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Comparative Literature Faculty

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Graduate Faculty

William Moebius, Professor and Program Director of Comparative Literature, B.A., Lawrence (Wis.), 1963; Ph.D., New York at Buffalo, 1969.

Nerissa S. Balce, Assistant Professor, B.A., De La Salle University, Philippines, 1986; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2002.

N. C. Christopher Couch, Lecturer, B.A., Columbia, 1976; M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1987.

Laszlo Dienes, Professor, Diploma, Eotvos Lorand University of Arts and Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1968; M.A., Harvard, 1972; Ph.D., 1977.

Edwin Gentzler, Professor and Director of the Translation Center, B.A., Kenyon College, 1973; Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1990.

James Hicks, Lecturer, B.A., Michigan State, 1982; M.A., Pennsylvania, 1987; Ph.D., 1992.

David R. Lenson, Professor, B.A., Princeton, 1967; M.A., 1970; Ph.D., 1971.

Don E. Levine, Associate Professor, B.A., Columbia, 1964; M.A., Princeton, 1967; Ph.D., 1972.

Elizabeth P. Petroff, Professor, B.S. Ed., Northwestern, 1960; M.A., California at Berkeley, 1964; Ph.D., 1972.

Catherine Portuges, Professor, B.A., California at Los Angeles, 1964; M.A., 1966; Ph.D., 1981.

Robert A. Rothstein, Professor, S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960; A.M., Harvard, 1961; Ph.D., 1967.

Maria Tymoczko, Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1965; M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1973.

Associate Faculty

Eric M. Beekman, Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies.

Aviva Ben-Ur, Associate Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies.

Barton B. Byg, Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies.

Donald Gjertson, Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures.

Daniel Gordon, Professor of History.

Julie C. Hayes, Professor of French.

Arthur F. Kinney, Professor of English.

Sara Lennox, Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies.

Donald Maddox, Professor of French and Italian.

Sara Maddox, Professor of French and Italian.

Luis A. Marentes, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

Stephen D. Miller, Assistant Professor of Japanese.

Daphne Patai, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

Amanda C. Seaman, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures.

James E. Smethurst, Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies.

Jennifer Stone, Associate Professor of French and Italian.

Robert Sullivan, Associate Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies.

Julio Velez-Sainz, Assistant Professor of
Spanish and Portuguese.

James Young, Professor of English.