Faculty & Staff

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Namesort iconLanguageSpecialty
66Tom ArmbrechtFrench
Associate Chair
20th-century novel; queer/gender studies; theatre as literature and in performance.
137Cheryl ArnDepartment Administration
60William BergFrench
Honors Advisor
19th-century novel; literature and the visual arts, particularly painting.
Gilles BousquetFrench
39Buccini, Stefania Italian
Associate Chair

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian literature

107Keith BusbyFrench
Undergraduate Advisor

Old French language and literature; manuscript studies; theory and practice of editing.

108Janet CaulkinsFrench

Old French language and literature; Swiss French literature; French cultural studies in a global context, particularly relations between France, Francophone countries and Europe; professional communication.

62Tom CravensItalian
Course Chair
Undergraduate Advisor

Italian Linguistics and Romance Linguistics. Research interests in Theory of language variation and change, Grammaticalization, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Linguistic analysis of early texts. Publications on Italian and Romance historical phonology and morphology, semantics, and sociolinguistic aspects of variation and change.

106Martine DebaisieuxFrench

Late 16th and 17th century French literature and intellectual history; French women writers; theory of fiction; stylistics.

104Ritt DeitzFrench
Executive Director PFMP

Professional Communication; Quebec film, microcinema and theater; Contemporary Quebec novel.

65Névine El NosseryFrench

North African and French Canadian literatures, metafictional historiography, languages and exile, Middle-East Literature.

92Richard GoodkinFrench
Graduate Studies Chair

Comparative literature

91Sue GrassDepartment Administration
33Nelly HalzenFrench
Course Chair
Undergraduate Advisor

Phonetics; 19th and 20th century French Society and Culture. The use of technology in teaching French as a second language; 20th century French literature

71Andrew IrvingFrench
Course Chair
Director, The French House
Undergraduate Advisor

Advising, second language acquisition, international education and student exchange programs, 19th century French literarure.

74Deborah JensonFrench
Interim Director, Center for the Humanities

Nineteenth Century French and Caribbean literature and culture; Haitian Revolutionary studies; African diaspora studies; colonial and postcolonial studies; French women's writing; critical theory; theories of mimesis; cosmopolitanism

98Christopher KleinhenzItalian

Italian literature of the Duecento and Trecento, especially Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio, manuscript studies (paleography and textual criticism), art and literature in Medieval Italy, Rome in history and literature from Antiquity to the Renaissance.

61Ullrich LangerFrench
16th-century poetry and prose; Renaissance history, theology, and court esthetics.
42Ernesto LivorniItalian

Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature; Italian Romanticism in the European context; Avant-garde literature and the visual arts; Hermeticist Poetry; Neo-Realism; literature and religion; hermeneutics.

70Sally Sieloff MagnanFrench
Chair, Language Course Chairs
Director, Centre de ressources
Director, Language Institute
Co-Director, Doctoral Program in SLA
Advisor French minors to SLA

Second language acquisition; applied French linguistics; foreign language teaching methodology; migration studies, esp. North African to France; Quebec studies.

101Laurey Martin-BergFrench
Course Chair

Nineteenth Century Novel, Literature and the Visual Arts, Second Language Aquisition

Grazia MenechellaItalian
19th- and 20th-century literature, theories of irony and parody, women writers, cultural studies. Publications on Giorgio Manganelli, Alberto Moravia, Romana Petri, popular culture.
174Giovanna Miceli-JeffriesItalian

Women Writings; Italian American Literature; 20th century Italian Narrative; Italian Language, Pedagogy and Curricula of Italian (k-12); Translation; Essay Memoir

109Ewa MiernowskaFrench
Course Chair
Undergraduate Advisor
130Jan MiernowskiFrench
Associate Chair
16th-century literature; Renaissance poetic and rhetoric, especially in relation to philosophy, theology and political discourse.
73Mary NolesDepartment Administration
136Andrea PalmDepartment Administration
40Kristin Phillips-CourtItalian

Italian Renaissance literature and culture; drama, painting and Renaissance inter-media; aesthetics; patronage.

93Patrick RumbleItalian

Cinema and 20th-century literature, especially recent Italian filmmakers, the cinema of the fascist period, theories of ideology, reception, filmic adaptation. Publications on Pier Paolo Pasolini, Moravia, Antonioni, Tornatore.

41Aliko SongoloFrench

African and Caribbean literature in French; 20th-century poetry; francophonie (literature and cultural studies)

Francois TochonFrench

Theories of pedagogy, teacher training, curriculum.

103Anne VilaFrench
Department Chair

18th-century French novel, theater, and intellectual history; the body in literature and medicine; the culture and philosophy of the Enlightenment.

67Steven WinspurFrench
Graduate Advisor
20th-century poetry; theories of the lyric; narratology; Québécois literature.