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James Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Rachel Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar
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Joseph Albernaz
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Branka Arsić
Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Christopher Baswell
Professor, English, Barnard College
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Sarah Cole
Dean of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Julie Crawford
Associate Director of Graduate Studies; Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities
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Denise Cruz
Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Patricia Dailey
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Nicholas Dames
Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities
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Jenny Davidson
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Andrew Delbanco
Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies
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Kathy Eden
Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics
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Brent Hayes Edwards
Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Stathis Gourgouris
Professor of Classics and of English and Comparative Literature, Department of Classics
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T. Austin Graham
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Erik Gray
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Farah Jasmine Griffin
William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies and Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
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Jack Halberstam
Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; David Feinson Professor of Humanities
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Matthew Hart
Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature & Director of Graduate Studies
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Saidiya V Hartman
University Professor
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Jean E. Howard
George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities
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Amy E. Hungerford
Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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Eleanor B Johnson
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Rebecca Kastleman
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Sharon Marcus
Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Sue Mendelsohn
Director of Writing Center, Associate Director of First Year Writing, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature
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Edward Mendelson
Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities
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Molly Murray
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Frances Negron-Muntaner
Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities
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Robert O'Meally
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Julie Stone Peters
Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance; H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Ross Posnock
Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities
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Austin E. Quigley
Dean Emeritus of Columbia College; Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature
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Shana L. Redmond
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Aaron J Ritzenberg
Senior Lecturer in Discipline in English and Comparative Literature, Associate Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program, Director of First-Year Writing
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Bruce Robbins
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities
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Lauren Robertson
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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James Shapiro
Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Joseph R. Slaughter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
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Maura Spiegel
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature
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Gayatri C. Spivak
University Professor in the Humanities
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Alan Stewart
Associate Chair; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Dustin D. Stewart
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Dennis Tenen
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Colm Tóibín
Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities
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Gauri Viswanathan
Director of the South Asia Institute; Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Nicole B. Wallack
Director of Undergraduate Writing Program; Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature
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Hannah M. Weaver
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Jennifer Wenzel
Director of PhD Careers Advising; Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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W. B. Worthen
Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance; Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts Dramatic Literature, Performance Theory
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David Yerkes
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Affiliated Faculty
Eileen Gillooly
Executive Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows; Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
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Rachel A. Aumiller
Lecturer in Discipline of English and Comparative Literature, Affiliated Faculty, Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender (ISSG)
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Emily Bloom
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Society Fellows in Humanities
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Bianca Calabresi
Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
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Monica Cohen
Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
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Will A. Glovinsky
Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature, English & Comp Literature
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Arden A. Hegele
Lecturer in Discipline of English and Comparative Literature, Affiliated faculty, Medical Humanities (ICLS) and Medical Humanities and Ethics (CUIMC)
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Mark L. Phillipson
Director of Graduate Student Programs and Services, Center for Teaching & Learning; Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
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Richard Sacks
Adjunct Research Scholar in the Department of English and Comparative Literature
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Benjamin D. VanWagoner
Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature, English & Comp Literature
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Faculty Emeriti
Susan Crane
Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature
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Ann Douglas
Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature; Special Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
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Joan M. Ferrante
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
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Robert W. Hanning
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature

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Marianne Hirsch
William Peterfield Trent Professor of English
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Martin Meisel
Brander Matthews Professor Emeritus of English and Dramatic Literature
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Michael A. Seidel
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
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Paul H. Strohm
Anna S. Garbedian Professor Emeritus of the Humanities