Comparative Literature at UCI Joint Faculty
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NameTitle; Areas of Interest
Luis Aviles
laviles@uci.edu
Ph.D., Brown University; Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature
(Golden Age literature)
Etienne Balibar
ebalibar@uci.edu
Docteur en philosophie, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen; Professor of French and Comparative Literature
(critical theory, political philosophy)
Ellen Burt
esburt@uci.edu
Ph.D., Yale University; Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature (19th-century French poetry, Enlightenment, autobiography, literary theory)
James Fujii
jafujii@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Chicago; Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature
(modern Japanese literature, cultural studies, critical theory)
Laura Hyun Yi Kang
hykang@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz; Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature
(gender studies, ethnic studies, visual culture)
Ketu H. Katrak
khkatrak@uci.edu
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College; Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature
(Asian American literature, postcolonial studies, women's studies)
Catherine Liu
liu@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature
(modernism, cinema, theory)
Julia R. Lupton
jrlupton@uci.edu
Ph.D., Yale University; Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Shakespeare; Renaissance
literature; religious studies; humanities and the public sphere)
Steven Mailloux
sjmaillo@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Southern California; Professor of English and Comparative Literature (history and theories of rhetoric; contemporary critical theory; U.S. cultural studies)
Carrie J. Noland
cjnoland@uci.edu
Ph.D., Harvard University; Associate Professor of French and Italian
(20th-century French literature and theory; poetry)
Laura O'Connor
loconnor@uci.edu
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(Irish and Anglophone literature; postcolonial studies;
modern and contemporary poetry)
Mark S. Poster
poster@uci.edu
Ph.D., New York University; Professor of Film and Media Studies and History (media studies, critical theory)
R. Radhakrishnan
rradhakr@uci.edu
Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton; Professor of Asian American Studies and Comparative Literature
(critical theory, postcolonialism, globalization, minority discourse)
Martin Schwab
mschwab@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Bielefeld; Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature
(19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy; literature and other arts)
John H. Smith
jhsmith@uci.edu
Ph.D., Princeton University; Professor of German and Comparative Literature
(18th- and 19th-century German literature and intellectual history; literary theory)
James Steintrager
jsteintr@uci.edu
Ph.D., Columbia University; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(18th-century European literature; aesthetics)
Jennifer Terry
jterry@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Santa Cruz; Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature
(cultural studies, science studies, sexuality)

NameTitle; Areas of Interest
Stephen Barker
barker@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Arizona; Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature (literary and aesthetic theory and criticism)
David Carroll
dcarroll@uci.edu
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; Professor of French and Italian
(20th-century literature, theory, culture and politics)
Vinayak Chaturvedi
vinayak@uci.edu
Ph.D., Cambridge University; Assistant Professor of History
(South Asia, social and intellectual history)
Susan B. Coutin
scoutin@uci.edu
Ph.D., Stanford University; Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society
(law, culture, immigration, human rights, Central America)
Suzanne Gearhart
sgearhar@uci.edu
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; Professor of French and Italian
(17th- and 18th-century French literature, history, philosophy, and psychoanalysis)
Inderpal Grewal
grewali@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Women's Studies
(transnational and postcolonial feminism, South Asian cultural studies)
Kyung Hyun Kim
kyunghk@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Southern California; Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures
(East Asian cinema, modern Korea, critical theory)
Peter Krapp
krapp@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
(digital culture, media history, critical theory)
William Maurer
wmmaurer@uci.edu
Ph.D., Stanford University; Professor and Chair of Anthropology (anthropology of law, globalization, the Caribbean, money and finance, gender and kinship)
Glen Mimura
gmimura@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
(race and film, media, nationalism and globalization, cultural studies)
Daniel J. Schroeter
djschroe@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Manchester; Professor of History and Teller Family Chair in Jewish History (Jewish history, North Africa and the Middle East)
Ulrike Strasser
strasser@uci.edu
Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Associate Professor of History
(early modern Europe and Germany; comparative women's history)