Faculty and Staff
Faculty By Disciplinary Specialization
Medieval & Early Modern Studies
Alphabetical Faculty List
Teaching Assistants
Because of its diverse collective expertise in over twenty cultural, linguistic, and literary traditions, the LLC faculty brings unique transnational insight and perspectives to broader issues in a variety of sub-disciplines.
Culture/Cultural Studies
- Akintunde Akinyemi - Africa and African Diaspora
- Esameddin Alhadi
- Deborah Amberson
- Avraham Balaban
- Gianfranco Balestriere
- Michal Ben-Horin
- Helene Blondeau - Quebec culture and identity, Francophone cultures in North America, ethnicity and language
- Rori Bloom
- Sylvie Blum
- Alexander Burak - Russian culture and history; Ukrainian culture and history
- Bernadette Cailler - French-Language Caribbean and African Literatures
- William Calin - History of Cultures and Mentalities
- Cynthia L. Chennault - Medieval Chinese poetry and social history
- Alessia Colarossi
- Haig Der-Houssikian
- Franz Futterknecht - E-Learning and Online Courses
- Raymond Gay-Crosier - French, Critical Theory
- James Goodwin - The impact of revolution, war and political violence on modern Russian culture and thought
- Michael Gorham - Contemporary Russian Culture and Politics, Russian Folklore; Language, Culture and Revolution
- Todd Hasak-Lowy
- Will Hasty - Literary Culture with emphasis on medieval and early modern Germany; E-Learning and Online Courses
- Benjamin Hebblethwaite - Haitian Vodou, Haitian Culture and Society
- Yumiko Hulvey - Heian and Kamakura Periods
- Ingrid Kleespies
- Eric Kligerman
- Fiona McLaughlin - Islam and popular culture in Africa
- Barbara Mennel - Urban Studies, Feminist Theory, Queer Studies
- Carol Murphy - French, Critical Theory
- Christina Overstreet
- Andrea Hoa Pham - Vietnamese culture and society
- Galina Rylkova - Cultural Memory; Biography Institutions
- Heloise C. Seailles - North Africa, Political History
- Alioune Sow
- Richard Wang - Pre-modern Chinese Religion
- Ann Wehmeyer
Film and Media Studies
- Akintunde Akinyemi - Nigeria Nollywood
- Deborah Amberson
- Sylvie Blum
- Alexander Burak – Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; Russian culture, history and language through film
- Michael Gorham - New Technologies and New Media Studies
- Todd Hasak-Lowy
- Eric Kligerman
- Sean MacDonald
- Barbara Mennel - German Cinema, Transnational Cinema
- Joe Murphy
Language Pedagogy
- Theresa A. Antes
- Alexander Burak - Russian and Ukrainian languages; Russian for specific purposes (business Russian, Russian for scientists, and Russian for students of the humanities); intensive methods of teaching languages; testing language progress and proficiency
- Charles Bwenge - African Languages
- Chauncey Chu - Chinese
- Alessia Colarossi
- Malka Dagan - Hebrew
- Haig Der-Houssikian
- Sharon DiFino - E-Learning and Online Courses, Teacher Training
- James Essegbey
- Elinore Fresh
- Benjamin Hebblethwaite - Haitian Creole
- Susan Kubota
- Yukari Nakamura
- Sherrie Nunn
- Christina Overstreet
- Andrea Hoa Pham - Vietnamese
- Cynthia Shen
- Yasuo Uotate
- Han Xu
Linguistics
- Theresa A. Antes
- Helene Blondeau - French linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language variation and change, Language contact and bilingualism
- Alexander Burak - Structure of Russian and Ukrainian languages; Russian phonetics, phonology and intonation; Russian grammar, lexicology, stylistics, and lexicography; sociolinguistics; Russian language variation and change; distinctive features of Russian-American bilingualism among Russian heritage students
- Charles Bwenge - African Languages
- William Calin - History of French
- Chauncey Chu - Functional Syntax
- Haig Der-Houssikian - Swahili Linguistics, Morphology, Creolization
- James Essegbey
- Hana Filip
- Michael Gorham - Language Culture and Ideologies; Russian Sociolinguistics
- Youssef Haddad - Arabic Language and Linguistics
- Benjamin Hebblethwaite - Haitian Creole
- Fiona McLaughlin - African linguistics, Atlantic languages (Wolof, Pulaar, Seereer), theoretical phonology, urban sociolinguistics
- Andrea Hoa Pham - Vietnamese phonetics and phonology, Vietnamese sociolinguistics
- Ann Wehmeyer
Literature
- Akintunde Akinyemi - African literature
- Deborah Amberson
- Avraham Balaban - Modern Hebrew literature
- Aida Bamia
- E.C. Barksdale
- Michal Ben-Horin
- Rori Bloom
- Sylvie Blum
- Keith Bullivant
- William Calin - French literature, medieval to modern; modern literature in Breton and Occitan
- Bernadette Cailler - French-Language Caribbean and African Literatures
- Cynthia L. Chennault - Medieval Chinese poetry and social history
- Franz Futterknecht
- Raymond Gay-Crosier - French, Critical Theory
- James Goodwin - Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Michael Gorham - 20th and 21st-century Russian Literature
- Todd Hasak-Lowy
- Will Hasty - Literary Culture with emphasis on medieval and early modern Germany
- Benjamin Hebblethwaite - Ethnic Haitian Literature
- Yumiko Hulvey
- Ingrid Kleespies
- Eric Kligerman
- Sean MacDonald
- Barbara Mennel - 20th, and 21st century German literature, Migration and Minority Literature
- Carol Murphy - French Critical Theory
- Joe Murphy
- Andrea Hoa Pham - Vietnamese literature
- Galina Rylkova - Russian and European Modernism, Anton Chekhov, Contemporary Russian Literature
- Alioune Sow
- Richard Wang - Pre-modern Chinese
- Mary Watt
- Gayle Zachmann
Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- William Calin - Literatures in French, English, and Scots
- Cynthia L. Chennault
- Franz Futterknecht
- Will Hasty - Literary Culture with emphasis on medieval and early modern Germany
- Yumiko Hulvey
- Mary Watt
Translation Studies
- Alexander Burak – literary translation, consecutive and simultaneous interpretation, system of note-taking in the course of consecutive interpretation, film translation, translation pedagogy (methodologies for teaching translation and interpretation), translation criticism, Russian-English hard-copy and online lexicography, theory of translation and interpretation
- Bernadette Cailler - Advanced Composition and Literary Translation
- Yumiko Hulvey
- Brigitte Weltman-Aron
