Comparative Literature Faculty

Rosemary Arrojo, Professor Emerita

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

 

Jeroen Gerrits, Associate Professor

BA, Fontys Academy of Journalism; MA, University of Amsterdam; PhD, Johns Hopkins University

University Award for Outstanding Graduate Director, 2019-2020

Affiliated: Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Specialty: Gilles Deleuze; Stanley Cavell; Film Adaptation; World Cinema; Surrealism; Time in Lit & Film; Philosophy of New Media

Cullen Goldblatt, Assistant Professor

MFA, Sarah Lawrence College; PhD University of California Berkeley

Specialty: African Literatures; Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; Queer Studies; Wolof Literature; French and Francophone Studies

William W. Haver, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Chicago

 

Brett S. Levinson, Professor

BA, Oberlin College; MA, Bryn Mawr College; PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Affiliated: Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS)

Specialty: Latin American literature and cultural studies; postcolonial studies; continental philosophy; psychoanalysis; literary theory and third cinema

Giovanna Montenegro, Associate Professor

BFA, San Francisco Art Institute; MA, San Francisco State University; PhD, University of California at Davis

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP); Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS)

Luiza F. Moreira, Professor

MA, University of São Paulo (distinção e louvor); PhD, Cornell University

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH); Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS), Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Specialty: World literature; 20th Brazilian literature and history

Neil Christian Pages, Associate Professor

PhD, New York University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005-2006

Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit, Professor

BA, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, Cornell University

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Russian and East European Program (REEP)

Tarek Shamma, Associate Professor

MA, PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Kaitlyn Sorenson, Assistant Professor

MA, PhD, University of Chicago

 

Alexander Sorenson, Lecturer

MA, PhD, University of Chicago

Specialty: Environmental Humanities and ecocriticism; German literature and culture of the long 19th century; continental philosophy, literary theory