Comparative Literature

Belén Atienza, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tel: (508) 793-7256
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Paul Burke, Ph.D.
Professor of Classics, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Adjunct Professor, Department of History
Director of Ancient Civilization Program Dr. Burke teaches a wide variety of courses on the Clark campus, including: Introduction to Classical Greek, Jews and Christians in the Ancient World, Classical Mythology, Roman Art and Architecture, and Religious Experience in the Ancient World. He has taught a course on Roman archaeology in Clark's Luxembourg May Term and has directed numerous study-abroad tours of Southern Italy and Sicily. Dr. Burke is past president of the Vergilian Society which offers, through its Classical Summer School, courses on Greek and Roman history, art, and archaeology in Southern Italy, France, Israel, and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
Tel: 1-508-793-7365
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Marvin D'Lugo, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Adjunct Professor, Screen Studies and Literatures
Spanish and Latin American cinema
Tel: 1-508-793-7725
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Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Dr. Ferly's research interests are Caribbean literatures and cultures from a comparative perspective, including the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanic regions. She studies especially contemporary women's writing from the Caribbean and its diaspora. Her work focuses on the issues of race and gender in connection with history, language, and the Caribbean literary tradition. She teaches interdisciplinary courses on literatures and cultures from Francophone countries, on French popular culture, immigration in France and on Caribbean writing from comparative perspective.
Tel: 508-793-7723
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Everett Fox, Ph.D.
Allen M. Glick Chair in Judaic and Biblical Studies, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Director, Jewish Studies Program
Director of Jewish Studies Concentration Dr. Fox's main scholarly focus is the rhetoric and internal coherence of the Hebrew Bible, and how they may be brought out in translation. He is also interested in how the Bible has been transformed at each stage by generations of Israelites, Jews, and Christians. He teaches courses in which texts serve as windows to the attitudes and concerns of Jews through the ages. Dr. Fox's activities in translation have led him to some unexpected places. He was a religious consultant on the animated film Prince of Egypt, and has been collaborating with an American-Israeli artist, Schwebel, who sets the David stories against the backdrop of 1980s Jerusalem.
Tel: 1-508-793-7355
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Beth Gale, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tel: 1-508-421-3781
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Michael Spingler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Adjunct Associate Professor of Screen Studies
French cinema
Tel: 1-508-793-7234
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Robert D. Tobin, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Foreign Languages; Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures
Department Chair: Comparative Literature; Professor of German Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures
Tel: 1-508-793-7353
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Marcia Butzel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts; Adjunct Associate Professor; Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
International cinema, film criticism and theory, relationships between film and the other arts
Tel: 1-508-793-7235
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SunHee Kim Gertz, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English; Director, Leir Center in Luxembourg
Director of Graduate Studies; Western European literature of the late Middle Ages; semiotics and rhetorical theory
Tel: 1-508-793-7126
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Benjamin Korstvedt, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts; Director, Music Program (Fall 2012)
Music history and criticism, music and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the music of Anton Bruckner
Tel: 508-793-7369
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Gary Overvold, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Contemporary continental philosophy, interdisciplinary studies, epistemology, philosophy of the human sciences, cultural history, philosophy of culture, modernism
Tel: 1-508-793-7416
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