Program in Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Web Site: http://complit.rutgers.edu

Undergraduate Director: Richard Serrano

Professors:

Derek Attridge (Distinguished Visiting Professor), B.A., Natal; B.A., Ph.D., Cambridge (Clare College)

Stephen Eric Bronner, B.A., CUNY (City College); M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Drucilla Cornell, B.A., Antioch; J.D., UCLA Law School

Marianne DeKoven, B.A., Radcliffe College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford

Elin Diamond, B.A., Brandeis; M.A., Ph.D., California (Davis)

M. Josephine Diamond, B.A., Leeds (England); M.A., Ph.D., Cornell

Lowell Edmunds, A.B., Harvard; M.A., California (Berkeley); Ph.D., Harvard

Uri Eisenzweig, B.A., Tel Aviv; M.A., Doctorate, Paris

Jerry A. Flieger, B.A., Wisconsin; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

William Galperin, A.B., Chicago; A.M., Ph.D., Brown

Myra Jehlen, B.A., CUNY (City College); Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Michael McKeon, B.A., Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia

Alicia Ostriker, B.A., Brandeis; M.A., Ph.D., Wisconsin

Louis A. Sass, B.A., Harvard; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Mary Speer, B.A., Duke; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton

Ching-I Tu, B.A., National Taiwan; Ph.D., Washington

Janet A. Walker, B.A., Wisconsin; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard

Steven F. Walker, B.A., Wisconsin; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard

Alan Williams, B.A., M.A., Washington; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)

Yael Zerubavel, B.A., Hebrew (Jerusalem); M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Associate Professors:

Abena P.A. Busia, B.A., M.A., St. Anne`s College (Oxford); Ph.D., St. Anthony`s College (Oxford)

Ed Cohen, A.B., Georgetown; Ph.D., Stanford

Harriet Davidson, B.A., Texas (Austin); M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt

William C. Donahue, M.A., Middlebury; Ph.D., Harvard

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Mary Gossy, B.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard

Peter Li, B.A., Washington; Ph.D., Chicago

Jorge Marcone, B.A., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; M.A., Ph.D., Texas

Gerald Pirog, B.A., Rutgers; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale

Paul Schalow, B.A., Hampshire College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard

Louisa Schein, B.A., Brown; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

James B. Swenson, Jr., B.A., Brown; M.A., Ph.D., Yale

Ban Wang, M.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Andrew Welsh, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Pittsburgh

Assistant Professors:

César A. Braga-Pinto, B.A., Universidade de São Paolo; M.A., San Francisco State; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, B.A., Puerto Rico; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Nicholas Rennie, B.A., Princeton; Ph.D., Yale

Richard Serrano, B.A., Stanford; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale

Alessandro Vettori, Dottore in Lettere, Firenze; Ph.D., Yale

Comparative literature studies literature across national and cultural boundaries in an effort to address fundamental questions about its nature, function, and value. It introduces students to literary theory and criticism and investigates the relationship between literature and other disciplines. Shifting the focus from "national" to "literature," comparative literature is able to study the communality of all practices called "literature" and to investigate the importance these practices might have for our ethical and political lives. At the same time, the major recognizes the singular importance of language in the formation of these values, and requires advanced work in at least one foreign literature. Students also are strongly urged to pursue course work in "non-Western" literatures and cultures.