Literature
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Professors
Rae Armantrout, MA, Poetry and Contemporary Poetics
Linda Brodkey, PhD, Writing
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, MFA, Fiction Writing and Literature
Steven Cassedy, PhD, Slavic and Comparative Literature
Alain J.-J. Cohen, PhD, Comparative Literature and Film Studies
Jaime Concha, PhD, Spanish and Latin American Literature
Stephen D. Cox, PhD, English Literature; Director, Revelle Humanities Writing Program; Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
R. Michael Davidson, PhD, American Literature, Writing
Page duBois, PhD, Classics and Comparative Literature
Anthony Edwards, PhD, Classics and Comparative Literature
Marcel Hénaff, PhD, French Literature
Stephanie H. Jed, PhD, Italian and Comparative Literature
Todd C. Kontje, PhD, German and Comparative Literature
Lisa Lampert-Weissig, PhD, English and Comparative Medieval Studies
Seth Lerer, PhD, English and Comparative Literature; Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities
Ping-hui Liao, PhD, Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies
Lisa M. Lowe, PhD, Comparative Literature
George Mariscal, PhD, Spanish Literature
Roddey Reid, PhD, French Literature
Cristina Rivera-Garza, PhD, Writing
Rosaura A. Sánchez, PhD, Spanish, Latin American, and Chicano Literature
Kathryn Shevelow, PhD, English Literature
Yingjin Zhang, PhD, Chinese and Comparative Literature and Film Studies
Oumelbanine Zhiri, PhD, French Literature
Associate Professors
John D. Blanco, PhD, Literatures of the Americas
Robert Cancel, PhD, African and Comparative Literature
Richard S. Cohen, PhD, South Asian Literature
Fatima El-Tayeb, PhD, African Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Film, Gender Studies
Camille Forbes, PhD, Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and Culture
Rosemary M. George, PhD, English Literature
Larissa Heinrich, PhD, Chinese Literature
Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, PhD, Luso-Brazilian Literature
Milos Kokotovic, PhD, Latin American Literature
Jin-Kyung Lee, PhD, Comparative Asian Literature and Culture
William A. O’Brien, PhD, German and Comparative Literature
Max Parra, PhD, Mexican and Latin American Literature
Babak Rahimi, PhD, Islamic and Religious Studies
Shelley Streeby, PhD, American Literature
Nicole Tonkovich, PhD, American Literature
Pasquale Verdicchio, PhD, Italian and Comparative Literature
Don Edward Wayne, PhD, English Literature
Megan E. Wesling, PhD, US Literatures
Winifred Woodhull, PhD, French Literature
Lisa Yoneyama, PhD, Japanese Studies and Cultural Studies
Assistant Professors
Dennis Childs, PhD, African American Literature and Culture
Amelia Glaser, PhD, Slavic and Comparative Literature
Sara E. Johnson, PhD, Comparative Literature
Dayna Kalleres, PhD, Early Christian Literature and Religious Studies
Margaret Loose, PhD, English Victorian Literature and Culture
Luis Martin-Cabrera, PhD, Spanish Peninsular and Latin American Literature
Anna Joy Springer, MFA, Creative Writing and Literary Arts
Professors Emeriti
Ronald S. Berman, PhD
Carlos Blanco-Aguinaga, PhD
Charles R. Cooper, PhD
Abraham J. Dijkstra, PhD
Margit Frenk, PhD
Richard Elliot Friedman, ThD
Fanny Q. Howe
Susan Kirkpatrick, PhD
James K. Lyon, PhD
Louis Adrian Montrose, PhD
Eileen Myles, BA
Roy Harvey Pearce, PhD
Jerome D. Rothenberg, MA
William S. Tay, PhD
Quincy Troupe
Donald T. Wesling, PhD
Wai-lim Yip, PhD
Associate Professors Emeriti
Jack Behar, PhD
David K. Crowne, PhD
Thomas K. Dunseath, PhD
Fred V. Randel, PhD
Marta E. Sánchez, PhD
Cynthia Walk, PhD
Lecturers
Charles Chamberlain, PhD, Classical Languages and Literature, Writing
Adriana deMarchi-Gherini, PhD, Italian Language and Literature
Leslie Collins Edwards, PhD, Classical Languages and Literature
Melvyn Freilicher, CPhil, Writing
John Granger, PhD, Writing
Jeyseon Lee, PhD, Korean Language
Beatrice Pita, PhD, Spanish Language and Latin American Literature
Catherine Ploye, PhD, French Language and Literature
Stephen Potts, PhD, American and Popular Literature
Rebecca Wells, CPhil, Russian Language and Literature
Eliot Wirshbo, PhD, Classical Languages and Literature