Eyal Amiran
amiran@uci.edu
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Ph.D., University of Virginia; Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Undergraduate Program
Interests: Twentieth-Century fiction, Postmodernism, Digital Media, Textual Theory
Alicia Carroll
alicia.carroll@uci.edu
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Ph.D., University of California, Riverside; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests: Native American and Indigenous studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Critical Race Studies, Autobiography, Literary And Cultural Theory
David H. Colmenares
dhcolmen@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Columbia University; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests: Colonial Mexico and Amerindian Knowledge Production
Published Books
Herschel Farbman
hfarbman@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Yale University; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department
Interests: Comparative Modernisms, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Film and Media Studies
John Blair Gamber
john.gamber@uci.edu
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Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests: Environmental Humanities, Ethnic Studies, Settler Colonialism, Native American Studies
Martin Harries
martin.harries@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Yale University; Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests: 20th Century theater, Critical Theory
Adriana Johnson
adriana.johnson@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Duke University; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Graduate Program
Interests: Latin American literature, 19th and 20th Century Latin America, Cultural and Postcolonial Studies
Catherine Malabou
cmalabou@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales: Philosophy; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies
Interests: German Idealism, Contemporary French Philosophy, Critical Theory, Neurobiology, Epigenetics
Liron Mor
morl@uci.edu
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Associate Professor, Comparative Literature School of Humanities
Interests: Literary and Critical Theory, Contemporary Israeli and Palestinian literature and film, Postcolonial Theories, Conflict; Sympathy, Questions of Translation and Literary Adaptation
Published Books
Jane O. Newman
jonewman@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Princeton University; Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests: 16th- and 17-century German literature, Contemporary Theory and Criticism, Feminism
Nasrin Rahimieh
nasrin.rahimieh@uci.edu
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Ph.D., University of Alberta; Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities, Comparative Literature
Interests: Modern Persian Literature and Culture, Translation, Exile, and Diaspora
Beryl Schlossman
bschloss@uci.edu
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Doctorate, University of Paris 7 and Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University; Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests: Film, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Poetics, Modernity
Gabriele Schwab
gmschwab@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Univ. of Konstanz; Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature
Interests: Contemporary Comparative European and American Literatures, Indigenous Literatures, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, cultural theory and literary anthro
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
ngugi@uci.edu
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UCI Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation
Interests: African and Caribbean Literatures, Theater and Film, Performance Studies, Cultural and Political Theory
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M.Phil., University of Hong Kong; Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies |
mabbas@uci.edu |
Etienne Balibar
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Docteur en philosophie, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen; Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature (critical theory, political philosophy) Published Books |
ebalibar@uci.edu |
Susan Jarratt
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Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature & English Published Books |
sjarratt@uci.edu |
Juliet Flower MacCannell
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Ph.D., Cornell University; Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English ( Rousseau, Freud, Lacan, Psychoanlysis and Cultural and Critical theory (film, art, architecture, law); Enlightenment to Modern French literature) Published Books |
jfmaccan@uci.edu |
Steven Mailloux
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Ph.D., University of Southern California; Professor Emeriti of English and Comparative Literature; Chancellor's Professor of Rhetoric (History and Theories of Rhetoric; Contemporary Critical Theory; U.S. Cultural Studies) Published Books |
sjmaillo@uci.edu |
Margot Norris
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Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo; Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature (modern Irish, British, American and Continental modernism; literature and war) Published Books |
mnorris@uci.edu |
John Carlos Rowe
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Ph.D. State University of New York, Buffalo; Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature |
jcrowe@uci.edu |
Annette Schlichter
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Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature Published Books |
aschlich@uci.edu |
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Ph.D., Boston University; Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature |
terada@uci.edu |
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Elizabeth Allen
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Ph.D., University of Michigan; Associate Professor of English and of Comparative Literature Faculty Website Published Books |
eallen@uci.edu |
Nahum Dimitri Chandler
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Ph.D., Chicago; Professor of African American Studies and Comparative Literature Interests: African American Studies, English literature, Comparative Literature, Modern Intellectual History, notably the history of the human sciences Published Books |
chandlen@uci.edu |
Kai Evers
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Ph.D., ; Associate Professor of European Languages and Studies; German Interests: Modernist literature, German film, European studies, Catastrophic Imagination and Representations of War, Violence, and Risk |
kevers@uci.edu |
Sora Han
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Associate Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law, & Society. Research Interests: Slavery and American Law; Critical Theory; Race, Gender, Sexuality Studies; Psychoanalysis Published Books |
sora.han@uci.edu |
Sandra Harvey
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Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2017, Politics; Assistant Professor of African American Studies Faculty Website |
slharvey@uci.edu |
Virginia Jackson
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Ph.D., Princeton University, 1995, Comparative Literature; Associate Professor of English and UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Communication Published Books |
vwjackso@uci.edu |
Keiji Kunigami
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Ph.D., Cornell University; Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Interests: Brazilian cinema, Japanese cinema, critical race theory, decoloniality, film and media theory, critical theory, cinematic embodiment, Asian-Latin American studies Published Books |
akunigam@uci.edu |
Jerry Won Lee
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Ph.D., University of Arizona; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Faculty Website Published Books |
jwl@uci.edu |
Horacio Legras
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Ph.D. Duke University, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature Interests: Latin American Literature Faculty Website |
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Margherita Long
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Ph.D., Princeton University, East Asian Studies; Professor, East Asian Languages & Literature Faculty Website Published Books |
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Julia R. Lupton
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Ph.D., Yale University; Professor of English and Comparative Literature Interests: Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Religious Studies, Humanities and the Public Sphere Published Books |
jrlupton@uci.edu |
Tyrus Miller
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Ph.D., Stanford University; Professor of Art History, English, and Comparative Literature | humanitiesdean@uci.edu |
Carrie J. Noland
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Ph.D., Harvard University; Professor of French and Comparative Literature Interests: 20th-century French and Francophone literature and theory, European, American, and Caribbean modernism, Performance Studies Published Books |
cjnoland@uci.edu |
Laura O'Connor
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Interests: Irish and Anglophone literature, Postcolonial studies, Modern and contemporary poetry Published Books |
loconnor@uci.edu |
R. Radhakrishnan
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Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton; Chancellor's Professor and Distinguished Professor of English, and Comparative Literature Interests: Critical Theory, Postcolonialism, Globalization, Minority discourse Published Books |
rradhakr@uci.edu |
John H. Smith
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Ph.D., Princeton University; Professor of German and Comparative Literature Interests: 18th- and 19th-century German literature and intellectual history, Literary Theory Published Books |
jhsmith@uci.edu |
James Steintrager
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Ph.D., Columbia University; Professor of English and Comparative Literature Faculty Website Published Books |
jsteintr@uci.edu |
Jennifer Terry
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Ph.D., University of Santa Cruz; Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Comparative Literature Interests: Cultural studies, Science Studies, Sexuality Published Books |
jterry@uci.edu |
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
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Associate Professor, African American Studies and Comparative Literature Interests: South Africa, poor whites, Race in foreign policy, Diaspora, Comparative Racial Politics, Black Political Thought, Third world feminism, feminist pedagogy Published Books |
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Georges Van Den Abbeele
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Professor, French, English, and Comparative Literature Interests: French and European philosophical literature, travel narrative and tourism/migration studies; critical theory and aesthetics Published Books |
gvandena@uci.edu |
Hu Ying
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Ph.D., Princeton University; Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Literature Interests: Modern Chinese literature and culture, Translation Study, Feminist Theory Published Books |
huying@uci.edu |
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Talar Chahinian
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Lecturer, Armenian Studies Program, History Visiting Faculty, Comparative Literature |
talar.chahinian@uci.edu |
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Sholeh Wolpe  |
Writer in Residence Faculty Website |
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| Pedro Rolón | Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; University of California President's and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow |