Comparative Literature Faculty
Jeroen Gerrits
Associate Professor; Department Chair; TRIP Courtesy Title
Comparative Literature; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Teaching Interests
- Recently taught courses and seminars include: Gilles Deleuze; Stanley Cavell; Film Adaptation; World Cinema; Surrealism; Time in Lit & Film; Philosophy of New Media
Cullen Goldblatt
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- African literatures in French, Wolof, and English
- Canon formation
- Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
- Queer and Feminist Theory
- Translation
Research Interests
- The social and religious history of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
- "Fall" of the Roman Empire
- The relationship between history, law and literature
- Philosophy of history / Historical Theory
Research Interests
- Latin American literature and cultural studies
- Postcolonial studies
- Continental philosophy
- Psychoanalysis
- Literary theory
- Third cinema
Giovanna Montenegro
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages; Director of LACAS
Comparative Literature; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program
Research Interests
- Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean
- Environment
- Material and Visual Culture
- Cartography
- Indigenous and Maroon Studies
- Public Humanities
- Digital Humanities
Luiza F. Moreira
Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Comparative Literature; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- World literature
- Brazilian literature
- Literature of the Americas
- Literature and history
Neil Christian Pages
Associate Professor; Graduate Director; Associate Professor
Comparative Literature; German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Germanophone and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures
- European Cultural History, Commemorative Practices
- Translation
- Comparative Modernisms
- Text and Image, the Habsburg Empire
Research Interests
- Arabic-English Translation
- History of Arabic Translation
- the Arabian Nights
Alexander Sorenson
Lecturer
Comparative Literature; German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- German literature and thought ca. 1800-1917
- Literary, philosophical and artistic accounts of the relation between human communities and the natural world (ecocriticism, nature writing, eco-phenomenology, posthumanism, etc.)
- Modern European intellectual and cultural history
- Convergences between the natural and human sciences
Teaching Interests
- German language and literature
- European literature, culture and thought
- Cultural, literary and critical theory
Kaitlyn Sorenson
Assistant Professor; Undergraduate Director
Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- Central and Eastern European literature and social thought
- Critical Theory
- Yugoslav neo-avant-garde movements
- Late Socialism
- The Non-Aligned Movement
- Canonicity in Continental Philosophy
