Staff
Anthony J. Cascardi, Director
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Tel.: 510/643-9670
Tony is Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish and Portuguese; he received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1980 and is General Editor of the Penn State Studies in Literature and Philosophy. His research interests include: the relations between literature and philosophy; aesthetic theory; and early modern Europe. His recent publications are Consequences of Enlightenment and The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes.
Webpage: ajcascardi.googlepages.com/anthonyj.cascardi.
Teresa Stojkov, Associate Director
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Tel.: 510/643-6229
Teresa has principal responsibility for the implementation of all current programs as well as long-range goals at the Townsend Center. She facilitates special initiatives set by the Director and serves as the Center’s liaison with individual faculty, groups, and departments engaged in humanities and humanities-related projects both on and off campus. Teresa’s Ph.D. is in Romance Languages and Literatures, and her scholarly work focuses mainly on Latin American poetry. Teresa has also been a Carnegie Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism while at the Townsend Center.
Celeste Langan, Faculty Director of Programs
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Celeste is Associate Professor in the Department of English and works in the fields of 19th-century British literature, poetry, media theory, and disability studies. She is currently working on a book-length project called Post-Napoleonism: Imagining Sovereignty After 1799. She is involved in a number of special programs at the Townsend Center and has primary responsibility for running the Discovery Fellows program, which brings together graduate students from a variety of disciplines in collaborative projects.
Harris Kornstein, Program Coordinator
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Tel.: 510/643-9670
Harris is the first point of contact for fellowship and grant questions, and he also serves as the Center’s front desk receptionist and event coordinator. Harris graduated from Swarthmore College in 2006 with a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology, and has a particular interest in film, media, and cultural studies.
Joshua Levenson, Financial Coordinator
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Tel.: 510/643-9996
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