VIEW ALPHABETICALLY
VIEW BY FIELD: French // Italian // Latin American Studies // Portuguese // Romance Studies // Spanish
FACULTY IN RLL, LISTED ALPHABETICALLY
Virginie Greene, Professor (French) CHAIR
Gonzalo M. Aguilar, Visiting Professor (Spanish) [Fall 2009]
Lison Baselis-Bitoun, Lecturer (French)
Janet Beizer, Professor (French) [on leave Fall 2009]
Carole Bergin, Preceptor (French)
Kimberlee Campbell, Professor of the Practice [on leave 2009-2010]
Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Professor (Portuguese and Comparative Literature)
Director of Graduate Studies in Portuguese
Tom Conley, Professor (French / Visual and Environmental Studies)
Verena Conley, Long Term Visiting Professor (French)
Elvira G. Di Fabio, Senior Preceptor (Italian)
Bradley S. Epps, Professor (Spanish / Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Francesco Erspamer, Professor (Italian) Director of Graduate Studies in Italian-Fall 2009 [on leave Spring 2010]
Luis Fernández Cifuentes, Professor (Spanish) [on leave 2009-2010]
Chiara Frenquellucci, Preceptor (Italian)
Mary Gaylord, Professor (Spanish) Director of Undergraduate Studies / Undergraduate Adviser in Romance Studies
Luis M. Girón Negrón, Professor (Comparative Literature and Spanish) Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
Adriana Gutiérrez, Senior Preceptor (Spanish)
Sylvaine Guyot, Assistant Professor (French)
Nina C. de W. Ingrao, Senior Preceptor (Spanish)
Alice Jardine, Professor (French / Women,Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Senior Preceptor (Portuguese) Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies / Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese-Brazilian Studies
Stacey Katz, Senior Preceptor (French) Director of Language Programs
Johanna Damgaard Liander, Senior Preceptor (Spanish) Undergraduate Adviser in Spanish
Dana Kristofor Lindaman, College Fellow (French)
Maria Grazia Lolla, Lecturer (Italian)
Christie McDonald, Smith Professor (French) Director of Graduate Studies in French
Giuliana Minghelli, Associate Professor (Italian) Undergraduate Adviser in Italian
Marlies Mueller, Senior Preceptor (French) [on leave Fall 2009]
María Ospina, College Fellow (Spanish)
Christine Ott, Visiting Professor (Italian) [Spring 2010]
Lino Pertile, Professor (Italian) Director of Graduate Studies in Italian-Spring 2010
Mylène Priam, Assistant Professor (French)
Undergraduate Adviser in French
José Rabasa, Long Term Visiting Professor (Spanish) Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies
Sergio Ramírez, Visiting RFK Professor (with DRCLAS) [Fall 2009]
Nicolau Sevcenko, Professor (Portuguese)
Mariano Siskind, Assistant Professor (Spanish) [on leave 2009-2010]
Doris Sommer, Professor (Spanish / African and African American Studies)
[on leave 2009-2010]
Diana Sorensen, Professor (Spanish)
Dean of Arts and Humanities
Susan R. Suleiman, Professor (French / Comparative Literature) [on leave 2009-2010]
Norman Valencia, College Fellow (Spanish)
EMERITUS FACULTY
Dante Della Terza, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus (Italian)
Franco Fido, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus
(Italian)
Judith Frommer, Professor of the Practice, Emerita (French)
Francisco Márquez Villanueva, Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
(Spanish)
Per Nykrog, Smith Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus
(French)
FACULTY IN RLL, LISTED
BY FIELD
FRENCH
Lison Baselis-Bitoun, Lecturer (French)
Interests: Early Modern French Literature; Literatures of West Africa and the
Maghreb; Intersection of Literature with History and Ethnography
Janet Beizer, Professor (French) [on leave Fall 2009]
Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century French Literature; Feminist Studies; Narrative Theory; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Cultural Studies; Literature and Medicine; Biography/Autobiography
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
Tom Conley, Professor (French / Visual and Environmental Studies)
Interests: Early Modern French Literature; Film and Media Studies; Intersection of Literature and Graphic Imagination
Verena Conley, Long Term Visiting Professor (French)
Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; Critical and Cultural Theory; Gender Studies; Problems of Ecology and Technology
Virginie Greene, Professor (French) / CHAIR
Interests: French Medieval Literature; Proust and His Times; Time, Death and Subjectivity; Images and Texts (illuminated manuscripts); Literature and Logic
Sylvaine Guyot, Assistant Professor (French)
Interests: 17th-Century French Literature; Early Modern Theater; Classical Tragedy; Racine; History of the Performance Arts; Visual Culture; Intersection of Drama and Painting; Representations and Social Uses of the Body
Alice Jardine, Professor (French / Women,Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; Feminist Theory; Cultural Criticism and Politics; Women and Technology; The 1950's
Stacey Katz, Senior Preceptor (French) / Director of Language Programs
Interests: Applied French Linguistics; French Syntax; French Pragmatics
Dana Kristofor Lindaman, College Fellow (French)
Interests:
Christie McDonald, Smith Professor (French) / Director of Graduate Stuidies in 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) [on leave Fall 2009]
Interests: French Language and Culture; 17th- and 18th-Century French Literature; Early Modern European History nd Literature; Foreign Language Pedagogy and Methodology
Mylène Priam, Assistant Professor (French) / Undergraduate Adviser in 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) [on leave 2009-2010]
Interests: 20th-Century French Literature and Culture; Avant-Garde Movements and heories of the Avant-Garde; Feminist Theory; Problems of Narrative; Writers and Politics; Problems of Memory; the Holocaust
ITALIAN
Elvira G. Di Fabio, Senior Preceptor (Italian)
Interests: Italian Phono-Morphology; Italian Comic Cinema; Literary Translation; Italian American Literature; Professional Development and Teacher Preparation
Francesco Erspamer, Professor (Italian) / Director of Graduate Studies in Italian-Fall 2009 [on leave Spring 2010]
Interests: Italian Renaissance; Contemporary Italian Theory and Culture; Tasso
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, Associate Professor (Italian) / Undergraduate Adviser in Italian
Interests: Italian Modernism; Geography and Memory in Postwar Italian Literature and Film; Contemporary Women Writers
Christine Ott, Visiting Professor (Italian) [Spring 2010]
Lino Pertile, Professor (Italian) / Director of Graduate Studies in Italian-Spring 2010
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
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Adriana Gutiérrez, Senior 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
Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Senior Preceptor (Portuguese) / Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies / Undergraduate Adviser in Portuguese-Brazilian Studies
Interests: Brazilian Culture and Cinema; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Literary Translation; Portuguese Linguistics; Immigration Studies
Johanna Damgaard Liander, Senior Preceptor (Spanish) / Undergraduate Adviser in Spanish
Interests:
Language Pedagogy; 20th-Century Spanish and Latin American Literature; Cinema
José Rabasa, Long Term Visiting Professor (Spanish) / Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies
Interests: Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Subaltern Studies, Historiography, Critical Theory
Nicolau Sevcenko, Professor (Portuguese)
Interests: Modern Brazilian Culture, particularly the relationship between society and culture; 20th-Century Brazil; Modernity and Post-Modernity
Mariano Siskind, Assistant Professor (Spanish) [on leave 2009-2010]
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 / African and African American Studies)
[on leave 2009-2010]
Interests: 19th-Century Narrative in Latin American Women's Literature; Ethnic Literature; Bilingual Aesthetics
Diana Sorensen, Professor (Spanish / Dean of Arts and Humanities)
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
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, Professor (Portuguese)
Interests: Modern Brazilian Culture, particularly the relationship between society and culture; 20th-Century Brazil; Modernity and Post-Modernity
ROMANCE STUDIES
Elvira G. Di Fabio, Senior Preceptor (Italian)
Interests: 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 [Chair])
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) / Director of Graduate Studies in Italian-Fall 2009) [on leave Spring 2010]
Interests: Italian Renaissance; Contemporary Italian Theory and Culture; Tasso
Mary Gaylord, Professor (Spanish) / Director of Undergraduate Studies / Undergraduate Adviser in 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
Mariano Siskind, Assistant Professor (Spanish) [on leave 2009-2010]
Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, Travel Writing, Histories and Theories of Globalization, Marxism, Deconstruction, Critical Articulations of Literature and Philosophy
SPANISH
Gonzalo M. Aguilar, Visiting Professor (Spanish) [Fall 2009]
Interests:
Bradley S. Epps, Professor (Spanish / Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies [Chair])
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
Luis Fernández Cifuentes, Professor (Spanish) [on leave 2009-2010]
Interests: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Literature; 19th-Century Narrative; Literary History; Cultural Studies; Travel Literature; The City; The Body
Mary Gaylord, Professor (Spanish) / Director of Undergraduate Studies / Undergraduate Adviser in 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
Luis M. Girón Negrón, Professor (Comparative Literature and Spanish) / Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Medieval, Arabic, Latin and Hebrew Literatures; History of Religions; Comparative Literature, Director of Graduate Studies in 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
María Ospina, College Fellow (Spanish)
Interests: Topographies of the Jungle in Contemporary Latin America; Violence, Representation and History in Latin American Fiction; Contemporary Colombian Culture; Memory, Trauma and Ethics in Latin American Fiction; Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Film and Literature; Narco-Novelas, Sicarescas, and Representations of the Drug Trade; Latin American Film
José Rabasa, Long Term Visiting Professor (Spanish) / Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies
Interests: Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Subaltern Studies, Historiography, Critical Theory
Sergio Ramírez, Visiting RFK Professor (with DRCLAS) [Fall 2009]
Interests:
Mariano Siskind, Assistant Professor (Spanish) [on leave 2009-2010]
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 / Africaqn and African American Studies)
[on leave 2009-2010]
Interests: 19th-Century Narrative in Latin American Women's Literature; Ethnic Literature; Bilingual Aesthetics
Diana Sorensen, Professor (Spanish) / Dean of Arts and Humanities
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
Norman Valencia, College Fellow (Spanish)
Interests: Comparative approaches to Brazilian and Spanish American Literatures; Political Power and its relationship to rhetoric and literary form in Latin American texts; “Civilization and Barbarism” as recurring trope in Latin America. Representations of “new barbarians” in contemporary literature and film; Psychoanalysis and literary theory; The politics of literary canonization; Interactions between literary, film and cultural studies |
