Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia

Comparative Literature Faculty
Dezso Benedek	Associate Professor 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	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	Distinguished Research Professor Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Email: rbogue@uga.edu Office: 214 Joseph E. Brown Hall Phone: 706.542.2306 Website: http://rbogue.myweb.uga.edu/ 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).
Thomas Cerbu	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	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	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	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	Professor and Co-Head Email: mcgregor@uga.edu Office: 129 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	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	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 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	Associate Professor Undergraduate Advisor - Asian Languages Email: kmyhre@uga.edu Office: 248 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	Associate Professor Director African Studies Institute 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.
Peter D. O'Neill	Assistant Professor Email: pon@uga.edu Office: 218 Joseph E. Brown Hall Curriculum Vitae Peter O'Neill received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Southern California in 2010. His work has appeared in journals such as Foilsiú, The Internationalist Review of Irish Culture, and the Journal of American Studies. His teaching and research interests include comparative ethnic American literatures, transnational American studies, theories of the state, comparative racialization, Irish migration, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory. In 2009 Palgrave Macmillan published his co-edited essay collection The Black and Green Atlantic: Crosscurrents of the African and Irish Diasporas.
Gabriel Ruhumbika	Professor Email: ruhumbik@uga.edu Office: 219 Joseph E. Brown Hall Phone: 706.542.2274 Curriculum Vitae
Mihai I. Spariosu	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	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
Hyangsoon Yi	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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