Faculty

Noah Guynn

  • Professor of French and Comparative Literature
  • Associate Dean of Faculty for Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
510 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Fall 25: Tuesday 3:30-4:30 PM, Thursday 3:30-4:30 PM
9/30 reschedule 12:00-1:00 PM
10/2 reschedule 12:00-1:00 PM
11/6 reschedule 4:30-5:30 PM

Amy Motlagh

  • Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern/South Asian Studies
  • Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Persian Language and Literature
  • Director of Graduate Study for Comparative Literature
  • Comparative Literature Faculty Graduate Advisor
803 Sproul Hall

Cheri Ross

  • Department Chair of Comparative Literature
  • Professor of Teaching in Comparative Literature
  • Graduate Teaching Supervisor of Comparative Literature
802 Sproul Hall

Michiko Suzuki

  • Professor of Japanese
  • Professor of Comparative Literature
  • Affiliate Faculty, Feminist Theory and Research Designated Emphasis
306 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Fall 25: Tuesday (in person) and Thursday (Zoom) 1:30-2:30
Email for Zoom link

Stefan H. Uhlig

  • Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
  • Affiliated Faculty of the Graduate Program in German Studies and the Program in Critical Theory
809 Sproul Hall

Tobias Warner

  • Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
  • Director of Critical Theory
  • Faculty Graduate Advisor for French
  • Affiliated Faculty of African American and African Studies
505 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Fall 25: Thursdays 10:30am-11:30am, 12:30pm-1:30pm
In-Person or Zoom

Lecturer

Emeriti

Affiliated Faculty

Robert Patrick Newcomb

  • Professor Luso-Brazilian Studies (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
  • Undergraduate Portuguese Adviser
  • Co-director of UC Comparative Iberian Studies Working Group
  • Affiliated faculty of Comparative Literature
  • Affiliated faculty of Critical Theory
610 Sproul Hall

Ana Peluffo

  • Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures Studies
  • Affiliated Faculty Comparative Literature
  • Affiliated Faculty of Women and Gender Studies
703 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
On Sabbatical 2025-26

Chunjie Zhang

  • Professor of German
  • Affiliated Faculty of Comparative Literature
  • Affiliated Faculty of Cultural Studies
  • Affiliated Faculty of East Asian Studies
  • Affiliated Faculty of Critical Theory
  • Affiliated Faculty of the Study of Religion
404 Sproul Hall