Faculty
| André Aciman |
| Marcel Proust; The Literature of Seventeenth-Century France; Madame de LaFayette; The Psychological Novel and the roman d'analyse; Memoirs and Memory in the Twentieth Century |
| Ali Jimale Ahmed |
| African Literature, Islamic Literature, Poetry and Oral Tradition |
| Anna Akasoy |
| Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Liberal Studies, Oriental Studies, Philosophy, History |
| Ammiel Alcalay |
| Poetics, theory, and comparative literary history; culture and politics; contemporary and medieval Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Literature and culture; 20th c. American writing and culture |
| Felicia Bonaparte |
| European literature of the nineteenth century; the history of the novel especially in England; modern European drama; ancient and modern tragedy; English and German Romanticism |
| Monica Calabritto |
| The relationship between literature and medicine from Antiquity to the twentieth century; Renaissance and early modern comparative literature (Italian/English/French); emblem studies; Renaissance Italian epic; medicine and law in early modern Italy. |
| Jerry W. Carlson |
| Narrative theory; film history & theory; literature & film; comparative arts of the Americas; globalization & narrative form. |
| Marvin Carlson |
| European Theatre 16th Century to Present. Romantic Drama/Scandinavian Drama. |
| Clare Carroll |
| Renaissance English, French, Irish, Italian, and Neo-Latin literature, Ariosto, history of the book, early modern Irish history, postcolonialism |
| Mary Ann Caws |
| Art and Text, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Modern French Literature, Surrealism, Translation, English Modernism, especially Bloomsbury, American Southern, Women's Writing and Memoirs, Film Studies |
| Vincent Crapanzano |
| Literary and linguistic theory, hermeneutics, anthropology and literature, existentialism and phenomenology, life-historical texts, anthropology and poetics of the imagination, and the philosophical recit. |
| Martin Elsky |
| Early Modern Literature, print culture, and material culture; Cultural Geography of the Renaissance; Renaissance Humanism and Early Modern Language Theory; History of Philology |
| Evelyne Ender |
| 19th and 20th century literatures, literary criticism and theory, psychoanalysis, feminist criticism and gender, memory studies |
| Wayne Koestenbaum |
| Poetry and poetics; modern and contemporary literature; music; film; visual art; queer studies; cultural studies; performance; the essay; autobiography. |
| Bettina Lerner |
| Nineteenth-century French literature, prose fiction, popular culture and development of the press, Carribean literature (including hispanophone and anglophone) and postcolonial theory. |
| Giancarlo Lombardi |
| 19th and 20th century Italian, French, English, and American Literature; Italian Film and Cultural Studies; Film Theory; Literary Theory; Gender Studies |
| Nancy K. Miller |
| Contemporary autobiography and autobiography theory; women's writing (American and French); 20th-century cultural history, after 1945; feminist theory. |
| Paul Oppenheimer |
| History of the lyric (English, German, Italian, French, Spanish), German and Italian folk literature, Baroque art, literature, music (including modern variations), Studies of evil in literature, film, psychology, The Faust legend, Machiavelli. |
| Eugenia Paulicelli |
| Italian Literature, Culture and Film, Critical Theory, Fashion History and Theory, Gender and Women's Studies |
| Julia Przybos |
| 19th century French literature, Popular theater, Fin-de siècle in Europe |
| Lía Schwartz |
| Spanish Literature; 16th and 17th Century Renaissance and Baroque |
| Charity Scribner |
| Literature from the nineteenth century to the present (British, French, German, and Polish). Critical theory and cultural studies. Contemporary art. Feminism. |
| Paul Julian Smith |
| Modern Spain and Mexico, especially media studies: film and television. |
| Paola Ureni |
| Dante, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Medicine and Italian Literature. |
| Scott D. Westrem |
| Medieval Literature, Specifically Germanic and English Literatures, Travel and Pilgrimage Accounts |
| Joshua Wilner |
| British and European Romanticism; critical theory; comparative poetry and poetics; autobiography; literature and psychoanalysis; gender studies; literature and philosophy |
| Richard Wolin |
| Frankfurt School; Counter-Enlightenment thought; twentieth century French intellectual life; Heidegger and the German ideology |
Emeritus/ Emerita Faculty:
Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour
The interaction of French and Russian Literature. Bilingual Writers
Charles Rowan Beye
Classics, Epic/Modern Poetry
William E. Coleman
Medieval, Textual Scholarship, 14th Century Italian and English Literature
Tamara Evans
19th and Early 20th Century Literature, German Cinema, German/Jewish Literary Relations
Lillian Feder
Myth, Classics
Angus Fletcher
Renaissance, Theory
David Kleinbard
German, French, and English 20th-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literature and Psychoanalysis
Samuel R. Levin
Poetics, Language and Style
Burton Pike
German, Fiction, Translation
Susan Spectorsky
Arabic studies, Arabic influence in Spain and Italy
Jacob Stern
Ancient Greek Epic, Lyric, Tragedy, Hellenistic Poetry, Greek Literature, Religion and Myth.