Administrative Faculty

Geoffrey Bennington – Chair
Ph.D., Oxford University, 1984
Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought. Modern French Literature and Thought; eighteenth-century novel; literary theory; deconstruction.
Publications include, Other Analyses: Reading Philosophy (ebook, 2005), Open Book/Livre Ouvert (ebook, 2005), Deconstruction is Not What You Think (ebook, 2005), Late Lyotard (ebook, 2005), Frontiers (Kant, Hegel, Frege, Wittgenstein) [http://bennington.zsoft.co.uk] (ebook, 2003), Frontières kantiennes (2000), Interrupting Derrida (2000), Legislations: the Politics in Deconstruction (1995), Jacques Derrida (with Jacques Derrida) (1991), Dudding: des noms de Rousseau (1991), Lyotard: Writing the Event (1988), Sententiousness and the Novel (1986).
geoffrey.bennington@emory.edu

Maximilian Aue – Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., German, Stanford University, 1973
Associate Professor of German Studies. German Modernism; Fin de siècle Vienna; The Experimental Novel; Romanticism.
Publications include, Translation: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Letzte Schriften über die Philosophie der Psychologie, vol. II (1992), Translation: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Letzte Schriften über die Philosophie der Psychologie, vol. I (1982) Translation: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bemerkungen über die Books Philosophie der Psychologie, vol. II (1980).
maue@emory.edu

Richard Rambuss – Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1990
Professor of English. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature; contemporary cultural studies; gender and sexuality studies; religion and the arts; film.
Publications include, Closet Devotions (1998), Spenser's Secret Career (1993). In progress: Richard Crashaw's English Poetry; Machinehead: Essays on Masculinity in the Films and Photography of Stanley Kubrick.
rrambus@emory.edu

Core Faculty

Deepika Bahri
Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 1992
Director, Asian Studies and Associate Professor of English.  Post colonial and multi-cultural studies; fiction; eighteenth-century studies.
Publications include, Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Post Colonial Literature (2003), Co-edited, Realms of Rhetoric (2003), Co-edited Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality (1996).
deepika.bahri@emory.edu

Angelika Bammer
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982
Associate Professor of Institute of Liberal Arts.  Twentieth-century literature and culture; critical and feminist theory; film; Colonial/Post-Colonial theory.
Publications include, Editor and introduction, Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question (1994), Editor and introduction, The Question of "Home," Special issue of New Formulations: (1992), Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970's (1991).
abammer@emory.edu

Bracht Branham
Ph.D., University of California-Berkley, 1983
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature.  Greek tragedy, comedy, poetry, religion and myth; roman comedy; German literature; ancient literary criticism; theatrical production of ancient drama.
Publications include, Editor and introduction, Bakhtin and the Classics, Co-Editor, Petronius' Satyrica (1996), Co-editor, The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and It's Legacy (1996), Unruly Eloquence: Lucian and the Comedy of Traditions (1989).
langrbb@emory.edu

Cathy Caruth
Ph.D., Yale University, 1988
Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English. British and German romanticism, literary theory, psychoanalytic writing, trauma theory.
Publications include, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History (1996), Editor, with introductions Trauma: Explorations in Memory (1995) (1996), Co-editor, Critical Encounters: Reference and Responsibility in Deconstructive Writing (1995) Special Editor, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Trauma (Two Issues of American Imago: A Journal for Psychoanalysis, Culture and the Arts (1991), Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud (1990). 
ccaruth@emory.edu

Mikhail Epstein
Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1990
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature, Russian and East Asian Languages and Culture. Russian literature and intellectual history; contemporary philosophical and religious thought.
Publications include, Cries in the New Wilderness: from the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism (2002), Transcultural Experiments:
Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (with E. Berry, 1999), Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with A. Genis and S. Vladiv-Glover,1999), After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture (1995), Word and Silence: The Metaphysics of Russian Literature (in Russian, 2006), Mapping Blank Spaces: On the Future of the Humanities (in Russian, 2004), The Philosophy of the Possible: The Modalities in Thought and Culture (in Russian, 2001).
russmne@emory.edu

Shoshana Felman
Ph.D., University of Grenoble, France, 1970
Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French. 19th and 20th century French literature, psychoanalysis, trauma and testimony, law and literature.
Publications include, The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century (2002), What Does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference (1993), Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature Psychoanalysis and History (co-authored with Dori Laub, M.D.) (1992), Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (1987), Editor, Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading–Otherwise (1982), The Literary Speech Act. Don Juan with Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (1984), reissued as The Scandal of the Speaking Body. Don Juan with Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (2002), Le Scandale du corps parlant. Don Juan avec Austin, ou la Séduction en deux langues (1980), Writing and Madness: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis (1985), reissued with added materials and interviews (2003). La Folie et la chose littéraire (1978), La "Folie" dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Stendhal (1971).
sfelman@emory.edu

John Johnston
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1984
Professor of English.  Modern and Postmodern fiction, poetry and theory; Media Theory, Science and Technology.
Publications include: The Allure of Machinic Life (2008), Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age of Media Saturation (1998), Carnival of Repetition : William Gaddis’ The Recognitions and Postmodern Theory (1990), Editor and Translator, Literature, Media, Information System: Essays by Friedrich A. Kittler. Critical Voices in Theory and Culture Series (1997).

jjohnst@emory.edu

Mark Jordan
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1977
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion.  Theological problems: negative theology; medieval philosophy and theology; and queer theory.
Publications include, Blessing Same-Sex Unions: Gay Romance and Confusion of Christian Marriage (2005), Telling Truths in Church (2003), Ethics of Sex (2002), Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality and Modern Catholicism (2000), Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (1997).
mark.jordan@emory.edu

Dalia Judovitz
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1979
National Endowment of the Humanities Professor of French and Comparative Literature. Seventeenth-century French literature, philosophy and aesthetics.
Publications include, In progress: Endgame Strategies: Duchampian Legacies, Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (2001), Déplier Duchamp: Passages de l’art (French trans.) (2000), Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit (1995) (1998), Dialectic and Narrative(Co-edited) (1993), Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity (1988).
djudovi@emory.edu

Candace Lang
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1979
Chair of French and Italian, and Associate Professor of French.  Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century French literature; critical theory; autobiography.
Publications include, In progress: “Settling Accounts,” book on twentieth-century French autobiography focusing on Gide, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, and the interrelation of guilt and narrative in their writing. Irony/Humor: Critical Paradigms (1988).
langcdl@emory.edu

Elissa Marder
Ph.D., Yale University, 1989
Associate Professor of French.  Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature; feminist and psychoanalytic theory.
Publications include, Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (2001).
emarder@emory.edu

José Quiroga
Ph.D., Yale University,1989
Professor of Spanish. Twentieth century Latin/o American Literature, Cuban and Caribbean Literature and Cultures, queer theory. Board of Directors, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies.
Publications include, Dismantled Cuba (forthcoming), Co-editor, New Directions in Latino American Cultures, Understanding Octavio Paz (2000), Tropics of Desire (2001).
jquirog@emory.edu

Walt Reed
Ph.D., Yale University, 1969
Chair, Institute of Liberal Arts and William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of English.  English Romantic Literature; the novel; the Bible as literature.
Publications include, Dialogues of the Word: The Bible as Literature According to Bakhtin (1993), An Exemplary History of the Novel: The Quixotic versus the Picaresque (1981), Meditations on the Hero: The Romantic Hero in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1974).
wlreed@emory.edu

Jill Robbins
Ph.D., Yale University, 1985
Professor of Comparative Literature and Religion.  Levinas; Blanchot; Philosophical and Biblical Hermeneutics.
Publications include, Editor, Is It Righteous to Be?: Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas (2001), Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature (1999), Prodigal Son/Elder Brother: Interpretation and Alterity in Augustine, Petrarch, Kafka, Levinas (1991).
jrobbi2@emory.edu

Deborah Elise White
Ph.D., Yale University, 1993
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Romanticism; aesthetics and literary theory; post-structuralism.
Publications include, Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History, (2000), Irony and Clerisy, Editor and author of introduction for a special volume in the electronic series Romantic Praxis (1999).
dwhite2@emory.edu

Associated Faculty

Marc Bauerlein
Ph.D., University of California of Los Angeles, 1988
Professor of English. Nineteenth-century American literature; critical theory.
engmb@emory.edu

Alice Benston
Ph.D., Emory University, 1961
Professor of Theater Studies and Dramaturg Theater Resident.  Drama; history theory; and comparative art.
alice.benston@emory.edu

Peter Bing
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1981
Associate Professor of Classics.  Greek tragedy, comedy, poetry, religion and myth; roman comedy; German Literature; ancient literary criticism; theatrical production of ancient drama.
pbing@emory.edu

Martine Brownley
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975
Goodrich C. White Professor of English; Winship Distinguished Research Professor; Director, Center for Humanistic Inquiry; Eighteenth-century literature; and women's studies.
martine.brownley@emory.edu

Rong Cai
Ph.D., Washington University, 1995
Associate Professor of Chinese.  Modern Chinese society and literature; language teaching methodology ; women in twentieth-century China; film studies; and literary theories.
rcai@emory.edu

Shannon Croft
M.D., Emory University, 1992
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory School of Medicine. 
scrof01@emory.edu

Andrew C. Furman
M.D., Emory University School of Medicine, 1991
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory School of Medicine. 
andrew.furman@emory.edu

Shalom Goldman
Ph.D., New York University, 1986
Professor of Hebrew and Middle Eastern Studies.  Hebrew Languages and Biblical Studies; Middle Eastern languages & cultures.
slgoldm@emory.edu

Elizabeth Goodstein
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996
Associate Professor of Institute of Liberal Arts.  Literature and culture of modernity; modern Continental philosophy; and theoretical approaches to literature.
elizabeth.goodstein@emory.edu

Lynne Huffer
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989
Professor of Women's Studies. Feminist and queer theories; feminist ethics; LGBT Studies; and modern French Literature and theory.
lhuffer@emory.edu

Valerie Loichot
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1996
Associate Professor of French. Twentieth-century French and Francophone literature and culture; and postcolonial theory.
vloicho@emory.edu

Claire Nouvet
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981
Associate Professor of French. Medieval French literature and culture; literary and psychoanalytic theory.
cnouvet@emory.edu

Karla Oeler
Ph.D., Yale University, 2000
Assistant Professor of Film Studies.
Film theory, criticism, and aesthetics; literary theory.
koeler@emory.edu

Laurie Patton
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991
Chair and Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Religion. Religion and literature in early India; comparative mythology; poetics and ritual; and theory in the study of religion.
lpatton@emory.edu

Louise Pratt
Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1988
Chair and Associate Professor of Classics.  Greek tragedy; and Roman and Greek civilization.
lpratt@emory.edu

Eric Reinders
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997
Associate Professor of Religion.  Chinese buddhism; Japanese religions; and history of religions.
ereinde@emory.edu

Stephen White
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972
Asa G. Candler Professor of Medieval History.  Medieval French  and English history and pre-modern European legal history.
swhite7@emory.edu

Emeritus

Ralph Freedman
Ph.D., Yale University, 1954
Professor of Comparative Literature and English; Director of Comparative Literature, 1988-1991.

Administrative Staff

Alian Teach
Academic Department Administrator
ateach@emory.edu

Tara Davis
Academic Services Coordinator
tdavis2@emory.edu