Faculty

Amy Motlagh

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

Timothy Parrish

  • Professor of Comparative Literature
  • Director of Undergraduate Study of Comparative Literature
  • Faculty Undergraduate Advisor
402 Sproul Hall

Cheri Ross

  • Department Chair of Comparative Literature
  • Professor of Teaching in Comparative Literature
  • Graduate Teaching Supervisor of Comparative Literature
802 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
By appt at Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/my/cheriross

Jocelyn Sharlet

  • Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East/South Asia Studies
804 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Spring 26: Tuesday and Thursday 3:10-4:10
in person or remote; please email me for a link for remote meetings

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
Office Hours
TR 11:00–12:00

Lecturer

Emeriti

Affiliated Faculty

Robert Patrick Newcomb

  • Professor of 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 of 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