Alphabetical List of Faculty
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.
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.
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.
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