Faculty
Students will have the opportunity to study with distinguished faculty from departments and programs in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
For further information, please feel free to contact the Director of the Program, Dr. Michael J. Horswell (horswell@fau.edu) at 561.297.3863; or any of the members of the Executive Committees below.
Michael J. Horswell
Director, Comparative Studies Program
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature
561.297.3863
horswell@fau.edu
Alan Berger
Endowed Chair
Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies
Jewish Studies
561.297.2979
aberger@fau.edu
Nancy Poulson
Professor
Department of Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature
561.297.3845
npoulson@fau.edu
Susan Love Brown
Professor
Department of Anthropology
561.297.2325
slbrown@fau.edu
Mark Scroggins
Professor
Department of English
561.297.3561
mscroggi@fau.edu
Taylor Hagood
Associate Professor
Department of English
561.297.2306
thagood@fau.edu
Karen Leader
Assistant Professor
Department of Visual Arts and Art History
561.297.3196
kleader@fau.edu
Anthony Guneratne
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
954.236.1182
guneratn@fau.edu
Resident visiting faculty have included
:
Linda Martín Alcoff, Syracuse University, feminist philosopher
Gloria Anzaldúa, University of California Santa Cruz, Chicana writer
Susan Buck-Morss, Cornell University, art critic and social theorist
Randy Conner, University of California at Berkeley, queer theorist
Nawal El Saadawi, Cairo, Egypt, activist and novelist
Stanley Fish, University of Illinois, Chicago, scholar and theorist of literature and law
Anna Camaiti Hostert, La Sapienza University, literary scholar
Vincent Leitch, University of Oklahoma, literary and cultural theorist
Jane Shaw, Oxford theologian and Episcopalian priest
Dessima Williams, Brandeis University, Caribbean women’s rights advocate
Lecturers have included:
Anthony Appiah
Drucilla Cornell
Jeffrey Escoffier
Jack Goody
Russell Jacoby
Christopher Hitchins
Juliet Mitchell
Val Plumwood
Jeremy Rifkin
There are also regular visits from leading environmentalists, bioethicists, journalists, political figures, novelists, poets, and cultural critics.
