Teaching Faculty 2011-2012

Title
Lynne Tatlock
Chair, Comparative Literature
Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Miriam Bailin
Associate Professor, English; Comparative Literature; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
history of the book; the novel; Victorian literature and culture
Nancy Berg
Professor, Modern Hebrew Language and Literature; Comparative Literature
Director of Graduate Studies
genre literature; immigration literature; modern Hebrew & Arabic literatures; women's literature
J. Dillon Brown
Assistant Professor of English
Anglophone Caribbean Literatures; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Globalization; Modernism; Cultural studies; Sociology of Literature
Lionel Cuillé
Lecturer, Romance Languages and Literatures (French); Comparative Literature; Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities
19th- and 20th-century European literature; avant-garde movements (poetry); French cinema; literary theory
Sarah Dunant
Visiting Lecturer, Comparative Literature, Fall 2009; Fall 2011
Robert Henke
Chair, Performing Arts Department
Professor, Comparative Literature; Performing Arts (Drama)
transnational early modern theater (Italian and English); poverty and charity in early modern culture and theater; philosophy and literature
Ignacio Infante
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature; Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
Comparative Literature Undergraduate Study Abroad Coordinator
literary and critical theory; modern poetry and poetics; transatlantic modernisms and the avant-garde; translation studies
Emma Kafalenos
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Senior Lecturer, Comparative Literature
comparative arts; narrative theory; poetics; Postmodernism
Fatemeh Keshavarz
Professor of Persian Language and Literature; Comparative Literature
Islamic mysticism; Persian poetry; translation theory; women's studies
Stephanie Kirk
Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish); Comparative Literature
Colonial Latin American literature and culture; early modern women's studies; gender studies
Lutz Koepnick
Chair and Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Film and Media Studies; Comparative Literature
critical theory and aesthetics; German literature and film; media history and theory; visual culture
Joe Loewenstein
Professor of English
Renaissance literature; book culture
Erin McGlothlin
Associate Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Comparative Literature
Holocaust studies; Jewish studies; narrative theory and autobiography; postwar and contemporary German-Jewish literature; Yiddish literature
Stamos Metzidakis
Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures (French); Comparative Literature
19th- and 20th-century literature (poetry); French-American colonial history and culture; literary theory; visual aspects of poetry