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)

ccavanagh5@northwestern.edu

19th and 20th century Russian poetry; Polish poetry, literature, history and culture; comparative modernism; Anglo-American poetry; translation.

Jorge Coronado (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)

jcoronado@northwestern.edu

Modern Latin American and Andean cultures and literatures.

Penelope Deutscher (Department of Philosophy)

p-deutscher@northwestern.edu

20th century and contemporary French philosophy and philosophy of gender.

Brian Edwards (Department of English)

bedwards@northwestern.edu

U.S. literature and culture; postcolonial and diaspora studies; North African literature and culture; globalization; circulation.

Peter Fenves (Department of German)

p-fenves@northwestern.edu

German literature and philosophy; contemporary French philosophy.

Reginald Gibbons (Department of English)

rgibbons@northwestern.edu

Poetry and poetics, literary translation, twentieth century American and world literature.

Michal P. Ginsburg (Department of French and Italian)

m-ginsburg@northwestern.edu

The 19th century European novel; 19th century French literature; Israeli fiction; narrative theory.

Susannah Gottlieb (Department of English)

s-gottlieb@northwestern.edu

Modern British and American poetry; continental philosophy and political theory; German-Jewish intellectual history; Asian-American literary traditions.

Marianne Hopman (Classics Department)

m-hopman@northwestern.edu

Ancient Greek poetry, especially Homer and tragedy; myths, narratives, metaphors.

Jules D. Law (Department of English)

jlaw@northwestern.edu

Victorian literature, especially the novel; literature and philosophy; literary theory; cultural studies.

Phyllis Lyons (Program of African and Asian Languages)

p-lyons@northwestern.edu

Modern Japanese fiction.

Susan Phillips (Department of English)

susie-phillips@northwestern.edu

Late medieval and early modern book culture; medieval literature and culture; medieval and early modern dictionaries, phrasebooks, and travel guides; Shakespeare; Chaucer.

Nasrin Qader (Department of French and Italian)

n-qader@northwestern.edu

Francophone and Arabic literature of the Maghreb and West Africa; literary theory and Islamic thought and aesthetics.

Domietta Torlasco (Department of French and Italian)

d-torlasco@northwestern.edu

Film theory; psychoanalysis; phenomenology; relation between cinema and new media; archival art.

Samuel Weber (Department of German)

s-weber@northwestern.edu

Critical theory; Benjamin; Freud and Lacan; media theory.

William N. West (Department of English)

w-west@northwestern.edu

Early modern drama, poetry, and prose; premodern performance; history of literary theory.