Degree Programs Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Richard Serrano, 205 Ruth Adams Building, Douglass Campus (732/932-7606)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Ousseina D. Alidou, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative Literature, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Indiana African languages and literatures; African linguistics and literature; women writers

César A. Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Portuguese, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Twentieth-century Brazilian and Portuguese literature; Brazilian popular music and cultural studies; postcolonialism

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

Abena P.A. Busia, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; D.Phil., Oxford
African women in British and American fiction

Ed Cohen, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Cultural studies; gender studies

Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Law and Women's Studies, SL-N and FAS-NB; J.D., California Law School (Los Angeles)
Feminist theory; aesthetics

Marianne DeKoven, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Modernism; women's studies

Elin F. Diamond, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Davis)
Drama and dramatic theory; feminist and literary theory

M. Josephine Diamond, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; critical theory; women's studies and feminist theory

William C. Donahue, Associate Professor of German, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; German-Jewish studies

Lowell Edmunds, Professor of Classics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Greek literature, mythology, intellectual history

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

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Sydney Feminist theory; contemporary French philosophy; philosophies of space and time

Myra Jehlen, Board of Governors Professor of Literature and Culture, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
American literature; feminist criticism; cultural history

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

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

Alicia Ostriker, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin Romantic and modern literature; contemporary poetry

Gerald Pirog, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Slavic languages and literatures; critical theory; poetry

Stephen Reinert, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles) Byzantine, medival Balkan, early Ottoman history

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

Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford Latin-American cultural studies; race and racialization; imperialism, development, and globalization in the Americas

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

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

Louisa Schein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) China; cultural studies

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

Shuang Shen, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., CUNY Asian-American; Chinese Diaspora; colonial and postcolonial; cultural studies; literary theory

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

Mary Speer, Professor of French, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Medieval language and literature; theory and practice of editing

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

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

Dietrich Tschanz, Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton Classical Chinese; premodern Chinese drama and theater; comparative poetics

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

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

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

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

Ban Wang, Professor of Chinese, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Cultural and cinema studies; modern Chinese literature; aesthetics

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

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