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Rebecca Biron Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Mexican Cultural Criticism |
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Ayo A. Coly Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Comparative Literature Research Interests: African Literatures and Cinema, Postcolonial Theory, Colonial and Postcolonial Masculinities, Human Rights |
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Katharine Conley Professor of French and Comparative Literature Research Interests:Surrealist Studies, Modernism and Anthropology, Museums and Collecting, Twentieth-Century French Literature, Women's Writing and Feminist Theory |
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Jonathan Crewe Professor of English and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Seventeenth Century English Literature, Elizabethan Romance, Shakespeare, Introduction to Critical Theory, Introduction to Criticism, Renaissance |
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Gerd Gemünden Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, European Modernism and Postmodernism, Film and Media Studies, Studies of Exile and Migration |
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Mary Jean Green Professor of French and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Writers and filmmakers of the Francophone world (especially Quebec and the Maghreb), Twentieth-century fiction in France, women and gender in literature |
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Lynn A. Higgins Professor of French and Comparative Literature Research Interests: French cinema, Women filmmakers, 20th-century novel, Literary criticism and theory, Literature and national identity |
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Keala J. Jewell Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Italian Surrealism (visual and literary), European Magical Realism, Representation of monstrosity, European Gothic prose of the 19th and 20th centuries |
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Irene Kacandes Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Twentieth century prose fiction, especially the novel, Modern German literature (1750-present), Modern Greek literature, Holocaust studies, Cultural studies, Feminist theory, Discourse analysis, Orality and literacy, Daddy's War: Greek American Storytelling, Family Memory, and Trauma |
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John M. Kopper Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Literature of Exile,Colonialism,Literary Theory,Enlightenment models of cognition in Gogol; and Shakespeare’s theory of the subject in Troilus and Cressida |
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Lawrence D. Kritzman Professor of French and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Literature of the European Renaissance, Psychoanalysis and literature, Critical theory, Cultural studies, Contemporary European intellectual thought, Jewish studies |
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David P. LaGuardia Professor of French and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Sixteenth Century French Literature, Memoirs, biographies, pamphlets, and propaganda from the French Wars of Religion, First-person narratives, Literary and critical theory, The history of subjectivity in philosophy, American popular culture |
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Amy L. Lawrence Professor of Film and Media Studies Research Interests: Avant garde film and poetry, Women and Third World film, British film and television, Animation history and theory |
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Annabel Martín Associate Professor of Spanish, Women's and Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Cultural Studies: Mass Culture and Politics, Contemporary Urban Culture, Democracy and the Arts, Contemporary Spain: Nationalism and Dictatorship, Tourism and National Identity, PostFrancoism, Basque Studies (Utopia and Terrorism), Film Studies: Melodrama and Memory, Spanish Cinema, Gender Studies: Gender and Mass Culture, Globalization/Immigration and Women, Contemporary Spanish Women Writers/Filmmakers and Memor |
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Monika C. Otter Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Medieval literature (English, Latin, French, German), especially 11th-13th centuries, Romances, historiography and pseudo-historiography, Saints' lives, literature and art history, literature and music |
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Graziella Parati Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature Research Interests: 20th century Italian literature and culture; Post colonial studies; Multiculturalism and migrations studies; 19th century Italian literature and history; Italian Film history; Italian American literature, history, and film; Autobiography; Feminist theory and women's writing |
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Beatriz Pastor Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Latin America: Literatures of the discovery and conquest; colonial and cultural studies; contemporary narrative; utopias. US Latino: culture, language and politics. Interdisciplinary approaches: Sciences and Humanities |
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Israel Reyes Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Latino Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Puerto Rican Literature and Culture, Gay and Lesbian/Queer Studies, Comparative Literature, Women and Gender Studies, Media Studies |
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Silvia Spitta Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Contemporary Latin American and US Latino/a literature and culture. Theories of transculturation and mestizaje. Material culture, collecting, and memory. Visual culture and Andean photography |
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Andrea W. Tarnowski Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Medieval and early modern French literature, Historiography and literature, Translation, Medieval and early modern women writers, Critical theory, Christine de Pizan and her contemporaries, The evolution of allegory, Italian influence on French literature, Franco-English relations during the Hundred Years' War |
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Roxana M. Verona Professor of French and Comparative Literature Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century French literature, French literary criticism, French culture and society, Romanian-French cultural relations, Eastern-European literary history, East-West cultural dialogue |
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Michelle R. Warren Professor of Comparative Literature Research Interests: Medieval studies, Postcolonial studies, French studies, Arthurian studies, Romance philology, Historiography, Translation |
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Dennis Washburn Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Japanese literature and culture, Translation, Japanese film |
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Margaret Williamson Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature Research Interests: Archaic and classical Greek literature (especially lyric and drama), Gender theory, The classical tradition |