireless technologies are introduced, it is vital to understand and model the properties of the wireless propagation channel that are relevant for those channels. The well-known conventional channel models (Rayleigh fading, Hata pathloss model) are th…
Andrei Irimia
Associate Professor of Gerontology, Quantitative & Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience · USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
Expertise: Alzheimer's and dementia, Brain injury, Brain aging, Deep learning
Research: Brain aging and neurodegeneration; Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias; Interpretable deep learning; Neurogenetics of aging
Andrei Irimia
Associate Professor of Gerontology, Quantitative & Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neuroscience · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andres Gomez
Epstein Family Early Career Chair in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering · USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Dr. Gómez research focuses on developing new theory and tools for challenging optimization problems arising in finance, machine learning and statistics. His research focuses on systematically constructing strong or ideal convex relaxations of difficult problems. Such relaxations …
Andres Sanchez
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Environmental Studies · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andrew Bacon
Dean's Professor of Philosophy · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of language and philosophical logic
Andrew Bacon
professor · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of language and philosophical logic
Andrew Campbell
Associate Professor of Critical Studies · USC Roski School of Art and Design
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Andrew Chater
Professor of the Practice of English · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andrew De Silva
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andrew Gracey
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The primary focus of Andrew Gracey's research is to understand the effect of factors such as temperature, oxygen concentration, and salinity on the physiological processes of animals, and how these organism-environment interactions affect performance, survival and distribution. …
Andrew Guzman
Dean of the USC Gould School of Law and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law and Professor of Law and Political Science · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Dean Guzman has written extensively on international trade, international regulatory matters, foreign direct investment and public international law. His recent work has addressed international tribunals, soft law, the safety of imported products, climate change, and problems acr…
Andrew Lakoff
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Latin America, United States, pharmaceuticals, biosecurity, globalization, biomedicine, biosecurity
Andrew Murphy
Assistant Professor of Linguistics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andrew Simpson
Professor of Linguistics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Comparative syntax of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian languages: Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Burmese, Hindi, Bengali.
Andrew Smith
Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andrew Stott
Professor of English and Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Dean of the Graduate School · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Andrey Vilesov
Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
We specialize in the spectroscopy of molecules, ions and clusters in superfluid He droplets and the study of isolated quantum fluids with x-ray free electron lasers
Andy Nealen
Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts and Computer Science · USC School of Cinematic Arts
Game Design, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, and Game Engineering
Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang
Assistant Professor of Communication · USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Computation and Informatics, Digital Media, Health, Technology and Innovation
Angela Kwan
Assistant Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy · USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
Dr. Angela Kwan has been involved in wound care for more than 15 years. Currently, she is the lead in-patient wound care physical therapist at Keck Hospital at USC. She treats a wide range of patients with complex surgical, vasculitic, pressure, diabetic, and/or atypical wounds. …
Angela Zhou
Assistant Professor of Data Science and Operations and Computer Science · USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Anijah Green
Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy · USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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Aniko Imre, Ph.D.
Professor of Cinematic Arts · USC School of Cinematic Arts
Aniko Imre is a Professor of Cinematic Arts in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies and a member of the faculty advisory board in the Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) Division. She works in comparative media studies and global communication, with a focus on (pos…
Anita Dashiell-Sparks
Burns Distinguished Professor
Professor of Theatre Practice in Acting
Associate Dean of Community & Culture
Chair of Performance · USC School of Dramatic Arts
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Ann Closs-Farley
Assistant Professor of Costume Design; Costume Shop Director · USC School of Dramatic Arts
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Ann Marie Yasin
Professor of Art History and Classics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Roman, Late Antique, and Early Byzantine architecture and material culture; temporality and the built environment; ancient urbanism; monuments and commemoration; sacred landscapes and material culture of religion; Roman and late antique Italy, North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Mi…
Anna Journey
Associate Professor of English · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Anna Krylov
USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Anna Lynch
Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy · USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
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Anne Goldgar
Garrett and Anne Van Hunnick Chair in European History · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Anthony Boyle
Professor of Classics · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Roman Literature and Culture
Anthony Kemp
Associate Professor of English · USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
My teaching and writing mainly center on the religious and anti-religious aspects of culture, and particularly on how religion transforms into romanticism. I'm also interested in the interrelations between literature and philosophy. A dilettante of many fields, I find it difficul…