Faculty Interest: Comparative Literature
Julia Ridley Smith
Lecturer
Teaching Professor - Assistant, Associate, or FullEmail: jsmith8@unc.edu
Aesthetics African American Literature American Literature from 1789 to 1900 American Literature to 1900 to the present British Literature from 1789 to 1900 Comparative Literature Contemporary American Literature Creative Writing Feminist Historiography Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Irish Literature Literature and History Southern Literature The Novel Visual Culture and Arts Women Writers
Michael Gadaleto
Teaching Assistant Professor
Teaching Professor - Assistant, Associate, or FullEmail: mgadaleto@unc.edu
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) Comparative Literature Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Drama Early Modern Literature And Culture Literature and History Literature and Philosophy Literature and Religion Poetry and Poetics Science Fiction Transnationalism
Gregory Flaxman
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Tenure Stream FacultyEmail: gflax@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-4043
Aesthetics American Literature to 1900 to the present Comparative Literature Contemporary American Literature Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Film and Media Studies Literature and Philosophy Media Studies Philosophy Of Language Post-Colonial Literature and Theory Posthumanism Visual Culture and Arts
Inga Pollmann
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, German
Email: ipoll@email.unc.edu
(919) 966-1642
Aesthetics Comparative Literature Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Film and Media Studies Literature and Philosophy Media Studies Modernism Posthumanism Visual Culture and Arts
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher
Professor of African American Literature and Comparative Literature
Tenure Stream FacultyEmail: rrfisher@email.unc.edu
African American Literature Comparative Literature Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Literature and Philosophy Philosophy Of Language Poetry and Poetics
Shayne Aaron Legassie
Associate Professor
Tenure Stream FacultyEmail: shayne@email.unc.edu
Aesthetics British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) British Literature from its beginning to 1485 Comparative Literature Early Modern Literature And Culture Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Film and Media Studies Italian Literature And Culture Literature and History Literature and Philosophy Literature and Religion Literature, Medicine and Culture Media Studies Narrative Theory Poetry and Poetics Travel Writing Visual Culture and Arts
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Associate Professor / Walker Percy Fellow
Tenure Stream FacultyEmail: calvocor@email.unc.edu
(510) 915-5157
African American Literature American Literature to 1900 to the present Comparative Literature Contemporary American Literature Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Creative Writing Critical Race Studies Digital Rhetorics Disability Studies Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Literature and History Literature, Medicine and Culture Performance Studies Poetry and Poetics Post-Colonial Literature and Theory Queer Theory Science Fiction Visual Culture and Arts Women Writers
Eric Downing
Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor of German, English and Comparative Literature
Tenure Stream FacultyEmail: edowning@email.unc.edu
Aesthetics Comparative Literature Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Depictions Of The Child Literature and Philosophy Modernism Narrative Theory Poetry and Poetics The Novel
Inger S B Brodey
Associate Professor / Director, Office of Distinguished Scholarships
Email: brodey@email.unc.edu
Aesthetics British Literature from 1789 to 1900 Comparative Literature Digital Humanities Film and Media Studies French Literature and Culture German Literature and Culture Japanese Literature and Culture Literature and History Literature and Philosophy Narrative Theory Philosophy Of Language The Novel Visual Culture and Arts Women Writers
Jessica Lynn Wolfe
Marcel Bataillon Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Tenure Stream FacultyEmail: wolfej@unc.edu
British Literature from 1485 to 1660 (including Milton) Comparative Literature Drama Early Modern Literature And Culture History of the Book Italian Literature And Culture Literature and History Literature and Philosophy Literature and Religion Literature and Science Poetry and Poetics Transatlantic Studies Travel Writing Visual Culture and Arts