Program Director
Beate I. Allert- Director of Comparative Literature
Core Faculty
Ahmed Idrissi Alami // Associate Professor, Arabic and Comparative Literature // Research Focus: Literary Theory; Cultural Studies
Beate I. Allert// Professor, German and Comparative Literature // Research Focus: Esp. 18th & 19th centuries; literary theory, philosophy; optics & metaphor; Ekphrasis, image-text; travel lit; fables; poetry, aesthetics; cognition; aesthetics; cinema.
Pedro Bassoe // Assistant Professor // Research Focus: Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature, Visuality, film
Elena Coda // Professor, Italian and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures // Research Focus: 19th and 20th century Italian literature, Modernity
Angelica Duran // Professor, English // Research Focus: British Literature; 16th-century and 17th-century literature, natural philosophy/science, and educational reforms; Comparative Literature
Shaun Hughes // Professor, English // Research Focus: Old Norse/Icelandic Literature and Culture, Old and Middle English Language and Literature, African, British Literature, Postcolonial Literature and World Literatures
Aparajita Sagar //Associate Professor, English // Research Focus: Women’s Studies, Indian and South Asian Literatures, Postcolonial Studies
Hongjian Route Wang // Associate Professor, Chinese // Research Focus: Modern and contemporary Chinese Literature, film, theater, print media, cultural history; comparative literature, decadence, comedy the avant-garde reflexivity
Affiliated Faculty
Dorsey Armstrong // Professor, English // Research Focus: British Literature; Arthurian Literature; Medieval Romance; Anglo-Saxon; Gender and Feminist Studies
Catherine Dossin // Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts // Research Focus: Cultural Transfers, Exhibition History, and Historiography
Dino Franco Felluga // Professor, English // Research Focus: British Literature, nineteenth-century literature (especially poetry), media studies, and critical theory
Ariel de la Fuente // Professor, History // Research Focus: Global History, Latin American History, Latin American Literature, Literary Studies, Intellectual History.
Stacy E. Holden // Professor, History // Research Focus: Modern Middle East and North Africa, U.S. Engagement with the Arab World
Cara Kinnally // Associate Professor, Spanish // Research Focus: Mexican and Mexican-American Literature; Latino/a Studies and Literature; Border Studies; Empire Studies and (Post) Colonial Theory; Critical Race Theory.
Rebekah A. Klein-Pejšová // Professor, History and Director of Human Rights Program at Purdue University // Research Focus: Human Rights History esp. 20th century
Kristin Leaman // Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies and Assistant Professor, by courtesy in the Department of English, // Research Focus: Library Studies and Medieval Literature
Paula Leverage // Associate Professor, French // Research Focus: Old French and Occitan Literature; Cognitive literary analysis; Memory and Rhetoric; Film; Comparative Literature
Alfred J. López // Professor, English // Research Focus: Latin American Studies, the Global South
Robert Marzec // Professor, English // Research Focus: Contemporary British & Postcolonial and Environmentalism
Erin Moodie // Associate Professor, School of Languages and Cultures // Research Focus: Greek and Latin Literatures, especially comedy and satire.
Ryan Schneider // Professor, English // Research Focus: American Literature, 19th Century
Aletha Stahl // Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature // Research Focus: Cornerstone, Literary Theory and Culture studies
Dawn F. Stinchcomb // Associate Professor, Spanish // Research Focus: Afro-Hispanic Literatures and Culture, Hispanic Caribbean Literature
Margaret Mih Tillman //Associate Professor, History // Research Focus: Asian Studies, China
Tulin Tosun // Assistant Director of Cornerstone Indianapolis, Assistant Teaching Professor in the College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University, Purdue CMPL Alumna
Jeffrey Turco // Associate Professor, German // Research Focus: Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, Medieval German Literature, Germanic Folklore and Mythography, Wagner, Medieval Italian Literature.
Germina N Veldwachter // Associate Professor, French // Research Focus: Francophone Literature, Postcolonial Studies
Jen William // Professor, German // Research Focus: 20th & 21st centuries’ literature and film; cognitive approaches to literature; Jewish Studies; Women's Studies
Graduate Studies Administrative Assistant
Tatiana Elistratova // School of Languages and Cultures // Graduate Studies Administrative Assistant