Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Elin Diamond, 195 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus (732-932-7606)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

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

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

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

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

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

Ed Cohen, Associate 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

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

Elin F. Diamond, Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., California (Davis)
Drama and dramatic theory; performance theory; feminist and critical theory; modernism

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

Uri A. Eisenzweig, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Paris (France)
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

Mary S. Gossy, Associate Professor of Spanish, SAS; 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, SAS; Ph.D., Sydney (Australia)
Feminist theory; contemporary French philosophy; philosophies of space and time

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

Myra Jehlen, Board of Governors Professor of English, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
American literature; feminist criticism; cultural history 

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

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

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

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

Richard Serrano, Associate 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

Shuang Shen, Assistant Professor of English, SAS; 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, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Twentieth-century Latin American literature and cultural studies; gender and queer theory; psychoanalysis; Latino studies and postcolonial criticism

Mary B. Speer, Professor of French, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Medieval language and literature; theory and practice of editing

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

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

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

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

Paola Gambarota, Assistant 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 pre-war avant-garde; film

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

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