People - Faculty

Jennifer M. Bean

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
jmbean@uw.edu , (206) 616-6781 , C522 PDL
 
Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Media Studies, Modernism, Popular Culture

Francisco Benitez

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
jfbb@uw.edu , B515 PDL
 
20th Century, Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Film/Cinema, Global and Transnational Studies, Literary Studies, Philippine and Filipino American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Southeast Asian

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

Professor of Comparative Literature and French
mbj@uw.edu , (206) 543-9399 , B524 PDL
Office Hours: FR 2:00-3:20
20th Century, Critical Theory, French, Literary Criticism, Psychology , Psychoanalysis

Yomi Braester

Professor of Comparative Literature
yomi@uw.edu , (206) 221-6639 , C504 PDL
 
Architecture, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, East Asian Studies, Film/Cinema, Hebrew (Modern), Literary Studies, Visual Arts, Visual Culture

Marshall Brown

Professor of Comparative Literature
mbrown@uw.edu , (206) 543-1488 , B405 PDL
 
18th Century, 19th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Literary Studies, Music

Douglas Collins

Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
dcollins@uw.edu , (206) 543-4545 , C257 PDL
 
19th Century, 20th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, French , Contemporary Intellectual History, Modern Esthetic Theory

Tamara Cooper

Part-time Lecturer, Academic Counselor
tcoop@uw.edu , (206) 685-1642 , B534 PDL
 
Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Postcolonial Studies , Critical Race Theory, Activist Movements, Trauma and Documentary

Gordana Crnkovic

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and Comparative Literature
crnkovic@uw.edu , (206) 543-7641 , M262 SMI
Office Hours: TTH 12:00-12:50
American Studies, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Comparative Literature, English Literature, Film/Cinema, Slavic Studies , Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature and film

Sima Daad

Part-time Lecturer
simad@uw.edu , B205 PDL
 

Anthony Geist

Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Chair of Spanish and Portuguese
tgeist@uw.edu , (206) 543-2022 , B232 PDL
 
20th Century, Modernism, Spanish , Postmodernism, Ideology and Literary Form

Gary Handwerk

Professor and Chair of Department of English
handwerk@uw.edu , (206) 543-2690 , A101 PDL
 
19th Century, 20th Century, Critical Theory, Ecocriticism, English Literature, Romanticism

Sudhir Mahadevan

Assistant Professor of Film Studies
sudhirm@uw.edu , (206) 616-6773 , C506 PDL
 
20th Century, Film/Cinema, South Asian, Textual Studies, Visual Culture , Photography, Print and Book History, Pre-Cinema

Ileana Marin

Part-time Lecturer
 

Raimonda Modiano

Professor of English and Comparative Literature
modiano@uw.edu , (206) 543-2503 , B419 PDL
 
19th Century, Comparative Literature, English Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Romanticism, Textual Studies

Nicla Riverso-Levander

Part-time Lecturer
PDL B524
Office Hours: T/TH 11:30-12:20

Albert Sbragia

Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
sbragia@uw.edu , (206) 543-6241 , C262 PDL
Office Hours: T 1:10-2:10 / Th 4:30-5:30
20th Century, 21st Century, Film/Cinema, Italian, Literary Studies , Rome, Italian Fascism

Leroy Searle

Professor of English and Comparative Literature
lsearle@uw.edu , (206) 543-6358 , B426 PDL
 
American Studies, Critical Theory, Modernism, Music, Romanticism, Visual Arts , Computer Science, Intellectual History

Naomi Sokoloff

Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature
naosok@uw.edu , (206) 543-7145 , 229A DEN
 
Hebrew (Modern), Jewish Studies, Literary Studies , Israeli Culture, Literature and the Holocaust

Henry Staten

Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities, English and Comparative Literature
hstaten@uw.edu , (206) 685-4965 , B424 PDL
 
19th Century, Critical Theory, English Literature, Modernism, Global and Transnational Studies , Derrida, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Genre Theory, Ancient Greek Philosophy

Cynthia Steele

Professor of Comparative Literature
cynthias@uw.edu , (206) 616-4085 , C501 PDL
Office Hours: MW 2-3 and by appointment
20th Century, 21st Century, Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Latin American Studies, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial Studies, Translation, Visual Culture , Folk Art

James Tweedie

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
jtweedie@uw.edu , (206) 543-5603 , B519 PDL
Office Hours: Th 11:30-1:20
20th Century, Film/Cinema , Globalization and Film, Modernist Cinema, Post-WWII Film History

Míċeál Vaughan

Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Chair of Comparative Literature
miceal@uw.edu , (206) 543-7542 , B537 PDL
Office Hours: MW 11:30-1:00 pm, and by appointment
Digital Humanities, English Literature, Literary Studies, Medieval, Philology, Religion, Textual Studies , Hiberno-English Literature, Manuscripts

Emeriti Faculty

Name Title Email Phone Office
Ammerlahn, Hellmut Professor Emeritus of Germanics and Comparative Literature ammerlan@uw.edu
Behler, Diana Professor Emerita of Germanics and Comparative Literature behlerdi@uw.edu
Blau, Herbert Byron W. and Alice L.Lockwood Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, English and Comparative Literature hblau@uw.edu (206) 543-2614 A311 PDL
Brown, Jane Professor Emerita of Germanics and Comparative Literature jkbrown@uw.edu (206) 543-8097 334 DEN
Konick, Willis Associate Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies konick@uw.edu
Wang, Ching Hsien Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

Name Title Email Phone Office
Alaniz, José Adjunct Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures jos23@uw.edu (206) 543-7580 M256 SMI
Ames, Eric Adjunct Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Germanics eames@uw.edu (206) 543-4580 337 DEN
Chrisman, Laura Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair in English, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature lhc3@uw.edu (206) 543-6045 B401 PDL
Clauss, James Director of the University Honors Program, Professor of Classics, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Literature jjc@uw.edu (206) 543-2278 228C DEN
Colonnese, Tom Adjunct Principal Lecturer of Comparative Literature, Director of American Indian Studies buffalo@uw.edu (206) 543-9082 C514 PDL
DeYoung, Terri Adjunct Associate Professor tdeyoung@uw.edu (206) 685-7936 M-29C DEN
Gilbert-Santamaria, Donald Adjunct Associate Professor donalgs@uw.edu (206) 616-6329 B231 PDL
Hamm, Christopher Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature, Adjunct Associate Professor, Comparative Literature jcsong@uw.edu (206) 543-4974 M235 GWN
Kaup, Monika Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English mkaup@uw.edu (206) 221-6509 B430 PDL
Mack, Edward Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature, Adjunct Associate Professor, Comparative Literature tmack@uw.edu (206) 543-4356 248 GWN
Noegel, Scott Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization snoegel@uw.edu (206) 543-3606 229B DEN