Corey Clawson (B.A. in English Literature (2009) from Utah State University)

Research Interests: Queer/lgbtq, postcolonial, telveision, and cinema studies, questions of transnational influence, translation theory, poetry, literatures in Portuguese, Spanish, and English

Enmanuel Martínez (B.A., Cum Laude, with Distinction in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and Latin American and Latino Studies (2011) from the University of Pennsylvania)

Research Interests: Caribbean Studies; Latin American and U.S. Latino/a literature and history; Trans/Queer theory; and Postcolonial trauma studies

Lina Qu (B.A. and M.A. in English Literature at Peking University in People's Republic of China)

Research Interests: Feminist Theories and how to integrate contemporary Chinese women writings into the panorama of women writings and women's movement in the globe

Carolyn Ureña  (A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 2008 and her M.A. in English Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2011)

Reserch Interests: Illness Narratives, Disability Studies and Medical Humanities; Cinema Studies; Critical Caribbean Studies; and Critical Theory

Nadia Alahmed (Birzeit University, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Research interests: The Black Arts Movement and the Palestinian Poetry of Resistance, 19th Century Slavic Literature (Russian and Ukrainian), nationalism, resistance literature, post-colonial theory.

Maria Beliaeva (B.A. in English and French Honors from UBC, Canada)

Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century English, French, Russian literature, poetry and poetics; continental philosophy; the European fin-de-siècle; nationalisms; colonialism; exile and the absurd.

Jinhwa Lee (B.A. in English Literature (2004) from Seoul National University; M. A. in Comparative Literature (2007) from Seoul National University)

Research Interests: queer/lgbtq, postcolonial, urban, trauma studies. translation theory. 20c English, American, Korean, Japanese literatures. women's writings. witness narratives. modernity. World Wars.

Lidia Levkovitch (B.A., Spanish Language and Literature, Rutgers University; B.S., Computer Science, Drexel University)

Research interests: Russian literature in the late 20th and 21st century, translations of poetry, "real maravilloso", immigration and diasporas

Brendan Rabon (M.A. in Classical Languages from the University of Georgia and B.A. in Classics from New College of Florida)

Research Interests: Greek and Latin poetry, Early Modern reception of classical texts, Neo-Latin poetry, translation theory, intertextuality, pastoral poetry.

Huseyin Ekrem Ulus (B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature at Ege University)

Research Interests include Myths, Mythopoesis, Critical Theory and Translation.

Tara Coleman (B.A. in Comparative Literature from Barnard College and M.A. Philosophy in English Literary Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Research Interests: 20th century English, Chinese and French literatures, global modernisms, postcolonial studies, literary theory

Ben De Witte (Major in philosophy (2004) from Ghent University, and joint M.A. in English and American Literature & Women's and Gender Studies (2009) from Brandeis University)

Research Interests: Queer/gay/lesbian studies, literary theory and criticism

Matthew Mangold (B.A. St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD; Certificate of Russian Studies, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Research Interests: 19th Century French and Russian poetry, representations of the city, carnival

Louis Segura (B.A. from UC Santa Cruz in Modern Literary Studies)

Research Interests:  The political and moral repercussions of witnessing and literary representations of trauma, Philosophy of Language, Narrative Theory, Holocaust Literature, 19th Century French Poetry, Latin American Jewish Studies

Vaughn Anderson (B.A. from Vassar College '07)

Research Interests:  20th-Century Andean fiction, science fiction, and literary urbanism

Lauren Fanelli (B.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. in poetry from American University)

Research Interests: 20th-Century global poetry, modern women's fiction, Italian literature, and feminist theory

Chia-Chieh  (Mavis) Tseng (M.A. in Foreign Literatures from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Research Interests: Urban literature, gender studies, psychoanalysis and critical theory

Caroline Godart (B.A. from Université Libre de Bruxelles and an M.A. in English and Women's Studies from Brandeis University)

Research Interests: Contemporary women's cinema and literature, feminist theory

Anna Maria Kager (Doctoral (equivalent of BA and MA combined) in Comparative Literature, August 2005, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Research Interests: Language and national identity; the 20th century novel; modernist fiction; dialect writing; Irish literature

Alessio Lerro (B.A./M.A.: Laurea in Lettere Moderne, University of Bologna, Italy 2005).

Research Interests: Giambattista Vico, Baroque Art and Literature. Aesthetics and Rhetoric Philosophy and Literature. Italian Modernism and F. T. Marinetti. German Romanticism, Theory of tropes

Steven Gonzagowski (M.A. Dartmouth College, 2005)

Research Interests: Lusophone and Hispanic literature, Psychoanalytical Approaches to Literature, Masculinity and Gender Studies, Travel Narratives

Neil Pischner (B.A. Boston University, 1996; MA SUNY Center Albany, 2006)

Research Interests:  Peru, performance studies, ecocriticism 

Research Interests: British and French literature, 19th-century novels, women's writing, translation, narrative

Hugo Rios (B.A., Comparative Literature, M.A., English Education, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez)

Research Interests include film and literature, contemporary world cinema, early cinema, European silent film

Diane DeLauro

Research Interests: Information forthcoming

Krisztina Domjan (M.A. in literature and linguistics, Janus Pannonius University, Pécs; M.A. in comparative literature, Rutgers)

Research Interests: Postcolonial and postmodern parody, 20th century. novel, gender studies

Caroline Godart (B.A. from Université Libre de Bruxelles and an M.A. in English and Women's Studies from Brandeis University)

Research Interests: Contemporary women's cinema and literature, feminist theory

Yu-I Yvette Hsieh (BA from National Taiwan University, MCIS from Rutgers University)

Research Interests: Science fiction, history of science, critical theories, East Asian popular culture, Gothic literature, queer modernism.

Anna Maria Kager (Doctoral (equivalent of BA and MA combined) in Comparative Literature, August 2005, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Research Interests: Language and national identity; the 20th century novel; modernist fiction; dialect writing; Irish literature

Alessio Lerro (B.A./M.A.: Laurea in Lettere Moderne, University of Bologna, Italy 2005).

Research Interests: Giambattista Vico, Baroque Art and Literature. Aesthetics and Rhetoric Philosophy and Literature. Italian Modernism and F. T. Marinetti. German Romanticism, Theory of tropes

Jacqueline Loeb (B.A. in English and Spanish from Binghamton, The State University of New York and M.A. in comparative literature from Rutgers University)

Research Interests:  Psychoanalysis, Jewish mystical writing, postmodern literature

Liesl Owens (B.S. Biology Juniata College, PA.; M.A. Spanish Temple University, PA)

Research Interests: Contemporary Caribbean Literature, Historical Fiction, Post-Colonialism, Globalization, Early Modern Dictionaries

Shirli Sela-Levavi (B.A. from Tel-Aviv University 1988-1992; MA from Tele-Aviv University, 1993-2001)

Research Interests: Jewish literature, more specifically, Jewish-American and Hebrew immigrant and travel literature and the interface between Hebrew and Yiddish literature in the beginning of the 20th century

Sergey Toymentsev (M.A. Kazan State University, 2000 & European Humanities University, 2002)

Research Interests: French Theory (Blanchot, Foucault, Deleuze, Barthes)

Mary Jo Watts (B.A. from The University of Tulsa in French, 1992; M.A. from Rutgers in Comparative Literature, 1996)

Research Interests: New media, Web 2.0, instructional technology, the intellectual history of comparative literature, theories of reading