Department Faculty
Michael Allan
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Research and teaching interests include: Arabic and Francophone literature, Postcolonial studies, Cinema, Literary theory, and Secularism.
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Steven T. Brown
Professor, Comparative Literature
Research interests include posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.
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Kenneth Calhoon
Professor, Comparative Literature and German
Research interests include Enlightenment, Romanticism, aesthetics, literary theory, film studies
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Karen Emmerich
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Research interests include the material aspects of both poetry and translation and the overlap in the tasks of the editor and the translator, particularly with regard to the instability of literary works.
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Lisa Freinkel
Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature
Department Head, Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature
Interests include Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, theology and contemplative studies, digital humanities, history of philosophy, psychoanalysis and literary theory.
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Warren Ginsberg
Professor, English
I am especially interested in examining the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of cross-cultural translation in Chaucer's works.
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Sangita Gopal
Associate Professor, English
Postcolonial Theory and Literature, South Asian Visual and Cultural Studies
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Katya Hokanson
Associate Professor, Russian and Comparative Literature
Director, Russian and East European Studies Program
Research interests include 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.
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Leah Middlebrook
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director of Pedagogy, Comparative Literature
Early modern Spanish and French literature and culture, lyric poetry, comparative literature.
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Jenifer Presto
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Russian
Research and teaching interests: 20th-century Russian literature, modernism, gender, poetry, cultural studies
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