Comparative Literature Faculty
Jeroen Gerrits
Associate Professor; Graduate Director; TRIP Courtesy Title
Comparative Literature; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Teaching Interests
- Recently taught courses and seminars include: Gilles Deleuze; Stanley Cavell; Film Adaptation; World Cinema; Surrealism; Time in Lit & Film; Philosophy of New Media
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Cullen Goldblatt
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- African literatures in French, Wolof, and English
- Canon formation
- Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
- Queer and Feminist Theory
- Translation
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Michael Kelly
Lecturer
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- The social and religious history of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
- "Fall" of the Roman Empire
- The relationship between history, law and literature
- Philosophy of history / Historical Theory
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Brett S. Levinson
Professor
Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- Latin American literature and cultural studies
- Postcolonial studies
- Continental philosophy
- Psychoanalysis
- Literary theory
- Third cinema
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Giovanna Montenegro
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages; Director of LACAS
Comparative Literature; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program
Research Interests
- Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean
- Environment
- Material and Visual Culture
- Cartography
- Indigenous and Maroon Studies
- Public Humanities
- Digital Humanities
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Luiza F. Moreira
Chair; Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Comparative Literature; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
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Neil Christian Pages
Associate Professor
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Germanophone and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures
- European Cultural History, Commemorative Practices
- Translation
- Comparative Modernisms
- Text and Image, the Habsburg Empire
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Tarek Shamma
Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Research and Instruction Program, Undergraduate Director Comp Lit
Comparative Literature
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Alexander Sorenson
Lecturer
German and Russian Studies; Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- German literature and thought ca. 1800-1917
- Literary, philosophical, and artistic accounts of the relation between human communities and the natural world (ecocriticism, nature writing, eco-phenomenology, posthumanism, etc.)
- Modern European intellectual and cultural history
- Convergences between the natural and human sciences
Teaching Interests
- German language and literature
- European literature, culture and thought
- Cultural, literary and critical theory
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Kaitlyn Sorenson
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- Central and Eastern European literature and social thought
- Critical Theory
- Yugoslav neo-avant-garde movements
- Late Socialism
- The Non-Aligned Movement
- Canonicity in Continental Philosophy
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