Profiles in "Comparative Literature" Expertise Area

  • Lisa Barca 's research interests include rhetoric and writing; Italian language and literature; comparative literature; women writers; critical animal studies; ecofeminism; language and ideology; mass media.
  • Don Fette teaches at Barrett, the Honors College. His teaching interests and experience entail a number of areas and disciplines.
  • Olenina specializes in Russian literature and visual culture, as well as media theory with an emphasis on performance and embodied spectatorship.
  • David Agruss specializes in Victorian literature and culture.
  • Johnson's teaching and research interests range widely, but mainly focus on the literatures and cultures of early modern Spain, Germany, England, and the Americas.
  • Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Culture and Language, working on Japanese ethnographic film and visual culture.
  • Williams studies and translates classical Chinese poetry, and also works in related areas such as medieval Buddhism, Sino-Japanese literature, and translation studies.
  • Leveton's program and communications work evolves Critical/Creative practice at ASU. Their book project, "Sites/Sights of Ecology," attends to image practices in music, poetics and the visual arts.