Faculty and Staff

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UC San Diego, 1972
M.A. Social Work, Tulane University, 1988
A.B. French and English, Indiana University, 1967

Interests: Modern Literary Theory, Modern and Postmodern Fiction, Twentieth Century French Literature

Kathryn Chew
Professor of Classics
Advisor, Latin Teaching Credential
Undergraduate Advisor, Classics
kathryn.chew@csulb.edu
(562) 985-5810
Office: MHB 606

Interests: Greek and Latin Novels, Greek Literature, the Hellenistic Period, Late Antiquity, Hagiography, Sanskrit Literature, Latin Teacher Preparation

Interests: Post-colonial Literature, Cultural Theory, Middle Eastern Literature, Interdisciplinary Studies, 19th Century French Literature, Exilic Francophone Literatures in Canada/Québec

Interests: Ancient numismatics, Claudius Aelianus, Ancient Greek law, Menander, Isaios

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UCLA, 1992
M.A. Comparative Literature, UCLA, 1985
B.A. Humanities/Philosophy, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1980

Interests: 18th & 19th Century European Literature, Comedy and Satire, Literature and History, Medicine & Literature, Visual Culture

Cheryl Goldstein
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
cheryl.goldstein@csulb.edu
(562) 985-1589
Office: MHB 513

M.A. Rabbinic Literature, University of Judaism
B.A. English Literature, UC Berkeley

Interests: Psychoanalytic Theory, Early Modern and Contemporary Hebrew Literature, Exilic and Diasporic Literatures, Early Modern Poetry and Drama

M.A. Classical Languages, UCSB
M.A. English Literature, University of Illinois-Urbana
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Oregon
B.A. English Literature, University of Illinois-Urbana

Interests: Architecture of the Prehistoric Aegean; Ancient Greece, and Rome; Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology; Greek Archaeology; and Roman Greece and Asia Minor

Nhora Serrano
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
nhora.serrano@csulb.edu
Faculty Advisor, genre
(562) 985-1589

Office: MHB 513

M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. French Language and Civilization, NYU
B.A. French, Amherst College

Interests: Medieval & Renaissance French, Spanish and Italian Literature: Courtly Love & Gender; Visual Culture: Illuminated Manuscripts, Illustrated Texts & Comic Books; Latin America: Colonial & 20th Century Literature; Post-colonial & Travel Literature; and Technology & Science Fiction

Interests: Late Antique Culture; Mythology, Theology, and Religion of Greece and Rome; Food in the Ancient World; the Ancient World in Theatre & Film; Lucian & the Second Sophistic; Dionysus

Interests: Classical Mythology, Greek Literature

Interests: Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Literature, 20th Century Literature, East European Literature

Interests: Comedy, Japanese Literature, Film/Mass Media Theory

Interests: Horace, Sophists, Sappho/Alcaeus