Program in Comparative Literature, School of Arts and Sciences

Website: http://complit.rutgers.edu

Undergraduate Director: César A. Braga-Pinto

Professors:

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

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

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

Lowell Edmunds, M.A., Berkeley; Ph.D., Harvard

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

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

Elizabeth Grosz, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Sydney (Australia)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Associate Professors:

Ouusseina Alidou, B.A., Niamey (Africa); M.A., Ph.D., Indiana

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

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

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

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

Martha Helfer, B.A., Washington (St. Louis); M.A., Wisconsin (Madison); Ph.D., Stanford

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

Susan Martin-Marquez, B.A., M.A., Chicago; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

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

Stephen Reinert, B.A., Western Washington; M.A., Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Nicholas Rennie, B.A., Princeton; 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)

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

Larry Scanlon, B.A., Brandeis; M.A, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

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

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

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

Assistant Professors:

Shuang Shen, B.A., M.A., Beijing; M.A., Ph.D, CUNY

Camilla Stevens, B.A., Tulane; M.A. New Mexico; Ph.D., Kansas

Dietrich Tschanz, M.A., Zürich (Switzerland); Ph.D., Princeton

Comparative literature is an exciting, interdisciplinary program that allows you to study literature as it shapes and is shaped by the world of science, economics, politics, sexuality, and other cultural and historical forces. It is a major that should be attractive to students with a wide ranging interest in literature, theory, and cultural studies, and who also wish to read literature in the original language as well as in translation.

The program draws upon faculty from a wide range of disciplines and offers a great deal of personal, individualized guidance in the construction of your major. There is also a strong group of graduate students with diverse interests and language abilities who guide undergraduates through the mentorship program.

Students who graduate with a major in comparative literature may go on to study literature in graduate school, or, because of their training in research, critical thinking, and writing, are also prepared for law school and other professional schools.