Name Title/Interest Email
Ackbar Abbas
Abbas		 M.Phil., University of Hong Kong; Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies
Interests: Globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese Culture, Postcoloniality, Critical Theory
 Published Books		 mabbas@uci.edu
Eyal Amiran
Amiran		 Ph.D., University of Virginia; Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Undergraduate Program
Interests: Twentieth-Century fiction, Postmodernism, Digital Media, Textual Theory
 Published Books		 amiran@uci.edu
Alicia Carroll
Carroll		 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		 alicia.carroll@uci.edu
Herschel Farbman
Farbman		 Ph.D., Yale University; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department
Interests: Comparative Modernisms, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Film and Media Studies
 Published Books		 hfarbman@uci.edu
John Gamber Associate Professor john.gamber@uci.edu
David Theo Goldberg
Goldberg		 Ph.D., City University of New York; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Anthropology and Criminology, Law, and Society
Interests: South Africa, Race and Racism, Social and Political Theory, Legal Studies
 Published Books		 goldberg@uci.edu
Adriana M. Johnson
Johnson		 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		 adrianaj@uci.edu
Catherine Malabou
Malabou		 Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales: Philosophy. Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies  
Liron Mor
Mor		 Assistant 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		 morl@uci.edu
Jane O. Newman
Newman		 Ph.D., Princeton University; Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests: 16th- and 17-century German literature, Contemporary Theory and Criticism, Feminism
 Published Books		 jonewman@uci.edu
Nasrin Rahimieh
Rahimieh		 Ph.D., University of Alberta; Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities, Comparative Literature
Interests: Modern Persian Literature and Culture, Translation, Exile, and Diaspora
 Published Books		 nrahimie@uci.edu
Beryl Schlossman
Schlossman		 Doctorate, University of Paris 7 and Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University
Interests: Film, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Poetics, Modernity		 bschloss@uci.edu
Gabriele Schwab
Schwab		 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
 Published Books		 gmschwab@uci.edu
Rei Terada
Terada		 Ph.D., Boston University; Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests: Theory, History of Philosophy, 19th- and 20th-Century Poetry, Romanticism
 Published Books		 terada@uci.edu
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Thiong'o		 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
 Published Books