Faculty
Name | Interests | Contact | Appointment |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Bender | 18th-century British and European literature, visual arts, and literary theory |
Bldg 460, Rm 341 | Professor |
| Russell Berman | Literature, history, and critical theory; German literature and politics of the 19th and 20th centuries; cultural and political relations between Europe and the United States | Bldg. 260, Rm. 201 Phone: 650 723 1069 berman@stanford.edu | Professor and Department Chair |
| Margaret Cohen | The novel, literary theory, literature and culture of trans-Atlantic modernity, materialist and feminist paradigms of reading, the intersection of literary and visual forms |
Bldg. 260, Rm. 211 *Please email comparativelit@stanford.edu to schedule a meeting with Prof Cohen or ask questions regarding the undergraduate major/minor. | Professor |
| Amir Eshel | Postwar German culture, German-Jewish history and culture from the Enlightenment to the present, and Literary Theory. He is also involved in an interdisciplinary project on Berlin and the urban space. | Bldg. 260, Rm. 204 Phone: 650 723 0413 eshel@stanford.edu | Professor |
| Joseph Frank | Dostoevsky and the literature concerning Dostoevsky, as well as in the work of Mikhal Bakhtin, one of Dostoevsky's major interpreters. | Bldg 240, Rm 209 jnfrank@stanford.edu | Professor |
| Roland Greene | Early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the colonial Americas; transatlantic literature and society; Latin American and Latina/o poetry, fiction, and criticism; poetry and poetics; literary and cultural theory, especially lyric theory across cultures | Bldg. 260, Rm. 109 Phone: 650 725 1214 rgreene@stanford.edu | Professor |
| Monika Greenleaf | The theory and practice of 18th-century autobiography, Catherine the Great, the poetics of Empire and subjectivity, Pushkin and Romanticism, Pushkin and the modernists, comic prose of Gogol, Tsvetaeva, and Nabokov, visual art, film and poetics, women's poetry, and the novel | Bldg. 240, Rm 105 mad@stanford.edu | Associate Professor |
| Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht | Medieval "literature" and culture; Spanish, French, German, and (to a lesser extent) Italian literatures since the Renaissance; Argentinian and Brazilian literatures in the 19th and 20th centuries; Aesthetics; History of Ideas, History of Scholarship. | Bldg. 260, Rm. 112 Phone: 650 723 2904 sepp@stanford.edu ON LEAVE 09-10 | Professor |
| Franco Moretti | 19th- and early 20th-century literature; history of reading; cultural geography; the novel and narrative theory; interdisciplinary models | Bldg. 460, Rm. 417 Phone: 650 723 4590 moretti@stanford.edu | Professor |
| Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi | 20th-century French literature and Francophone literature from Africa and the Caribbean. Her research interests include contacts of cultures, travel writing, history and memory in literature. Cultural relations between Europe, Africa and the Caribbean; literature, intellectuals and society; and women writers |
Bldg. 260, Rm. 107 | Professor |
| Andrea Nightingale | Greek Literature, Philosophy and Culture; Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy; Roman Literature; Ecological Studies | Bldg. 110, Rm. 112-I Phone: 650 723 0476 andrean@stanford.edu | Professor |
| David Palumbo-Liu | Literary criticism and theory, Asian Pacific American studies, social theory, cultural studies | Bldg. 260, Rm. 229 Phone: 650 725 4915 palumbo-liu@stanford.edu | Professor |
| Patricia Parker | Literary theory; Renaissance and Feminist studies; romance from medieval to modern period |
Bldg. 460, Rm. 324 | Professor |
| Ramón Saldívar | Chicano cultural studies; American, British, and postcolonial cultural history and theory; modernity and postmodernity; literary theory |
Bldg. 460, rm. 322 | Professor |
| Jeffrey Schnapp | 12th- and 13th-century Romance literatures with an emphasis on Italy; the trobadour lyric; 20th-century Italian architecture and design; the emergence and institutional articulation of Fascist culture in Italy; Franco-Italian cultural relations from 1850 to 1950; 18th- and 19th-century travel and transportation literature; and Georges Sorel and French anarcho-syndicalism | Bldg. 260, Rm. 103 Phone: 650 924 0232 schnapp@stanford.edu ON LEAVE 09-10 | Professor |
| Ban Wang | Modern Chinese Literature and Film, Comparative Literature (East and West), Aesthetics, Intellectual History, Psychoanalysis, Transnational Politics and Culture. | Bldg. 250, Rm. 215 Phone: 650 723 9836 banwang@stanford.edu | Professor |