Eyal Amiran

Eyal Amiran
amiran@uci.edu
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Ph.D., University of Virginia; Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests:  Twentieth-Century fiction, Postmodernism, Digital Media, Textual Theory

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Alicia Carroll

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

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jay carter

J. Kameron Carter
jc1@uci.edu 

Ph.D., University of Virginia; Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies
Interests: Convergences of religion and race; religion, the environment, and climate change; and religion and the arts

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David Colmenares

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

Herschel Farbman
hfarbman@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Yale University; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests:  Comparative Modernisms, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Film and Media Studies

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John Gamber

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 

                                                                                                                                                       Published Books

Martin Harries

Martin Harries
martin.harries@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Yale University; Professor of Comparative Literature
Interests:  20th Century theater, Critical Theory

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Adriana Johnson

Adriana Johnson
adriana.johnson@uci.edu
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Ph.D., Duke University; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Department Chair
Interests: Latin American literature, 19th and 20th Century Latin America, Cultural and Postcolonial Studies                                       

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Catherine Malabou

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

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Liron Mor

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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Nasrin Rahimieh

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
 

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Ackbar Abbas

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


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Balibar

Etienne Balibar
ebalibar@uci.edu
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Docteur en philosophie, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen; Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature (critical theory, political philosophy)

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Jarratt

Susan Jarratt
sjarratt@uci.edu
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Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature & English

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Juliet-Maccannell

Juliet Flower MacCannell
jfmaccan@uci.edu
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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)


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Jane Newman

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

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Norris

Margot Norris
mnorris@uci.edu
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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)

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Rowe

John Carlos Rowe
jcrowe@uci.edu
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Ph.D. State University of New York, Buffalo; Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Interests:  American literature, modern literature, critical theory


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Schlichter

Annette Schlichter
aschlich@uci.edu
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Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature
Interests:  Critical Theories of Gender and Sexuality; Constructions and Critiques of Heterosexuality; Subjects and Objects of Cultural Critiques; Gender and Sexuality in Literature; Contemporary American Literature

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Beryl Schlossman

Beryl Schlossman
bschloss@uci.edu
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Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature
Interests:  Modern literature, critical theory, film studies, psychoanalysis, the arts in society

 

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Gabriele Schwab

Gabriele Schwab
gmschwab@uci.edu
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature
Interests:  Twentieth-Century Comparative Literature with a special emphasis on the Americas, including Native American literature; critical theory; psychoanalysis; cultural studies; literature and anthropology; feminism

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Rei Terada

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

 


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Nahum Dimitri Chandler
Chandler
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
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chandlen@uci.edu
Kai Evers
Evers
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
Sora Han
Associate Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law, & Society. 
Research Interests: Slavery and American Law; Critical Theory; Race, Gender, Sexuality Studies; Psychoanalysis
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sora.han@uci.edu
Sandra Harvey
Harvey
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2017, Politics; Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Faculty Website
slharvey@uci.edu
Virginia Jackson
Jackson
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1995, Comparative Literature; Associate Professor of English and UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Communication
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vwjackso@uci.edu
Keiji Kunigami
Keiji Kunigami

 

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
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akunigam@uci.edu
Jerry Won Lee
Lee
Ph.D., University of Arizona; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Faculty Website
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jwl@uci.edu
Horacio Legras
Legras
Ph.D. Duke University, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature
Interests: Latin American Literature
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Margherita Long
Long
Ph.D., Princeton University, East Asian Studies; Professor, East Asian Languages & Literature
Faculty Website
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Julia R. Lupton
Lupton
Ph.D., Yale University; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Interests: Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Religious Studies, Humanities and the Public Sphere
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jrlupton@uci.edu
Tyrus Miller
Miller
Ph.D., Stanford University; Professor of Art History, English, and Comparative Literature humanitiesdean@uci.edu
R. Radhakrishnan
Radhakrishnan
Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton; Chancellor's Professor and Distinguished Professor of English, and Comparative Literature
Interests: Critical Theory, Postcolonialism, Globalization, Minority discourse
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rradhakr@uci.edu
John H. Smith
Smith
Ph.D., Princeton University; Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century German literature and intellectual history, Literary Theory
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jhsmith@uci.edu
James Steintrager
Steintrager
Ph.D., Columbia University; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Faculty Website
Published Books
jsteintr@uci.edu
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Willoughby-Herard
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
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Hu Ying
Ying
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
Chahinian

Lecturer, Armenian Studies Program, History
School of Humanities

 

Visiting Faculty, Comparative Literature
School of Humanities

talar.chahinian@uci.edu

Sholeh Wolpe

Sholeh Wolpe
Writer in Residence
Faculty Website

sholeh.wolpe@uci.edu

Pedro Rolón

Pedro Rolon

President's and Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; University of California

Research interests: Hemispheric American and Caribbean poetry (19th-21st century), Puerto Rican studies, postwar queer avant-garde cinema, queer Caribbean studies, black studies, ecology, aesthetics, creative writing, critical theory. 


Recent publications:

Miasma Tropes (2023). Ki. Issue 2 (Summer 2023).
https://quiparle.org/ki_m_2_rolon

Escrito entre cuerpos: poesía, erotismo y esparcimiento en el Caribe de Invitación al polvo de Manuel Ramos Otero” (2016) Revista Telar. Vol. 11, Nº. 16, 2016. Tucumán. págs. 89-104, 
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/5623305.pdf

prolonma@uci.edu