Faculty

Emily Apter

Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature
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Ulrich Baer

University Professor of German & Comparative Literature
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Gabriela Basterra

Acting Faculty Director of the NYU Center for the Humanities; Professor of Comparative Literature
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Emanuela Bianchi

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
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Manthia Diawara

Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies
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Ana María Dopico

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
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Andrea Gadberry

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Director of Graduate Studies; Interim Director P&T
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Jay Garcia

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
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Hala Halim

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Director of the CALAMEGS Program
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Mikhail Iampolski

Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian and Slavic Studies
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Adhira Mangalagiri

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
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Fred Moten

Professor of Comparative Literature & Performance Studies (Tisch)
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Zakir Paul

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature; Director of Poetics & Theory (AY 2023-2025)
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Jillian Porter

Associate Professor, Russian & Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature
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Avital Ronell

University Professor of German and Comparative Literature
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Mark Sanders

Professor of Comparative Literature and English; Department Chair
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Cristina Vatulescu

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Xudong Zhang

Professor of Comparative Literature & East Asian Studies; Director of China House
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Associated Professors

Licia Fiol-Matta

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
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Toral Gajarawala

Associate Professor Of English
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Phillip Usher

Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
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Hent de Vries

Professor of German, Religious Studies, Comparative Literature, Affiliated Professor of Philosophy
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Jini Kim Watson

Associate Professor of English
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Robert J. C. Young

Silver Professor; Professor of English
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Affiliated Professors

Yael S. Feldman

Abraham I Katsh Professor Of Hebrew Culture And Education
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Sibylle Fischer

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
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David Forgacs

Professor of Italian; Chair, Department of Italian Studies
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Hannah Freed-Thall

Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
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Alexander Galloway

Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
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Gayatri Gopinath

Associate Professor; Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Ben Kafka

Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication
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Philip F. Kennedy - In Residence at NYU Abu Dhabi

Professor of Middle East & Islamic Studies
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Anne Lounsbery

Department Chair, Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of Russian
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Ara H. Merjian

Professor of Italian
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Todd Meyers

Associate Professor of Anthropology, NYU Shanghai; Global Network Associate Professor, NYU
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Yoon Jeong Oh

Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies
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Orna Ophir

Adjunct Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
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Ella Shohat

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Hagop Kevorkian Center
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Laura Slatkin

Professor
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Robert Stam

Professor
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Leif Weatherby

Assistant Professor Of German
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Christopher Wood

Chair of German Department; Professor Department of German, Department of Comparative Literature
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Humberto Brito

Visiting Faculty
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Mariano López Seoane

Visiting Faculty Fellow
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Denis Hollier

Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture
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Sarah Kay

Professor Emeritus
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Daniel Javitch

Professor Emeritus
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Mary Louise Pratt

Professor Emeritus
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Timothy Reiss

Professor Emeritus
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Kristin Ross

Professor Emeritus
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Richard Sieburth

Professor of French and Comparative Literature (retired)
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