Core Faculty
| Name | Title/Interest | |
|---|---|---|
Ackbar Abbas | M.Phil., University of Hong Kong; Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies Interests: Globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese Culture, Postcoloniality, Critical Theory Published Books | mabbas@uci.edu |
Eyal Amiran | Ph.D., University of Virginia; Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Undergraduate Program Interests: Twentieth-Century fiction, Postmodernism, Digital Media, Textual Theory Published Books | amiran@uci.edu |
Alicia Carroll | Ph.D., University of California, Riverside; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Interests: Native American and Indigenous studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Critical Race Studies, Autobiography, Literary And Cultural Theory | alicia.carroll@uci.edu |
Herschel Farbman | Ph.D., Yale University; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department Interests: Comparative Modernisms, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Film and Media Studies Published Books | hfarbman@uci.edu |
| John Gamber | Associate Professor | john.gamber@uci.edu |
David Theo Goldberg | Ph.D., City University of New York; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Anthropology and Criminology, Law, and Society Interests: South Africa, Race and Racism, Social and Political Theory, Legal Studies Published Books | goldberg@uci.edu |
Adriana M. Johnson | Ph.D., Duke University; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Graduate Program Interests: Latin American literature, 19th and 20th Century Latin America, Cultural and Postcolonial Studies | adrianaj@uci.edu |
Catherine Malabou | Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales: Philosophy. Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies | |
Liron Mor | Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature School of Humanities Interests: Literary and Critical Theory, Contemporary Israeli and Palestinian literature and film, Postcolonial Theories, Conflict; Sympathy, Questions of Translation and Literary Adaptation | morl@uci.edu |
Jane O. Newman | Ph.D., Princeton University; Professor of Comparative Literature Interests: 16th- and 17-century German literature, Contemporary Theory and Criticism, Feminism Published Books | jonewman@uci.edu |
Nasrin Rahimieh | Ph.D., University of Alberta; Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities, Comparative Literature Interests: Modern Persian Literature and Culture, Translation, Exile, and Diaspora Published Books | nrahimie@uci.edu |
Beryl Schlossman | Doctorate, University of Paris 7 and Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University Interests: Film, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Poetics, Modernity | bschloss@uci.edu |
Gabriele Schwab | Ph.D., Univ. of Konstanz; Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature Interests: Contemporary Comparative European and American Literatures, Indigenous Literatures, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, cultural theory and literary anthro Published Books | gmschwab@uci.edu |
Rei Terada | Ph.D., Boston University; Professor of Comparative Literature Interests: Theory, History of Philosophy, 19th- and 20th-Century Poetry, Romanticism Published Books | terada@uci.edu |
Ngugi wa Thiong'o | UCI Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation Interests: African and Caribbean Literatures, Theater and Film, Performance Studies, Cultural and Political Theory Published Books | ngugi@uci.edu |