Faculty
The Department of Comparative Literature is administered by a core of permanently appointed faculty members as well as faculty drawn from related departments serving fixed-term appointments. Additional affiliated faculty work with our students as teachers and mentors. We are a close collective whose diverse interests, in their aggregate, define a core of inquiry both open and coherent. The titles listed below—of book projects completed and ongoing—are representative of these interests.
- In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt
- Picturing the World: The Global Routes of Early Cinema, 1896-1903
- Pensando com Saba Mahmood: Aprensentação (co-edited)
- Lingua Franca: Toward a Philology of the Sea (co-edited)
- Reading Secularism: Religion, Literature, Aesthetics (edited)
- Homeless Tongues: Poetry & Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora
- “Jewish Latin American Identity and Cultural Production”
- Poe e Rosa à Luz da Cabala
- Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations
- Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
- Theatricalities of Power: The Cultural Politics of Noh
- Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
- Performing Japanese Women
- Fatherland: Novalis, Freud and the Discipline of Romance
- Affecting Grace: Theatre, Subject and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist
- The Long Century’s Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
- Peripheral Visions: The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema (edited)
- “Es trübt mein Auge sich in Glück und Licht”: Über den Blick in der Literatur (co-edited)
- The Idea of the Forest: German and American Perspectives on the Culture and Politics of Trees (co-edited)
- The Edge of Knowing: Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature
- Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
- Intermedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen. Co-edited with Rajinder Dudrah, Anustup Basu and Amit Rai
- Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Film Music. Co-edited with Sujata Moorti
- Writing at Russia’s Border
- A Woman’s Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia
- Imperial Lyric: New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain
- Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds (co-edited with Anthony J. Cascardi)
- Amphion: Lyre, Poiesis, and Politics in Modernity
- Resonant Niñas: Velázquez, Picasso, and Women Gazed at In Time (in progress)
- Forms of Disappointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative After the Cold War
- Alternate Empires in the Lusophone World (in progress)
- Beyond the Flesh: Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist Sublimation
- Catastrophic Modernism: Russian Writing between Etna and Vesuvius
- If Babel Had a Form: Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific
- Unfinished Translation: The Promise of Transpacific Relation
- Just Translation, or, How Does a Translation Lay Claim to Justice?