Core Faculty

Ousseina Alidou

Ousseina Alidou

Information: 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

Information: 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

Information: Director of Undergraduate Studies 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.

Martha Helfer

Martha Helfer

Information: 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

Information: 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

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

Michael Levine

Michael Levine

Information: 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

Information: 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

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

Susan Martin-Márquez

Susan Martin-Márquez

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

Anaïs Maurer

Anaïs Maurer

Information: Website - Anaïs Maurer; Francophone studies, Oceania, environmental humanities.

Anjali Nerlekar

Anjali Nerlekar

Information: 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

Information: Acting Graduate Program Director acparker@french.rutgers.edu; 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

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

Richard Serrano

Richard Serrano

Information: 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.

Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui

Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui

Information: jauregui@echo.rutgers.edu; Website - Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui; Latino/a Literature and Culture, XXth-Century Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, gender theory and sexuality studies, and psychoanalysis.

James Swenson

James Swenson

Information: Website - James Swenson; Eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history; twentieth-century criticism and theory.

Emily Van Buskirk

Emily Van Buskirk

Information: Website - Emily Van Buskirk; Russian and Czech literature, film and literary theory; autobiography, in-between genres; everyday life; representations of war and the Lenigrad Blockade; the culture of the thaw; gender and sexuality; memory and history; theories of the self.

Alessandro Vettori

Alessandro Vettori

Information: Website - Alessandro Vettori; Medieval poetry and Dante, The Re-writing of Biblical Texts in Literary Texts of the Italian Tradition, The Devil in European Culture, Autobiography.

Janet A. Walker

Janet A. Walker

Information: jwalk@alc.rutgers.edu; Website - Janet A. Walker; literary relations between Japan and Europe; the novel from its European beginnings to its transformation by East, South, and Southeast Asian writers; methods of East-West comparison; Japanese women’s writing; postcolonial literatures and theories; space and place in modern literatures