Departments & Programs
Comparative Literature
Faculty
Chairperson
Distinguished Professor
- Douglas R. Hofstadter (Cognitive Science, Computer Science)
Chancellor's Professor
- Anya Royce (Anthropology)
Professors
- David Hertz (American Studies)
- Bill Johnston
- Eileen Julien (French and Italian)
- Paul Losensky (Central Eurasian Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
- Herb Marks (English, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Religious Studies)
- Rosemarie McGerr (Medieval Studies)
- Eyal Peretz
Associate Professors
- Akinwumi Adesokan
- Sarah Van der Laan
Assistant Professors
- Jacob Emery (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures)
- Sonia Velázquez (Spanish and Portuguese)
Adjunct Professors
- Fritz Breithaupt (Germanic Studies)
- J. Peter Burkholder (Distinguished Professor, Jacobs School of Music)
- Deborah N. Cohn (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Dov-Ber Kerler (Germanic Studies, Jewish Studies)
- Barbara Klinger (The Media School)
- Eleanor Winsor-Leach (Classical Studies)
- Eric MacPhail (French and Italian)
- William Rasch (Germanic Studies)
- Jack Rollins (Hutton Honors College)
- H. Wayne Storey (French and Italian, Medieval Studies)
- Russell Scott Valentino (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures)
- Marc Weiner (Germanic Studies)
Adjunct Associate Professors
- Purnima Bose (English)
- Michel Chaouli (Germanic Studies)
- Patrick E. Dove (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Vivian Nun Halloran (American Studies, English)
- Joan Hawkins (The Media School)
- Rebecca Manring (India Studies, Religious Studies)
- Edith Sarra (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
- Johannes Türk (Germanic Studies)
- Estela Vieira (Spanish and Portuguese)
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)
- Maryellen Bieder (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Peter Boerner (Germanic Studies)
- Peter Bondanella (Distinguished Professor, French and Italian)
- Gilbert Chaitin (French and Italian)
- Claus Clüver
- Bruce Cole (Distinguished Professor, Fine Arts)
- Henry R. Cooper, Jr. (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures)
- Eugene Eoyang (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
- Harry M. Geduld (Film Studies, Comparative Literature, Institute for European Studies)
- Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis (English)
- Karen Hanson (Philosophy)
- Roger W. Herzel (Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance)
- Ingeborg Hoesterey (Germanic Studies)
- Yoshio Iwamoto (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
- Sumie Jones (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
- Oscar Kenshur (English, Philosophy)
- Gerald J. Larson (Religious Studies)
- Merritt Lawlis (English)
- Rosemary Lloyd (Rudy Professor, French and Italian)
- Giancarlo Maiorino (Rudy Professor)
- Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities, Gender Studies)
- Breon Mitchell
- James O. Naremore (Chancellor's Professor, Communication and Culture)
- Angela Pao (Asian American Studies)
- Darlene Sadlier (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Rakesh H. Solomon (Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance)
- Suzanne Stetkevych (Ruth N. Halls Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
- Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Central Eurasian Studies)
- Bronislava Volkova (Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures)
- Carl Ziegler (Germanic Studies)
Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Associate Professor Sarah Van der Laan
Undergraduate Advisor
- hlelkins [at] indiana [dot] edu (Heather Elkins), Ballantine 749, (812) 855-4233
