Rutgers University :: Program in Comparative Literature

Faculty Spotlight

Comparative Literature welcomes two new faculty, beginning Fall 2009.

Andrew Parker, Professor of English at Amherst College will be Visiting Professor of French and Comparative Literature, 2008-2009.

Emily Van Buskirk (Ph.D. Harvard) will be a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures, but will do her graduate teaching in Comparative Literature.

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Student Job Placements

In 2008-2009, FIVE Comparative Literature graduate students secured jobs.

Ignacio Infante, Chad Loewen-Schmidt, Christopher Rivera, Josh Beall, Barbara Hamilton

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Contact Us

Comparative Literature
195 College Avenue
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1062
Phone: (732) 932-7606
Fax: (732) 932-2041
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Graduate Director: Elin Diamond
Undergrad Director: César Braga-Pinto
Admin Assistant: Marilyn Tankiewicz

Directors & Staff

Graduate Director

Elin Diamond

Professor of English
Director of the Graduate Program
in Comparative Literature

Professor Diamond is the author of Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater (1997) and Pinter's Comic Play (1985); she is also the editor of Performance and Cultural Politics (1996). Her many journal publications include essays on seventeenth and twentieth century drama, and Freudian, Brechtian, and feminist theory. Her work continually explores the connection between performance and feminist or critical theory, using texts from early modernism through postmodern art. She is currently at work on a book on modernism and transatlantic performance.

Undergraduate Director

César Braga-Pinto

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Undergraduate Director in Comparative Literature
Cesar Braga Pinto

Professor Braga-Pinto is the author of As Promessas da História: Discursos Proféticos e Assimilação no Brasil Colonial. (2003) and the editor of Ligeiros Traços: escritos de juventude, de José Lins do Rego (2007). His current teaching and research interests include the relationship between discourses on mestizaje, friendship and cordiality in post-abolition Brazil. He also teaches and publishes on Lusophone African literature, US/Brazil comparative race relations, Latin American intellectual history and "Comparative Literature: the Discipline and the Profession".

Administrative Assistant

Marilyn Tankiewicz

Administrative Assistant
Comparative Literature

Marilyn Tankiewicz is responsible for managing the administrative office with regard to graduates, undergraduates and the business operations of the department. She is the main contact for Comparative Literature.

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