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Faculty Faculty on the Advisory Committee at Haverford and their Teaching Specialties: Israel Burshatin, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. B.A., Queens College; M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D., Columbia University. Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature; race, nation, bodies and genders in early modern Spain; gay and lesbian studies and queer theory. Deborah H. Roberts, Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics. B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Yale University. Greek tragedy and the tragic genre; the epic tradition; the classical tradition in western literature; translation studies; history of literary criticism; children's literature. Michael Sells, Professor of Religion and Emily Judson Baugh and John Marshall Gest Professor in Comparative Religion; A.B. Gonzaga University; M.A. and Ph.D, University of Chicago. Roberto Castillo Sandoval, Associate Professor of Spanish. B.A. Kenyon College; M.A. Vanderbilt University; A.M. and Ph.D. Harvard University. Ulrich Schönherr, Associate Professor of German. M.A., J.-W. Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt); Ph.D., Columbia University. Modernist and contemporary German literature; romanticism; aesthetics and politics around 1800; music and literature. Maud McInerney, Assistant Professor of English. B.A. University of Toronto, M.A. and Ph.D University of California, Berkeley. Medieval French English and Latin literature; gender theory and history of the body; translation studies. David Sedley Assistant Professor of French. B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Princeton University. Early modern French and English literature; history of aesthetics; philosophy and literature; theories of the sublime. Faculty on the Advisory Committee at Bryn Mawr College: Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature. B.A., Harvard University. Ph.D., Yale University. Nineteenth-century Russian and European literature; literary periodization; ethics and literature. Carol Bernstein, Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Dersofi, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature Francis Higginson, Assistant Professor of French Catherine Lafarge, Professor of French Maria Cristina Quintero, Associate Professor of Spanish Bethany Schneider, Assistant Professor of English Azade Seyhan, Fairbank Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German and Comparative Literature Participating Faculty Courses cross-listed in Comparative Literature are taught by faculty members from the following Haverford and/or Bryn Mawr departments or concentrations: Africana and African Studies, Anthropology, East Asian Studies, English, Feminist and Gender Studies, French, German, Classics, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, History of Art, Italian, Latin American and Iberian Studies, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Russian, and Spanish. Faculty members from these departments also serve from time to time as advisors for senior theses in Comparative Literature and as oral examiners. Currently and recently participating faculty at Haverford           Back to Academics. . . Back to Haverford College For questions and comments please contact Maud McInerney. Last updated oNovember 5, 2004-> .