People
Interim Department Head of Comparative Literature
Edwin Erle Sparks Chair of Literature and Human Rights
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, English, WGSS
(814) 865-1188
Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature
Interim Department Head of Comparative Literature
Edwin Erle Sparks Chair of Literature and Human Rights
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, English, WGSS
(814) 865-1188
Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese
(814) 865-2263
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and Comparative Literature
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Global Asias
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Comparative Literature
Membership Secretary African Studies Association Women's Caucus
2020/21 Chair Graduate Caucus of the African Literature Association
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Smeal Chair in Literary Theory and Comparative Criticism and Professor of Comparative Literature and English
(814) 863-4931
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies
Assistant Teaching Professor of Humanities
Coordinator of the Public Humanities Fellows Program
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Lecturer in Spanish and Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
(814) 867-5710
Caroline D. Eckhardt Early Career Professor of Comparative Literature and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Arabic
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow of Comparative Literature
Assoicate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, and Comparative Literature
Fields: Francophone studies; Indian Ocean studies; cultural and ethnic studies; violence, identity and postcolonial studies
(814) 865-0138
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature
Director, The Center for Global Studies
(814) 865-2333
Associate Teaching Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
(814) 865-8786
Professor of English
Paterno Family Librarian for Literature (Interim Liaison Librarian for Comparative Literature)
Assistant Teaching Professor of Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dorothy W. Gilpatrick University Endowed Fellow in the Humanities
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
Director of the Institute for Korean Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Asian Studies
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese
(814) 865-4408
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(814) 865-6855
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
(814) 867-3422
Liberal Arts Research Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature and German
(814) 863-4935
Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of African, French, and Comparative Literature
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies
President of Graduates in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (GWGSS) at Penn State
Assistant Editor of Women, Gender, and Families of Color (WGFC)
Graduate Representative of Graduates in International Languages and Literatures (2024)
Project Manager for the Global Asias Initiative (2023-2024)
Vice President of Graduates in International Languages and Literatures (2024)
PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature and African Studies
President of Graduates in International Languages and Literatures (2024)
Treasurer of Graduates in International Languages and Literatures (2024)