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Professor David Damrosch (Chair)
Department of Literature and Comparative Literature
Dana Palmer House 201
Office Hours: Wed 3-5 PM


 617-496-7031

Professor Dan Albright
English Department
Barker Center 152
12 Quincy Street

 617-384-9395


Professor Svetlana Boym
Department of Literature and Comparative Literature
Barker Center 311
12 Quincy Street

 617-496-4617


Professor Joaquim-Francisco Coelho
Romance Languages and Literatures
Boylston Hall 322

617-495-1931
617-495-2546

Professor Verena A. Conley
Department of Literature and Comparative Literature
Dana Palmer House 202

 617-495-2272

Professor James Engell
English Department
Barker Center 266
12 Quincy Street
also: Widener Library 415

617-495-5055
617-495-2533 (voice-mail)


Professor Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón
Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures
Dana Palmer House 104
Office Hours Wed: 10-12 PM


 617-495-2567

Professor John Hamilton
Department of Literature and Comparative Literature
Dana Palmer House 203
Office Hours: Wed 1-3 PM; Thu 1-3 PM

 617-495-1131

Professor Biodun Jeyifo
Department of African and African-American Studies
Barker Center 258
12 Quincy Street

617-384-9418


Professor Christopher Johnson
Department of Literature and Comparative Literature
Dana Palmer House 204
Leave of Absence Fall 2009

617-496-7187


Professor Christie McDonald
Romance Languages and Literatures
Boylston Hall 431

617-496-3826


Dr. Sandra Naddaff
Department of Literature and Comparative Literature
Dana Palmer House 209
Office Hours: Fri 10-11.30 AM

 617-495-5650

Professor Gregory Nagy
Department of the Classics
Boylston Hall 205
also: Widener Library 174

617-495-4027
617-495-1737


Professor Stephen Owen
East Asian Languages
2 Divinity Avenue 220

 617-495-8370


Professor Julie Stone Peters
English Department
Barker Center 271

12 Quincy Street

617-496-2235


Professor Panagiotis Roilos
Department of the Classics
Boylston Hall 204

 617-495-8370


Professor Judith Ryan
German Department
Barker Center 352
12 Quincy Street
Leave of Absence Fall 09

617-496-4923

Jeffrey Schnapp
Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature in 2009-2010
Office Address:

Barker Center 119
12 Quincy Street

617-496-0716
Professor Marc Shell
English Department
Barker Center 352
12 Quincy Street

617-496-6538


Professor Werner Sollors
English Department
Barker Center 240
12 Quincy Street
Office Hours: Wed 2-4 PM


617-495-4146

Professor Diana Sorensen
Romance Languages and Literatures
Boylston Hall, 418

617-384-7511


Professor Susan R. Suleiman
Romance Languages and Literatures
Boylston Hall 517
Leave of Absence 2009-2010

617-495-1827

Professor Karen Thornber
Department of Literature and Comparative Literature
Dana Palmer House 205
Leave of Absence 2009-2010

617-496-6244


Professor William Mills Todd, III
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Barker Center 369
12 Quincy St
Leave of Absence 2009-2010

617-495-1997


Professor Ruth Wisse
Near Eastern Languages
6 Divinity Avenue, Room 303

617-496-9050



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