Professors
Omoniyi Afolabi
Associate Professor of the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
afolabi@austin.utexas.edu |
232-4510 |
BEN 3.110
Education: Ph.D, Luso-Brazilian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Lusophone Atlantic Triangle; Yoruba Diaspora Studies; Afro-Brazilian Cultural Studies; Lusophone African Literature; Comparative African Diaspora Studies; Latin American Cultural Studies
Kamran Asdar Ali
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
asdar@austin.utexas.edu |
471-7531, 471-3550 |
EPS 1.116
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Katherine Arens
Professor of Germanic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies
arens@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6363 |
BUR 320
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University, Dual PhD, German Studies and Humanities Special Programs, 1981
Interests: 18th-21st century literature, Romanticism, cultural history, aesthetics, philosophy, theory, post-structuralism, critical discourse theory, psychology, feminist theory
Daniela Bini
Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
bini@austin.utexas.edu |
471-5995 |
HRH 2.122
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Douglas G. Biow
Professor of French and Italian, Director of the Center for European Studies
biow@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7267 |
HRH 2.110B
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Marc Bizer
Professor, French Studies
mbizer@utexas.edu |
512-471-7780 |
HRH 3.112B
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Interests: Early Modern French identities: national, social, religious, authorial, gendered; tragedy and the tragic; history of emotions
Jason Borge
Associate Professor of Latin American Film and Literature
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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Sung-Sheng (Yvonne) Chang
Professor in Asian Studies
yvonne@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475-6036 |
WCH 4.124
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
Professor of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Alan W Friedman
Professor of English
friedman@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8376 |
CAL 214
Education: Ph.D., 1966, University of Rochester
John Morán González
J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American & English Literature
jmgonzal@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8117 |
PAR 321
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Latinx literature; U.S. literature; narrative theory; postcolonial studies; environmental literature
Sabine Hake
Professor of Germanic Studies
hake@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6379 |
BUR 332
Education: Ph.D., University of Hannover, Germany
Michael P Harney
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
harney@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4936 |
BEN 3.148
Education: Ph.D.-Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Comparative literature, literary theory, cultural theory. Medieval & Early Modern literature. Film and media.
Naomi Lindstrom
Gale Family Foundation Professor in Jewish Arts and Culture
lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.4936 |
BEN 4.144
Education: Ph. D., Arizona State University
Interests: Gender Studies, Jewish Latin American Studies, Literary Translation, Sociology of the Arts
Carol H MacKay
Professor of English
mackay@mail.utexas.edu |
471-8970 |
PAR 221
Education: Ph.D., 1979, University of California Los Angeles
Lisa L Moore
Archibald A. Hill Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
llmoore@austin.utexas.edu |
471-4991 |
PAR 108
Education: Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University
Guy P. Raffa
Professor of Italian Studies
guyr@utexas.edu |
512-232-5492 |
HRH 3.104A
Education: PhD, Indiana University
Interests: Dante Studies, Italian Literature and Culture, Public Scholarship, Digital Humanities
Martha Selby
Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies
mas@austin.utexas.edu |
475-6040 |
WCH 4.134A
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Alexandra K. Wettlaufer
Professor of French
akw@austin.utexas.edu |
471-1442, 471-7289 |
CLA 2.102, HRH 3.104C
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Interests: 19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain
Hannah C. Wojciehowski
Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhelmina Doré Thaman Professor of English
gemelli@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8768 |
PAR 230
Education: PhD, Yale University
Interests: the history of subjectivity; group identity formation; globalization and transculturation; sixteenth-century travel literature and colonization; cognitive criticism; women writers in early modern Europe;
Associate Professors
Pascale Bos
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages
pascalebos@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6373 |
BUR 314
Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)
Interests: 20th-century Comparative Western European and US literature; cultural studies, gender and memory, autobiography, Holocaust (history/culture/literature), sexual violence in armed conflict
Alison K. Frazier
Associate Professor of History
akfrazier@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6375 |
GAR 2.109
Education: Ph.D., 1997, Columbia University
Thomas Jesús Garza
University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor and Director, Texas Language Center
tjgarza@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3607 |
BUR 458
Education: Ed.D., Harvard University, 1987
Interests: Russian language teaching methodology/ Applied linguistics/ Contemporary Russian culture/ The Chechen wars / Post-Soviet youth culture/ Russian popular culture/ Contemporary Russian media/ Performing masculinity in Contemporary Russia & Mexico
Karen Grumberg
Center Director, Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D.- 2004, University of California- Los Angeles
Interests: The Gothic; Comparative Literature; modern Hebrew literature; 19th- and 20th-century American literature
Geraldine Heng
Associate Professor of English
heng@austin.utexas.edu |
471-7480 |
PAR 213
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Neville Hoad
Associate Professor of English
nhoad@mail.utexas.edu |
PAR 215
Education: Ph.D., 1998, Columbia University
Syed Akbar Hyder
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies
akbarhyder@utexas.edu |
475-6031 |
WCH 4.134
Education: PhD, Harvard University
David Kornhaber
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
david.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8712 |
CAL 209
Education: Ph.D., 2009, Columbia University
Interests: Modern and contemporary drama, intersections of theatre and philosophy, critical theory, modernism and the avant-garde
Keith Livers
Associate Professor of Russian
kalivers@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9128 |
CAL 5
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Cory A Reed
Associate Professor of Spanish
creed@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 4.140
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: Cervantes, Spanish Drama, Early Modern Mediterranean World, Transatlantic Studies, Cognitive Studies, and Comparative Literature
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
UT Regents’ and Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of English, Director of the Program in Comparative Literature
emrg@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-5708 |
PAR 119
Education: Ph.D., 1992, Columbia University
Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drama; Oscar Wilde; the Gothic and Orientalism; decadence; detective fiction; aesthetic and literary theory; literature and the fine arts.
Sonia Roncador
Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture
roncador@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4525 |
BEN 3.132
Education: Ph. D., New York University
César A. Salgado
Associate Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature
cslgd@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4517 |
BEN 3.140
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Snehal Shingavi
Associate Professor
snehal.shingavi@utexas.edu |
512-471-8114 |
PAR 26
Education: PhD, University of California-Berkeley
Interests: Anglophone South Asian literature, 20th century literature, Hindi/Urdu literature, Literature in Translation and Translation Theory, Theories of “the nation” and/or postcolonialism, Classical Marxism, Ethnic and Third World Literature, Asian American Literature
Lynn R. Wilkinson
Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies
lrw@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6370 |
BUR 360
Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer M. Wilks
Associate Professor of English, African American Diaspora Studies, and Comparative Literature
jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8702 |
PAR 329
Education: Ph.D., 2003, Cornell University
Helena Woodard
Associate Professor of English
hwood@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8703 |
PAR 331
Education: Ph.D., 1991, English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Assistant Professors
Professors Emeriti
Wayne A. Rebhorn
Mildred Hayek Vacek and John Roman Vacek Chair of English
warebhorn@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8759 |
PAR 328
Education: Ph.D., 1968, Yale University
Dina M. Sherzer
Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature
Education: Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Walker
Professor & Chair, Department of Rhetoric & Writing
jswalker@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8744 |
PAR 3
Education: Ph.D., 1985, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: rhetorical theory, history of rhetoric, ancient rhetoric, rhetoric and poetics, modern rhetoric and literature
Marjorie Curry Woods
Blumberg Centennial Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Professor
marjoriewoods@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8383 |
CAL 301
Education: Ph.D., U. of Toronto
Interests: medieval literature; medieval and renaissance rhetoric and pedagogy; composition exercises in the premodern classroom; modern use of premodern compostion exercises
