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Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed

Dept of Comparative Literature

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Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Judith Butler

Dept of Comparative Literature

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature

Anthony J,, Cascardi

Anthony J. Cascardi

Dept of Comparative Literature

comparative literature, literature, aesthetics, early modern literature, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Spanish Baroque

Timothy Hampton in an outdoor setting

Timothy Hampton

Dept of Comparative Literature

culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, the romance languages, the ideology of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, the rhetoric of historiography

Victoria Kahn

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

rhetoric, comparative literature, Renaissance literature, poetics, early modern political theory, the Frankfurt School

Robert Kaufman

Dept of Comparative Literature

modern poetry, aesthetics, literary theory, history of criticism, Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Leslie Kurke

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Dept of Comparative Literature

classics, Greek literature and culture, archaic Greek poetry, Herodotus, Aesop, Ancient Greek popular culture

Niklaus Largier sitting in office

Niklaus Largier

Dept of Comparative Literature

theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature.

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Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies

From I. L. Peretz's "Di toyte shtot"

Roni Masel

Dept of Comparative Literature

Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory

Tom McEnaney in outside setting

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, media studies, radio, 20th century American literature, architecture, linguistic anthropology, digital humanities

Ramsey McGlazer standing in outside environment

Ramsey McGlazer

Dept of Comparative Literature

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Eric Naiman

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel

Beth Piatote

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

Native American studies

Sophie Volpp standing in outside setting.

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists

Dora Zhang in outside environment

Dora Zhang

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain, 20th and 21st century U.S., Asian American literature, affect theory, critical theory, philosophy and literature