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Faculty 2007 - 2008

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ViEW BY FIELD: French // Italian // Latin American Studies // Portuguese // Romance Studies // Spanish

FACULTY IN RLL, LISTED ALPHABETICALLY

CURRENT FACULTY

  • Luis Fernández Cifuentes, Professor (Spanish) / Chair

  • Janet Beizer, Professor (French) / Director of Graduate Studies in French
  • Matilda Bruckner, Visiting Professor (French)
  • Carole Bergin, Preceptor (French)
  • Marie-France Bunting, Senior Preceptor (French) / Undergraduate Adviser in French
  • Kimberlee Campbell, Professor of the Practice / Director of Language Programs (French)
  • Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, Associate Professor (Spanish)
  • Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Professor (Portuguese and Comparative Literature) / Director of Graduate Studies in Portuguese

  • Tom Conley, Professor (French)
  • Verena Conley, Visiting Professor (French)
  • Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Visiting Associate Professor (Spanish)
  • Elvira G. Di Fabio, Senior Preceptor (Italian) / Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies; Undergraduate Adviser in Italian
  • Alexia Elisabeth Duc, Assistant Professor (French)
  • Bradley S. Epps, Professor (Spanish & Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGS) / Chair of WGS)
  • Francesco Erspamer, Professor (Italian) / Director of Graduate Studies in Italian
  • Teresa Fiore, Lauro de Bosis Visiting Assistant Professor (Italian)
  • Chiara Frenquellucci, Preceptor (Italian)
  • Mary Gaylord, Professor (Spanish) / Director of Undergraduate Sutdies; Undergraduate Adviser for Romance Studies
  • Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Visiting Associate Professor (Spanish)
  • Luis M. Girón Negrón, Professor (Comparative Literature and Spanish)
  • Virginie Greene, Professor (French)
  • Ernesto Guerra, Preceptor (Spanish)
  • Alma Guillermoprieto (Spanish)
  • Adriana Gutiérrez, Preceptor (Spanish)
  • Nina C. de W. Ingrao, Senior Preceptor (Spanish)
  • F. Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African & African-American Studies and RLL (French)
  • Alice Jardine, Professor (French & Women,Gender & Sexuality Studies)
  • Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Senior Preceptor (Portuguese) / Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese
  • Virginia Krause, Visiting Professor (French)
  • David P. LaGuardia, Visiting Associate Professor (French)
  • Johanna Damgaard Liander, Senior Preceptor (Spanish) / Undergraduate Adviser in Spanish
  • Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Visiting Professor (Spanish)
  • Maria Grazia Lolla, Lecturer (Italian)
  • Christie McDonald, Smith Professor (French)
  • Giuliana Minghelli, Lecturer (Italian)
  • Marlies Mueller, Senior Preceptor (French)
  • Lino Pertile, Professor (Italian)
  • Mylène Priam, Assistant Professor (French)
  • José Rabasa, Visiting Professor (Spanish)
  • Nicolau Sevcenko, Visiting Professor (Portuguese)
  • Mariano Siskind, Assistant Professor (Spanish) Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies
  • Doris Sommer, Professor (Spanish) Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
  • Diana Sorensen, Professor (Spanish)
  • Susan R. Suleiman, Professor (French and Comparative Literature)
  • Victor Vich, Visiting Professor
  • Sergio Zatti, Visiting Professor (Italian)

    EMERITUS FACULTY
  • Dante Della Terza, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus
  • Franco Fido, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus (Italian)
  • Judith Frommer, Professor of the Practice, Emerita (French). Interests: French language and civilization; computer, multimedia and Internet applications for language instruction; and second language acquisition.
  • Francisco Márquez Villanueva, Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Per Nykrog, Smith Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus (French)


    FACULTY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, BY FIELD

    FRENCH

  • Janet Beizer, Professor (French) / Director of Graduate Studies in French. Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century French Literature; Feminist Studies; Narrative Theory; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Cultural Studies; Literature and Medicine; Biography/Autobiography.
  • Matilda Bruckner, Visiting Professor (French)
  • Carole Bergin, Preceptor (French). Interests: Interactive and Integrated Approach to Grammar Teaching; Use of Technology in Language Teaching; Belgium in the Francophone World; Business French.
  • Marie-France Bunting, Senior Preceptor (French) / Undergraduate Adviser in French. Interests: Contemporary French Culture; Stylistics; Modern French Theatre; Francophone Literature.
  • Kimberlee Campbell, Professor of the Practice / Director of Language Programs (French). Interests: Second Language Acquisition; Computer-based Learning; French and Spanish Medieval Epic Literature.
  • Tom Conley, Professor (French). Interests: Early Modern French Literature; Film and Media Studies; Intersection of Literature and Graphic Imagination.
  • Verena Conley, Visiting Professor (French) . Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; Critical and Cultural Theory; Gender Studies; Problems of Ecology and Technology.
  • Alexia Elisabeth Duc, Assistant Professor (French). Interests: 17th-Century French literature; Early Modern Memoirs and Moralist Writing; Classical Theater; Theater and Social Politics; Comedy and Discourse; Travel Literature in Colonial New France; Literature and Language Pedagogy in Multimedia Environments.
  • Virginie Greene, Professor (French). Interests: French Medieval Literature; Proust and His Times; Time, Death and Subjectivity; Images and Texts (illuminated manuscripts); Literature and Logic.
  • F. Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African & African-American Studies and RLL (French). Interests: Black African and Caribbean literature in English and French, with strong interests in contemporary thought in francophone Africa, within the context of black intellectual history.
  • Alice Jardine, Professor (French & Women,Gender & Sexuality Studies). Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; Feminist Theory; Cultural Criticism and Politics; Women and Technology; The 1950's.
  • Virginia Krause, Visiting Professor (French)
  • David P. LaGuardia, Visiting Associate Professor (French)
  • Christie McDonald, Smith Professor (French). Interests: 18th- and 20th-Century French literature; Literary theory and Cultural Studies; Feminism; Questions of Change in Thought; The Dialogue of Literature and Criticism with Other Disciplines.
  • Marlies Mueller, Senior Preceptor (French). Interests: French Language and Culture; 17th- and 18th-Century French Literature; Early Modern European History and Literature; Foreign Language Pedagogy and Methodology.
  • Mylène Priam, Assistant Professor (French). Interests: The French Caribbean; Francophone Maghreb, Machreq Africa; French Culture and Civilization; Contemporary Francophone Literature; Metropolitan French 18th- to 20th-Century Literature.
  • Susan R. Suleiman, Professor (French and Comparative Literature). Interests: 20th-Century French Literature and Culture; Avant-Garde Movements and Theories of the Avant-Garde; Feminist Theory; Problems of Narrative; Writers and Politics; Problems of Memory; the Holocaust

    ITALIAN
  • Francesco Erspamer, Professor (Italian) / Director of Graduate Studies in Italian. Interests: Italian Renaissance; Contemporary Italian Theory and Culture; Tasso.
  • Elvira G. Di Fabio, Senior Preceptor (Italian) / Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies; Undergraduate Adviser in Italian. Italian Phono-Morphology; Italian Comic Cinema; Literary Translation; Italian American Literature; Professional Development and Teacher Preparation.
  • Teresa Fiore, Lauro de Bosis Visiting Assistant Professor (Italian)
  • Chiara Frenquellucci, Preceptor (Italian). Interests: 18th- and 20th-Century Theater, Language Acquisition and Writing Skills, Contemporary Italian Prose, Cinema and Culture.
  • Maria Grazia Lolla, Lecturer (Italian), Interests: Antiquarianism and archaeology; textual bibliography and the material context of the transmission of ideas; the relationship between literature and society; apocalypse; the changing definition and status of work and boredom in the West.
  • Giuliana Minghelli, Lecturer (Italian). Interests: Italian Modernism; Geography and Memory in Postwar Italian Literature and Film; Contemporary Women Writers.
  • Lino Pertile, Professor (Italian). Interests: Dante and the Latin Middle Ages; Bembo and the 'question della lingua"; Renaissance Literature in France and Italy; Foscolo and Leopardi; Contemporary Italian Novel.
  • Sergio Zatti, Visiting Professor (Italian)

    LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
  • Mariano Siskind, Assistant Professor (Spanish) Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies
  • Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, Associate Professor (Spanish). Interests: Modern and Contemporary Latin America Literature and Culture; Intersections between Literary, Cultural, and Economic Discourses; Issues of Gender and Sexuality; Mapuche Literature and Culture; Cultural Theory and Critique in the Americas.
  • Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Visiting Associate Professor (Spanish)
  • Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Visiting Associate Professor (Spanish)
  • Alma Guillermoprieto, Visiting Professor (Spanish)
  • Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Senior Preceptor (Portuguese) / Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese. Interests: Brazilian Culture and Cinema; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Literary Translation; Portuguese Linguistics; Immigration Studies
  • Nicolau Sevcenko, Visiting Professor (Portuguese). Interests: Modern Brazilian Culture, particularly the relationship between society and culture; 20th-Century Brazil; Modernity and Post-Modernity.
  • Adriana Gutiérrez, Preceptor (Spanish)
  • Johanna Damgaard Liander, Senior Preceptor (Spanish) / Undergraduate Adviser in Spanish
  • Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Visiting Professor (Spanish)
  • José Rabasa, Visiting Professor (Spanish)
  • Doris Sommer, Professor (Spanish). Interests: 19th-Century Narrative in Latin American Women's Literature; Ethnic Literature; Bilingual Aesthetics.
  • Diana Sorensen, Professor (Spanish). Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Studies; History and Memory. Currently working on a book about Latin American culture and society in the 1960's
  • Victor Vich, Visiting Professor (Spanish)

    PORTUGUESE
  • Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Professor (Portuguese and Comparative Literature) / Director of Graduate Studies in Portuguese. Interests: Comparative Literature; Hispanic Literature; Camões; Fernando Pessoa; Theory and Practice of Translation.
  • Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Senior Preceptor (Portuguese) / Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese. Interests: Brazilian Culture and Cinema; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Literary Translation; Portuguese Linguistics; Immigration Studies.
  • Nicolau Sevcenko, Visiting Professor (Portuguese). Interests: Modern Brazilian Culture, particularly the relationship between society and culture; 20th-Century Brazil; Modernity and Post-Modernity

    ROMANCE STUDIES
  • Mary Gaylord, Professor (Spanish) / Director of Undergraduate Sutdies; Undergraduate Adviser for Romance Studies. Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Latin American Colonial Literature; Hispanic Poetry of all Periods; Poetics; Literary Theory; History and the Novel; Cervantes; Comparative Study of Early Romance Languages
  • Kimberlee Campbell, Professor of the Practice / Director of Language Programs (French). Interests: Second Language Acquisition; Computer-based Learning; French and Spanish Medieval Epic Literature.
  • Elvira G. Di Fabio, Senior Preceptor (Italian) / Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies; Undergraduate Adviser in Italian. Italian Phono-Morphology; Italian Comic Cinema; Literary Translation; Italian American Literature; Professional Development and Teacher Preparation.
  • Bradley S. Epps, Professor (Spanish & Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGS) / Chair of WGS). Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish and Latin American Literature; Catalan Language and Literature; French and Anglo-American Literature; Critical Theory; Gender Studies; Modernism and Post-modernism; Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies; Immigration; Urban Studies.
  • Francesco Erspamer, Professor (Italian). Interests: Italian Renaissance; Contemporary Italian Theory and Culture; Tasso.
  • Mariano Siskind, Assistant Professor (Spanish) Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies. Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, Travel Writing, Histories and Theories of Globalization, Marxism, Deconstruction, Critical Articulations of Literature and Philosophy.

    SPANISH
  • Luis Fernández Cifuentes, Professor (Spanish) / Chair. Interests: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Literature; 19th-Century Narrative; Literary History; Cultural Studies; Travel Literature; The City; The Body.
  • Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, Associate Professor (Spanish). Interests: Modern and Contemporary Latin America Literature and Culture; Intersections between Literary, Cultural, and Economic Discourses; Issues of Gender and Sexuality; Mapuche Literature and Culture; Cultural Theory and Critique in the Americas.
  • Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Visiting Associate Professor (Spanish)
  • Bradley S. Epps, Professor (Spanish & Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGS) / Chair of WGS). Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish and Latin American Literature; Catalan Language and Literature; French and Anglo-American Literature; Critical Theory; Gender Studies; Modernism and Post-modernism; Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies; Immigration; Urban Studies
  • Mary Gaylord, Professor (Spanish) / Director of Undergraduate Sutdies; Undergraduate Adviser for Romance Studies. Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Latin American Colonial Literature; Hispanic Poetry of all Periods; Poetics; Literary Theory; History and the Novel; Cervantes; Comparative Study of Early Romance Languages.
  • Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Visiting Associate Professor (Spanish)
  • Luis M. Girón Negrón, Professor (Comparative Literature and Spanish). Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Medieval, Arabic, Latin and Hebrew Literatures; History of Religions; Comparative Literature.
  • Ernesto Guerra, Preceptor (Spanish). Interests: 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Latin American Literature; Epic Poetry; 20th-Century Latin American History and Culture
  • Alma Guillermoprieto, Visiting Professor (Spanish)
  • Adriana Gutiérrez, Preceptor (Spanish). Interests: Development of Multi-Media Cultural Materials for the Teaching of Spanish; Twentieth-Century Spanish and Latin American Literature; Curriculum Development for Spanish Language and Literature; Teaching Methodology in Second Language Acquisition; Oral History; Cultural and Gender Studies Related to U.S. Latina Women.
  • Nina C. de W. Ingrao, Senior Preceptor (Spanish)
  • Johanna Damgaard Liander, Senior Preceptor (Spanish) / Undergraduate Adviser in Spanish. Interests: Language Pedagogy; 20th-Century Spanish and Latin American Literature; Cinema.
  • Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Visiting Professor (Spanish)
  • José Rabasa, Visiting Professor (Spanish)
  • Mariano Siskind, Assistant Professor (Spanish) Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies. Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, Travel Writing, Histories and Theories of Globalization, Marxism, Deconstruction, Critical Articulations of Literature and Philosophy.
  • Doris Sommer, Professor (Spanish). Interests: 19th-Century Narrative in Latin American Women's Literature; Ethnic Literature; Bilingual Aesthetics.
  • Diana Sorensen, Professor (Spanish). Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Studies; History and Memory. Currently working on a book about Latin American culture and society in the 1960's.
  • Victor Vich, Visiting Professor (Spanish)

  • Last updated on October 30, 2007