Administrative Faculty

Geoffrey Bennington-Chair
D.Phil., Oxford University, 1984
Chair, Comparative Literature and Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought.  Modern French Literature and Thought; Eighteenth Century Novel; Literary Theory; Deconstruction.
Publications include, Deconstruction is Not What You Think (ebook, 2005); Other Analyses: Reading Philosophy (ebook, 2005); Open Book/Livre ouvert (ebook, 2005); Late Lyotard (ebook; 2005); Frontiers (Kant, Hegel, Frege, Wittgenstein) (ebook, 2003); [all ebooks from http://bennington.zsoft.co.uk]; Interrupting Derrida (2000); Frontières kantiennes, (2000), Legislations: the Politics of Deconstruction (1995), Jacques Derrida (with Jacques Derrida) (1991); Dudding: des noms de Rousseau (1991); Lyotard: Writing the Event (1988); Sententiousness and the Novel (1985)
geoffrey.bennington@emory.edu

Deborah Elise White-Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Yale University, 1993
Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature and Associate Professor, English.  Romanticism, Nineteenth-century European Literatures, Literary Theory, Aesthetics and Politics.
Publications include, Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History (2000); essays on Coleridge, Hugo, De Man, Shelly, Benjamin, and Freud; editor’s introduction to Irony and Clerisy (1999); a volume in the electronic series Romantic Praxis
dwhite2@emory.edu

Jill Robbins-Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., Yale University, 1985
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature and Professor, 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

Core Faculty

Maximilian Aue
Ph.D., German, Stanford University, 1973
Associate Professor, German Studies. German Modernism. Fin de siècle Vienna, The Experimental Novel. Romanticism.
Publications include, Edition and translation: Ludwig
Wittgenstein, "The Big Typescript" Oxford: Blackwell (2005); 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); and articles on Robert Musil, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Georg Büchner, Peter Schneider, Barbara Frischmuth and G.F. Jonke
maue@emory.edu

Deepika Bahri
Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 1992
Director, Asian Studies and Associate Professor, English.  Post colonial and multi-cultural studies; fiction; eighteenth-century studies.
Publications include, Native Intellegence: 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, German and Graduate 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, Classics and Comparative Literature.  Philosophy, Rhetoric, Satire and the Novel; The Modern Reception of Classical Traditions: Bakhtin and Nietzsche.
Publications include, Edited, The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative (2005); Editor and introduction, Bakhtin and the Classics (2002); Editor and translator, Petronius’s Satyrica (1996); Co-editor, The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy (1996); Unruly Eloquence: Lucian and the Comedy of Traditions (1989)
langrbb@emory.edu

Cathy Caruth
Ph.D., Yale University, 1988
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Comparative Literature and English.  English 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., Academy of Sciences USSR, 1990
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature.  Russian literature and intellectual history, Postmodern philosophy, semiotics, discourse of love, ideas and electronic media, interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities.
Publications include, The Philosophy of Body (2006), 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, English and American literature; literature and psychoanalysis, philosophy, trauma and testimony, law and literature; feminism, theater and performance.
Publications include, The claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader (2007); 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 Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (2003); Le Scandale du corps parlant.  Don Juan avec Austin, ou la Seduction en deux langues (1980); Writing and Madness: Literature/ Philosophy /Psychoanalysis (2003); La Folie et la chose litteraire (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

Dalia Judovitz
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1979
National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of French & Italian.  Seventeenth-century French philosophy and literature; Aesthetics and literary theory.
Publications include, Drawing on Art: Duchamp & Company; 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 Orgins of Modernity (1988).
djudovi@emory.edu

Candace Lang
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1979
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
Chair of French, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature.  Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature; feminist and psychoanalytic theory.
Publications include, The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Essays on Psychoanalysis, Technology and Literature (Forth coming); Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (2001).
emarder@emory.edu

José Quiroga
Ph.D., Yale University,1989
Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. Twentieth century Latin/o American Literature, Cuban and Caribbean Literature and Cultures, queer theory. Co-editor, 'New Directions in Latino American Cultures' and 'New Concepts in Latino American Cultures" (Palgrave).
Publications include, The Havana Reader: Culture Society and Politics (Forth coming); Law of Desire: A Queer Film Classic (2009); Cuban Palimpsests (2005); Sexualidades en disputa (with Daniel Balderston) (2005); Tropics of Desire (2001); Understanding Octavio Paz (2000); Co-editor, New Directions in Latino American Cultures.
jquirog@emory.edu

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

Walt Reed
Ph.D., Yale University, 1969
William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of English.  Romantic Literature; history and theory of the novel; the Bible as literature; literature and psychology.
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

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
Chair and Professor, Classics.  Greek poetry, tragedy, comedy,  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
Director, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry for Center for Humanistic Inquiry; Goodrich C. White Professor of English;.  Eighteenth-century literature; women’s studies
martine.brownley@emory.edu

Rong Cai
Ph.D., Washington University, 1995
Associate Professor, Chinese.  Modern Chinese society and literature; media studies; 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
Chair and Professor of Women Studies. Foucault; 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
Senior Research Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry and Associate Professor, French.  20th and 21st-Century Francophone literature and culture; Caribbean literature; 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
Professor of Film Studies.
Film theory, criticism, and aesthetics; literary theory.
koeler@emory.edu

Laurie Patton
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991
Charles Howard Candler 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
Associate Professor, Classics.  Archaic & Classical Greek Poetry, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Literary Criticism.
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
Contact: (404)727-1108
ateach@emory.edu

Tara Davis
Academic Degree Program Coordinator
Contact: (404)727-7994
tdavis2@emory.edu