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The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society




Director of Undergraduate Studies: Carlos J. Alonso, Ph.D.
305 Casa Hispánica
Tel: 212.854.5177


Director: Stathis Gourgouris, PhD
608 Hamilton Hall HB1-6 Heyman Center, East Campus
Tel: 212.854.4541


Director of Graduate Studies: Lydia Liu, Ph.D.
407 Kent
Tel: 212.854.5631


Associate Director: Nadia Urbinati, Ph.D.
719 IAB
Tel: 212.854.3977


Executive Committee: Partha Chatterjee, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Jean Cohen, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Victoria DeGrazia, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Mamadou Diouf, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Bernard Faure, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Lydia Goehr, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Marianne Hirsch, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Andreas Huyssen, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Reinhold Martin, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Rosalind Morris, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ph.D.

Executive Committee: Zoë Strother, 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
Carlos J. Alonso:
Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities, Ph.D., Yale, 1983
Interests: Modern Latin American culture and intellectual history, theory
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:
Associate Professor, Dr. Phil., Hamburg, 1998
Interests: German and European literary history from 1750 to 1930, cinema and media studies, literary theory, occultism, interrelations of literature and science, law and literature
Gil Anidjar:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1998
Interests: Political theology, Arab-Jewish issues, continental philosophy, comparative literature, Judaism, Christianity, Orientalism
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., Chicago, 1994
Interests: Modern Korean history; contemporary Korean history and historiography, 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., New York, 1989
Interests: Mesopotamian and East Mediterranean art and archaeology, art and critical theory, philosophies of aesthetics and representation
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:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2001
Interests: literature and aesthetics in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods; anthropology and literature; philosophical anthropology
Barry Bergdoll:
Professor, 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., Chicago, 1983
Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind
Elizabeth Blackmar:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1981
Interests: U.S. history, urban history, and social history.
Partha Chatterjee:
Professor, Ph.D., Rochester, 1971
Interests: Nation and state, political theory, political economy, colonialism, religion, agrarianism, globalization; South Asia
Jean Cohen:
Professor, Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1979
Interests: Contemporary political theory; international political theory, sovereignty and international law, globalization and international law
Elaine Combs-Schilling:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1981
Interests: Symbolic anthropology, political anthropology; nation-state formation; gender; sexual politics; North Africa; Middle East
Antoine Compagnon:
Professor, 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., California (Berkeley), 1975
Interests: Medieval English and French genres, history of sexuality, social implications fo literature
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., Pennsylvania, 1984
Interests: Comparative study of cultures, 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:
Associate Professor, Dr. Phil., Oxford, 1999
Interests: History of Yiddish literature, Jewish literature, Yiddish theater
Victoria DeGrazia:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1976
Interests: Modern Western Europe, consumer culture
Vidya Dehejia:
Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1967
Interests: South Asian art
Mamadou Diouf:
Professor, Ph.D., Paris I Sorbonne, 1981
Interests: Africa
Nicholas B. Dirks:
Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History, Ph.D., Chicago, 1981
Interests: Historical anthropology, history of anthropology, philosophy of history, colonialism; British Empire, South Asia
Madeleine Dobie:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 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 rhetoric; hermeneutics ; ancient literary theory; history of classical scholarship
Michael Eskin:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers, 1998
Interests: 19th- through 21st-century literature; post-World War II and contemporary poetry and culture; interdisciplinary and philosophical approaches to literature ; literary theory and criticism; the theory and practice of translation; the theory of fiction and narrative; continental philosophy; aesthetics; intellectual history
Bernard Faure:
Professor, Ph.D., Paris, 1984
Interests: Japanese religions, East Asian Buddhism
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, Ph.D., Habilitation, Sorbonne, 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: Art and the neurosciences; Dutch, Flemish, French and Italian painting of the 16th and 17th centuries; 16th- and 17th-century history of science; theory and criticism
Walter Frisch:
Professor, Ph.D., California (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:
Bakhmeteff 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; Russian music
Carol Gluck:
George Sansom Professor of History, Director of Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Modern Japanese history, international relations, World War II, history-writing and public memory in Asia and the West
Lydia Goehr:
Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1987
Interests: Philosophy of music; aesthetics; critical theory; and 19th- and 20th-century philosophy
Stathis Gourgouris:
, PhD
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
Marianne Hirsch:
Professor, Ph.D., Brown, 1975
Interests: Comparative literature (20th century French, German,British, American); feminist theory, narrative; cultural memory; Holocaust studies; visual culture
Andreas Huyssen:
Professor, Ph.D., Zurich, 1969
Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th-20th centuries, comparative modernisms, postmodernism, media studies, critical theory
Marilyn Ivy:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1988
Interests: Modern Japanese anthropology
David Johnston:
Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and the Core Curriculum, Ph.D., Princeton, 1981
Interests: Political philosophy in the liberal tradition, normative political philosophy, history of political thought, property rights
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
Lydia Liu:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1990
Interests: Modern Chinese literature, postcolonial empire studies, critical translation theory, new media, and comparative studies of writing and media technology across cultures and civilizations.
Sylvère Lotringer:
Professor, Docteur de Troisième Cycle de l'Ecole, Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1967
Interests: 20th century; poststructuralism
David Lurie:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2001
Interests: Japanese literature
Manning Marable:
Professor (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Maryland, 1976
Interests: African American history, contemporary history, oral history
Reinhold Martin:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1999
Interests: History and theory of modern and contemporary architecture, American architecture since the 18th century, cultural theory and globalization
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, Ph.D., Chicago, 1994
Interests: Modernity in Thailand, ritual and performance in cultural order, the effects of mass reproduction techniques on visuality
Keith Moxey:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Chicago, 1975
Interests: Northern Renaissance art; social history, critical theory
Dorothea von Mücke:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1988
Interests: The Romantic Fantastic, Eighteenth-century semiotics and aesthetics, paradigms of feminist scholarship, eighteenth-century literature, literature and psychoanalysis, Enlightenment and visuality, Faust and media, Classical drama
Harro Müller:
Professor, Habilitation, Bielefeld, 1979
Interests: German literature of the 18th-20th centuries, theory of literature, critical theory, systems theory
Andrew J. Nathan:
Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Harvard, 1971
Interests: 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 Panourgiá:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Indiana, 1992
Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, anthropological theory, history of anthropology, anthropology of medicine, death, myths, anthropology and classics, concentration camps, the European Left; Europe, Greece
Esther Pasztory:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1971
Interests: Pre-Columbian art history; Andean art and architecture
Susan Pedersen:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1989
Interests: Modern Britain, imperial history
John Pemberton:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1989
Interests: Modern Indonesian cultural anthropology
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: Early modern and modern Japanese history, historical constructions of gender and sexuality in Japan
Cathy Popkin:
Jesse and George Siegel 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., 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, Ph.D., California (Santa Cruz), 1971
Interests: 19th and 20th century drama; theater history; literary theory; performance theory; linguistic theory; modernism and postmodernism
Anumpama Rao:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Michigan, 1999
Interests: South Asia
Irina Reyfman:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1986
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century Russian literature; cultural history; semiotics of culture; Pushkin; Gogol; Leskov; Russian literary institutions and system of ranks; the status of the writer in Russia
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, Ph.D., Paris, 1978
Interests: Greek tragedy and comedy; Greek novel; mythology
George Saliba:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1974
Interests: History of Arabic and Islamic science especially 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, 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:
Professor, Ph.D., New School, 1989
Interests: Colonialism, postcolonialism, politics, cultural theory; Sri Lanka, Caribbean
Wei Shang:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1994
Interests: 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: Pre and early modern Japanese literature
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: Urban and cultural history of 19-century Japan
Jack L. Snyder:
Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations, Ph.D., Columbia, 1981
Interests: Democratization and war, U.S. foreign policy, realism and liberalism in international relations theory, human rights and normative change in the international system
Robert Somerville:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1968
Interests: History of Christianity; medieval Christianity; history of canon law; papal and conciliar history; medieval manuscripts
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1967
Interests: 19th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism; globalization
David Stark:
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Ph.D., Harvard, 1982
Interests: Economic sociology; sociology of innovation; democratization and organizational change in post socialist Eastern Europe
Deborah Tarn Steiner:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1991
Interests: Archaic and classical Greek literature; Greek religion and mythology; Epinician poetry
Anders Stephanson:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: History, memory, historical research methods
Zoë Strother:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1992
Interests: Arts of Africa, 20th century and contemporary
Tomi Suzuki:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1988
Interests: Modern Japanese literature
Michael T. Taussig:
Professor, Ph.D., London, 1974
Interests: Indigenous peoples of the Andean region, Columbia and Peru
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, 1995
Interests: Political theory, democratic theory, anti-democratic thought, theories of representation and sovereignty, ancient and modern political thought, theory of resistance and consent
Paolo Valesio:
Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor in Italian Literature, Ph.D., 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; comparative 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 Emeritus, Ph.D., Chicago, 1964
Interests: Imperial Russian history; Russian intellectual and institutional history; political representation and ceremony
Gwendolyn Wright:
Professor, Ph.D., 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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