Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Click on Name for faculty Bio
- Akintunde Akinyemi
Yoruba linguistics and literature - Deborah Amberson
Modern Italian Literature and Italian Cinema - Theresa Antes
French applied linguistics
First-Year French Program Coordinator - Avraham Balaban
Modern Hebrew literature - E.C. Barksdale
19th century Russian literature, literary criticism - Michal
Ben-Horin
Hebrew literature - Hélène Blondeau
Linguistics: French linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language variation and change, Language contact and bilingualism. Culture/Cultural Studies: Quebec culture and identity, Francophone cultures in North America, ethnicity and language - Rori
Bloom
Eighteenth-Century French literature - Sylvie Blum-Reid
Contemporary French literature, French and Franco-Asian film - Keith Bullivant
Contemporary German literature, 20th century novel, Weimar Republic, Realism and Naturalism - Alex Burak
Russian language and culture, translation studies (literary translation, film translation, translation pedagogy, translation criticism, Russian-English lexicography, linguistics, Ukrainian language and culture
- Charles Bwenge
African languages - Christopher Caes
19th and 20th century Polish literature and culture, Polish intellectual history, Polish Cinema, and Central and East European literary and cultural theory - William C. Calin
French literature, especially poetry, Medieval literature, Breton and Occitan - Cynthia Chennault
Medieval Chinese poetry and social history. - Sharon DiFino
18th century literary journals, language pedagogy - James Essegbey
African languages and linguistics - Hana Filip
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interface, typology, morphology, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics; modern Czech language, literature and culture - Franz Futterknecht
Aufklärung, Sturm und Drang, Klassik, Romantik, Junges Deutschland - James Goodwin
Russian literature, language, visual arts, culture - Michael Gorham
Language and Politics; Contemporary Russian Culture; New Media Culture; 20th and 21st-century Russian Literature; Language Pedagogy - Youssef Haddad
Arabic Language and Linguistics - Todd Hasak-Lowy
Modern Hebrew literature - Will Hasty
German literary and cultural history from the High Middle Ages, medieval and modern Arthurian Studies, cross-cultural studies, E-Learning and Online Courses
- Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Haitian Creole and French - Yumiko Hulvey
Premodern Japanese literature - Ingrid
Kleespies
Late eighteenth and nineteenth century Russian literature and culture; travel literature; the Soviet avant-garde - Eric Kligerman
20th century German literature and theory, 19th and 20th-century continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, Holocaust studies, comparative literature (German, English and American), visual studies - Sean MacDonald
20th century and contemporary Chinese fiction and cinema
- Masangu Matondo
Swahili language and Bantu linguistics - Barbara Mennel
19th and 20th century German literature and culture, feminist theory and queer studies, international cinema, particularly the cinema of migration, and the culture of the New Europe - Fiona
McLaughlin
Niger-Congo linguistics and cultures - Carol J. Murphy
Director of the France-Florida Research Institute
Twentieth-century French literature and critical theory - Joseph Murphy
modern Japanese literature and film - Christina Overstreet
Second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, computer assisted language learning, curriculum development - Andrea Pham
Vietnamese language and linguistics
- Galina Rylkova
Russian and European Modernism; Anton Chekhov; contemporary Russian literature; cultural studies; and Russian cinema
- Galili Shahar
German cultural history, German-Jewish literature and thought, comparative literature, theories of modernism, aesthetics and theatricality
- Alioune Sow
Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature - Sarra Tlili
Arabic Language and Literature - Richard Wang
premodern Chinese fiction and Taoism - Mary A. Watt
Medieval Italian Literature and Culture - Ann Wehmeyer
Japanese linguistics - Brigitte Weltman-Aron
Graduate Program Coordinator
Eighteenth- and Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Literature and Critical Theory - Gayle Zachmann
Director of the Paris Research Center
Nineteenth-century French literature and critical theory
Lecturers
- Esameddin Alhadi
Arabic - Gianfranco Balestriere
Lecturer in Italian - Soraya
Bouguettaya
Arabic - Juanita W. Casagrande
French - Alessia Colarossi
Italian - Malka Dagan
Hebrew - Elinore Fresh
Chinese - Rania Habib
Arabic
- Susan Kubota
Japanese - Rose Lugano
Swahili - Yukari
Nakamura
Japanese - Sherrie Nunn
Italian, Senior Lecturer -
Kole
Ade Odutola
Yoruba - I-Chun Peir
Chinese - Alexandra Raffa
Italian, Visiting Lecturer - Tatiana Renz
Russia, Adjunct Lecturer - Heloise Seailles
French -
Cynthia Shen
Chinese - Ruth Sheng
Calligraphy - Yasuo Uotate
Japanese - Galina Wladyka
Russian Language and Culture - Han Xu
Chinese
Emeritus Professors
- Aida Bamia
Modern Arabic literature - Bernadette Cailler
French-Language Caribbean and African Literatures - Chauncey Chu
Chinese linguistics - Haig Der-Houssikian
Swahili linguistics - Raymond Gay-Crosier (Docteur ès
Lettres, Berne)
French - Otto Johnston
Age of Goethe, Kleist, 19th century Realism - Hal Rennert
German Literature and Culture 19th and 20th centuries; Eduard Mörike, Wilhelm Hausenstein, Marie Luise Kaschnitz; Contemporary German Drama and Theater, Business German - William Sullivan
Staff
- Janet Rose
Office Manager - Carlon "Ann" Elton
Secretary - Delores Tillman
Graduate Secretary
