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 |
| 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 |
| Morena Corradi |
| 19th and 20th century Italian literature and printed media; fantastic and gothic literature; nation building; narrative theory |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Gerry Milligan |
| Renaissance Italian literature, Gender Theory, Masculinity Studies, Performance Studies, Early Modern Theatre, Conduct Manuals |
| 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 |
| Sonali Perera |
| Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Marxist Theory, Working-Class Literature, Globalization Studies, Feminist Theory, World Literature, International Law, and Colonial Discourse Studies |
| Nadya Peterson |
| Russian culture, history, and Russian education. Prof. Peterson teaches advanced language courses, courses on translation, women's literature, nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literature, as well as courses on Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoevsky both in Russian and in English. |
| 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. |
| 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
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
Tamara Evans
19th and Early 20th Century Literature, German Cinema, German/Jewish Literary Relations
Lillian Feder
Myth, Classics
Angus Fletcher
Renaissance, Theory
Hermann Haller
Italian, Romance Linguistics
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.