Administration

Chair

Department Chair
Jeff Sacks
951.827.1462
jeffrey.sacks@ucr.edu

Vice-Chair

Department Vice-Chair
Anne McKnight
anne.mcknight@ucr.edu

Directors of the Graduate Program

Graduate Advisor
Michelle Bloom
clgradadvisor@gmail.com

Graduate Recruitment Advisor
Michelle Bloom
clgradadvisor@gmail.com

Director, Comparative Literature Program
Jeff Sacks
jeffrey.sacks@ucr.edu

Director, Southeast Asian Studies Program
Weihsin Gui
weihsin.gui@ucr.edu

Representative, Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Classics
Michele Salzman
michele.salzman@ucr.edu

Faculty Directors of Undergraduate Majors and Minors

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Anne McKnight
anne.mcknight@ucr.edu

African Literatures and Cultures
Anthonia Kalu
anthonia.kalu@ucr.edu

Arabic Literatures and Cultures
Jeff Sacks
jeffrey.sacks@ucr.edu

Chinese
Yenna Wu
yenna.wu@ucr.edu

Classical Studies
Kyle Khellaf
kyle.khellaf@ucr.edu

Comparative Ancient Civilizations (CPAC)
Kyle Khellaf
kyle.khellaf@ucr.edu

Comparative Literature
Jeff Sacks
jeffrey.sacks@ucr.edu

Filipino
Mariam Lam
mariam.lam@ucr.edu

French
Heidi Brevik-Zender

Germanic Studies
Jeff Sacks
jeffrey.sacks@ucr.edu

Italian
Jeff Sacks
jeffrey.sacks@ucr.edu

Japanese
Anne McKnight
anne.mcknight@ucr.edu

Korean
Kelly Jeong
kelly.jeong@ucr.edu

Languages Major
Anne McKnight
anne.mcknight@ucr.edu

Linguistics
Vrinda Chidambaram
vrinda.chidambaram@ucr.edu

Russian
Jeff Sacks
jeffrey.sacks@ucr.edu

Vietnamese
Mariam Lam
mariam.lam@ucr.edu

Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association

Shunichiro Kobayashi
President

Isoke Atiba 
Vice-President

Shelby Rodgers
Treasurer

Charles “Chanse” McAlister Jr
Secretary