Comparative Literature Faculty

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

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

Research Interests

• Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean
• Environment
• Material and Visual Culture
• Cartography
• Indigenous and Maroon Studies
• Public Humanities
• Digital Humanities

Research Interests

• World literature
• Brazilian literature
• Literature of the Americas
• Literature and history

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

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

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