Current trends in Transnational studies also reflect the growing importance of post-colonial literary figures such as Giannina Braschi, J. M. Coetzee, Maryse Condé, Earl Lovelace, V. S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Wole Soyinka.
With Mei Guangdi's help, Wu enrolled in the School of Comparative literature in Harvard University where he studied with Professor Irving Babbitt.
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Between other activities, the association offers four awards: the A. Owen Aldridge award, the Horst Frenz award, the Charles Bernheimer award and the Harry Levin and René Wellek award, the most important award for comparative literature in the United States.
Chyzhevsky wrote on a broad range of subjects, including folklore, history, philosophy, linguistics, Slavic and comparative literature.
He went on to study philosophy at the Bilkent University then he changed the university and graduated from the College of Social Sciences and Humanities with three different major Continental Philosophy, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at the Koc University in 2011 with honour.
Her doctoral research and critical writings on contemporary cross-genre poets and prose authors are in the field of Comparative Literature with an accent on Visual studies, Modernism, Postmodernism and the Avant-garde, including work on Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Lisa Jarnot, and Maurice Roche.
Upon graduation, Weil was accepted to Charles University in Prague where he entered the Department of Philosophy and also studied Slavic philology and comparative literature.
Leslie Kurke (born 1959) is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.
She is the namesake of a professorship in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, currently held by Peggy Kamuf.
Currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, Miller is the author of several books on feminist criticism, women’s writing, and most recently, family memoir, biography, and trauma.
He is Professor of Comparative Literature at the "Sapienza" University of Rome and teaches at the Universities of Notre Dame and of Italian Switzerland.
Stephen Eric Bronner (born 19 August 1949) is a noted political philosopher and Professor (II) of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
He has served as the Director General of the National Library of Algeria, and currently teaches comparative literature at the Central Algerian University.
He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Paris, taking a master's degree, and film at Bristol University Film School.
Anna Balakian (14 July 1915 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) – 12 August 1997 in New York City, United States), former chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, was internationally recognized as an authority on symbolism and surrealism.
Born and raised in the Philippines as Araceli Banez, she graduated with a degree in Mass Communication (major in Journalism, minor in Comparative Literature) from the University of the Philippines, Baguio City, Philippines.
After finishing his studies, he returned to Iran and worked there as a dozent for comparative literature at the University of Tehran, and as a writer and journalist.
Andrew Milner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Monash University
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, García participation in a dual degree program made it possible to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Economics, majoring in Management, from the Wharton School, and a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree in Comparative Literature after completing an honors thesis on Federico García Lorca's "Sonetos del Amor Oscuro", published after the Spanish writer's death.
Consolacion Rustia Alaras (born 1941) is a professor and former chairperson of the Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL) at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Gerould began his teaching career at the University of Arkansas (1949–1951) and earned a Diplôme in French Literature from the Sorbonne in 1955 and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago in 1959.
He holds a Master's degree in Comparative Literature and the Anthropology of Religion from the University of Tübingen.
Elinor Shaffer FBA is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, honorary reader at University College, London, editor of the Comparative Literature series of Legenda (imprint), and editor of Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, a book series published by Continuum Books.
He was a member of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he taught in the Department of General Studies.
Rodolphe Gasché (he currently holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo)
Douma returned to his birth country of the Netherlands, where he earned a Doctorandus in Letters, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 1972.
Shoshana Felman, Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University
Geoffrey Hartman, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale, was also one of the key founding members.
De Armas holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1969), and has taught at Louisiana State University (1969–1988), Pennsylvania State University (where he was Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature) (1988–2000) and has been a visiting professor at Duke University (1994).
She earned her doctorate degree in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines (Diliman) and her Master of Arts in English from the University of Calgary (Canada).
James S. Shapiro (born 1955), American professor of English and comparative literature, non-fiction author
Long a professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, Farber now teaches in the English Department at the University of San Diego.
He attended CCNY, with a semester at the Sorbonne, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature.
Courses are offered in philosophy, classical Latin and Greek, history of art, creative writing, comparative literature, Near Eastern studies, film and media studies, and history of science and technology, as well as in the more familiar areas of English and American literature, history, and modern foreign languages.
She holds a DEUG in Lettres Modernes from the Université de Besançon (1981), a BA in Comparative Literature/Linguistics from Dartmouth College (1982), a M.LITT.
Seth Lerer (born 1956), scholar of English and Comparative Literature
Trained in literature and journalism, Dalembert worked first as a journalist in his homeland before leaving in 1986 for France where he obtained his PhD in comparative literature at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on the Cuban author, Alejo Carpentier.
In 1992, Ngũgĩ became a professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at New York University, where he held the Erich Maria Remarque Chair.
After three years of service in the U.S. Army, he continued his Graduate studies, obtaining a magisterial degree in Theatrical Directing from the School of Theatre Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1961, and in 1964 a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
She graduated from University of California, San Diego, and from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature.
His teachers included prominent Paleo-Slavists such as Josef Kurz, Bohemists such as František Trávníček and Adolf Kellner, Indo-Europeanist Václav Machek and the founder of the Czech School in Comparative Literature Frank Wollman.
Roberto Castillo Sandoval, Chilean author and professor of Latin American studies and comparative literature at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania
In 1949 he briefly served as an instructor at the University's Writer's Workshop before attending the Sorbonne in 1952 for a year as a Fulbright Fellow, studying comparative literature.
Buddhadeb Bose also invited him to join the Comparative Literature course in newly opened Jadavpur University.
He graduated comparative literature in 1973 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, receiving his M.A. in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1978.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for three years, and finished his education at Columbia University School of General Studies earning two Bachelor's degrees, one in business administration and one in comparative literature.
in Comparative Literature from UNC, Chapel Hill, Arndt was well known for his metric translations, which included versions of Goethe's Faust, Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, a number of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as works by Busch, Morgenstern, and others.
Some of the best known are volume II in Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, Chivalry in English Literature, published 1912 and on Chaucer, Malory, Spenser and Shakespeare, and volume V in the same series, Mythical Bards and The Life of William Wallace published 1920, about Blind Harry, Major's evidence, Master Blair and William Wallace.
After teaching at Yale from 1972 to 1986, J. Hillis Miller left for the University of California, Irvine, where he is today Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature.