Comparative Arts and Letters Faculty

Julie Kalani Smith Allen - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1998
MA, Harvard University, 2000
PhD, Harvard University, 2005

Matthew Garry Ancell - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1998
MA, University of California, Irvine, 2001
PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2007

Stephen M Bay - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1993
BA, University of Utah, 1997
MA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2004

Heather Belnap - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1994
MA, Brigham Young University, 1997
PhD, University of Kansas, 2007

Vincent Stanley Benfell - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1987
MA, New York University, 1990
PhD, New York University, 1994

Michael Josiah Call - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2000
MA, Yale University, 2002
MPhil, Yale University, 2004
PhD, Yale University, 2006

Allen J Christenson - Professor

BS, Brigham Young University, 1980
DDS, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984
MA, University of Texas, Austin, 1996
PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 1998

Robert L Colson - Associate Professor

BA, University of Utah, 2003
MA, University of California, Irvine, 2004
PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2010

Luke Drake - Assistant Professor

BA, University of Utah, 2003
MTS, Harvard Divinity School, 2013
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2022

Marlene Hansen Esplin - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2001
MA, Brigham Young University, 2003
PhD, Michigan State University, 2012

George Browning Handley - Professor

BA, Stanford University, 1989
MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1991
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1995

Kenneth John Hartvigsen - Assistant Professor

BA, University of Utah, 2006
MA, Boston University, 2008
PhD, Boston University, 2014

Laura Hatch - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2013
PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2021

Seth A Jeppesen - Associate Professor

BA, Utah State University, 2006
MA, UC Santa Barbara, 2009
PhD, UC Santa Barbara, 2013

Nathaniel Todd Kramer - Associate Professor

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
BA, Brigham Young University, 1996
MA, Brigham Young University, 1998

Roger T Macfarlane - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1985
MA, University of Michigan, 1987
PhD, University of Michigan, 1991

Christopher P Oscarson - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1997
MA, Brigham Young University, 2000
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2006

Charles Westfall Oughton - Assistant Professor

BA, Utah State University, 2008
MA, University of Texas at Austin, 2011
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2016

Joseph D Parry - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1985
MA, Brigham Young University, 1987
PhD, University of Utah, 1995

Cecilia Marie Peek - Associate Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1987
MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1991
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2000

Larry Howard Peer - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1963
MA, Brigham Young University, 1965
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 1969

Michael F Pope - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2005
MA, Brigham Young University, 2007
MA, University of Chicago, 2010
PhD, University of Chicago, 2014

Carl H Sederholm - Professor

AA, Long Beach City College, 1994
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996
PhD, University of Utah, 2002

Kerry David Soper - Professor

BFA, Utah State University, 1992
MA, Emory University, 1994
PhD, Emory University, 1998

Charlotte Alighieria Stanford - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1993
MA, University of Connecticut, 1996
PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2003

James Russel Swensen - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1998
MA, Brigham Young University, 2000
PhD, University of Arizona, 2009

Thomas Arvel Wayment - Professor

BA, University of California, Riverside, 1994
MA, Claremont Graduate School, 1998
PhD, Claremont Graduate School, 2000

Elliott D Wise - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2007
MA, Brigham Young University, 2009
PhD, Emory University, 2016

Marc T Yamada - Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 1997
MA, Brigham Young University, 2000
PhD, University of California, Berkley, 2006

Erik Odin Yingling - Assistant Professor

BA, Brigham Young University, 2012
MAR, Yale Divinity School, 2014
PhD, Stanford University, 2022