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
