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| Comparative Literature Faculty |
| Dezso Benedek |
Associate Professor
Director of Asian Languages
Email: cmsdezso@uga.edu
Office: 146 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.8977
Curriculum Vitae
Website: http://www.uga.edu/~asianlp/jpn_html/resben.html
Areas of Interest: Asian literature, world mythology, literature and cultural anthropology, comparative folklore . |
Joel Black
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Professor
Email: jblack@uga.edu
Office: 237 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.1641
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest: Romanticism, Postmodernism, literature and science, and cultural studies. Dr Black is the author of The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture (1991) and The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative (2002) . |
Ronald Bogue
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Distinguished Research Professor
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor
Email: rbogue@uga.edu
Office: 214 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2306
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest: literary theory and the comparative study of the arts. His books include Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 1989), Deleuze on Literature (Routledge, 2003), Deleuze on Cinema (Routledge, 2003), Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts (Routledge, 2003), and Deleuze's Wake (SUNY Press, 2004).
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Linda M. Brooks
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Associate Professor
Email: LBrooks44@aol.com
Office: 131 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.353.7072
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest: Linda M. Brooks has taught at UCLA; Emory University , Atlanta ; Florida Atlantic University ; and the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her teaching focuses on subaltern testimonial literature; the politics of museums and arts marketing; romanticism; the German Holocaust, the self, and identity politics. Her training combined work on the gothic, sublime and grotesque in English and German romanticism at UCLA's English and Philosophy departments, with work in critical theory and German Romantic Aesthetics at UCI. Her book The Menace of the Sublime to the Individual Self in Kant, Schiller, and Coleridge (1995) is included in the Schiller bibliography of the Norton Anthology of Literary Theory (2002) . She conceived and was Editorial Consultant for two memorial volumes of translations of the essays of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Typology (1989), and The Subject of Philosophy (1993). She conceived and edited Alternative Identities: The Self in Literature, History and Theory (1994). She has published 26 articles, given 24 papers worldwide, was the co-organizer of an award-winning international conference on East/West concepts of selfhood, and is the recipient of an NEH award and a two-year Mellon Fellowship in philosophy. She is currently writing a book entitled "The Theater of Testimonio ," which proposes a dramaturgical model for literary testimonials by indigenous and oppressed peoples. She has served as Press Representative for the journal Art Papers , interviewing independent film directors at the Sundance Film Festival. |
Thomas Cerbu
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Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator
Email: tcerbu@uga.edu
Office: 229 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2263
Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Cerbu works on Byzantine, Renaissance, and early modern topics. Special interests include the history of scholarship, especially the reception of Patristic and later Greek authors in the West, 17th-century antiquarianism, epistolography, paleography and editorial practices, and the history of early modern science and medicine. Further interests include philosophy and literature, allegory and hermeneutics . |
Betty Jean Craige
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University Professor
Director, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
Email: bjcraige@uga.edu
Office: 164 Psychology
Phone: 706.542.9265, 706.542.3966
Curriculum Vitae
I am interested in the shift in Western mentality from a dualist, hierarchical conceptual and social model of reality to a more holistic model, such as that expressed in ecosystem ecology. My books American Patriotism in a Global Society, Laying the Ladder Down , and Reconnection explore this shift in American politics and in the discipline of literary study. My biography of Eugene Odum is the story of the ecologist's development of the holistic model in ecology. I am presently studying the art of the Spanish (Catalán) artist Alvar Suñol and translating the poetry of Marjorie Agosín. |
Dorothy Figueira
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Professor
Email: figueira@uga.edu
Office: 121 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2748
Curriculum Vitae
Dorothy Figueira holds graduate degrees in the history of religion and theology from Paris and Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Comparative Literature. Her scholarly interests include religion and literature, translation theory, exoticism, myth theory, and travel narratives. She is the author of Translating the Orient (1991), The Exotic: A Decadent Quest (1994) and Aryans, Jews and Brahins (2002) , and the editor of La Production de l'Autre (1999). She has written more than thirty articles and given more than eighty conference papers. She is currently an elected officer in the International Comparative Literature Association, the American Comparative Literature Association and the Southern Comparative Literature Association. She has held American Institute for Indian Studies, Fulbright Foundation and NEH Grants. |
Katarzyna Jerzak
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Associate Professor
Email: kejerzak@uga.edu
Office: 235 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2148
Curriculum Vitae
Katarzyna Jerzak comes from a small seaside resort on the Baltic. Her ancestors migrated to and from France and Germany but she is the first one in the family to have moved across the ocean. She studied English Philology in Poland and French, Russian, and English literature at Brown and Princeton. Her teaching and research interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European literature and culture. Last year she was a fellow in Art History at the American Academy in Rome. |
James H.S. McGregor
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Professor and Co-Head
Email: mcgregor@uga.edu
Office: 232 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.0420
Curriculum Vitae
My Ph.D in comparative literature was awarded by Princeton University in 1975. My earliest publications were on Chaucer and Ovid. The bulk of my work, including two books and several articles, focuses on Boccaccio's opere minori . In 2000 I published a guide to teaching Boccaccio's Decameron in the MLA Approaches to Teaching series. In the last decade I've worked actively as a translator of Italian texts from the Renaissance. the texts I've translated have been off the beaten path: a gruesome history of the devastation of Rome and the virtual imprisonment of the Pope by Spanish and German troops in 1527; short stories about Florentine artists from Giotto to Michelangelo; prose and poetry both popular and learned from fifteenth century Naples. I was awarded a Rome Prize in Post-Classical and Humanistic Studies in 1981 by the American Academy in Rome and a Creative Research Medal in 1993 by the University of Georgia. |
Masaki Mori
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Associate Professor
Email: mamo@uga.edu
Office: 228 Joseph Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2360
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature from the Pennsylvania State University in 1990. Main research interest in modern Japanese literature, including such authors as Kawabata Yasunari, Miyazawa Kenji, and Murakami Haruki, as well as in the epic, Romanticism, and Asian-American literature. Several publications about these topics, including Epic Grandeur: Toward a Comparative Poetics of the Epic (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997). A board member of the Southern Comparative Literature Association. Assistant Director of the Japanese Program at UGA. |
Lioba Moshi
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University Professor
Director, African Studies and African Languages Program
Email: moshi@uga.edu
Web Page: http://arches.uga.edu/~moshi
Office: 141 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2133
African Studies Office: 321 Holmes-Hunter Academic Building
Phone: 706.542.5314
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Lioba Moshi is a native speaker of Swahili from Tanzania. Her PhD is from UCLA (1985) and a recipient of a distinguished teaching award from the same institution. She has taught Swahili in Tanzania, England,(2 years) and the United States (UCLA 4 years, Stanford 3 years). The instructor is also the author of one of the textbooks for the course: "Mazoezi ya Kiswahili, Kitabu cha Wanafunzi wa Mwaka wa Kwanza (Swahili exercises, a workbook for first year students)" 1988. Publisher: University Press of America. She also authored "Tuimarishe Kiswahili Chetu" 1988. Publisher: University Press of America. She has developed a series of videos intended to help students acquire the Swahili language and culture. |
Karin Myhre
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Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Advisor - Asian Languages
Email: kmyhre@uga.edu
Office: 233 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.3955
Curriculum Vitae
Karin Myhre received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages from the University of California, Berkeley. She studied at Peking University as well as National Taiwan University. Her research interests include humor and ghosts in Chinese drama. At the University of Georgia, she was selected as a Lilly Teaching Fellow and is currently the co-principal investigator on a major grant from the National Science Foundation. |
Akinloye Ojo
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Assistant Professor
Email: akinloye@uga.edu
Office: 147 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.7730
Curriculum Vitae
Akinloye Ojo received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Georgia in 2001. His research interests include Yoruba language and linguistics, applied linguistics and language teaching, and language, culture and society. He is the coordinator of the Program in African languages and a core faculty member in the African Studies Institute. He has published articles on African language pedagogy and programming, Yoruba language acquisition, Yoruba onomastics, and the issues of language, culture and society in Africa. In 2005, his co-edited book, "Ìlò-Èdè àti Èdá Ède Yorùbá" (Yoruba Linguistics and Language Use) was published by Africa World Press. He also has a collection of poems, In Flight, published by Kraft Books, Nigeria in 2000. |
| Gabriel Ruhumbika |
Professor and Co-Head
Email: ruhumbik@uga.edu
Office: 219 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2274
Curriculum Vitae |
Mihai I. Spariosu
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Distinguished Research Professor
Email: spariosu@uga.edu
Office: 225 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2297
Curriculum Vitae
(Ph.D. Stanford) 19th- and 20th-Century European literature, critical theory, film and literature, science and literature |
Karim Traore
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Associate Professor
Email: ktraore@uga.edu
Office: 231 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.8123
Curriculum Vitae
(Ph.D. Saarbrücken and Habilitation Bayreuth) African Literatures and Film, Literary Anthropology |
| Katharina M. Wilson |
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor
Email: katharin@uga.edu
Office: 226 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2136 |
Kam-ming Wong
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Associate Professor
Email: kmwong@uga.edu
Office: 136 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.2129
Curriculum Vitae
A native of Zhongshan County, Guangdong Province, China, Kam-ming Wong recceived his B.Sc. from the Ohio State University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Cornell University. He has published extensively on modern and traditional Chinese fiction, including a book in Chinese and several articles on Hongloumeng (Dream of Red Chamber) and is now working on a book in English on the novel. He is particularly interested in autobiographical and lyric fiction east and West, gender studies, and Asian American literature. |
Hyangsoon Yi
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Associate Professor
Undergraduate Advisor
Email: hyangsyi@uga.edu
Office: 148 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706.542.7517
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest: Korean literature and film, modern Irish drama, and Buddhism and arts. Hyangsoon Yi received a Ph.D. in English from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in language education from University of Georgia. Her research interests include Irish drama, Irish and Scottish Travelers, nomadism, narrative theory, Korean literature and cinema, Japanese cinema, and Buddhism. She has published articles on Irish drama, Japanese cinema, and language pedagogy. She is currently writing a book on itinerancy and Irish drama. |
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