Literature

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Professors

Mohammad Kazim Ali, MFA, Creative Writing

John D. Blanco, PhD, Literatures of the Americas

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

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

Amelia Glaser, PhD, Slavic and Comparative Literature

Lily Hoàng, MFA, Literature, Creative Writing

Sara E. Johnson, PhD, Comparative Literature

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

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

Oumelbanine Zhiri, PhD, French Literature

Ping Zhu, PhD, Transnational Chinese/Sinophone Literary, Film, and Media Studies

Teaching Professor

Jaclyn Jemc, MFA, Creative Writing

Associate Professors

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

Dayna Kalleres, PhD, Early Christian Literature and Religious Studies

Joo Ok Kim, PhD, English Literature

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

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

Ainsley Morse, PhD, Slavic Literature, Translation Studies, Creative Writing

Jacobo Myerston, PhD, Classics and Comparative Literature

Hoang Nguyen, PhD, Literature, Cultural Studies

Babak Rahimi, PhD, Islamic and Religious Studies

Brandon Som, PhD, Literature, Creative Writing

Anna Joy Springer, MFA, Creative Writing and Literary Arts

Erin Suzuki, PhD, Asian American and Pacific Island Literatures

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

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

Megan E. Wesling, PhD, US Literatures

Associate Teaching Professors

Ryan Bessett, PhD, Spanish Language and Literature

Géraldine Fiss, PhD, East Asian Literature

Assistant Professors

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

Gabriel Bámgbóṣé, PhD, African and Comparative Literature

Amanda Batarseh, PhD, Arabic and Comparative Literature

José Carvajal Regidor, PhD, Spanish and Comparative Literature

Amrita Dhar, PhD, Early Modern Literature

Devin Garofalo, PhD, Nineteenth-Century English Literature

Edward Kelting, PhD, Mediterranean Studies, Latin Literature

Casandra Lopez, MFA, Creative Writing

Lillian Lu, PhD, English Literature and Cultural Studies

Andrea Mendoza, PhD, Japanese and Comparative Literature

Silpa Mukherjee, PhD, Film and Media, Global South, and Cultural Studies

Ariana Ruíz, PhD, Chicanx Studies

Jorge Sánchez Cruz, PhD, Latin American Literature and Culture

Nadia Villafuerte, PhD, Central American, Mexican, and Latinx Literature and Culture, Creative Writing

Marco Wilkinson, MFA, Creative Writing

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

Page duBois, 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

Todd C. Kontje, PhD

Seth Lerer, PhD

Lisa M. Lowe, PhD

James K. Lyon, PhD

Jorge 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

Yingjin Zhang, PhD

Associate Professors Emeriti

Jack Behar, PhD

Richard S. Cohen, PhD

David K. Crowne, PhD

Thomas K. Dunseath, PhD

Milos Kokotovic, PhD

Margaret Loose, PhD

William A. O’Brien, PhD

Max Parra, 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

Eva Fischer-Grunski, German Language

Jeyseon Lee, PhD, Korean Language

Kourtney Murray, PhD, Ancient Greek and Latin Languages, Classical and Mediterranean Studies

Catherine Ploye, PhD, French Language and Literature

Rebecca Wells, CPhil, Russian Language and Literature