Comparative & World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—Graduate Program

 

Gautam Basu Thakur

English, French, Hindi, Bengali

Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis; 19th C. British canonical & non-canonical literature; 19th C. print media; The Empire in Literature & Film; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Theory; World Literature; Media, Culture, and the Modern State


Jennifer Bliss            

French, English, German

Nationalisms and postcolonialism, literature of war


Jamie Burns

Spanish, Portuguese, French

American, Latin American, Caribbean Literature


I-In Chiang

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Dalia Chowdhury

Bangla, English, French, Hindi, Bamana, Sanskrit 

Translation/Reception theory, Postcolonial theory, Globalization, Feminist Theory (post 1970)


Eric Dalle

Chinese, French

20th century Chinese and French Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Transnationalism


Eric Dodson

Greek, Latin, Sanskrit

Poetry, Discursive Theory


Carola Dwyer

German, English, French, Latin

Late medieval literatures, Arthurian Legends, Courtly Romance


Daynali Flores-Rodriguez

Spanish, English, Portuguese

Post-Colonialism, Media and Popular culture, History and Literature, Women Studies, 20th century Latin American Literature, 20th century American Literature


Misty Houston

French, English, Latin

18th-century French and American Literatures; Latin    


Carolyn Hutchinson

Spanish-American, American, Portuguese

Testimonial Literature, feminism


Daria Kabanova

English, Russian, German

Postsoviet Literature and Culture , Popular Culture Studies, Dandyism


Yi-Ling Lin

English, Chinese, Japanese

Gender Studies


Junjie (Roger) Luo

American, Chinese, French

Literary Theory


Karen Lurkhur

Old French, Old Norse

Medieval Old French and Old Norse Literature


Reshmi Mukherjee

English, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Nepali, Oriya, German, French.

Women and Gender Studies, Feminism, Religion and Nationalist Discourses, Gender Development & Social Work


Oana Popescu-Sandu

English, Russian, Romanian

British, Russian & Romanian literature


Faith Stein

English, Russian, French

Realism, Domestic aesthetics, Victoriana


Matthias Stephan

Italian, English, French, Spanish, Danish

European Romanticism, Twentieth Century Italian Literature, Postmodernism, Labyrinths


Mineo Takamura

Japanese, English, French

Spatiality in modern literature, Philosophy


Yuliya Tkachuk

English, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian

20th cent American, Ukrainian and Polish literatures, diaspora studies, East European identity discourse, psychoanalysis, pragmatism 


Sevinc Turkkan

English, German, Turkish

Comparative Nationalisms, Immigrant Literature, Critical Theory, Cinema Studies


Ana Maria Vivancos-Alvarez

Iberian Spanish, American, Catalan, French

Cinema Studies


Sonja Wandelt (Schoene)

German, English, Swedish, French

Memory and Trauma Studies, Music and Poetics, Women and Gender Studies


Jessica Wienhold

German, English, Serbian and Croatian, Russian

20th Century German, Serbian, Croatian, and Russian Literatures


Chia-Rong Wu

English, Chinese, French

British Romanticism, Post-colonialism


Pei-Lin Wu

English, Chinese, Latin

Fantasy


Zhaoyu (Kevin) Zhou

English, Chinese, French

Cinema Studies and Psychoanalysis