Faculty
View the accomplished faculty of the Comparative Literature program below, as well as faculty emeriti.
Faculty

André Aciman
Distinguished Professor
- French
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir

Ali Jimale Ahmed
Faculty
- Comparative Literature

Anna Akasoy
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- Medieval Studies
Professor
- Comparative Literature
Professor
- Middle Eastern Studies
Professor
- Global Early Modern Studies
Deputy Executive Officer
- Liberal Studies

Ammiel Alcalay
Professor
- English
Professor
- Comparative Literature
Professor
- American Studies
Professor
- Middle Eastern Studies
Professor
- Medieval Studies
Professor
- Africana Studies
Professor
- Biography and Memoir

Esther Allen
Professor
- Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures
Professor
- French
Professor
- Comparative Literature

Monica Calabritto
Professor
- Comparative Literature
Professor
- Global Early Modern Studies

Jerry W. Carlson
Professor
- Comparative Literature
Professor
- Film Studies
Professor
- French

Clare Carroll
Professor
- Comparative Literature
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- Global Early Modern Studies
Professor
- History

Morena Corradi
Professor
- Comparative Literature

Vincent Crapanzano
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Anthropology

Paolo Fasoli
Associate Professor
- Comparative Literature
Associate Professor
- Global Early Modern Studies

Amr Kamal
Associate Professor
- French
Associate Professor
- Comparative Literature

Yasha Klots
Associate Professor
- Comparative Literature

Wayne Koestenbaum
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- French
Distinguished Professor
- Film Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies

Bettina Lerner
Associate Professor
- French
Associate Professor
- Comparative Literature
Coordinator
- Critical Theory

Giancarlo Lombardi
Executive Officer and Professor
- Comparative Literature
Professor
- French
Professor
- Film Studies

Nancy K. Miller
Distinguished Professor
- French
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Gerry Milligan
Professor
- Comparative Literature
Professor
- Global Early Modern Studies

Eugenia Paulicelli
Professor
- Comparative Literature
Professor
- Liberal Studies
Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Sonali Perera
Associate Professor
- English
Associate Professor
- Comparative Literature

Nadya Peterson
Associate Professor
- Comparative Literature

David S. Reynolds
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies

Joan Richardson
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- Liberal Studies
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies

Caroline Rupprecht
Professor
- Comparative Literature

Charity Scribner
Associate Professor
- Comparative Literature

Paul Julian Smith
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Film Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures

Domna C. Stanton
Distinguished Professor
- French
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Global Early Modern Studies

Paola Ureni
Associate Professor
- Comparative Literature
Associate Professor
- Medieval Studies

Richard Wolin
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Faculty Emeriti
Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour
The interaction of French and Russian Literature. Bilingual Writers
Charles Rowan Beye
Classics, Epic/Modern Poetry
John Brenkman
Twentieth-century literature, Critical theory, Literary Theory and Criticism
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.