
M. Ackbar Abbas
mabbas@uci.edu
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M.Phil., University of Hong Kong; Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies
Interests: Globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese Culture, Postcoloniality, Critical Theory

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
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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, 1995, Comparative Literature; 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 Schmitt

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
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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
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

Rei Terada
terada@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Boston University; Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests: Theory, History of Philosophy, 19th- and 20th-Century Poetry, Romanticism

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