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Tom Armbrecht French

20th-century novel; queer/gender studies; theatre as literature and in performance.

 Graduate Advisor
Gilles Bousquet French

Globalization and higher education; European social, cultural and institutional issues;  French for business and economics; 19th- and 20th-century French cultural studies.

 Dean, Division of International Studies
Stefania Buccini Italian

17th, 18th, and early 19th-century Italian literature and culture; Baroque novel and poetry; Counter-reform sacred oratory; libertine fiction and ideology; antique printed editions and early modern manuscripts.
Tom Cravens Italian

Italian Linguistics and Romance Linguistics: theory of language variation and change; grammaticalization; sociolinguistics; dialectology; linguistic analysis of early texts.

 Undergraduate Advisor
Martine Debaisieux French

Late 16th-century and 17th-century literature: fiction, women writers, "libertins"; grammar and stylistics.

 Course Chair
Ritt Deitz French

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

 Executive Director, PFMP
Vlad Dima French

French New Wave cinema, Francophone cinemas, Hitchcock, Tarantino/American auteur cinema, Quebec novel, theater of the absurd.
Névine El Nossery French and Arabic

North African literature and culture, francophonie, postcolonial studies, trauma theories, women and migration, Middle Eastern literature and culture

 Undergraduate Advisor
Jennifer Gipson French

Nineteenth-century French literature; folklore and orality in literature; the development of the short story; literature and culture of French Louisiana.
Richard Goodkin French

17th-century French theater; 19th and 20th-century narrative; Symbolist poetry; French film; intertextuality; Greek tragedy; psychological approaches to literature; philosophy and literature; mathematics and literature.

 Graduate Studies Chair
Nelly Halzen French

French Phonetics; 19th and 20th-century French society and culture; the use of technology in teaching French as a second language

 Course Chair
Andrew Irving French

Advising; second language acquisition; international education and student exchange programs; 19th-century French literature.

 Course Chair, French 203
Ullrich Langer French

16th-century poetry and prose; Renaissance intellectual history (especially moral philosophy and political theory)
Ernesto Livorni Italian

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.

 Associate Chair
Grazia Menechella Italian

19th and 20th-century literature; theories of irony and parody; women writers; cultural studies.
Ewa Miernowska French

19th and 20th century French literature, second language acquisition

 Undergraduate Advisor
Jan Miernowski French

Literary aesthetics, 16th-century literature; Renaissance poetic and rhetoric, especially in relation to philosophy, theology and political discourse. Digital Humanities and e-learning.

 Course Chair
Kristin Phillips-Court Italian

Italian Renaissance literature and culture; drama, painting and Renaissance inter-media; aesthetics; patronage; Machiavelli, Vasari, Tasso, Bruno.
Patrick Rumble Italian

Cinema and 20th-century literature, especially recent Italian filmmakers; the cinema of the fascist period; theories of ideology, reception and filmic adaptation.

 Department Chair
Tiziana Serafini Italian

20th-century Italian Poetry and Narrative. Theory and Practices of Translation. Second Language Acquisition: Theory and Pedagogy. Teaching Methodology. Teaching Italian Literature, Culture and Language to Undergraduates.

 Course Chair
Aliko Songolo French

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

French education; international studies in curriculum, pedagogy and teacher education; world language education; bilingual education; research methods.
Jelena Todorovic Italian

Medieval Italian literature; material philology, codicology and paleography; textual criticism; Old Occitan, classical and medieval Latin literary traditions in relation to the Italian literature of the origins.Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio.
Florence Vatan French

19th-century poetry and fiction; literature and science (psychology, medicine); literature and philosophy; 20th-century Austrian literature; European intellectual and cultural history.

 Undergraduate Advisor
Anne Vila French

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

Second language acquisition--L2 motivation, L2 teacher development, literacy-based approaches to L2 instruction

 Course Chair, French 101
Steven Winspur French

20th-century poetry; theories of the lyric; narratology; Québécois literature.

 Associate Chair