Core Faculty
Tamara T. Chin. Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature. Han dynasty literature and culture; ancient China and Greece comparative studies; history and literature; gender and sexuality studies.
Arnold Davidson. Professor (Department of Philosophy, Divinity School, the College, and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science). Medical ethics; political philosophy; the history and philosophy of psychiatry, medicine, and sexuality; contemporary French philosophy; and the history of philosophy.
Frederick A. De Armas. Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities (Romance Languages and Literatures).Golden Age Spanish literature; magic and the Hermetic tradition; ekphrasis; relations between Spanish Literature and Italian Art.
Loren A. Kruger. Professor (English Language and Literature). Theory and history of drama; Marxist cultural theory; sociology of literature and mass culture; 20th-century comparative literature; post-colonial literature and theory.
FranÇoise Meltzer. Mabel Greene Myers Professor (Romance Languages and Literatures, Divinity School). Literary theory; psychoanalysis and literature; 19th-century German and French literature; French Symbolism and philosophy.
Michael J. Murrin. Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities (English Language and Literature, Divinity School). Renaissance and medieval literatures; epic and allegory; warfare, epic, and empire.
Lawrence Rothfield. Associate Professor (English Language and Literature). 19th-century British and French fiction; the novel; critical theory; literature and the human sciences; cultural studies.
Joshua Scodel. Professor (English Language and Literature). Renaissance and 18th-century literature, especially poetry; genre theory; philosophic traditions and early modern literature; history of criticism.
Neta Stahl. Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature. Modern Hebrew literature, genre theory, theories of intertextuality, gender, post-colonial literature and theory.
Yuri Tsivian. Professor (Art, Slavic Languages and Literatures). Russian silent film; film and media studies; cultural studies; Russian formalism; Russian symbolism.
Robert von Hallberg. Helen A. Regenstein Professor (English Language and Literature, Germanic Studies). 20th century U.S., English, French, and German poetry; Europe avant-garde movements; GDR literature 1975-89; theories of lyric; culture of intellectuals.
David E. Wellbery. LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor (Germanic Studies). Aesthetics; Semiotics; Rhetoric; German Romanticism.
David Wray. Associate Professor (Classical Languages and Literatures). Greek, Roman, early modern French, and 20th-century American poetry and poetics; gender; theory and practice of literary translation; ancient and modern relations between literature and philosophy.