Moustafa Bayoumi
Moustafa Bayoumi received his Ph.D. from the Department of English and Comparative Literature of Columbia University. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Edward Said, the renowned literary and ... [... more]
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Jenny Davidson
Jenny Davidson is a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University. She has written an adult novel and several books of nonfiction. The Explosionist is her first novel for teens. She lives in New York City. [... more]
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Richard E. Friedman
Richard Elliott Friedman is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature and holds the Katzin Chair at the University of California, San Diego. One of the premier biblical scholars in the country, he received his doctorate at Harvard and was a ... [... more]
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Charlotte Craft
Charlotte Craft studied comparative literature at Columbia University in New York. After graduating, she traveled to Japan, where she worked as an interpreter and photographer. She now lives in Scotland with her family. The New York Times ... [... more]
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Glenn Kurtz
Glenn Kurtz holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University and has taught at San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, and Stanford. He divides his time between San Francisco and New York. In a remarkable ... [... more]
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Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the literary executor of W. H. Auden's estate and the editor of Auden's complete works. Among his previous books are Early Auden, Later Auden, and ... [... more]
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Lara Vapnyar
Lara Vapnyar emigrated from Russia to New York in 1994 and began publishing short stories in English in 2002. She lives on Staten Island and is pursuing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at CUNY Graduate Center. In a triumphant return to the ... [... more]
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James Shapiro
James Shapiro is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. The author of The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ nearly every decade since 1634. Each ... [... more]
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Ruth R. Wisse
Ruth R. Wisse is Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Born in Czernowitz (now part of Ukraine) and raised in Montreal, she was the first professor to offer courses in Yiddish ... [... more]
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Richard Leigh
Richard Leigh is a novelist and short-story writer with postgraduate degrees in comparative literature and a thorough knowledge of history, philosophy, psychology, and esoterica. He has worked as a university lecturer in the United States, ... [... more]
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Robert A. Rushing
Robert A. Rushing, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, is Assistant Professor of Italian & Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is also affiliated with the Unit for Cinema Studies and the Unit for Criticism and ... [... more]
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J. Edward Chamberlin
J. Edward Chamberlin is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto and visiting professor at the University of Michigan. He was the Senior Research Associate with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal ... [... more]
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