Robert Chi , Assistant Professor (Ph.D., 2001, Harvard University)
1. Modern Chinese literature, cinema, and culture;
2. History and memory.

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Román de la Campa , Professor (Ph.D., 1976, University of Minnesota)
1. Contemporary theories of criticism;
2. Latin American literature;
3. Latino culture and literature.

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Krin Gabbard , Professor (Ph.D., 1979, Indiana University)
1. Film theory and history, jazz, interrelations of literature, art, music and film, comparative literature methodology, psychoanalytic approaches to the arts;
2. Ancient Greek literature, drama, literary theory.

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Robert Harvey , Professor (Ph.D., 1988, University of California, Berkeley)
1. 20th-century and contemporary literature in French and English;
2. Critical theory, film.

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E. Ann Kaplan , Professor (Ph.D., 1970, Rutgers University)
1. Contemporary theory, esp. re. film, literature and popular culture;
2. Psychoanalysis, postmodernism;
3. Gender and cultural studies.

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Ira Livingston , Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1990 Standford University)
1. Poetics;
2. Cultural theory, science studies;
3. Romanticism.

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Sandy Petrey , Professor (Ph.D., 1966, Yale University)
1. Nineteenth-century fiction, theories of the novel;
2. Contemporary criticism.

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Ilona Rashkow , Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1988, University of Maryland)
1. Literature and politics, modern theoretical approaches to the Hebrew Bible, Renaissance literature;
2. Comparative literature methodology, translation theory, feminist literary criticism.

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Louise O. Vasvari , Professor (Ph.D., 1969, University of California, Berkeley)
1. Medieval literature, literature and folklore, literature and linguistics, translation theory, Romance philology;
2. Semiology, art and literature, sexuality and literature.

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Affiliated Faculty:

Ruth B. Bottigheimer , Adjunct Professor (D.A., 1981, SUNY/Stony Brook)
1. Tale collections, childrens literature, fairy tales;
2. Socio-cultural analysis of literature.
 

Lou Charnon-Deutsch , Professor (Ph.D., 1978, University of Chicago)
1. 18th- and 19th-century Peninsular literature;
2.Feminist theory.

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William C. Chittick , Professor (Ph.D., 1973, Tehran University)
1. Sufism, Islamic thought, Persian literature;
2. Arabic literature, Islam in India, Comparative mysticism.
 

Izabela Kalinowska , Assistant Professor (Ph.D., 1998, Yale University)
1. Russian and Polish Literature;
2. Culture and Film.

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Joaquin Martínez-Pizzaro , Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1976, Harvard University)
1. Medieval literary history;
2. Classical and medieval backgrounds.
 

Clyde Lee Miller , Professor (Ph.D., 1974, Yale University)
1. History of Philosophy.

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Nicholas Mirzoeff , Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1990 Warwick University)
1. Modern art and visual culture;
2. History of photography.
 

Sachiko Murata , Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1971, Tehran University)
1. Islamic law, Persian literature, feminine spirituality;
2. Islamic thought, Japanese religions, Confucianism and Taoism.
 

Kelly Oliver , Professor (Ph.D., 1987, Northwestern University)
1. 20th-century French philiosophy;
2. Continental feminist philosophy; Nietzsche.

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Sung-Bae Park , Professor (Ph.D., 1978, University of California, Berkeley)
1. Korean religions--Wonhyo, Chinul and Toegye, clasical Chinese literature;
2. East Asian religions and philosophy, Chan and Hua-yen literature, Buddhist philosophy and NeoConfucianism.
 

Jacqueline Reich , Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1994, University of California, Berkeley)
1. Italian cinema;
2. Film theory; gender theory.
 

Nicholas Rzhevsky , Professor (Ph.D., 1972, Princeton University)
1. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, Russian literature and ideology, Russian literature and theater;
2. Ideology, critical theory, history of the novel.
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Hugh J. Silverman , Professor (Ph.D., 1973, Stanford University)
1. Contemporary literary/art/film/cultural theory,
2. Continental philosophy and criticism; Interdisciplinary studies in philosophy, literature and culture; History of literary and aesthetic theory; the philosophical essay.

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Benigno Trigo , Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1992, Yale University)
1. Nineteenth-Century Spanish American literarture;
2. Contemporary Literary Theory; Modernism; Cultural and Gender Studies

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The specialties of faculty are listed in two categories: 1) field(s) of specialization and principal areas of scholarly publication; 2) more general areas of scholarship (comparative, or other) in which the faculty member is sufficiently interested to be willing to serve as an examiner or as a member of a Ph.D. Dissertation Committee.