Executive Committee Member

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
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
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
Marvin Marcus
Associate Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Wolfram Schmidgen
Associate Professor, Department of English
Comparative Literature
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