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| Edward J Ahearn Comparative Literature, Department of Professor Ahearn has research interests in many phases of Comparative Literature and 19th and 20th century French literature and poetry, literary theory, and literature and the city. Forthcoming in February, 2010: Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001: European Contexts, American Evolutions (Ashgate Publishing LTD). | | Susan Bernstein Comparative Literature, Department of German Studies, Department of Susan Bernstein works in German, French, and English and American literature of the 18th through 20th centuries. She has particular interests in literary theory, literature and the arts (specifically music and architecture), Romanticism, philosophy, and poetry. | | Michel-André Bossy French Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Medieval Studies Michel-André Bossy studies medieval cultural connections between France and its neighbors, especially during the period of the troubadours and the Hundred Years' War. His fields include medieval French, Anglo-Norman, and Occitan literature, 12th- to 15th-century lyric poetry, and social interpretations of literature. His emphases involve literary patronage and court politics, troubadours (especially Guiraut Riquier), manuscript compilations, cultural rivalries among book collectors, Chrétien de Troyes, Froissart. | | Rey Chow Comparative Literature, Department of Rey Chow studies 20th-century Chinese fiction, both canonical and popular; postcolonial theory and fiction; interdisciplinary analyses of film; and critical and cultural theory. | | E Colla Comparative Literature, Department of
| | William Crossgrove Comparative Literature, Department of Professor Crossgrove works on "knowledge" literature in late medieval Germany and on the process of "vernacularization" whereby Latin scientific texts and unwritten artisanal skills are transmuted into vernacular texts for a newly-literate reading public of non-experts. | | Kenneth Haynes Comparative Literature, Department of Classics, Department of Kenneth Haynes studies the classical tradition in European literature and philosophy since the Renaissance, with particular attention to German and British Hellenism. | | Dore J. Levy Comparative Literature, Department of Dore Levy studies classical Chinese poetry and fiction, forms of narrative literature, and East Asian and European literature. | | Stephanie Merrim Comparative Literature, Department of Hispanic Studies, Department of Professor Merrim has research interests in colonial Latin American historiography, the Baroque, early modern women's writing, and contemporary North and South American literatures. | | Marinos Pourgouris Comparative Literature, Department of Marinos Pourgouris has extensively researched and written about 20th century Modern Greek Literature in a comparative context. He has completed a book-length study on the poetic metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis in relation to European Modernism. His research is informed by psychoanalytic criticism and philosophy. His current project examines literature between Mediterranean contact zones. | | Peter Saval Comparative Literature, Department of Peter Kishore Saval studies the classical tradition in Renaissance literature, with particular emphasis on Renaissance Platonism. He is also interested generally in the relationship between early modern literature and philosophy. | | Arnold L. Weinstein Comparative Literature, Department of Arnold Weinstein researches European and American narrative, Scandinavian literature, American fiction, literature and medicine, and the city theme in literature. His publications include Vision and Response in Modern Fiction (Cornell University Press, 1974), Fictions of the Self: 1550-1800 (Princeton University Press, 1981), The Fiction of Relationship (Princeton, 1988), Nobody's Home: Speech, Self and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo (Oxford University Press, 2003), A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life (Random House, 2003), Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison (Random House, 2006). | | Esther Whitfield Comparative Literature, Department of Esther Whitfield's research focuses on Cuban culture of the post-Soviet period. She also writes on contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literature more broadly, and on Welsh writing in the Americas. | |

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