Graduate Faculty

Jessica Barr, Professor and Comparative Literature Program Director, B.A., Oberlin, 1997; M.A., Brown, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.

María Soledad Barbón, Professor, M.A., Cologne, Germany, 1993; Ph.D., 2000.

N. C. Christopher Couch, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Columbia, 1976; M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1987.

Rachel E. Green, Assistant Professor, B.A., Chicago, 2008; M.A., Texas at Austin, 2013; Ph.D., 2017.

James Hicks, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Michigan State, 1982; M.A., Pennsylvania, 1987; Ph.D., 1992.

Moira Inghilleri, Professor, Director of Translation and Interpreting Studies and Director of UMass Cornerstone Scholar Initiative, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst; Ph.D., University of London, England, 1996.

Kathryn Lachman, Professor, B.A., Yale, 1998; M.A., 1998; Ph.D., Princeton, 2008.

Barry Spence, Senior Lecturer, M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013; Ph.D., 2017.

Jeremi Szaniawski, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.A., Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2002; M.A., 2003; M.A., Yale, 2006; M.Phil., 2008; Ph.D., 2012.

Corine Tachtiris, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, B.A., Earlham, 2000; M.F.A., Iowa, 2003; Ph.D., Michigan, 2012.

Faculty Emeriti

Edwin Gentzler, Profesor Emeritus (2016)

Don E. Levine, Associate Professor Emeritus (2023)

Catherine Portuges, Professor Emerita (2017)

Maria Tymoczko, Professor Emerita (2022)