Professors
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
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@mail.utexas.edu |
471-5995 |
HRH 2.122
Education: PhD, University of Texas, 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
Marc Bizer
Professor, French Studies
mbizer@utexas.edu |
512-471-7780 |
HRH 3.112B
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Interests: Nascent French identities: national, social, religious, authorial, gendered; tragedy and the tragic
Sung-Sheng (Yvonne) Chang
Professor in Asian Studies
yvonne@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475-6036 |
WCH 4.124
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Ann Cvetkovich
Professor of English
cvet@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8374 |
PAR 323
Education: Ph.D., 1988, Cornell 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
Director, Center for Mexican American Studies; Professor, Department of English
jmgonzal@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8117 |
PAR 321
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Latino/a Literature; Chicano/a Literature; Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Narrative Theory; Postcolonial Studies
Sabine Hake
Professor of Germanic Studies
hake@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6379 |
BUR 332
Education: Ph.D., University of Hannover, Germany
Ernest Kaulbach
Professor of English
ekaulbach@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8365 |
CAL 17
Education: PhD, Cornell University
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
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
Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies
llmoore@austin.utexas.edu |
471-4991 |
PAR 108
Education: Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University
Wayne A Rebhorn
Celanese Centennial Professor, Department of English
warebhorn@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8759 |
PAR 328
Education: Ph.D., 1968, Yale University
Martha Selby
Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies
mas@austin.utexas.edu |
475-6040 |
WCH 4.134A
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
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
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;
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
Associate 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: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Jason Borge
Associate Professor of Latin American Film and Literature
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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
Matt Cohen
Associate Professor of English
matt.cohen@utexas.edu |
919 656-6364 |
PAR 20
Education: Ph.D., 2002, College of William and Mary
Tarek El-Ariss
Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature
tarek.elariss@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8291 |
CAL 402
Education: Ph.D - 2004, Cornell
Interests: Contemporary Arabic Literature, Film, and Media; Arabic popular culture and new literary genres; 19th- and 20th-century Arabic travel writing; Translation studies and Post-structuralism
Alison K. Frazier
Associate Professor of History
akfrazier@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6375 |
GAR 2.109
Education: Ph.D., 1997, Columbia University
Thomas Garza
University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
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 and the media/Post-Soviet youth culture/Language teaching pedagogy/Russian popular culture/Modern Russian language/Contemporary Russian media
Karen Grumberg
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
keren@austin.utexas.edu |
471-5134 |
WMB 6.116
Education: Ph.D.- 2004, University of California- Los Angeles
Michael P Harney
Associate 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.
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
S. Akbar Hyder
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies
syedakbarhyder@gmail.com |
475-6031 |
WCH 4.134
Education: PhD, Harvard University
David Kornhaber
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Graduate Adviser, Program in Comparative Literature
david.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8712 |
PAR 22
Education: Ph.D., 2009, Columbia University
Interests: Modern and contemporary drama, intersections of theatre and philosophy, critical theory, modernism and the avant-garde
Wayne Lesser
Associate Professor of English
lesser@mail.utexas.edu |
471-8754 |
PAR 108
Education: Ph.D., 1975, University of Chicago
Keith Livers
Associate Professor of Russian
kalivers@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9128 |
CAL 5
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Guy P Raffa
Associate Professor of Italian
guyr@utexas.edu |
512-232-5492 |
HRH 3.104A
Education: PhD, Indiana University
Interests: Digital Scholarship and Instructional Technology, Dante Studies, Italian Literature and Culture, History and Philosophy of Science
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
Peter Rehberg
Adjunct Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures, New York University
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
Associate Professor; Director, 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, Renaissance drama, Oscar Wilde, the Gothic and Orientalism, Decadence, 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
Faculty
snehal.shingavi@utexas.edu |
512-471-8114 |
PAR 29
Education: PhD, University of California-Berkeley
Interests: Anglophone South Asian literature, Hindi/Urdu literature, Literature in Translation and Translation Theory, Theories of “the nation” (anticolonialism, nationalism, statism, postcolonialism, postnationalism, cosmopolitanism, globalization, transnationalism, internationalism), Classical Marxism
Lynn R Wilkinson
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages
lrw@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6370 |
BUR 360
Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer M. Wilks
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies
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, University of North Carolina
Assistant Professors
Blake Atwood
Assistant Professor
atwood@austin.utexas.edu |
CAL 406
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Media in the Middle East, Technology and Culture, Media History
Michael Pesenson
Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies
mpesenson@utexas.edu |
232-9132 |
CAL 404
Education: Ph.D, Yale University
Chien-hsin Tsai
Associate Professor of Chinese
tsai@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1302 |
WCH 5.110
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Professors Emeriti
Aaron Bar-Adon
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
bar-adon@austin.utexas.edu |
471-3594 |
WMB 6.132
Education: Ph.D., Hebrew University
Mohammad Ghanoonparvar
Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature
mrghanoonparvar@utexas.edu |
475-6605 |
WMB 5.132
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Dina M Sherzer
Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature
Education: Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania
Janet K Swaffar
Professor Emerita of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature
jswaffar@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6376 |
BUR 318
Education: Ph.D., German, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Interests: German literature post 1945, German media, applications of literary theory to reading and writing in a foreign language, foreign language acquisition and advanced learners
Seth Wolitz
L. D., Marie and Edwin Gale Chair Emeritus of Judaic Studies and Professor Emeritus of French, Slavic, Jewish Studies, and Comparative Literature
slwolitz@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-5531 |
HRH 3.114A
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
