Department Faculty

Department Leadership

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Tracy McNulty

Professor Department Chair

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative and World Literature
  • French
  • German
  • Literary Theory and Translation Studies
  • Politics and Aesthetics
  • Psychoanalysis and Trauma Studies
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Patricia Keller

Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature Director of Graduate Studies

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative Media Studies
  • Spanish
  • Politics and Aesthetics
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Philip Lorenz

Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative and World Literature
  • Literary Theory and Translation Studies
  • Spanish
  • Politics and Aesthetics
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Debra Ann Castillo

Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies TA Course Leader

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative and World Literature
  • Comparative Media Studies
  • Critical Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
  • Spanish
  • Transregional and Postcolonial Studies

Faculty

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Andrea Bachner

Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Catalan
  • Chinese
  • Comparative and World Literature
  • Comparative Media Studies
  • Critical Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Literary Theory and Translation Studies
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • Transregional and Postcolonial Studies
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Anindita Banerjee

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Critical Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
  • German
  • Transregional and Postcolonial Studies
  • Bengali
  • Literature, Science, and the Environment
  • Hindi
  • Russian
  • Sanskrit
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Cathy Caruth

Class of 1916 Professor of English

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative Media Studies
  • French
  • Literary Theory and Translation Studies
  • English
  • Politics and Aesthetics
  • Psychoanalysis and Trauma Studies
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Laurent Dubreuil

Professor of French, Francophone & Comparative Literature

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative and World Literature
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Literary Theory and Translation Studies
  • Ancient Greek
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Paul Fleming

L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities

Academic Interests:

  • French
  • German
  • Latin
  • Ancient Greek
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Arnika Fuhrmann

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative Media Studies
  • Critical Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
  • Politics and Aesthetics
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Natalie Melas

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • French
  • German
  • English
  • Ancient Greek
  • Modern Greek
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Timothy Murray

Professor of Comparative Literature and Literatures in English; Director, Cornell Council for the Arts

Academic Interests:

  • Chinese
  • French
  • Latin
  • Japanese
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Karen Pinkus

Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature

Academic Interests:

  • Comparative Media Studies
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Literature, Science, and the Environment
  • Latin
  • Swedish
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Nancy Pollak

Associate Professor

Academic Interests:

  • Russian
  • English
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Parisa Vaziri

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Studies

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