Departments & Programs
Comparative Literature
Faculty
Chairperson
Distinguished Professor
- Douglas Hofstadter (Cognitive Science, Computer Science)
Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities
- Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Gender Studies)
Chancellor's Professor
- Anya Royce (Anthropology)
Professors
- David Hertz (American Studies)
- Eileen Julien (French and Italian)
- Herb Marks (English, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Religious Studies)
- Rosemarie McGerr (Medieval Studies)
- Bert Breon Mitchell (Director of Lilly Library)
Associate Professors
- Akinwumi Adesokan
- Bill Johnston
- Paul Losensky (Central Eurasian Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
- Angela Pao (Asian American Studies)
- Eyal Peretz
Assistant Professors
- Jacob Emery (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
- Kevin Tsai
- Sarah Van der Laan
Adjunct Professors
- Maryellen Bieder (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Fritz Breithaupt (Germanic Studies)
- J. Peter Burkholder (Jacobs School of Music)
- Dov-Ber Kerler (Germanic Studies, Jewish Studies)
- Barbara Klinger (Communication and Culture)
- Eleanor W. Leach (Classical Studies)
- Eric MacPhail (French and Italian)
- William Rasch (Germanic Studies)
- Jack Rollins (Hutton Honors College)
- Darlene Sadlier (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Suzanne Stetkevych (Ruth N. Halls Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
- H. Wayne Storey (French and Italian, Medieval Studies)
- Marc Weiner (Germanic Studies)
Adjunct Associate Professors
- Purnima Bose (English)
- Michel Chaouli (Germanic Studies)
- Deborah Cohn (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Patrick Dove (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Joan Hawkins (Communication and Culture)
- Rebecca Manring (India Studies, Religious Studies)
- Edith Sarra (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Adjunct Assistant Professors
- Johannes Türk (Germanic Studies)
Professors Emeriti
- Salih Altoma (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
- Willis Barnstone (Distinguished Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
- Luis Beltrán (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch (English)
- Peter Boerner (Germanic Studies)
- Peter Bondanella (Distinguished Professor, French and Italian, West European Studies)
- Gilbert Chaitin (French and Italian)
- Claus Clüver
- Bruce Cole (Distinguished Professor, Fine Arts)
- Eugene Eoyang (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
- Harry Geduld (West European Studies)
- Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis (English)
- Roger Herzel (Theatre and Drama)
- Ingeborg Hoesterey (Germanic Studies)
- Yoshio Iwamoto (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
- Sumie Jones (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
- Oscar Kenshur (English, Philosophy)
- Gerald Larson (Religious Studies, India Studies)
- Merritt Lawlis (English)
- Rosemary Lloyd (Rudy Professor, French and Italian)
- Giancarlo Maiorino (Rudy Professor)
- James Naremore (Chancellor's Professor, Communication and Culture)
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Central Eurasian Studies)
- Ulrich Weisstein (Germanic Studies)
- Carl Ziegler (Germanic Studies)
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Undergraduate Advisor
- Nathan Herndershott, Ballantine Hall 437; (812) 855-6263
