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Core Comparative Literature Faculty

INGER S. B. BRODEY

Title: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Comparative Literature

Education: Ph.D. University of Chicago (1993)

    M.A. University of Chicago (1991)

    B.A. Colorado College (1987)

Contact: brodey@email.unc.edu

 

MARSHA S. COLLINS

Title: Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature

Education: Ph.D. in Spanish from Princeton University

      M.A. in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

      A.B. in Comparative Literature from Smith College

Contact: marcol@email.unc.edu

 

ERIC S. DOWNING

Title: Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature, Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, Director of Comparative Literature

Education: Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley (1987)

      M.A. UC-Berkeley (1980)

      B.A. Swarthmore (1977)

Contact: edowning@email.unc.edu

 

GREG FLAXMAN

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Adjunct Professor, Department of Communication Studies; Affiliated faculty, Program in Cultural Studies

Education: PhD Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania (2003)

      MA Film Studies, University of Iowa (1997)

      MA English, University of Minnesota (1995)

      BA English, University of Michigan (1991)

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Contact: gflax@email.unc.edu

 

LILIAN R. FURST

Title: Emeritus Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature

Education: Ph.D. Cambridge University (1957), B.A. University of Manchester (1952)

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CLAYTON KOELB

Title: Guy B. Johnson Professor of German and Comparative Literature

Education: Graduate studies in Comparative Literature at the Freie Universitat, Berlin, and at Harvard.

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Contact: ckoelb@email.unc.edu

 

DIANE R. LEONARD

Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature

Education: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill

Contact: sesame@email.unc.edu

 

JOHN McGOWAN

Title: Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Education: Ph.D. and M.A., SUNY/Buffalo

A.B., Georgetown University;

Contact: jpm@email.unc.edu

 

JESSICA WOLFE

Title: Associate Professor of English

Education:

Contact: jlwolfe@email.unc.edu


Comparative Literature Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty

E. JANE BURNS

Title: Professor of the Curriculum in Women’s Studies

Education: Ph.D., French Literature and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Contact: ejburns@email.unc.edu

 

DINO CERVIGNI

Title: Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature

Education: Ph.D. Indiana U, 1975
M.A. Indiana U, 1973
M.Ed. U of Louisville, 1971

Contact: cervigni@unc.edu or dino_cervigni@unc.edu

 

JUAN CARLOS GONZALES ESPITIA

Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish

Education: Ph.D. Cornell University, 2002

      B.A. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1995

      B.A. Universidad Externado de Colombia, 1994

Contact: jcge@unc.edu

 

REBECKA RUTLEDGE FISHER

Title: Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Washington University, 2001

      M.A., Comparative Literature, Washington University, 1996

      M.Ed., Higher Education Administration, Ohio University, 1994

      A.B., French, Ohio University, 1987

Contact: rrfisher@email.unc.edu

 

SHARON L. JAMES

Title: Associate Professor of Classics

Education: Ph.D., Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on parents and children in the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Divine Comedy.

Contact: sljames@email.unc.edu


 

JANICE H. KOELB

Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Education: PhD, Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill

Contact: jancook@email.unc.edu

 

MADELINE G. LEVINE

Title: Kenan Professor of Slavic Languages

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University 1971

Contact: mgl@unc.edu

 

FEDERICO LUISETTI

Title: Associate Professor of Italian Studies

Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, City University of New York, 2001

Doctorate Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Torino, 2000

BA Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Torino, 1994

Contact: luisetti@email.unc.edu

 

 

ANNE MACNEIL

Title: Associate Professor

Education: PhD in the History and Theory of Music, University of Chicago (1994)

      MA in Music History, Eastman School of Music (1985)

      BMus, Ithaca College (1981)

Contact: macneil@email.unc.edu

 

HASSAN MELEHY

Title: Associate Professor of French

Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1993

      M.A., University of Minnesota, 1990

      M.A., University of Minnesota, 1987

      B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983

Contact: hmelehy@unc.edu

 

JAMES L. PEACOCK

Title: Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Comparative Literature

Education: Ph.D. in anthropology, Harvard

    B.A. in psychology, Duke;

Contact: peacock@unc.edu

 

WILLIAM H. RACE

Title: George L. Paddison Professor of Classics

Education: Ph.D., Classics with Minor in Comp. Lit., Stanford University, 1973

      M.A., Classics, Stanford University, 1972

      B.A., Latin, University of Michigan, 1965

Contact: whrace@email.unc.edu

 

MONICA P. RECTOR

Title: Professor of Portuguese and Undergraduate Advisor of Portuguese

Education: Ph.D., Linguistics, U Federal de Rio de Janeiro, 1975

      Ph.D., Spanish Literature, U de São Paulo, 1970

      B.A., Neolatin Languages, U de São Paulo, 1962

Contact: rector@email.unc.edu

 

ELIZA RICHARDS

Title: Associate Professor

Education: Ph. D., University of Michigan

    B.A., Bates College

Contact: ecr@email.unc.edu

 

ALICIA RIVERO

Title: Associate Professor of Spanish American Literature and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature

Education: Ph.D. and M.A., Brown University

      B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University

Contact: arivero@unc.edu