Teaching Faculty 2009-10

	Title
Harriet Stone		Chair, Committee on Comparative Literature Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures (French); Comparative Literature 17th-century French studies; literature and ethics; science and aesthetics in early modern Europe; text and image
Nancy Berg		Director of Graduate Studies Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Hebrew); Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies; Comparative Literature genre literature; immigration literature; modern Hebrew & Arabic literatures; women's 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
Robert Hegel		Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Chinese) book culture; literature and ethics; legal writing; narrative forms and conventions in late imperial China (1500-1900); practices of reading and writing; translation of crime reports from China's last dynasty
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) 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		Chair, Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Persian); Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies; 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
Paul Michael Lützeler		Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative Literature 20th-century German and European literature (exile literature; contemporary German literature); cultural theories; European identity; German and European Romanticism; globalization; multiculturalism; postcolonialism; Postmodernism
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
Eva-Maria Russo		Specialist, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative Literature foreign language pedagogy and second language acquisition; 18th- through 20th-century German literature; gender studies; humor studies
Gerhild Williams		Barbara Schaps Thomas & David M. Thomas Professor of Humanities in Arts & Sciences Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative Literature early modern French and German daemonologies; late Middle Ages literature and history; Renaissance/Reformation; translation studies