Core Faculty

Jami Ake

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Professor Ake teaches courses on Classical and Renaissance Literature as well as Women and Gender Studies. Her primary research concerns women and Renaissance drama, and the history of sexuality and gender. She is currently an Assistant Dean & the Academic Coordinator for the Women and Gender Studies program.

Tili Boon Cuille

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Professor Boon Cuille is an Assistant Professor of French. She earned her doctorate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and specializes in eighteenth-century French literature, musical aesthetics, and the performing arts. Her publications include Narrative Interludes: Musical Tableaux in Eighteenth-Century French Texts(Toronto, 2006) as well as articles on Beaumarchais, Cazotte, Charriere, Hugo, Rousseau, and Stael.

Eric Brown

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Before coming to Washington University in 1997, Professor Brown studied philosophy and classics at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. His research concerns the philosophical ethics of the ancient Greco-Roman world. His first book is Stoic Cosmopolitanism, and he has begun work on a second book that will redefine what makes the philosophical ethics of ancient Greece and Rome different from modern moral philosophy.

Charly Coleman

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Professor Coleman recently joined the IPH faculty and the History department. A specialist in the European Enlightenment, his research concerns the secularization of religious selfhood in eighteenth-century philosophy and politics.

Matthew Erlin

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Professor Erlin's current research focusus on conceptions of the city and urban experience in 18th century Germany, with particular regard to Berlin. He teaches seminars on the metropolis of modernity, on philosophical and literary constructions of history, and on the relation between political philosophy and literature.

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