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The Institute For Comparative Literature and Society




Associate Director of Graduate Studies: Hamid Dabashi, Ph.D.
610 Kent
Tel: 212-854-7524


Director: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ph.D.
Heyman Center East Campus
Tel: 212.854.4541


Director of Graduate Studies: Paolo Valesio, Ph.D.
508 Hamilton
Tel: 212-854-0747


Executive Committee: Gil Anidjar, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Charles Armstrong, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Katherine Franke, J.S.D.

Executive Committee: Andreas Huyssen, Ph.D.
319 Hamilton
Tel: 212.854.3202


Executive Committee: Reinhold Martin, Ph.D.
208 Buell
Tel: 212.854.8056


Executive Committee: Rosalind Morris, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Catharine T. Nepomnyashchy, Ph.D.
1214 International Affairs Building
Tel: 212.854.6213


Executive Committee: Anupama Rao, Ph.D.

Faculty

Lila Abu-Lughod:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1984
Interests: Social anthropology, gender, popular culture and oral literature, self and emotion, Third World media, social transformation, politics of scholarship, Islam; Middle East
Paul Anderer:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1979
Interests: Japanese literature, film, and criticism
Mark Anderson:
Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1985
Interests: Kafka, European modernism, German-Jewish culture, theory and practice of translation, postwar German and Austrian literature
Stefan Andriopoulos:
Assistant Professor, Dr. Phil., University of Hamburg (Germany), 1998
Interests: German and European literary history from 1750 to 1930, cinema & media studies, literary theory, occultism, interrelations of literature and science, law and literature
Gil Anidjar:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1998
Interests: Comparative Literature, medieval philosophy and theology, Islamic and Christian Spain (12th-15th centuries), Kabbalah, Jewish literature, Arabs and Jews in medieval and modern Europe
Jonathan Arac:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1974
Interests: 19th-century British and American literature and culture; criticism and theory; the novel
Charles Armstrong:
Associate Professor (History), Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994
Interests: modern Korean history and politics, the international history of East Asia, and ideology and international relations in the Asia Pacific, issues of ethnicity and boundary making in Northeast Asia
Peter J. Awn:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1978
Interests: Islamic religion; history of religions;Human Rights in Islam
Roger S. Bagnall:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Toronto, 1972
Interests: History of the Hellenistic and Roman East; Late Antiquity; Papyrology
Zainab Bahrani:
Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 1989
Interests: Ancient Near Eastern art, cultural and feminist theories; colonial, postcolonial theory and criticism
Janaki Bakhle:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2001
Interests: Modern South Asian History
Hilary Ballon:
Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1985
Interests: Renaissance and Baroque art, architecture; American architecture, urban design
Teodolinda Barolini:
Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature; Dante; Petrarch; Boccaccio; medieval lyric; reception of classical antiquity; gender
Kelly Barry:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2001
Interests: literature and aesthetics in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods; anthropology and literature; philosophical anthropology
Barry Bergdoll:
Professor (Art History and Archaeology), Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: Modern architecture, in particular 19th century French and German architectural theory and practice, key figures of early 20th century modernism
Akeel Bilgrami:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1983
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
Elizabeth Blackmar:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1981
Interests: American social and women’s history before 1919
Jean Cohen:
Professor, Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1979
Interests: Contemporary political theory; rights of women
Elaine Combs-Schilling:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1981
Interests: Symbolic anthropology; political anthropology; nation-state formation; gender; North Africa; Middle East
Antoine Compagnon:
Professor (French and Romance Philology), Docteur ès Lettres, 1985
Interests: 16th century; 20th century; literary theory; Montaigne; Proust
Maryse Conde:
Professor Emeritus, Doctorat, Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), 1975
Susan Crane:
Professor, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1975
Interests: Medieval literature of courts; literature and culture of the Hundred Years War; Anglo-Norman and insular bilingualism; theories of gender, performance, translation, and animality.
Jonathan Crary:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1987
Interests: Visual culture, 19th-Century art, film, technology
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw:
Professor (Law), LL.M., Wisconsin, 1985
Interests: civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law
Hamid Dabashi:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1984
Interests: comparative study of cultures, the Islamic intellectual history, social and intellectual history of medieval and modern Iran
David Damrosch:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1980
Interests: 20th-century literature and criticism; theory and methods of comparative literature; Bible and ancient Near Eastern literatures
E. Valentine Daniel:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1979
Interests: Semiotic anthropology, refugees, states of violence, critical theory; South Asia
Jeremy Dauber:
Assistant Professor, Dr. Phil., Oxford, 1999
Interests: History of Yiddish literature, Jewish literature, Yiddish theater
Victoria de Grazia:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1976
Interests: Modern Western Europe, Italy
Vidya Dehejia:
Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1967
Interests: South Asian Art
Nicholas B. Dirks:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago
Interests: Historical anthropology, history of anthropology, ethnology, peasant society, the state, critical theory; South Asia
Madeleine Dobie:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Sorbonne, Habilitation, 1987, 1994
Interests: Colonial history and literature; cultural studies, francophone studies, eighteenth century French literature and culture
Kathy H. Eden:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1980
Interests: Renaissance humanism, history of hermeneutics and the rhetorical tradition, ancient and Renaissance literary theory
Michael Eskin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University (New Brunswick), 1998
Interests: Nineteenth- through twenty-first-century literature, post-World War II and contemporary poetry and culture, interdisciplinary and philosophical approaches to literature (ethics and literature, hermeneutics, semiotics), literary theory and criticism, the theory and practice of translation, the theory of fiction and narrative, continental philosophy, aesthetics, intellectual history
Priscilla P. Ferguson:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1967
Interests: Cultural sociology
Joan M. Ferrante:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1963
Interests: Comparative medieval literature, including Dante, provencal poetry, allegory, romance, woman; also human rights, specifically women's and religious human rights
George Fletcher:
Professor (Law), M.C.L., University of Chicago, 1965
Interests: international criminal law, the jurisprudence of war, and biblical jurisprudence
Helene P. Foley:
(Barnard) Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1975
Interests: Archaic Greek Poetry; Greek Drama; Women in Antiquity; Greek Religion and Mythology
Pierre Force:
Professor (French and Romance Philology), Ph.D., Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Habilitation, 1987, 1994
Interests: 17th and 18th-century literature and philosophy; Pascal; Moliere; the moralist tradition
Kenneth Frampton:
Professor, A.R.I.B.A., Architectural Association, 1956
Interests: History and theory of modern and contemporary architecture, tectonic expression
Katherine Franke:
Professor (Law), J.S.D., Yale Law School, 1998
David Freedberg:
Professor, D.Phil., Oxford, 1973
Interests: 16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art; 17th-century Italian art; theory and criticism
Walter Frisch:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1981
Interests: 19th- and 20th-century music; analysis; Brahms; Schoenberg
Ariadna Garcia-Bryce:
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Ph.D., Princeton
Interests: Early Modern Spanish literature and culture
Boris Gasparov:
Professor, Ph.D., Moscow, 1965
Interests: Russian and general linguistics; literary theory; Medieval Russian literature; Russian and European Romanticism; Russian culture of the 20th century; grammar and rhetoric of Old Church Slavonic; medieval Russian literature; history of the Russiam language in cultural context; classical rhetorical heritage in Old Church Slavonic; Slavic orthodox literary languages.
Carol Gluck:
George Sansom Professor of History, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual history
Lydia Goehr:
Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1987
Interests: Philosophy of Music, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, and 19th and 20th Century Philosophy
Patricia Grieve:
Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor in the Humanities, Ph.D., Princeton, 1983
Interests: Medieval Spanish literature; Golden Age prose and poetry; Cervantes; comparative literature (medieval and early modern Europe)
Robert W. Hanning:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1964
Interests: English and French medieval literature and culture; Chaucer; Cinquecento Italian courtly literature; issues of race, ethnicity, and identity construction in the U.S.
Robert E. Harrist Jr.:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1989
Interests: Chinese art
Andreas Huyssen:
Professor (Germanic Languages), Ph.D., Zurich, 1969
Interests: German literature and culture 18th-20th century, comparative modernisms, postmodernism, media studies, critical theory
Marilyn Ivy:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1988
Interests: Critical theory, history, anthropology of modernity, literature and textuality; Japan
David Johnston:
Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Core Curriculum, Ph.D., Princeton, 1981
Interests: Political theory and philosophy; Normative political philosophy
Dominique Jullien:
Professor, Ph.D., Sorbonne-Nouvelle, 1987
Interests: 19th and 20th-century novel; Proust; travel literature
Ira Katznelson:
Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1969
Interests: American politics; comparative politics; political theory, urban politics, European studies, race relations, class formation, ethnicity and religion, education, urban geography, identities and interests, social movements, political parties
Christina Kiaer:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1995
Interests: Modern art; Russian avant-garde; 20th C art & theory; feminism & cultural theory
Patricia Kitcher:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1974
Interests: Kant's Theoretical Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychology, Freud
Philip Kitcher:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1974
Interests: Philosophy of science, biology and mathematics
Rosalind Krauss:
University Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1969
Interests: Modern art; theory and criticism
Karl Kroeber:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1956
Interests: Romantic literature; Native American literature; film and literature; ecological science and literature
Laura Kurgan:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, M.Arch., Columbia University
Interests: the interfaces between building, electronic media, and information technologies
Sylvère Lotringer:
Professor, Docteur de Troisième Cycle de l'Ecole, Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1967
Interests: 20th century; poststructuralism
David Lurie:
Assistant Professor (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., Columbia, 2001
Interests: Japanese literature
Manning Marable:
Professor (International and Public Affairs, History and Political Science), Ph.D., Maryland, 1976
Interests: Black intellectual history and biography; social protest movements in Black America; African and Caribbean politics since 1900; Black American politics; political economy of Black America
Reinhold Martin:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1999
Interests: History and theory of modern and contemporary architecture, spatial theory and globalization, speculative architectural design
Joseph Massad:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1998
Interests: Modern Arab politics and intellectual history
Gita May:
Professor Emerita, Ph.D., Columbia, 1957
Interests: Enlightenment and Romanticism; Diderot; Rousseau; aesthetics; autobiography
Mary McLeod:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1985
Interests: History of the modern movement in architecture, contemporary architecture theory, and feminist theory
Brinkley Messick:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1978
Interests: Cultural theory, historical anthropology, law, ethnography of writing, political economy; Middle East, North Africa
Mark Migley:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Auckland, 1987
Interests: History of architectural theory
Dan Miron:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1967
Interests: Hebrew literature and culture; Yiddish literature
Nelson Moe:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1994
Interests: Italian cultural studies (19th-20th centuries); representations of the South in literature and film; problems of national identity; Gramsci
Rosalind Morris:
Professor (Anthropology), Ph.D., Chigaco, 1994
Interests: Visuality and performance, modernity, gender/sexuality; Thailand;the history of modernity in Thailand; the theorization of ritual and performance, and of their relationships to the discourses of cultural order; the transformation of vision and visuality through technologies of mass reproduction, and especially film
Keith Moxey:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Chicago, 1975
Interests: Northern Renaissance art; social history, critical theory
Dorothea von Muecke:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1988
Interests: The Romantic Fantastic, Eighteenth-century semiotics and aesthetics, paradigms of feminist scholarship, eigthteenth-century literature, literature and psychoanalysis, Enlightenment and visuality, Faust and media, Classical drama
Harro Muller:
Professor, Habilatation, Bielefeld, 1979
Interests: German literature from the 18th-20th centuries, Theory of Literature, Critical Theory, Systems Theory
Andrew J. Nathan:
Professor;Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science and Chair of Political Science Department, Ph.D., Harvard, 1971
Interests: Comparative politics; Chinese politics; Contemporary Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, comparative political participation and political culture
Catharine T. Nepomnyashchy:
Ann Whitney Olin Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: 20th- and 21st-century Russian literature and popular culture (including television and dance); Pushkin
Gerald L. Newman:
Professor (Law), Ph.D., J.D., Harvard, 1980
Interests: constitutional law, immigration and nationality law, comparative constitutional law, and U.S. constitutional history
Joan Ockman:
Adjunct Associate Professor, B.Arch., Cooper Union, 1980
Interests: History and theory of modern architecture, American architecture, interrelations between architecture and the other arts, contemporary cultural theory
Neni Panourgia:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Indiana, 1992
Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, critique of science, neoclassical architecture, cancer, death, myths, anthropology and classics; Europe, Greece
Esther Pasztory:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1971
Interests: Art of Mesoamerica, ancient Andes, art theory
Susan Pedersen:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1989
Interests: Modern British history
John Pemberton:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1989
Interests: Colonial/postcolonial studies, historiography, politics, discourse, ritual practice, translation; Java, Indonesia
Massimo Pesaresi:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1990
Julie Peters:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1986
Interests: Drama and theatre history; law and literature; dramatic theory; Human Rights and culture; Customary law and human rights
Gregory M. Pflugfelder:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1996
Interests: Japanese literature;Early modern and modern Japanese history; historical constructions of gender and sexuality
Cathy Popkin:
Lionel Trilling Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1985
Interests: 19th- and 20th- century Russian prose; literary theory; late 19th-century scientific discourses (psychiatry, ethnography, medicine); Chekhov
Frances Pritchett:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981
Interests: Modern Indic languages
H. Martin Puchner:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1998
Interests: 19th-century and 20th-century drama and performance; modernism; continental and language philosophy
Martin Puchner:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1998
Interests: Drama, theatre and theory
Austin E. Quigley:
Professor and Dean of Columbia College, Ph.D., California, 1971
Interests: Modern drama, American drama; drama and dramatic theory;19th and 20th-century comparative drama and performance; performance theory
Anupama Rao:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1999
Interests: South Asian history and anthropology
Irina Reyfman:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1986
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century Russian literature; cultural history; semiotics of culture; Acmeism
Michael Riffaterre:
University Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1955
Interests: Literary theory; 19th century; 20th century; semiotic approaches to texts
Bruce Robbins:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1980
Interests: 19th- and 20th-century fiction; transnational literature; literature and cultural theory
Suzanne Said:
Professor, Doctorat, Paris, 1978
Interests: Greek Tragedy and Comedy; Greek Novel; Mythology
George Saliba:
Professor, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 1974
Interests: History of Arabic and Islamic science especially with a special interest in the development of planetary theories and their transmission to Renaissance Europe.
Carol Sanger:
Professor (Law), J.D., University of Michigan, 1976
Interests: contracts, family law, law and gender
Simon Schama:
University Professor, M.A., Cambridge Christ College, 1969
Interests: 17th Century Dutch art, 18th century French painting and politics; 16th–21st century British visual culture; landscape and environmental history; 20th and 21st century land and earth art;Modern Western Europe, early modern Europe
David Scott:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., New School, 1989
Interests: Colonialism, postcolonialism, politics, cultural theory; Sri Lanka, Caribbean
Wei Shang:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1994
Interests: Chinese literature;Late Imperial fiction, Qing materials, Classical Chinese
Susan Shapiro:
Assistant Professor of Religion, Ph.D., Chicago, 1983
Haruo Shirane:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1983
Interests: Japanese literature and culture; prose fiction, poetry, poetics, literary theory, and cultural history
Sandhya Shukla:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1997
Interests: Immigration, race and ethnicity, the Indian diaspora in the US and UK, US cultural studies
Allan Silver:
Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1964
Interests: Historical sociology; political sociology; trust and moral order
Elaine Sisman:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1978
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century music; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven; aesthetics; history of theory
Henry D. Smith:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1970
Interests: Japanese history;Urban and cultural history of nineteenth-century Japan
Jack L. Snyder:
Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations, Ph.D., Columbia, 1981
Interests: International politics; nationalism
Robert Somerville:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1968
Interests: History of Christianity; medieval Christianity; history of Canon Law; Papal and Conciliar history; History of Canon Law; medieval manuscripts.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1967
Interests: 19th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism
David Stark:
Arthur Lehman Professor (Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Ph.D., Harvard, 1982
Interests: Economic sociology; sociology of innovation; democratization and organizational change in postsocialist Eastern Europe;Organizational innovation; co-evolution of collaborative organization and interactive technologies
Deborah Tarn Steiner:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1991
Interests: Archaic and Classical Greek Literature; Greek Religion and Mythology; Epinician Poetry
Anders Stephanson:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: United States foreign relations, historiography
Tomi Suzuki:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1988
Interests: Japanese and comparative literature;Nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative fiction and criticism; literary and cultural theory, particularly narrativity, genre, gender, and modernity; canon formation and historiography
Michael Taussig:
Professor, Ph.D., London School or Economics, 1974
Interests: Theory, colonialism, shamanism, terror, folk healing, mimesis, magicalities of the state, secrecy, Latin America
Kendall Thomas:
Professor (Law)
Interests: U.S. and comparative constitutional law, human rights, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, Critical Race Theory and Law and Sexuality
Robert A. F. Thurman:
Professor
Interests: Buddhism, South Asia
Bernard Tschumi:
Professor, Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich), 1969
Nadia Urbinati:
Neil Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Ph.D., European University Institute of Florence, 1995
Interests: Political theory, civil liberties
Paolo Valesio:
Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor in Italian Literature, Ph.D., University of Bologna
Interests: Italian literature and poetry; Modern and contemporary Italian literature; D'Annunzio; Marinetti; rhetoric, spirituality, and literature; theory and practice of literary writing
Karen Van Dyck:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1990
Interests: Modern Greek culture; comparitive literature; feminist theory; translation theory
Gauri Viswanathan:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1985
Interests: Intellectual history; education, religion and culture; 19th-century British and colonial cultural studies; historyof disciplines;
Jeremy J. Waldron:
Professor (Law), D. Phil, Oxford, 1986
David Wang:
Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1982
Interests: Chinese literature
Richard Wortman:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1964
Interests: Imperial Russian History; Russian intellectual and institutional history; political representation and ceremony
Gwendolyn Wright:
Professor, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 1978
Interests: American architecture and urbanism, transnational cultural exchanges, housing
Marcia Wright:
Professor, Ph.D., London, 1966
Interests: Eastern and southern Africa
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1966
Interests: Medieval and Modern Jewish History




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