faculty

 

Dominic Cheung
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-3708 | dcheung@usc.edu
modern and classical Chinese literature, Chinese cultural studies and art

 

Roberto Diaz
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-1271 | rdiaz@usc.edu
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991) Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature: nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture; literary and cultural history; opera and cultural theory

 

Michael Du Plessis
Associate Professor (teaching) of Comparative Literature and English
(213) 740-0102 | duplessi@usc.edu


 

Vincent Farenga
Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature
(213) 740-0106 | farenga@usc.edu
Greek History, Literature and Politics

 

Edwin Hill
Assistant Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-5744 | edwinhil@usc.edu


 

Heather James
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-3740 | hjames@usc.edu


 

Peggy Kamuf
Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature and English
(213) 740-0101 | kamuf@usc.edu


 

Moshe Lazar
Professor of Comparative Literature
(213) 740-0103 | lazar@usc.edu
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Texts (1500-2000); Judeo-Italian Texts (1500-1750).

 

Akira Lippit
Professor of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Cinema Television
(213) 740-8508 | lippit@usc.edu
History and theory of cinema, Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, critical and literary theory, visual culture

 

Anne Mcknight
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-3706 | mcknight@usc.edu
modern & contemporary Japanese literature, literature vis-à-vis mass culture and new media

 

Natania Meeker
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-3172 | nmeeker@usc.edu
Eighteenth-century French literature and philosophy, feminist theory, Epicurean philosophy, libertine novel, history of materialism, decadent aesthetics

 

Panivong Norindr
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
(213) 821-1167 | norindr@college.usc.edu
Professor Norindr's areas of research include comparative literature, postcolonial theory, contemporary French studies and French and Southeast Asian cinema.

 

Gloria Orenstein
Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies
(213) 740-0100 | orenstei@usc.edu


 

Karen Pinkus
Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-0104 | pinkus@usc.edu


 

Hilary Schor
Professor of English, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies and Law
(213) 740-3738 | schor@usc.edu


 

Antonia Szabari
Assistant Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-3174 | szabari@usc.edu


 

William Thalmann
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-0268 | thalmann@usc.edu
Greek Drama and Epic Poetry

 

Daniel Tiffany III
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(213) 740-3736 | tiffany@usc.edu


Associated Faculty

 

David Bialock
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
(213) 740-3716 | bialock@usc.edu
premodern Japanese literature, comparative poetics, ecocriticism

 

Joseph Boone
Professor of English, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature
josephbo@usc.edu


 

David James
Professor
(213) 740-2923 | djames@cinema.usc.edu


 

Janet Johnson
Associate Professor of Music and Comparative Literature
jljohns@usc.edu


 

Jim Kincaid
Aerol Arnold Chair in English and Professor of English
(213) 740-3753 | kincaid@usc.edu
Victorian literature and culture, sexuality studies, cultural studies

 

Marsha Kinder
University Professor and Professor of Critical Studies, Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese
(213) 743-2962 | mkinder@usc.edu


 

Tania Modleski
Florence R. Scott Professor of English and Professor of English
(213) 740-2820 | modleski@usc.edu
(Ph.D., Stanford University, 1980) Professor of English: American Studies, Film and Popular Culture, Gender Studies, Psychoanalysis.

 

Margaret Rosenthal
Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature and English
(213) 740-3702 | mrosenth@uc.edu


 

David St. John
Professor of English
(213) 740-3748 | dstjohn@usc.edu


 

Alexander Zholkovsky
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
(213) 740-0029 | alik@usc.edu


Emeritus Faculty

 

Paul Ilie
Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
pilie@usc.edu


 

Albert Sonnenfeld
Emeritus Professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature
bert@usc.edu