Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies Faculty

Director

Luis Fernando Restrepo. Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies (Ph.D. University of Maryland). Teaching and research areas: colonial Latin America, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, indigenous literatures of the Americas, Colombian literature, literature and Human Rights. (lrestr@uark.edu)

Nancy Arenberg. Associate Professor of French (Ph.D. University of Arizona). Teaching and research areas: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, epistolary fiction, feminist theory, and Francophone literature (arenberg@uark.edu).

Kirsten Erickson. Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Teaching and research areas: Native Americans, Northern Mexico, sociolinguistics, gender, performance studies, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, memory culture, narrative. (kirstin@uark.edu)

David Fredrick. Associate Professor of Classics and Director of the Humanities Program (Ph.D. University of Southern California). Teaching and research areas: Roman social history, Roman poetry, and Hellenistic poetry (dfredric@uark.edu)

Adnan Haydar. Professor of Arabic (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego). Teaching and research interests:Modern and classical Arabic literature, comparative literature, folk literature and oral poetics (ahaydar@uark.edu)

Mohja Kahf. Associate Professor of English (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Rutgers University) Teaching and research areas: Comparative Literature, Arabic Literature, Postcolonialism, Poetry, Autobiography, Love & Eros, the Quran, Critical Theory, and Gender (mkahf@uark.edu)

Recent publications:

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Carroll & Graf 2006 (novel; rpt. Perseus 2007)

From Her Royal Body the Robe Was Removed: The Blessings of the Veil and the Trauma of Forced Unveiling in the Middle East, in Jennifer Heath, ed., The Veil:
Its History, Lore, and Politics, Berkeley: U California Press, (April 2008).

Kay Pritchett. Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages (Ph.D. University of North Carolina). Teaching and research areas: Contemporary Spanish poetry, psychoanalysis, feminism (pritche@uark.edu)

Recent Publications:

Four Postmodern Poets of Spain: A Critical Study with Translations of the Poems (University of
    Arkansas Press, 1991).  259 pp.
Jonah and the Pink Whale, trans. of the novel by José Wolfango Montes Vannuci (University of
    Arkansas Press, 1991).  264 pp.
In the Land of Silence, trans. of the novel by Jesús Urzagasti (University of Arkansas Press, 1994),
    376 pp.
Pureza Canelo's Celda verde / Green Cell:  A Critical Study with Translations of the Poems, (New York: 
    “Nuestra Voz,” Peter Lang Publishing, 2000), 177 pp.
Nature’s Colloquy with the Word: Pureza Canelo’s Early Poetics (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University,
    2003), 156 pp.

Judith Ricker. Professor of German (Ph.D. University of Nebraska). contemporary German, Austrian, and Swiss literature and culture. Book Review Editor, German Studies Review. (jricker@uark.edu)

Frank Scheide. Assistant Professor of Communication (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin). Teaching and research areas: Film, Television, Documentary Film, Cultural Studies (fscheide@uark.edu)

Patrick J. Slattery. Associate Professor of English (Ph.D. Indiana University) Teaching and research areas: Composition Theory and Practice, Writing Across the Curriculum (pslatter@uark.edu)  

Tomas Rosteck. Associate Professor of Communication (Ph.D. Wisconsin). Teaching and research areas: cultural studies, television, popular culture. (trosteck@uark.edu)

Charles H. Adams. Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. (Ph.D. University of Virginia) Teaching and research areas: American Literature, Native American Literature, Law and Literature, World Literature. (cadams@uark.edu)

JoAnn D'Alisera Asstant Professor of Anthropology. Teaching and research areas: West Africa, Africans in America, Islam, American Islam, Symbolic & interpretive anthropology, religion, material culture, transnational communities and identities. (dalisera@uark.edu)

Joseph Candido. Professor of English and Director of Honors Studies in English (Ph.D. Indiana University) Teaching and research areas: Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, Drama ( candido@uark.edu)

Robert Cochran. Professor of English; Chair of American Studies; Director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies (Ph.D. University of Toronto) Teaching and research areas: Folklore, American Studies, Contemporary Literature, World Drama. (rcochran@uark.edu)

Kathleen M. Condray. Assistant Professor of German and Director of German Graduate Sutdies. Teaching and research areas: Miority and women writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. (condray@uark.edu)

Vincent J. Cornell. Professor of History, Director of King Fahd Center. Teaching and research areas: Islamic Theology-Philosophy-Law, Sufism, Islamic West, Islamic Modernism. (vcornell@uark.edu)

David L. Chappell. Professor of History. Teaching and research areas: Civil Rights and Race Relations,American Social and Intellectual History, Liberalism

Michael Heffernan. Professor of English (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts) Teaching and research areas: Poetry Writing, Modern American Poetry, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.(heffgalway@aol.com)

David A. Jollife. Professor and Brown Chair in English Literacy. Teaching and research areas: Discourse analysis, literacy theory and practice, history and theory of rhetoric, teaching of English. (djollif@uark.edu)

Elizabeth Markham. Research Professor of Ethnomusicology. Teaching and research areas: Music of East Asia , Sino-Japanese modal theory, musical notations for Japanese court song and Buddhist chant, Comparative Music Theory. (markham@uark.edu)

Susan M. Marren. Associate Professor of English (Ph.D. University of Michigan) Teaching and research areas: Modern American Fiction, American Literature, African American Literature, Gender Studies (smarren@uark.edu) 

William A. Quinn. Professor of English(Ph.D. Ohio State University) Teaching Interests: Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Science Fiction (wquinn@uark.edu)

Reina Ruiz. Assistant Professor of Spanish (University of Washington). Teaching and research areas: Golden Age drama and Latin American theater (rruiz@uark.edu)

Richard D. Sonn. Professor of History. Teaching and research areas: modern European social, cultural and intellectual history, and French History.

Dorothy Stephens. Associate Professor of English (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley) Teaching and research areas: Renaissance Literature, Edmund Spenser, Gender Studies (dstephen@uark.edu)
 

Steve Striffler. Associate Professor of Anthropology. Teaching and research areas: Latin America, agrarian politics, Latino migration to U.S., oral history and popular memory, political conflict, agricultural restructuring and development.

Ted Swedenburg Professor of Anthropology. Teaching and research areas: Cultural Middle East, popular culture, world music, cultural studies, transnational identities, domination and resistance.

Patrick Tyndall. Assistant Professor of Drama. Teaching and research areas: Multi-Cultural Theatre August Wilson. (ptyndall@uark.edu )

Sergio Villalobos. Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Teaching and Research areas: Contemporary critical theory, 19th and 20th century Latin American Literature, Southern Cone, Chile, and Latin American visual cultures. (svillal@uark.edu)

Rembrandt Wolpert . Professor of Ethnomusicology. Teaching and research areas: musical grammars, computational tools in (ethno)musicology, historical sources in Far Eastern ethnomusicology, and organology. (wolpert@uark.edu)