Core Faculty:
Christopher Bush (Department of French & Italian)
European, American and comparative modernisms; East/West relations, especially the place of China and Japan in forming Western modernity; translation.
Clare Cavanagh (Department of Slavic Languages and Literature)
19th and 20th century Russian poetry; Polish poetry, literature, history and culture; comparative modernism; Anglo-American poetry; translation.
Jorge Coronado (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
Modern Latin American and Andean cultures and literatures.
Penelope Deutscher (Department of Philosophy)
20th century and contemporary French philosophy and philosophy of gender.
Scott P. Durham (Department of French and Italian)
20th-century literature, film, and theory, especially Foucault, Deleuze, and the Marxist critical tradition.
Brian Edwards (Department of English)
U.S. literature and culture; postcolonial and diaspora studies; North African literature and culture; globalization; circulation.
Peter Fenves (Department of German)
German literature and philosophy; contemporary French philosophy.
Reginald Gibbons (Department of English)
Poetry and poetics, literary translation, twentieth century American and world literature.
Michal P. Ginsburg (Department of French and Italian)
The 19th century European novel; 19th century French literature; Israeli fiction; narrative theory.
Susannah Gottlieb (Department of English)
Modern British and American poetry; continental philosophy and political theory; German-Jewish intellectual history; Asian-American literary traditions.
Marianne Hopman (Classics Department)
Ancient Greek poetry, especially Homer and tragedy; myths, narratives, metaphors.
Jules D. Law (Department of English)
Victorian literature, especially the novel; literature and philosophy; literary theory ; cultural studies.
Phyllis Lyons (Program of African and Asian Languages)
Modern Japanese fiction.
Susan Phillips (Department of English)
Late medieval and early modern book culture; medieval literature and culture; medieval and early modern dictionaries, phrasebooks, and travel guides; Shakespeare; Chaucer.
susie-phillips@northwestern.edu
Nasrin Qader (Department of French and Italian)
Francophone and Arabic literature of the Maghreb and West Africa; literary theory and Islamic thought and aesthetics.
Samuel Weber (Department of German)
Critical theory; Benjamin; Freud and Lacan; media theory.
William N. West (Department of English)
Early modern drama, poetry, and prose; premodern performance; history of literary theory.
Visiting Assistant Professor:
Anna Glazova (Program in Comparative Literary Studies)
Modern poetry, German Literature from early nineteenth century to the present, Romantic and Modernist theories of poetry.
Affiliated Faculty:
Linda Austern (School of Music)
Literary-musical relations, music and the other arts in early modern Europe, music and critical theory, music and gender.
l-austern@northwestern.eduTracy Davis (Department of English)
Nineteenth-century British theater history, gender and theatre, economics and business history of theatre, performance theory, research methodology, museum studies, Cold War studies.
tcdavis@northwestern.eduDario Fernández-Morera (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Cervantes; sixteenth and seventeenth century literature; Medieval Poetry and Culture; Literature and Economics; Latin American Culture and Literature; Cultural Issues in the Humanities; Modernism.
Lucille Kerr (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Twentieth-century Latin American literature, the Boom and post-Boom eras, literary culture since the mid-twentieth century, literary theory, Latin American Jewish literature and culture.
lckerr@northwestern.eduCraig Kinzer (Department of Theater)
Theater director.
Jörg Kreienbrock (Department of German)
German literature from the nineteenth to the twenty- first century with an emphasis on contemporary literature, popular culture and literary theory.
j-kreienbrock@northwestern.edu
Ilya Kutik (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Russian poetry of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries; Russian film, particularly in its interaction with Spanish, French, and German avant-garde; modernist era; Russian and Scandinavian (Swedish and Danish) realist visual arts; Scandinavian (Swedish and Danish) poetry.
Yarí Pérez Marín (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Colonial Latin American literature and culture, history of science, Caribbean literature, film studies.
Susan McReynolds Oddo, (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Russian and German literature and philosophy, the evolution of nationalism and anti-Semitism, Romanticism, New Economic Criticism, issues of modernization, and Dostoevsky.
s-mcreynolds@northwestern.eduMarcus Moseley (Department of German)
Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, autobiography.
m-moseley@northwestern.eduMartin Mueller (Department of English)
Digitally assisted text analysis, Homer, Shakespeare and his sources, the reception of Greek epics and tragedy in early modern literature.
martinmueller@northwestern.edu
Barbara Newman (Department of English)
Medieval religious culture (especially in England and Germany), medieval poetry, women’s spirituality.
Rainer Rumold (Department of German)
Avant-garde and modernism in literature and the visual arts; focus on Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism; history and critical theory (Nietzsche, Benjamin).
Vivasvan Soni (Department of English)
Eighteenth-century British literature, and critical and literary theory; the rise of the novel; moral and political theory; narratology; theories of tragedy; utopian writing; theories of modernity.
Alexander Weheliye (Department of English)
African-American and Afro-Diasporic literature and culture, critical theory, and popular culture.
