2025
Matteo Cavelier Riccardi, Postdoctoral fellow at the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences) Society of Fellows at Tsinghua University, Beijing
Pedro Hurtado Ortiz, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry at Berkeley
Max Kaisler, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Amherst College Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Mary Mussman, Lecturer in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University
2024
Marlena Gittleman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry at UC Berkeley
Cedar Lensing-Sharp, Lecturer in European Languages & Transcultural Studies at UCLA
Pedro Javier Rolón Machado, President's and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Kevin Stone, Senior Instructional Designer in the Generative AI Operations division of Scale AI; Kevin would like to note that he'd be very happy for current or prospective students to reach out about his path after graduation
2023
Paul De Morais, Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies
2022
Molly Bronstein, Teaching Fellow at the University of Tübingen
Aurelia Cojocaru, Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Program in Cultures, Civilizations & Ideas at Bilkent University, Ankara
Donna Honarpisheh, Curator and Podcast Host at Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Christopher Scott, Lecturer of Greek Literature and Language at UC Berkeley
Amanda Siegel, Lecturer in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley
2021
Alex Brostoff, Assistant Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Georgetown University
Kathryn Crim, Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College
Howard Fisher, Assistant Professor in the First-Year Writing Program at University of Connecticut
Matthew Gonzales, Assistant Professor in the English Department at Cal State University, Los Angeles, specializing in Latinx literatures
Emily Laskin, Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University
2020
Nicole Adair, pursuing creative writing
Keru Cai, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Penn State
Sherilyn Hellberg, nonfiction writer and translater, and recent recipient of a Danish Arts Foundation fellowship
Bristin Jones, Lecturer in English and Spanish at UC Merced
Maya Kronfeld,Assistant Professor in Duke University's Program in Literature and Theory
Danny Luzon, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Haifa
Jocelyn Saidenberg, Visiting Assistant Professor at Deep Springs College
Simona Schneider, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Udine, Italy
Simone Stirner, Assistant Professor of German Studies in the Department of German, Russian, and East European Studies at Vanderbilt University
Diana Thow, Faculty Fellow in Residence at the University of Iowa's translation program
2019
Keith Budner, Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Philip Gerard, research fellow at the Centre interdisciplinaire d’étude des littératures (CIEL) of the University of Lausanne
Taylor Johnston, Postdoctoral Fellow in American Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics
Johnathan Vaknin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Arizona
2018
Paco Brito, teaching in the English Department at Orange Coast College
Marianne Kaletzky, Executive Secretary of the San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers / AFT 1493
Irina Popescu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Bowdoin College
Yael Segalovitz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2017
Ashley Brock, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania
Katie Kadue, Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago
Julia Nelsen, Program Manager at the Institute of European Studies and France-Berkeley Fund
Jane Raisch, Renaissance Studies at York University in the UK
Laura Wagner, Tenure-Track Instructor of English at Orange Coast College
2016
Kareem Abu-Zeid, Editor and Translator and is the recipient of the PEN Center’s USA Translation Prize and the NEA’s translation grant for 2018
Madeleine Cohen, Academic Director at the Yiddish Book Center
Emily Drumsta, Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University
2015
Kristin Ann Dickinson, Assistant Professor of German at the University of Michigan, won the 2017 Charles Bernheimer award from the American Comparative Literature Association
Katrina Dodson translated The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (New Directions; Penguin UK, 2015) which won the 2016 PEN Translation Prize. and was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2015 by the New York Times. She is a translator, writer and blogger living in New York City.
Ramsey McGlazer, Assistant Professor Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley
Bonnie "Bo" Ruberg, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Ruberg is a scholar of gender and sexuality in digital media and digital cultures, with a focus on queer issues in video games
Rachel Wamsley, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurian University of the Negev
Jeffrey Weiner, Lecturer in Comparative Literature at UC Davis
Tristram Wolff, Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University and DUS of their Comparative Literature program; won the 2015 Charles Bernheimer award for his dissertation “Romantic Etymology and Language Ecology”
2014
Kfir Cohen, senior research fellow and the head of the Globalization and Sovereignty cluster at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem
Andrea Gadberry, Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and the Gallatin School at NYU
Cullen Goldblatt, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at SUNY Binghamton in Fall, 2022
Jessie Hock, tenure-track position in the English Department at Vanderbilt University
Celine Piser, Grants Writer and winner of the Anne & Benjamin Goor Prize in Jewish Studies
Suzanne Scala, technical writer at Google. She is happy to chat with any current student or alumnus/a thinking of transitioning to tech writing or a related field.
2013
Juan Caballero, Assistant Professor, Spanish & Hispanic Studies department, Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana; previously he was in the Department of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Earlham College
Sarah Chihaya, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Princeton University
Karina Palau, Lecturer at UC Berkeley, both in the department of Comparative Literature and the Fall Program for Freshman
Karen Spira, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Guilford College
2012
Munia Bhaumik, Assistant Professor at Emory University in the Department of Comparative Literature
Javier Jiménez, Assistant Dean at Georgetown University. His primary responsibilities include advising students through their junior and senior years as well as working on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within Georgetown College and Georgetown's Hilltop campus
Andrew Way Leong, Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley
Sarah Ruth Lorenz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Franklin and Marshall College
Shaul Setter, faculty member at Tel Aviv University and won the 2014 Charles Bernheimer award for his dissertation “After the Fact: Potential Collectivities in Israel/Palestine.”
David Simon, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of English; received honorable mention for the 2013 Charles Bernheimer award for his dissertation “Careless Engagements: Literature, Science, and the Ethics of Indifference in Early Modernity.”
Tobias Warner, Assistant Professor, UC Davis, Department of French
Zohar Weiman-Kelman, Assistant Professor of English Literature at Ben-Gurion University (after a PostDoc at U of Toronto and another gig at Penn.)
2011
Samuel England, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Amanda Goldstein, Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley; previously, she was a post-doc at the University of Wisconsin English Department (2011-12) and was Assistant Professor in the English Department at Cornell University
Lily Gurton-Wachter, Associate Professor at Smith College
Paul Haacke, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Humanities & Media Studies at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York
Dascha Inciarte, Gray Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Tom McEnaney, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley in the departments of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese; previously, he was Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Department of Comparative Literature 2011-17. His new book, Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas has just come out on Northwestern University’s Flashpoint series.
Lewis Rubman, retired
Tyfahra Singleton, Executive Director at Camp Phoenix
Amelia Borrego Sargent, Associate attorney with law firm of Munger, Tolles and Olson LLP, Los Angeles
2010
Polina Dimova, Lecturer in Russian at Vanderbilt University, previously visiting assistant professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian and Comparative Literature, Oberlin College
Hannah Freed-Thall, Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture at NYU. She is the author of Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism (Oxford UP, 2015), which was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies and the Modernist Studies Association Prize for a First Book.
Seth Kimmel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Iberian and Latin American cultures at Columbia University. His first book Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain(University of Chicago Press in 2015) won the 2017 Harry Levin Prize from the ACLA. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford where he had an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Scholars in the Humanities.
Luis Ramos, Core faculty member in Liberal Studies at NYU
2009
Robert Adler-Peckarar, Executive Director of Yiddishkayt of Los Angeles; previously, he had been Assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures.bar
Maya Barzilai, Assistant professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Studies (Dept. NES & Judaic Studies); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Roy Chan, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Oregon and had been assistant professor at William and Mary College, Department of Modern Languages
Irene Siegel, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Hofstra University. For her article, “A Judeo-Arab-Muslim Continuum: Edmond Amran El Malah’s Poetics of Fragments,” which appeared in the January 2017 issue of PMLA, she received honorable mention from the Modern Languages Association for the William Riley Barker prize, awarded to an outstanding article published in PMLA.
Ben Tran, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University, East Asian Studies program
Sarah Wells, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Wisconsin and had previously been Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa Department of Spanish and Portuguese
2008
Michael Allan, Associate Professor at the University of Oregon
Shamma Boyarin, Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada); Director of Religious Studies
Naomi Brenner, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University
Elizabeth Young, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Wellesley College
Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé, Associate Professor in English at Tulane. Previously she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Fellowship for Scholars in the Humanities at Stanford University and a College Fellow in Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
2007
Anne Dwyer, Associate Professor of German and Russian and an Associate Dean of the College at Pomona College
Louise Hornby, Associate Professor in the English Department at UCLA; previously she was an Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University
Magdalena Kay, Professor of English (in the field of modern British poetry), University of Victoria, Canada
David Larsen, Clinical Associate Professor in Liberal Studies at NYU
Stiliana Milkova, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Oberlin College
James Ramey, Full Professor of the Humanities Department at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa in Mexico City. He is a Series Editor for Peter Lang’s Transamerican Film and Literature which is considered as dissertation-to-book projects.
Boris Rodin (Maslov), Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Haifa
Mary Brown, Assistant Professor, French Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Lital Levy, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. Her book “Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine” (Princeton University Press, 2014) won the 2015 MLA prize for a First Book.
Irene Perciali, honorable mention for the 2006 Charles Bernheimer award for her dissertation “Personifying Capitalism: Economic Imagination, the Novel, and the Entrepreneur.”
Allison Schachter, Assistant Professor of Jewish Literature, Vanderbilt University
Armando Vargas, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Williams College
2005
Tamara Chin, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University; previously, she had been Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Literature, and post-doc in 2005-06 at NYU, Department of East Asian Studies. More recently, she was the co-winner of the 2015 Harry Levin prize for best first book from the ACLA.
Tyson Hausdoerffer, Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University
Yu-Ting Lin, International project manager for a private museum/gallery (Angel Creative Dream Park) in Taiwan
Petrus Liu, Associate Professor at Boston University of Chinese, Comparative Literature, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; previously, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University.
Miryam Segal, Associate Professor in Hebrew and the Director of the Religious Studies Program at Queens College in New York; previously, Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington
Shaden Tageldin, Associate Professor Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature University of Minnesota; won the 2005 Charles Bernheimer award for her dissertation “Disarming Words: Reading (Post)Colonial Egypt’s Double Bond to Europe.”
David Walter, Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford
2004
Toral Gajarawala, Associate Professor of English at NYU; previously, Assistant Professor at University of Oregon
Jennifer Hosek, Associate Professor of German Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada; previously, Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford
Anna Stenport, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology; previously, Chair and Professor in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech
2003
Julie Anderson, English teacher at The College Preparatory School
Amir Banbaji, Senior Lecturer at the department of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University
Thaddeus Lisowski, Teacher and World Language Chair at Head-Royce School in Oakland, California
Lincoln Z. Shlensky, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His first job out of UCB was as an assistant professor in English at the University of South Alabama, in Mobile, where he happily worked for three years before taking up his present position in Victoria, British Columbia.
Omise’eke (Natasha) Tinsley, Associate Professor Professor in the African & African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin; previously, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Minnesota
2002
Pattie Wareh, Associate Professor of English at Union College
Todd Hasak-Lowy, Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He taught for eight years at the University of Florida. After he got his tenure, he left the University of Florida. He now writes fiction, nonfiction, and translates.
2000
Elliott Colla, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. His 2014 novel, Baghdad Central, was adapted for television by Channel 4 (UK).
Lilya Kaganovsky, Professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature, and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Laura Schattschneider, Attorney with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the General Counsel, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Division. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from NYU School of Law in 2006. She was a member of the UCLA Humanities Consortium from 2001 to 2003, and she has held Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship.
Alexandra Aryana Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies at U.C. San Diego. She is also an independent journalist and Critical Animal Studies scholar.
Ann T. Delehanty, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of French & Humanities at Reed College
Paul Kottman, Professor at The New School for Social Research
1999
Laura Gibbs, online Instructor at the University of Oklahoma. Gibbs has been happily teaching fully online Humanities courses for almost 20 years and is glad to brainstorm about online teaching anytime! @OnlineCrsLady.
César Braga-Pinto, Professor of Brazilian and Global Lusophone Studies at Northwestern University. He is affiliated with the Programs in Comparative Literary Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and African Studies.
Vered Karti Shemtov, lecturer at the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University
1998
Valerio C. Ferme, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati
1997
Barbara E. Mann, Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York
1996
Tze-Lan Deborah Sang, Professor of Chinese Literature and Media Studies at Michigan State University
Katharine Streip, Associate Professor of the Liberal Arts College at Concordia University
Rochelle Tobias, Professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Christopher Larkosh, Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Editor for the Portuguese in the Americas Series on the Tagus Press (UMass Press)
1995
Anne Anlin Cheng, Professor of English, Director of American Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Committee on Film Studies
David L. Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania
George Handley, Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University
1994
Michel Chaouli, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Indiana University
Maud McInerney, Laurie Ann Levin Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Haverford College since 1996.
1993
Sibel Erol, Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University
Karen Sullivan, Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Culture and Literature at Bard College
1992
Sonia Van Ballaert, Global Client Director at IBM Global Markets. After completing her Ph.D. Sonia returned to Europe and started her career first working with PwC and now with IBM.
1991
Kathleen Harris, CEO of Thrive Academic Planning. She has won the Fulbright award - Peru and Argentina (2004), Oman and Jordan (2009), India (2011, declined).
Bonnie D Irwin, Chancellor of the University of Hawai'i at Hilo; previously, Provost and VPAA at CSU, Monterey Bay
Heather James, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California
Sharon L. James, Professor of Classics at UNC Chapel Hill
Naomi Yavneh Klos, Professor of Languages and Cultures at Loyola University, New Orleans; Fulbright scholar at Windesheim Honours College in the Netherlands
Olga Grlic, Senior Research Fellow at Duke University
1989
Angela Pao, Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University
1987
Carolyn Tipton, teaches in the Fall Program for Freshmen at University of California, Berkeley
Eric Downing, Professor of German and Comparative Literature and an Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Leslie Bary, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1986
Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Co-Director of The Mediterranean Seminar (mediterraneanseminar.org)
Jim Porter, Irving Stone Chair in Literature, and Professor of Rhetoric and Classics at University of California, Berkeley
1985
Victor Udwin, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa
1983
Lynn R. Wilkinson, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
1982
Dr. Bonnie Pavlis, Retired Professor of Humanities & English at Riverside Community College District
1981
Joseph Carroll, English professor at the University of Missouri, St. Louis
1980
Gail Finney, Professor of Comparative Literature and German at University of California, Davis
John Eric Bellquist, Editor and Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing and College of Education
Walter Cohen, Professor of English at the University of Michigan. From 1980-2014, he was a Professor of Comparative Literature and a university administrator at Cornell University.
1979
Kenneth Asher, Professor Emeritus of English and Philosophy at SUNY-Geneseo in New York
Lisa Gerrard, lecturer at the Writing Programs of University of California, Los Angeles
Judith Kellogg, Professor Emerita at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
1978
Raquel Scherr, Professor at University of California, Davis where she teaches a Summer Abroad Comparative Literature course, “Americans in Paris.”
1977
Lois Parkinson Zamora, Professor in the English Department of the University of Houston. Her fields of expertise are contemporary U.S. and Latin American fiction, magical realism, and New World baroque art and architecture.
1976
Olivia Eielson, self employed painter
Judy Wells, poet. She helped start Women's Studies in Comparative Literature in the 1970s. Her dissertation title is Madness and Women: A Study of the Themes of Anger and Insanity in Modern Literature by Women.
Gloria L. Bowles, retired. She was a Founding coordinator of the UCB Women's Studies.
1974
Bridget Connelly, Professor Emerita of Rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley. She is one of the founders of the Bancroft Library Women’s Studies Movement Archive created in the 1970s by the alumni of the Comparative Literature Women’s Caucus.
Chris Knipp, self employed film critic. He is a teacher, translator, and a distance runner. He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Rabat, Morocco 1979-80, then taught ESL in 1980-1984. As an artist, he worked in printmaking and also created paintings and wall pieces.
Bogdana Carpenter, Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan
Michael Oborne, Retired Director of the Strategic Foresight Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) in Paris
1972
Steven G. Kellman, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Kellman's latest book, Nimble Tongues: Reflections on Literary Translingualism, has just been published by Purdue University Press.
John D. Niles, Professor Emeritus at U.C. Berkeley and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Niles describes his fiive-year experience at U.C. Berkeley as a graduate student in Comparative Literature as priceless. He gives credits to that experience for launching his career as a scholar and motivating him to continue reasearching, learning and writing even during his quieter years now in retirement.