Bryn Mawr College : Comparative Literature

Roberto Castillo Sandoval (Ph. D., Harvard University)
Office: Hall 3 (Haverford College)
Email: rcastill@haverford.edu

Associate Professor of Spanish, Coordinator of Latin American & Iberian Studies, Professor Castillo Sandoval has taught in the Haverford College Department of Spanish since 1991. His scholarly focus is on colonial Spanish American literature and historiography. He has written on captivity narratives of the Spanish American colonial period, and he is also interested in nineteenth-century Latin American political and literary thought; ethnic, race, and national identity in Spanish America; historical fictions; literature of exile; popular culture; music and politics. Professor Castillo Sandoval's first novel, Muriendo por la dulce patria mía, was published by Planeta in 1998.

Pim Higginson (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley)
Office: Thomas Hall 147 (Bryn Mawr College)
Email: fhiggins@brynmawr.edu

Assistant Professor of French. Professor Higginson is a comparatist who works in 20th-c. French and Francophone literatures (North and West Africa, the Antilles and Quebec). He is interested in the relationship between music and literature (the subject of a graduate seminar he teaches) and, particularly, in the nexus between this relationship and the construction of race. In addition to teaching "Missionaires et cannibales: de Malraux à Modiano1930-1995", he teaches "Regards croisés: France/Maghreb" and courses on surrealism and French and Francophone crime fiction.

Maud McInerney (Ph. D, University of California, Berkeley)
Office: Woodside Cottage 203 (Haverford College)
Email: mmcinern@haverford.edu

Assistant Professor of English. Professor McInerney works on Medieval English, French and Latin literature. She is the author of Eloquent Virgins from Thecla to Joan of Arc (Palgrave Press, 2003) and the editor of Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays (Garland, 1998), as well as of a variety of articles on medieval subjects from chivalry to hagiography. The courses she teaches reflect her interest in gender issues, the history of the body, translation studies, intersections between literature and religion and
20th-c.medievalisms.

Jerry Miller (Ph.D.)
office: Hall 102 (Haverford College)
email: j1miller@haverford.edu

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Haverford, Professor Miller works on ethics, postructuralism and the philosophy of race. His course on 20th Century Continental Philosophy emphasizes both Derrida and Foucault. Other areas of interest include feminist philosophy and queer theory . He also has very cool hair.

María Cristina Quintero (Ph.D., Stanford University)
Office: Thomas Hall 144 (Bryn Mawr College)
Email: mquinter@brynmawr.edu

Professor of Spanish. Professor Quintero has been teaching at Bryn Mawr since 1993. She is the author of Poetry As Play: Gongorismo and the Comedia (John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1991), a book that explores the intertextual relationship of poetry and theater during early modern Spain. She has published numerous reviews and articles on various aspects of 16th- and 17th-c. literature, including Renaissance theories of translation, gender and lyric poetry, and the politics of the comedia in Hapsburg Spain. Her articles have appeared in MLN, Hispanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Cervantes, among others. She teaches courses on Cervantes, the picaresque, the development of the lyric in Renaissance Spain and Italy, Spanish drama, and the representation of women in Spanish literature.

Roberta Ricci (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)
office: Thomas Hall 134 (Bryn Mawr College)
email: rricci@brynmawr.edu

Assistant Professor of Italian. Professor Ricci specializes in medieval and
Renaissance Italian literature. She regularly teaches college seminars on
Italian women writers and courses on early modern literature, focusing
primarily on questions concerning gender, sexuality, ethnicity, power, and
the relationship between women's artistic production and the Italian
literary canon. She has published several articles on Boccaccio's
"Decameron" and its mysoginistic novellas, and on Latin, medieval, and Renaissance epic poems and lyrics. She is currently working on a book project entitled Touching Your Text: (Self)Commentaries and (Self) Reflexivity in Early Modern Italian Literature. She is also the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on Primo Levi for the MLA Teaching World Literature Series.

Deborah H. Roberts (Ph.D., Yale University)
office: Hall 206 (Haverford College)
email: droberts@haverford.edu

Professor Roberts has published articles on Greek tragedy, on Aristotle's Poetics, and on the reception and translation of ancient literature in the twentieth century; she is co-editor (with Francis Dunn and Don Fowler) of Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature (Princeton 1999) and has translated Euripides' Ion for the Penn Greek Drama series. In addition to teaching Greek and Latin at all levels, she offers courses on the epic genre, tragedy and the tragic, the Classical tradition in western literature, the history of literary theory, and children's literature; she is currently planning a course on the theory and practice of translation.

Bethany Schneider (Ph.D., Cornell University)
Office: English House (Bryn Mawr College)
Email: bschneid@brynmawr.edu

Assistant Professor of English. Professor Schneider is a scholar of North American literatures of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. She specializes in Native American literatures and cultures, and literatures of cultural contact between Native and non-Native peoples in North America. She is currently working on a book project entitled “From Place to Populace: American Indian Removal and Ideologies of Statehood in Antebellum American Literature.” Her courses include “Native American Literature,” “Literatures of American Expansionism,” “Writing Indians: Sidekicking the American Canon” and “Subjects and Citizens in American Literature.”

Ulrich Schönherr (Ph.D., Columbia University)
Office: Hall 211 (Haverford College)
Email: uschoenh@haverford.edu

Associate Professor of German. Professor Schönherr's teaching and research interests include modern and contemporary German and Austrian literature, Romanticism, literary theory, media aesthetics, and literature and music. Professor Schönherr is the author of Das Unendliche Altern der Moderne. Untersuchungen zur Romantrilogie Gert Jonkes (Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 1994), and scholarly articles on Kafka, Adorno, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gert Jonke, Marcel Beyer, and Peter Handke. He is currently working on a new book project: Hearing-Writing-Silence: Musico-Acoustic Imaginations in Contemporary German-Austrian Literature.

David Sedley (Ph. D., Princeton University)
Office: Founders 312 (Haverford College)
Email: dsedley@haverford.edu

Associate Professor of French. Professor Sedley is a comparatist and specialist in the Renaissance, the 17th century, and literary theory. Bringing a special interest in aesthetics and philosophy to his work, he has developed advanced special topics courses on "Théories du sublime" and Montaigne and modernity and teaches surveys on the Renaissance and "Le Grand Siècle."

Azade Seyhan (Ph.D., University of Washington)
Office: Thomas Hall 135 (Bryn Mawr College)
Email: aseyhan@brynmawr.edu

Professor of German and Comparative Literature. Professor Seyhan teaches courses on German Classicism and Romanticism, cultural diversity in the modern German society, philosophical approaches to criticism, women’s writing, modern exile, migrancy, and diasporas. She is the author of Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism (University of California Press, 1992) and Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton University Press, 2001), as well as of numerous scholarly articles.