Literature

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Professors

Mohammad Kazim Ali, MFA, Creative Writing

Alain J.-J. Cohen, PhD, Comparative Literature and Film Studies

Cristina Della Coletta, PhD, Italian Literature; Dean, School of Arts and Humanities

Page duBois, PhD, Classics and Comparative Literature

Todd C. Kontje, PhD, German and Comparative Literature

Lisa Lampert-Weissig, PhD, English and Comparative Medieval Studies

Seth Lerer, PhD, English and Comparative Literature

Ping-hui Liao, PhD, Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies

Daisuke Miyao, PhD, Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature

Shelley Streeby, PhD, American Literature

Daniel J. Vitkus, PhD, Rebeca Hickel Chair in Early Modern Literature

Yingjin Zhang, PhD, Chinese and Comparative Literature and Film Studies

Oumelbanine Zhiri, PhD, French Literature

Associate Professors

John D. Blanco, PhD, Literatures of the Americas

Amy Sara Carroll, PhD, Literature, Creative Writing

Gloria E. Chacon, PhD, Indigenous Literatures of the Americas

Dennis Childs, PhD, African American Literature and Culture

Ben Doller, MFA, Creative Writing, Poetry, and Poetics

Camille Forbes, PhD, Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and Culture

Amelia Glaser, PhD, Slavic and Comparative Literature

Lily Hoang, MFA, Literature, Creative Writing

Sara E. Johnson, PhD, Comparative Literature

Dayna Kalleres, PhD, Early Christian Literature and Religious Studies

Jin-Kyung Lee, PhD, Comparative Asian Literature and Culture

Margaret Loose, PhD, English Victorian Literature and Culture

Luis Martin-Cabrera, PhD, Spanish Peninsular and Latin American Literature

Hoang Nguyen, PhD, Literature, Cultural Studies

Sarah Nicolazzo, PhD, Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Max Parra, PhD, Mexican and Latin American Literature

Babak Rahimi, PhD, Islamic and Religious Studies

Anna Joy Springer, MFA, Creative Writing and Literary Arts

Erin Suzuki, PhD, Asian American and Pacific Island Literatures

Megan E. Wesling, PhD, US Literatures

Associate Teaching Professors (LSOE)

Geraldine Fiss, PhD, East Asian Literature

Jaclyn Jemc, MFA, Creative Writing

Assistant Professors

Carol Arcos Herrera, PhD, Latin American Culture, Gender, and Sexualities Studies

Amanda Batarseh, PhD, Arabic and Comparative Literature

Edward Kelting, PhD, Mediterranean Studies, Latin Literature

Joo Ok Kim, PhD, English Literature

Andrea Mendoza, PhD, Japanese and Comparative Literature

Jacobo Myerston, PhD, Classics and Comparative Literature

Ariana Ruiz, PhD, Chicanx Studies

Brandon Som, PhD, Literature, Creative Writing

Ameeth Vijay, PhD, Modern and Contemporary Global Literatures in English

Kathryn Walkiewicz, PhD, Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures of the United States

Professors Emeriti

Rae Armantrout, MA

Ronald S. Berman, PhD

Robert Cancel, PhD

Steven Cassedy, PhD

Jaime Concha, PhD

Charles R. Cooper, PhD

Stephen D. Cox, PhD

R. Michael Davidson, PhD

Abraham J. Dijkstra, PhD

Anthony Edwards, PhD

Margit Frenk, PhD

Richard Elliot Friedman, ThD

Marcel Hénaff, PhD

Fanny Q. Howe

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, PhD

Stephanie H. Jed, PhD

Susan Kirkpatrick, PhD

Lisa M. Lowe, PhD

James K. Lyon, PhD

George Mariscal, PhD

Louis Adrian Montrose, PhD

Eileen Myles, BA

Roy Harvey Pearce, PhD

Roddey Reid, PhD

Jerome D. Rothenberg, MA

Rosaura Sánchez, PhD

Kathryn Shevelow, PhD

William S. Tay, PhD

Nicole Tonkovich, PhD

Quincy Troupe

Pasquale Verdicchio, PhD

Donald T. Wesling, PhD

Wai-lim Yip, PhD

Associate Professors Emeriti

Jack Behar, PhD

Richard S. Cohen, PhD

David K. Crowne, PhD

Thomas K. Dunseath, PhD

Milos Kokotovic, PhD

William A. O’Brien, PhD

Fred V. Randel, PhD

Marta E. Sánchez, PhD

Cynthia Walk, PhD

Don Edward Wayne, PhD

Winifred Woodhull, PhD

Lecturers

Adriana de Marchi-Gherini, PhD, Italian Language and Literature

Jeyseon Lee, PhD, Korean Language

Catherine Ploye, PhD, French Language and Literature

Rebecca Wells, CPhil, Russian Language and Literature