Members

The MRC is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Our members include more than 150 scholars in history, literature, theatre history, theatre and performance studies, theatre arts, film studies, television studies, media studies, visual culture, and many areas of cultural studies.  Our work engages with melodrama of all periods, all major media, and many if not most of the global contexts in which it has appeared.

As a group we provide a fair representation of the range and breadth of melodrama scholarship today. Yet we remain under-represented in many different areas, and we encourage members to become involved in our membership efforts and to bring the MRC to the attention of those working on melodrama in their areas of expertise.

Member List

Jennifer Alpert
Ph.D. Candidate
University of California, Berkeley

Julie Amiot-Gillouet
Lecturer
University of Paris-Sorbonne

Violaine Anger
Professor
University of Lyon

Elisabeth Anker
Assistant Professor
George Washington University

Katherine Astbury
Reader in French Studies
University of Warwick

Barbara Babic
Ph.D. Student
University of Vienna

Malcolm Bare
Graduate Student
The University of Virginia

Diego Barrato
Ph.D. Student
IULM (Milan)

Louis Bayman
Professor
University of Southampton

John Belton
Professor of English and Film
Rutgers University

Ira Bhaskar
Professor
Jawaharlal Nehru University

Robin Blyn
Professor
University of West Florida

Hayley Bradley
Professor
Sheffield Hallam University

Anke Brouwers
Lecturer
University of Antwerp

Cigdem Bugdayci
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Amsterdam

Jean-Loup Bourget
Professor Emeritus of Film Studies
École Normale Supérieure

Jean Bruce
Associate Professor
Ryerson University

Matthew Buckley
Associate Professor
Rutgers University

Matthew Bush
Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American and Latino Studies
Lehigh University

Mari Castaneda
Professor
University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Daniela Cardini
Assistant Professor
IULM (Milan)

Kenneth Chan
Associate Professor
University of Northern Colorado

James Cherry
Professor
Wabash College

Jeffrey Cox
Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor
University of Colorado-Boulder

James Chandler
Professor
University of Chicago

Michael Collins
Professor
University of Kent

Corey Creekmur
Associate Professor
University of Iowa

John Champagne
Professor
Penn State

Ed Charlton
Professor
LSE

Amy Corbin
Professor
Muhlenberg College

Claire Cronin
Graduate Student
University of Georgia

Eileen Curley
Associate Professor
Marist College

Elena Dagrada
Professor
University of Milan

Robert Dean
Professor
University of Lincoln

Christof Decker
Professor
University of Munich

Elin Diamond
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Rutgers University

Allan Doyle
Postdoc
USC

Sophie Dufays
Professor
University of Louvaine la Neuve

Jonna Eagle
Associate Professor
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Katerina Flint-Nicol
Graduate Student
The University of Kent

Sandy Fletterman-Lewis
Associate Professor of English, Cinema Studies, and Comparative Literature
Rutgers University

Marcie Frank
Professor
Concordia University

Jane Gaines
Professor
Columbia University

Michael Gamer
Professor of English
University of Pennsylvania


Joel Gordon
Professor
University of Arkansas

Taryn Hakala
Instructor
Daytona State College

Kristen Hatch
Associate Professor
University of California-Irvine

Jens Hesselager
Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen

Sarah Hibberd
Associate Professor
University of Nottingham


Wolfgang Hochbruck
Professor
University of Freiburg, Germany

Amy Hughes
Associate Professor of Theater History
Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Mary Isbell
Postdoc
Yale University

Lea Jacobs
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Louis James
Professor Emeritus
University of Kent

Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Reader in Film
University of Kent

Priya Jha
Professor
University of Redlands

Douglas Jones
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University

Laurent Jullier
Professor
University of Lorraine

Despina Kakoudaki
Associate Professor
American University

Frances Kamm
PH.D. Student
University of Kent

Anupama Kapse
Assistant Professor
Queens College, CUNY

Dafna Kaufman
Graduate Student
Georgia State University

Bohyeong Kim
Graduate Student

Marek Kochanowski
Professor
University of Bialystok

Olga Kourelou
Professor
University of Sussex

Kyounghye Kown
Assistant Professor
University of North Georgia

Lies Lankman
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Kent

Robert Lang
Professor
University of Hartford

Pascal Lefevre
Professor
LUCA School of Arts

Marion Lemaire
Professor
University of Paris

Tamra Lepro
Ph.D. Candidate
Rutgers University

Jean-Marc Leveratto
Professor
University of Lorraine

Jacqueline Levitin
Professor
Simon Fraser University

Ana Lopez
Associate Professor
Tulane University

Scott Loren
Professor
University of St. Gallen

Samuel Ludwig
Professor
UHA Mulhouse

Sheetal Majithia
Professor
NYU-Abu Dhabi

Neepa Majumdar
Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh

Shannon Davies Mancus
Ph.D. Candidate
George Washington University

Carla Marcantonio
Assistant Professor
George Mason University

Roxane Martin
Professor
University of Lorraine

Ruth Mayer
Professor
University of Hanover, Germany

Kathleen McHugh
Professor
UCLA

Staton McManus
Assistant Professor
East Tennessee State University

Louise McReynolds
Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Monika Mehta
Associate Professor
Binghamton University

John Mercer
Professor
Birmingham City University

Renata Kobetts Miller Associate Professor
City College of New York (CUNY)

Bart G. Moens
Doctoral Researcher

Domonique Nasta
Professor of Film Studies
University of Bruxelles

Chad Newsom
Professor
Savannah College of Art and Design

Nannette Nielson
Associate Professor
University of Oslo





Anastasia Nikolopoulou
Associate Professor
University of Cyprus

Nora Olsen
Doctor

Mark O’Thomas
Professor
University of Greenwich

Michael Pisani
Professor
Vassar College

Sarah Polley
Graduate Student
University of Kent

Benjamin Poore
Lecturer
University of York

Laraine Porter
Senior Lecturer
De Montfort University

Susan Potter
Professor
University of Sydney

Thomas Radecke
Professor
University of Music Franz Liszt

Louise Radlinger Field
Ph.D. Student
Reading University

Diana Rios
Professor
University of Connecticut

Terry Robinson
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto

Jacob Romanow
Ph. D. Candidate
Rutgers University

Monique Rooney
Lecturer
The Australian National University

Debby Rosenthal
Professor
John Carroll University

Ilka Saal
Professor of American Literature
University of Erfurt, Germany

Tommaso Sabbatini
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Chicago

Bhaskar Sarkar
Associate Professor
UC Santa Barbara

Cesare Scarton
Professor
Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia-Roma

Rachel Schaff
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Minnesota

Meheli Sen
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University

Martin Scingler
Professor
University of Sunderland

Ben Singer
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Julia Sirmons
Graduate Student
Columbia University

Anthony Siu
Instructor
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Matthew Smith
Associate Professor
Stanford University

Angieszka Soltysik Monnet
Professor
University of Lausanne

Margherita Sprio
Senior Lecturer of Film History and Theory
University of Westminster

Johanna Steiner
Graduate Student

Michael Stewart
Professor
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

Julia Straub
Senior Lecturer
University of Berne

Naomi Stubbs
Associate Professor
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Negar Taymoorzadeh
Ph.D. Candidate
New York University

Rosie Thomas
Professor
University of Westminster

Belkys Torres
Professor
University of Miami

Julia Tunyon
Emerita
DEH-INAH

Lucio Tufano
Independent Scholar

Dana Van Kooy
Adjunct Lecturer
University of Colorado, Boulder

Vavi Vasudevan
Professor
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

Fabio Vittorini
Professor
IULM

Jacqueline Waeber
Professor
Duke University

M.Burke Walker
Independent Scholar
Former head of MFA Directing Program, University of Washington

Yuan Wang
Graduate Student
New York University

Yiman Wang
Associate Professor
UC Santa Cruz

Sharon Weltman
Professor
Louisiana State University

Linda Willem
Professor of Spanish
Butler University

Linda Williams
Professor
UC Berkeley

Carolyn Williams
Professor and Chair
Rutgers University

Steve Willis
Associate Professor
Bennett College

Laurie Wolf
Professor
College of William and Mary

Agustin Zarzosa
Professor
SUNY Purchase