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Teaching

Listed below is a history of Professor Dayan’s teaching experience.

Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University, 2013 – Present.
Professor, Department of English and Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities; Vanderbilt University, 2004 – Present.
Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, 2001 – 2004.
Professor, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 2003 – 2004.
Core Faculty, Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 – 2004.
Graduate Group in Folklore, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 – 2004.
Graduate Group in History, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 – 2004.
Professor, English, University of Arizona, 1992 – 2001; Regents Professor, 1998 – 2001.
Visiting Associate Professor, African – American Studies Program, University of Arizona, 1991 – 1992.
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and French, City University of New York Graduate Center, and Queens College, Comparative Literature, 1986 – 1990.
Assistant Professor, English, Yale University, 1981 – 1986.
Instructor, Romance Languages and Literature, Princeton University, Fall 1980

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