Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies Graduate Programs

Comparative Literature Core 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

Tobias Nagl (Ph.D. Hamburg) Critical race studies, postcolonial studies, film theory and history, popular German cinema, silent film.

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

Randall Pogorzelski (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara) Roman literature, especially Augustan and early imperial poetry; classical reception; literary geography; politics in literature; nationalism and imperialism. Publications include articles on Lucan, Virgil, and James Joyce.

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

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

Hispanic Studies Core Faculty

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito (Ph.D. McGill) Fields: Romance linguistics; Syntax and Morphology of Spanish; Acquisition of Romance Languages; Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language; Bilingualism and Language Teaching Methodology

Laurence de Looze (Ph.D. Toronto) Fields: Mediaeval and Renaissance Literatures, Mediaevalism, Literary Theory David Heap (Ph.D. Toronto) Fields: Linguistics

Calin-Andrei Mihailescu (Ph.D. Toronto) Fields: Spanish Golden Age, Twentieth-Century Spanish and Latin American Literature; Comparative Literature (Romance, English, German); Philosophical Contexts for Literature; Stylistics and General Linguistics

Rafael Montano (Ph.D. McGill) Fields: Latin-American literature and culture

Teobaldo Alberto Noriega (Ph.D, Alberta) Fields: Contemporary Spanish American Fiction, Contemporary Spanish American Poetry, Postmodern Colombian Fiction, Cultural Discourse of the Colombian Caribbean

Silvia Perpinan (Ph.D. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Fields: Hispanic Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Language Contact and Language Change, Language Maintenance and DLanguage Loss, Heritage Languages, Catalan

Yasaman Rafat (Ph.D Toronto) Acquisition of L2 phonology, multi-modal input processing in L2 learning, the role of phonological memory in L2 learning, applied linguistics (pronuciation and vocabulary teaching and learning), language variation and sound change, Farsi

Marjorie Ratcliffe (Ph.D. Toronto) Fields: Medieval Spanish Literature; Women in Literature; Literature and Law; Renaissance and Baroque Prose Fiction; Nineteenth-Century Drama

Alena Robin (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Fields: Hispanic Baroque Art; Representation of the Passion of the Christ in Latin American Viceregal Art; Ways of the Cross in the Early Modern World; Sculpture in New Spain

Juan Luis Suárez (Ph.D. McGill) Fields: Spanish Golden Age Theater; Calderón de la Barca

Jeff Tennant (Ph.D. Toronto) Fields: Phonétique, Phonologie, Sociolinguistique, Dialectologie, Français Canadien.

Victoria Wolff (Ph.D. McGill) Fields: Interartistic Approaches to Hispanic Literature, Hispanic Cultural Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Hispanic Literatures of North America

For further information about any aspect of the program, please contact:
The Graduate Chair, Hispanic Studies
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Phone: (519) 661-2111, ext. 85824/Fax: (519) 661-4093
E-Mail: Prof. Rafael Montano, rmontano@uwo.ca

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