Literary Cartographies trace and analyze the ebbs and flows of people, cultures, languages, and ideas that span colonial contexts, cosmopolitan routes, and so-called ‘peripheral’ spaces around the globe. Working both within national boundaries and traditions and across diverse literary landscapes—from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean, crossing Transatlantic and Transpacific itineraries—the Department of Romance Studies connects and interrogates the world like few other disciplines. Encompassing Western Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and beyond, our work traverses authochthonous, imperial, and diasporic terrains, examines representations of insularity, convergence, and absence, and explores consciousness, conflict, and contestation from the subject, to the city, to the climate.
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Gerard Aching
W. E. B. DuBois Professor in the Humanities
- Africana Studies and Research Center
- French Studies Program
- Romance Studies
Julia Chang
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- Romance Studies
Marie-Claire Vallois
Associate Professor of French Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- French Studies Program
- Romance Studies
Karen Pinkus
Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
- Comparative Literature
- French Studies Program
- Romance Studies
Simone Pinet
Professor of Spanish and Medieval Studies
- Medieval Studies Program
- Religious Studies Program
- Romance Studies
Marilyn Migiel
Professor of Romance Studies, Kappa Alpha Professor in Literature
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- Jewish Studies Program
- Medieval Studies Program
- Romance Studies
Kathleen Perry Long
Professor of French
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- French Studies Program
- Romance Studies
Patricia Keller
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Romance Studies
Mitchell Greenberg
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Romance Studies
- Comparative Literature
- French Studies Program
- Romance Studies
Laurent Dubreuil
Professor of French, Francophone & Comparative Literature
- Cognitive Science Program
- Comparative Literature
- French Studies Program
- Romance Studies