Comparative Literature at Western
Comparative Literature Faculty
The University of Western Ontario offers opportunities for comparative study in a broad range of languages and literatures. Students and faculty work in European literatures, comparative Canadian literature, Latin-American studies, post-colonial studies, and world literatures.
Stephen Adams (Ph.D. Toronto) Erza Pound, Modernism, American Literature, Music and Literature. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Melitta Adamson (Ph.D. Toronto) Medieval German Literature; European Medical and Culinary Literature; Parody. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Nandi Bhatia (Ph.D. Panjab / Ph.D. Texas at Austin) Postcolonial Literatures and Theory; British Imperial Literature; Theatre Studies. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Janelle Blankenship (Ph.D. Duke) 19th-20th Century German Literature; European Film and the Avant-Garde; Modernism; Media Theory; Critical Theory; Early Cinema. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Angela Borchert (Ph.D. Princeton)18th-Century Cultural Studies; Visual Art and Cultural Theory; Germanic Literatures 1700 to 1900. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Jonathan Boulter (Ph.D. Western Ontario) Contemporary Narrative; Beckett; Popular Culture; Theory. Doctoral level supervisory priveleges
Cristina Caracchini (Ph.D. Université de Montréal) Western Poetry: Theory and Criticism; Italian Literature: Histroy and Criticism; Theory and History of the Avant-garde; Narration Theatre; Romance Philology; Ethnic Literature (Italian-Canadian)
Thomas Carmichael (Ph.D. Toronto) Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Postmodernism, American Studies. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Paul Coates (Ph.D. Warsaw) European Cinema, Polish Cinema, Literature and Film, Film Theory. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
David Darby (Ph.D. Queen's) German and Austrian Literature; 19th and 20th Century Fiction; Narrative Theory. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Laurence de Looze (Ph.D. Toronto) European Medieval Literatures; French; Spanish; Narrative Theory; Film Studies. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Angela Esterhammer (Ph.D. Princeton) European Romanticism and 19th Century; Literary Theory; Philosophy of Language. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Janina Falkowska (Ph.D. McGill) Film Theory; Eastern European Film; Polish Film and Popular Culture; Postmodernism. Master's level supervisory privileges
Alain Goldschläger (Ph.D. Toronto) 20th-Century French Literature; Semiotics; Discourse Analysis. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Teresa Hubel (Ph.D. Western Ontario) British Imperial Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Feminist Theory. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Christopher Keep (Ph.D. Queen's) 19th-Century Literature and Culture; Contemporary Theory; Technologies of Writing; Hypertext; History of Virtuality. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
M.J. Kidnie (Ph.D. Birmingham) Renaissance Literature, especially drama; Performance Studies; Textual Studies and Editorial Theory. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Steve Lofts (Ph.D. Louvain) 20th-Century Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Theories of Subjectivity and Culture. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Mary Helen McMurran (Ph.D. New York) 18th-Century British and French Literature and Culture; The Novel; Transnationalism. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Calin-Andrei Mihailescu (Ph.D. Toronto) Renaissance, Baroque and 20th-Century Romance Literatures; Critical Theory. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
James Miller (Ph.D. Toronto) Medieval and Renaissance Poetry; Cosmopoetics; Gay Studies; Italian Literature. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Jan Plug (Ph.D. SUNY, Buffalo) 18th and 19th-Century German, French, English, Philosophy and Literature; Critical Theory. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Luca Pocci (Ph.D. Toronto) Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, Literary Theory, Thematic Criticism; History and Fiction. Masters level supervisory privileges
Russell Poole (Ph.D. Toronto) Old, Modern Icelandic Language, Literature; Medieval Poetics; Medieval Celtic Literature (Irish/Welsh). Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Anthony Purdy (Ph.D. Queen's)19th-20th Century Literature and Culture; Material Memory; The Archive; The Museum; The Collection; Time and Place. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Tilottama Rajan (Ph.D. Toronto) Romanticism; Critical Theory (Phenomenology, Deconstruction, Aesthetic Theory). Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Marilyn Randall (Ph.D. Toronto) Quebecois and Francophone Literatures; Literary Theory; Pragmatic Plagiarism. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Christine Roulston (Ph.D. Toronto) 18th-Century French and English Narrative; Women's Studies. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Aara Suksi (Ph.D. Toronto) Classical Greek literature; Greek myth; Athenian politics. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Vladimir Tumanov (Ph.D. Alberta) Bible and Literature; 20th-Century German, French and Russian Literature; Children's Literature. Doctoral level supervisory privileges
Hua Laura Wu (Ph.D. Toronto) Traditional Chinese Fiction, Modern Chinese Literature, Chinese Culture. Master's level supervisory privileges
For further information about any aspect of the program, please contact:
The Graduate Chair, Comparative Literature
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Phone: (519) 661-2111, ext. 85857/Fax: (519) 661-4093
E-Mail: Prof. David Darby, ddarby@uwo.ca
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