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 |
| 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 |
| William E. Coleman |
| Medieval, Textual Scholarship, 14th Century Italian and English Literature |
| 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 |
| Tamara Evans |
| 19th and Early 20th Century Literature, German Cinema, German/Jewish Literary Relations |
| 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. |
| Eugenia Paulicelli |
| Italian Literature, Culture and Film, Critical Theory, Fashion History and Theory, Gender and Women's Studies |
| Lía Schwartz |
| Spanish Literature; 16th and 17th Century Renaissance and Baroque |
| Jacob Stern |
| Ancient Greek Epic, Lyric, Tragedy, Hellenistic Poetry, Greek Literature, Religion and Myth. |
| Scott D. Westrem |
| Medieval Literature, Specifically Germanic and English Literatures, Travel and Pilgrimage Accounts |
Emeritus/ Emerita Faculty:
Charles Rowan Beye
Classics, Epic/Modern Poetry
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
Allen Mandelbaum
English Poetics, Italian
Catherine McKenna
Celtic, Medieval
Burton Pike
German, Fiction, Translation
Frank Rosengarten
Italian, Modern Italian Society and Culture
Susan Spectorsky
Arabic studies, Arabic influence in Spain and Italy