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Dominic Cheung Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature (213) 740-3708 | dcheung@usc.edu modern and classical Chinese literature, Chinese cultural studies and art |
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Roberto Diaz Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature (213) 740-1271 | rdiaz@usc.edu (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991) Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature: nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture; literary and cultural history; opera and cultural theory |
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Michael Du Plessis Associate Professor (Teaching) of Comparative Literature and English (213) 740-0102 | duplessi@usc.edu |
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Vincent Farenga Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature (213) 740-0106 | farenga@usc.edu Classics: (1) archaic and classical Greek civilization (literature, politics, philosophy); (2) justice in ancient Greece; (3) Athenian democracy; Greek tyranny; (4) the self (soul, mind) in Greek society and thought; (5) citizenship and leadership in ancient Greece and the Roman Republic; (6) Alexander the Great. Comparative Literature: (1) injustice in contemporary societies; (2) models of justice in political philosophy; (3) the theory of recognition; (4) human rights theory; (5) autobiography, memoir, and testimonial literature; (6) theories of the self; (7) theories of citizenship. |
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Erin Graff Zivin Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature (213) 740-8043 | egz@college.usc.edu |
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Jack Halberstam Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature (213) 740-4592 | halberst@usc.edu (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1991) Professor of English and ASE: Critical Theory, Film & Popular Culture, Gender Studies, 19th-Century, Queer Studies. |
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Heather James Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature (213) 740-3740 | hjames@usc.edu |
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Peggy Kamuf Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature and English (213) 740-0101 | kamuf@usc.edu |
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Neetu Khanna Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (213) 740-0102 | neetukha@usc.edu |
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Dan Leshem Adjunct Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (213) 740-6026 | dleshem@usc.edu |
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Akira Lippit Professor of Cinematic Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-8508 | lippit@usc.edu History and theory of cinema, Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, critical and literary theory, visual culture |
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Natania Meeker Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature (213) 740-3172 | nmeeker@usc.edu Eighteenth-century French literature and philosophy, feminist theory, Epicurean philosophy, libertine novel, history of materialism, decadent aesthetics |
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Panivong Norindr Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature (213) 740-0102 | norindr@college.usc.edu Professor Norindr's areas of research include comparative literature, postcolonial theory, contemporary French studies and French and Southeast Asian cinema. |
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Hilary Schor Professor of English, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies and Law (213) 740-3738 | schor@usc.edu |
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Antonia Szabari Associate Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature (213) 740-4940 | szabari@usc.edu |
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William Thalmann Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature (213) 740-0268 | thalmann@usc.edu Greek Drama and Epic Poetry |
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Daniel Tiffany Professor of English and Comparative Literature (213) 740-3736 | tiffany@usc.edu |
Associated Faculty
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David Bialock Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-3716 | bialock@usc.edu Medieval Japanese literature, classical Japanese poetry, literature and the environment, ecocriticism |
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Joseph Boone Professor of English, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature (213) 740-2818 | josephbo@usc.edu |
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David James Professor (213) 740-2923 | djames@cinema.usc.edu |
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Marsha Kinder University Professor and Professor of Critical Studies, Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese (213) 743-2962 | mkinder@usc.edu |
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Tania Modleski Florence R. Scott Professor of English and Professor of English (213) 740-2820 | modleski@usc.edu (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1980) Professor of English: American Studies, Film and Popular Culture, Gender Studies, Psychoanalysis. |
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Margaret Rosenthal Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature and English (213) 740-3702 | mrosenth@usc.edu |
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David St. John Professor of English (213) 821-0477 | dstjohn@usc.edu |
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Alexander Zholkovsky Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (213) 740-0029 | alik@usc.edu |
Emeritus Faculty
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Paul Ilie Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature pilie@usc.edu |
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Gloria Orenstein Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies (213) 740-0100 | orenstei@usc.edu |
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Albert Sonnenfeld Emeritus Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature |