Comparative Literature Program

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Core Faculty

Ousseina Alidou

Ousseina Alidou

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ousseina.alidou@rutgers.edu
Website - Ousseina Alidou
Women’s orality and literacy practices in African Muslim societies, African literature and folklore, African and comparative women's studies.
Nicola Behrmann

Nicola Behrmann

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behrmann@rutgers.edu
Website - Nicola Behrmann
Psychoanalysis, feminist theory, deconstruction, film and media studies, and focuses on early 20th century avant-gardes, autobiography and illness, aesthetics of the cut and the surface, and on the economies of labor and poverty
Karen Elizabeth Bishop

Karen Elizabeth Bishop

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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Undergraduate Director kebishop@rutgers.edu
Website - Karen Elizabeth Bishop
20th-21st century literatures in Spanish, English, and French; lyric; form; geopoetics; narratology; close reading; translation theory and practice; human rights; torture; theories of space and place; architecture and urban humanities.
Elin Diamond

Elin Diamond

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Website - Elin Diamond
Comparative Literature and Translation Studies; Critical and Literary Theory; Drama and Performance; Gender and Sexuality; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis

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Website - Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Feminist theory, film and cinema studies; World War II and Holocaust; television and contemporary culture; theories of national identity; French cinema & culture
Lauren Goodlad

Lauren Goodlad

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Website - Lauren Goodlad
Victorian and nineteenth-century literature and culture, artificial intelligence
Martha Helfer

Martha Helfer

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Website - Martha Helfer
Literature of the Age of Goethe, Romantic aesthetic and philosophical theories, German intellectual history (18th-20th-century), questions of gender and the construction of subjectivity, philosophical approaches to literature, representations of Jews in German critical discourse.
E. Khayyat

E. Khayyat

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Website - E. Khayyat
Philosophy of lilterature; religion and literature; modern European letters; cultural legacy of the late Ottoman Empire, Ottoman and modern Turkish; Oriental Jewry and Ladino; world literature.
Jeffrey Lawrence

Jeffrey Lawrence

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Website - Jeffrey Lawrence
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture; Latin American/Hemispheric studies
Michael Levine

Michael Levine

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Website - Michael Levine
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, literary theory and intellectual history. Intersections among literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic discourses; holocaust studies.
Preetha Mani

Preetha Mani

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Website - Preetha Mani
Modern Hindi and Tamil literature, Indian Literature, feminism and gender studies, world literature, translation studies, genre studies, postcolonial theory.
Jorge Marcone

Jorge Marcone

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Website - Jorge Marcone
Spanish American literature: writing and environment, literacy and orality. Ecocriticism, political ecology and environmental history.
Susan Martin-Márquez

Susan Martin-Márquez

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Website - Susan Martin-Márquez
Modern Spanish Peninsular cultural studies and Spanish-language film; cinema studies.
Anaïs Maurer

Anaïs Maurer

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Website - Anaïs Maurer
Francophone studies, Oceania, environmental humanities.
Anjali Nerlekar

Anjali Nerlekar

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Website - Anjali Nerlekar
Multilingual Indian modernisms; Marathi literature; Indo-Caribbean literature; poetry studies; translation studies; Caribbean and postcolonial studies; and Indian book history.
Andrew Parker

Andrew Parker

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Website - Andrew Parker
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literatures in English, French, and Spanish; literary and cultural theory; philosophy and literature; history of sexuality; media theory and history.
Nicholas Rennie

Nicholas Rennie

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Website - Nicholas Rennie
Literature of the Enlightenment and the Age of Goethe; Modern aesthetics and intellectual history; Frankfurt School; 20th-century German novel.
Paul Schalow

Paul Schalow

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Website - Paul Schalow
Japanese literature (Edo period); gender and sexuality in Japanese literature; Japanese women's writing
Richard Serrano

Richard Serrano

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Website - Richard Serrano
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.
Jeffrey Shandler

Jeffrey Shandler

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Website - Jeffrey Shandler
Yiddish language, literature and culture; Jews and media; Holocaust representation; Jews and visual culture; American Jewish vernacular culture

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