Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Han dynasty literary and material culture; ancient cross-cultural exchange (‘silk road’); economic literature; gender and sexuality studies; Chinese and Greek historiography
Core Faculty
Arnold Davidson
Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the Divinity School
History of contemporary European philosophy and literature; history of moral and political philosophy; history of the human sciences; history and philosophy of religion.
Frederick A. De Armas
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Comparative Literature and Spanish Literature
Golden Age Spanish literature; Renaissance studies; magic and the Hermetic tradition; ekphrasis; relations between Spanish Literature and Italian Art; and the interconnections between myth and empire during the rule of the Spanish Habsburgs
Loren Kruger
Professor of English, Comparative Literature, Theater and Performance Studies and African Studies
Theory and history of drama and performance in Europe, Africa and the Americas; cultural theory mostly marxist and post colonial; (South) African literature and visual culture: GDR and contemporary Germany
Boris (Rodin) Maslov
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Archaic Greek poetry and its reception; the Medieval Christian East; 20th-century Russian prose; comparative poetics; genre and narrative theory.
Françoise Meltzer
Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Professor in the Divinity School and the College, and Chair of Comparative Literature
Literary theory; psychoanalysis and literature; 19th-century German and French literature; French Symbolism and philosophy.
Michael J. Murrin
Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature, and the Divinity School
Renaissance and medieval literatures; epic and allegory; warfare, epic, and empire.
Thomas Pavel
Professor (Romance Languages and Literatures), Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor
17th-century French Literature; 20th-century French literature and intellectual history; poetics and history of fiction; interactions between literary criticism, linguistics and philosophy
Lawrence Rothfield
Associate Professor, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature; Research Affiliate, Cultural Policy Center
19th-century British and French fiction; the novel; critical theory; literature and the human sciences; cultural studies.
Haun Saussy
University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Classical Chinese poetry and commentary; literary theory; comparative study of oral traditions; problems of translation; pre-twentieth-century media history; ethnography and ethics of medical care.
Joshua Scodel
Helen A. Regenstein Professor, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature, and Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
Renaissance and 18th-century literature, especially poetry; genre theory; philosophic traditions and early modern literature; history of criticism.
Michael Sells
John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School
Ghazal and other forms of lyric poetry; mystical literature; qur'an; classical Arabic poetry; sacred texts, violence, and the religious imagination.
Yuri Tsivian
William Colvin Professor, Departments of Art History, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Comparative Literature, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and the College; Chair, Department of Cinema and Media Studies.
Russian silent film; film and media studies; cultural studies; Russian formalism; Russian symbolism.
David E. Wellbery
LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Departments of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought
Aesthetics; Semiotics; Rhetoric; German Romanticism.
David Wray
Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and the College, Director of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities
Greek, Roman, early modern French, and 20th-century American poetry and poetics; gender; theory and practice of literary translation; ancient and modern relations between literature and philosophy.