Comparative Literature

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Joseph Albernaz

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

Francophone and German

The Enlightenment

Literature and Philosophy

Critical Theory

Political Theory

Restoration and 18th Century

Poetry and Poetics

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Science and Environmental Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Stathis Gourgouris

Professor of Classics and of English and Comparative Literature, Department of Classics

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Modernity and Modernism

Secular Criticism

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Erik Gray

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Poetry and Poetics

English literature and the Classics

Restoration and 18th Century

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

19th Century British Literature and Culture

Victorian Literature

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Full-time Faculty

Marianne Hirsch

William Peterfield Trent Professor of English

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

20th-Century French, German, British, American

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Feminist Theory

Cultural Memory

Holocaust Studies

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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Full-time Faculty

Julie Stone Peters

H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Law and Humanities

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Cultural and Intellectual History

Popular Culture

Material Culture/ Object Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Comparative Literature

American and the Americas

Renaissance/ Early Modern

Restoration and 18th Century

19th Century Romantic and Victorian Literature

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

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Full-time Faculty

Joseph R. Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

African, Latin American, and Third-World Literatures

Postcolonialism

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

The Global South

Critical and Narrative Theory

Intellectual Property

Law and Literature

Law and Humanities

Postcolonial and Global South

20th and 21st Century

Affiliated Graduate Students

Julia Bannon

PhD Student

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

Critical Theory

African American and African Diaspora