Comparative Literature Faculty

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

Research Interests

• African literatures in French, Wolof, and English
• Canon formation
• Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
• Queer and Feminist Theory
• Translation

Research Interests

• Chinese/Sinophone Literary and Cultural Studies
• Chinese/Sinophone Art, Cinema, and Media
• Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities
• Environmental Studies and Media Ecology
• Sound Studies and Auditory Culture

Teaching Interests

• Media Studies
• Critical Theory
• Contemporary World Cinema
• Comparative Literature, Film and Media

Research Interests

• Latin American literature and cultural studies
• Postcolonial studies
• Continental philosophy
• Psychoanalysis
• Literary theory
• Third cinema

Research Interests

• Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean
• Environment
• Material and Visual Culture
• Cartography
• Indigenous and Maroon Studies
• Public Humanities
• Digital Humanities

Research Interests

• World literature
• Brazilian literature
• Literature of the Americas
• Literature and history

Research Interests

• Germanophone and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures
• European Cultural History, Commemorative Practices
• Translation
• Comparative Modernisms
• Text and Image, the Habsburg Empire

Research Interests

• Translation and Culture
• Orientalism and Postcolonial Studies
• Cultural Studies
• The Arabian Nights
• The Bible in Islamic Cultures

Research Interests

• 16th- and 17th-century English drama
• Theater studies
• Gender studies
• Reception and adaptation studies
• History of the book

Teaching Interests

• Drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
• Classics (in translation)
• Traditions and canons of "world 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