Comparative Literature at UCI Faculty
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NameTitle; Areas of Interest
Ackbar Abbas
mabbas@uci.edu
M.Phil., University of Hong Hong; Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies
(globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, postcoloniality, critical theory)
Dina Al-Kassim
dalkassi@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
(British, American, French, Arabic, Anglophone and Francophone modernism; postcolonial critique)
Eyal Amiran
amiran@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Virginia; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies
(twentieth-century fiction, postmodernism, digital media, textual theory)
Alexander Gelley
agelley@uci.edu
Ph.D., Yale University; Professor of Comparative Literature
(18th- and 19th-century European novel, critical theory, narrative theory)
David Theo Goldberg
goldberg@uci.edu
Ph.D., City University of New York; Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law, and Society
(South Africa, race and racism, social and political theory, and legal studies)
Jonathan M. Hall
jmhall@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies
(Japanese literary, cultural, and cinematic history, East Asian cinema, psychoanalytic and queer theory)
Susan Jarratt
sjarratt@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Education
(histories and theories of rhetoric; composition pedagogy and teacher preparation; feminist theory and pedagogy)
Adriana M. Johnson
adrianaj@uci.edu
Ph.D., Duke University; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
(Latin American literature, 19th- and 20th-century Latin America, cultural and postcolonial studies)
J. Hillis Miller
jhmiller@uci.edu
Ph.D., Harvard University; Emeritus UCI Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English
(Victorian literature, critical theory)
Jane O. Newman
jonewman@uci.edu
Ph.D., Princeton University; Professor of Comparative Literature
(16th- and 17-century German literature, contemporary theory and criticism, feminism)
Margot Norris
mnorris@uci.edu
Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(modern Irish, British, American and Continental modernism; literature and war)
Nasrin Rahimieh
nrahimie@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Alberta; Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Persian Studies and Culture
(Persian literature and culture, diaspora studies, film and media)
Annette Schlichter
aschlich@uci.edu
Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
(feminist theory and criticism, queer theory, contemporary American literature and culture)
Gabriele Schwab
gmschwab@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Konstanz; UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Comparative Literature
(modern literature, critical theory, psychoanalysis)
Rei Terada
terada@uci.edu
Ph.D., Boston University; Professor of Comparative Literature
(theory, history of philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century poetry, romanticism)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
ngugi@uci.edu
UCI Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Director of the International Center
for Writing and Translation (African and Caribbean literatures, theater and film, performance studies, cultural and political theory)