Visiting Faculty
C Riley Snorton
Visiting Professor of English and Comparative Literature and ISSG
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Full-time Faculty
James Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Rachel Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar
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Full-time Faculty
Joseph Albernaz
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Branka Arsić
Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Christopher Baswell
Professor, English, Barnard College
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Lecturers
Bianca Calabresi
Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
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Lecturers
Ryan O. Carr
Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature
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Lecturers
Monica Cohen
Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Sarah Cole
Interim Dean of Faculty, School of the Arts; Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Faculty Emeriti
Susan Crane
Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature
Full-time Faculty
Julie Crawford
Associate Director of Graduate Studies; Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Denise Cruz
Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Lecturers
Eli Cumings
Mellon Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, Society Fellows in Humanities
Full-time Faculty
Patricia Dailey
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Nicholas Dames
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Jenny Davidson
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Andrew Delbanco
Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies
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Faculty Emeriti
Ann Douglas
Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature; Special Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Kathy Eden
Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics
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Full-time Faculty
Brent Hayes Edwards
Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Faculty Emeriti
Joan M. Ferrante
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
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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Full-time Faculty
Stathis Gourgouris
Professor of Classics and of English and Comparative Literature, Department of Classics
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Full-time Faculty
T. Austin Graham
Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Erik Gray
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
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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Full-time Faculty
Jack Halberstam
Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; David Feinson Professor of Humanities
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Faculty Emeriti
Robert W. Hanning
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
Full-time Faculty
Matthew Hart
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Saidiya V Hartman
University Professor
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Full-time Faculty
Zoë L. Henry
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Faculty Emeriti
Marianne Hirsch
William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English
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Faculty Emeriti
Jean E. Howard
George Delacorte Professor Emerita in the Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
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
Full-time Faculty
Eleanor B Johnson
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Rebecca Kastleman
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Lecturers
Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly
Mellon Teaching Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, English & Comp Literature
Full-time Faculty
Sharon Marcus
Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Faculty Emeriti
Martin Meisel
Brander Matthews Professor Emeritus of English and Dramatic Literature
Full-time Faculty
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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Full-time Faculty
Edward Mendelson
Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Molly Murray
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Frances Negron-Muntaner
Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Carlos Alonso Nugent
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Robert O'Meally
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Julie Stone Peters
H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Academic Careers Advising; Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance
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Lecturers
Mark L. Phillipson
Director of Graduate Student Programs and Services, Center for Teaching & Learning; Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Ross Posnock
Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Austin E. Quigley
Dean Emeritus of Columbia College; Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Shana L. Redmond
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
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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Full-time Faculty
Bruce Robbins
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Lauren Robertson
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Faculty Emeriti
Michael A. Seidel
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
Full-time Faculty
James Shapiro
Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
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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Full-time Faculty
Maura Spiegel
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
University Professor in the Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Alan Stewart
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Dustin D. Stewart
James P. Shenton Associate Professor of the Core Curriculum; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Faculty Emeriti
Paul H. Strohm
Anna S. Garbedian Professor Emeritus of the Humanities
Full-time Faculty
Colm Tóibín
Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Gauri Viswanathan
Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Nicole B. Wallack
Director of Undergraduate Writing Program; Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Hannah M. Weaver
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Jennifer Wenzel
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Full-time Faculty
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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Full-time Faculty
David Yerkes
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Dennis Yi Tenen
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature