No matter which languages and literatures you choose for your first and second concentration, as a Global and Comparative Literature major you can benefit from well-published, dynamic, and dedicated faculty members who always keep students’ learning at the top of their concerns.
The selectivity of our program, our small class size and the special emphasis we place on personal attention to our students guarantee an intense student/faculty interaction. Moreover, because we only grant the B.A. degree, our undergraduates do not compete with graduate students for a professor’s time.
The Global and Comparative Literature Program relies on the work of a Core Committee and benefits from the additional contribution of numerous faculty members in foreign languages, English and the humanities at large, who periodically teach cross-listed or Comparative-Literature designated courses, and who act as mentors for the Global and Comparative Literature majors’ senior theses.
Director
Emily Francomano
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Steering Committee
Jennifer Boum Make
Associate Professor, Department of French and Francophone Studies
Irina Denischenko
Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages; Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Tania Gentic
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Philip Kafalas
Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Susanna Lee
Professor, Department of French and Francophone Studies
Nicoletta Pireddu
Director, Georgetown Humanities Initiative
Professor, Department of Italian Studies
Nicole Rizzuto
Associate Professor, Department of English
Kyle Shernuk
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Andrew Sobanet
Professor, Department of French and Francophone Studies
Interim Dean, Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences
Associated Faculty
Jacques Berlinerblau
Professor and Rabbi Harold White Chair, Center for Jewish Civilization
Molly Borowitz
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Manu Chander
Associate Professor, Department of English
Elliott Colla
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Mary Dupree
Associate Professor, Department of German
Friederike Eigler
Professor, Department of German
Philip Ivanhoe
Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Sarah McNamer
Professor, Department of English
Marden Nichols
Associate Professor, Department of Classics
Meital Orr
Assistant Professor, Center of Jewish Civilization
Cóilín Parsons
Director, Global Irish Studies
Associate Professor, Department of English
Tess Renker
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Maya Roth
Associate Professor, Theater
Artistic Director, Davis Center for Performing Arts
Suzanne Stetkevych
Qaboos Bin Said Professor, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies