Ousseina Alidou (Ph.D. Indiana U. at Bloomington)

African literature and folklore; African and comparative women's studies.

Edyta Bojanowska (Ph.D. Harvard U., Cambridge)

Nineteenth-century Russian literature and cultural history; empire and nationalism studies; post colonial theory; Polish literature.

César Braga-Pinto (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley)

Brazilian literature; Latin American critical theories; post-colonial theories; Lusophone African literature and film; Discourses on mestizaje.

Elin Diamond (Ph.D., U. C. Davis)

Drama and performance; dramatic theory and critical theory; feminism and gender studies.

M. Josephine Diamond (Ph.D., Cornell)

The Renaissance, 19th Century Literature and Culture, Feminist Theory, Literature and Anthropology, postcolonial theory, and literature by South Asian writers.

Uri Eisenzweig (Ph.D., Université Paris VIII-Vincennes)

French literature; literary theory; Western literature of the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley)

Feminist theory; cinema and cultural studies; World War II and Holocaust; television and contemporary culture; theories of national identity; French cinema & culture

Michael Levine (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University).

Nineteenth and Twentieth century German literature, literary theory, and intellectual history. Intersections among literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic discourses;Holocaust Studies

Jorge Marcone (Ph.D., Texas)

Spanish American literature: writing and environment, literacy and orality. Ecocriticism, political ecology and environmental history

Susan Martin-Márquez (Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania)

Modern Spanish Peninsular cultural studies and Spanish-language film; Cinema Studies.

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley).

Hispanic Caribbean, and Latino Literature; Literary Theory, Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Migration Studies; Latin American Literature.

Nicholas Rennie (Ph.D., Yale)

Literature of the Enlightenment and the Age of Goethe; Modern aesthetics and intellectual history; The Frankfurt School; The 20th-century German novel

Paul Schalow (Ph.D., Harvard)

Japanese literature (Edo period); gender and sexuality in Japanese literature; Japanese women's writing

Richard Serrano (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley)

Maghrebi and Sub-Saharan African Literatures in French, modern French poetry, the Qur'an and Arabic poetry, Chinese poetry (especially Tang and Qing), Korean poetry.

Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui (Ph.D., Yale)

Latino/a Literature and Culture, XXth-Century Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, gender theory and sexuality studies, and psychoanalysis.

James Swenson (Ph.D., Yale)

Eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history; twentieth-century criticism and theory.

Alessandro Vettori (Dott. in Lettere, Firenze; Ph.D, Yale)

Medieval poetry and Dante,  The Re-writing of Biblical Texts in Literary Texts of the Italian Tradition,  The Devil in European Culture, Autobiography.

Janet Walker   (Ph.D., Harvard)

The novel from its European beginnings to its transformations by East, South, and Southeast Asian writers; hybrid modernity in material culture, literature, and the arts; modern Japanese fiction and the West.

Steven Walker (Ph.D., Harvard)

Emily Van Buskirk (Ph.D., Harvard)

Stephen Bronner (Ph.D., California Berkeley)

Critical theory; political theory.

Abena Busia (Ph.D., St. Anthony's at Oxford)

African women in British and American fiction

Ed Cohen (Ph.D., Stanford)

Sexuality; health and healing; political philosophy; social theory; cultural history; transformational technologies; popular culture

Drucilla Cornell (J.D., U of California, Los Angeles Law School)

Contemporary continental thought, critical theory, grass-roots political and legal mobilization, jurisprudence, women's literature, feminism, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy.

Marianne DeKoven (Ph.D., Stanford)

Modernism and postmodernism, 20th-century and contemporary literature and culture, gender theory and criticism.

Pedro Erber (Ph.D., Cornell)

Jerry Aline Flieger (Ph.D., California at Berkeley)

Twentieth century and contemporary literature and theory, gender studies, psychoanalytic literary theory.

William Galperin (Ph.D., Brown)

Late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century British poetry and fiction; literary and cultural theory; film studies.

Paola Gambarota

Modern Italian Literature; theories of language and Nation; European pre-war avant-garde; film.

Mary Gossy (Ph.D., Harvard)

Spanish and Latin-American literature; feminist and critical theory; lesbian and gay literature.

Elizabeth Grosz (Ph.D., University of Sydney)

Feminist theory and philosophy.

Martha Helfer (Ph.D., Stanford University)

Myra Jehlen (Ph.D., California at Berkeley)

Transatlantic cultural relations, literature and history.

Elizabeth Leake (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley)

20th C Narrative and Theater, Fascist Italy, Italian Cinema, Early Danish Cinema

Michael McKeon (Ph.D., Columbia)

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature; critical theory; historical criticism.

Fatima Naqvi

German; Austrian literature and culture; film studies.

Gerald Pirog (Ph.D., Yale)

Slavic languages and literatures; critical theory; poetry.

Edward Portnoy (Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary)

Steve Reinert (Ph.D., UCLA)

Byzantine, Balkan, and Turkic history and culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Louis Sass (Ph.D., California at Berkeley)

Schizophrenia; assessment; philosophy of psychology; intersection of clinical psychology with philosophy, the arts, and literary studies.

Louisa Schein (Ph.D., California at Berkeley)

Cultural politics, ethnicity, nationalism and transnationalism; diaspora, gender and sexuality; representation, media, postcoloniality, postsocialism; China, Asian America.

Jeffrey Shandler ( Ph.D. Columbia University)

Yiddish language, literature and culture; Jews and media; Holocaust representation; Jews and visual culture; American Jewish vernacular culture.

Weijie Song (Ph.D., Columbia)

Modern Chinese Literature and Film, Cultural Studies, Sinophone and Diasporic writings.

Camilla Stevens ( Ph.D. University of Kansas)

Twentieth-century Spanish American drama, theater and performance theory; Caribbean cultural studies; contemporary Dominican theater and performance.

Ching-I Tu (Ph.D., Washington)

Chinese Poetry, Literary Criticism, Chinese Thought.

Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Ph.D, Harvard U.)

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century British, Irish, and Anglophone literatures; the history and theory of the novel; comparative modernisms; the new world literature; translation studies and the history of the book; cosmopolitanism; postcolonial theory; critical theory

Yael Zerubavel (Ph.D., Pennsylvania)

Collective memory; history and memory; Zionism and Hebrew national culture; myths and ritual; Modern Hebrew literature; Jewish immigrant literature.