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  Graduate School–New Brunswick 2014–2016 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Comparative Literature 195  

Comparative Literature 195

Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Elin Diamond, 195 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus (848-932-7606)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Ousseina D. Alidou, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Indiana
African languages and literatures; African linguistics and literature; women writers

Karen Bishop, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara)
Twentieth-century Latin American literature; postcolonial and subaltern studies; translation theory

Edyta Bojanowska, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Russian literature and cultural history; nationalism and imperialism

Stephen Bronner, Professor of Political Science, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Critical theory; political theory

Abena P.A. Busia, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Oxford
African women in British and American fiction

Ed Cohen, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Cultural studies; gender studies

Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Political Science, SAS; J.D., California (Los Angeles)
Feminist theory; aesthetics

Harriet Davidson, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Twentieth-century literature; critical theory; American literature and culture; poetry; literature by women; feminist theory

Elin Diamond, Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., California (Davis)
Drama and dramatic theory; performance theory; feminist and critical theory; modernism; 20th-century studies

M. Josephine Diamond, Professor Emerita of French, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell

Uri A. Eisenzweig, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Paris
French literature; literary theory; Western literature of the 19th and 20th centuries

Jerry Aline Flieger, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Twentieth-century literature; critical theory; women's studies and feminist theory

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Feminist cultural analysis with an emphasis on film and literature

William Galperin, Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Romantic literature; literary theory; media studies

Paola Gambarota, Professor of Italian, SAS; Dott. in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Napoli (Italy); Ph.D., Pavia (Italy); Ph.D., Yale
Modern Italian literature; theories of language and nation; European prewar avant-garde; film

Mary S. Gossy, Associate Professor of Spanish, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Spanish and Latin American literature; feminist and critical theory; lesbian and gay studies

Martha Helfer, Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Literature of the age of Goethe, romantic aesthetics and philosophical theories; 18th- and 19th-century German intellectual history

Ann Jurecic, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Composition; literature and medicine; pedagogy

Emrah Efe Khayyat, Assistant Professor of African, Middle Eastern, and
South Asian Languages and Literatures, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Philosophy and politics of literature; global literature; literature and religion; postcolonial theory and literatures

Michael Levine, Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Eighteenth- and 19th-century German literature, literary theory, and intellectual history

Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Professor of Latin and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Critical and decolonial theory; literature and political theory; ethnic studies

Preetha Mani, Assistant Professor of South Asian Literatures, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
South Asian languages and literatures; women and gender studies; translation studies

Jorge Marcone, Associate Professor of Spanish, SAS; Ph.D., Texas
Contemporary Spanish-American literature; literacy and orality; regionalism; critical theory

Susan Martin-Márquez, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Modern peninsular Spanish novel; cinema and cultural studies

Yolanda Martínez San Miguel, Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Colonial, Hispanic Caribbean, and Latino literature; literary theory; colonial and postcolonial theory; migration studies

Michael McKeon, Board of Governors Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Seventeenth- and 18th-century literature; critical theory; historical criticism

Andrew Parker, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Literary and cultural theory; philosophy and literature; history of sexuality; media studies

Stephen Reinert, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Byzantine; medieval Balkan; early Ottoman history

Nicholas Rennie, Associate Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Eighteenth- to 20th-century aesthetics; age of Goethe; critical theory; German intellectual history 

Louis Sass, Professor of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Literature and psychology; hermeneutics

Lawrence Scanlon, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Medieval literature, gender and sexuality; multiculturalism; cultural theory; pedagogy and composition theory

Paul Schalow, Professor of Japanese, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Japanese literature (Edo period); gender and sexuality in Japanese literature; Japanese women's writing

Louisa Schein, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
China; cultural studies 

Meheli Sen, Assistant Professor of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, SAS; Ph.D., Emory
Postindependence commercial Hindi cinema (Bollywood); gender, genre, postcoloniality, and globalization

Richard Serrano, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Francophone; classical Arabic and classical Chinese literatures; lyric poetry

Jeffrey Shandler, Professor of Jewish Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Yiddish language, literature, and culture; Jews and media; Jews and visual culture; American Jewish vernacular culture; Holocaust representation

Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Associate Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Twentieth-century Latin American literature and cultural studies; gender and queer theory; psychoanalysis; Latino studies and postcolonial criticism

Weijie Song, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern Chinese literature and film; sinophone and diaspora culture

Camilla Stevens, Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Kansas
Contemporary Spanish-American and Caribbean literary and cultural studies, theater, and performance

James Swenson, Associate Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Eighteenth-century literature; critical theory

Ching-I Tu, Professor of Chinese, SAS; Ph.D., Washington
Chinese studies; poetry and literary criticism

Emily S. Van Buskirk, Assistant Professor of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Russian literature; Czech literature and film

Alessandro Vettori, Associate Professor of Italian, SAS; Dott. in Lettere, Florence; Ph.D., Yale
Thirteenth-century literature; Dante and Franciscan literature

Janet A. Walker, Professor of Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
The novel; comparative Asian and Western modernities

Steven F. Walker, Professor of Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Renaissance, literature and mythology; Jungian criticism

Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
The 20th- and 21st-century British, Irish, and Anglophone novel; modernism; the New World literature; translation and the history of the book; narrative theory

Alan Williams, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Film history and theory; literary theory; contemporary French literature

Yael Zerubavel, Professor of History, SAS, and Director of the Center for the Study of Jewish Life; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Jewish studies; folklore

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty 

Ann Jurecic, Associate Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Composition; literature and medicine; pedagogy

Meheli Sen, Assistant Professor of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, SAS; Ph.D., Emory
Bollywood; gender/genre; horror; film theory/history; postcolonialism; globalization

Michelle Ann Stephens, Associate Professor of English and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
American studies; black diaspora; race and psychoanalysis

Wendy Swartz, Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Medieval Chinese poetry; comparative poetics; theory and criticism

 
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