Full-time Faculty
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Olga R Arans
Assistant Professor
Classical Studies: Greek and Roman epic and dramatic genres; early philosophy, and comparative mythology & folklore
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Carrie Bonilla
Basic Spanish Program Coordinator
Associate Professor
Spanish: Second language acquisition, individual differences, explicit and implicit instruction, third language acquisition, community-based learning
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Carla F Burns
Associate Professor
Spanish: Latin American colonial and transatlantic studies, Spanish heritage language education.
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Antonio Carreño-Rodríguez
Spanish Program Coordinator
Associate Professor
Spanish: Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Colonial Spanish-American literature and historiography, Modern Spanish Peninsular literature and culture, cultural studies, comparative literature, literary theory, performance studies, and popular culture.
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Paul S. Cha
Assistant Professor
Korean: Modern Korean History; Korean Christianity; Religious nationalism; Religious Cold War; Humanitarianism
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Sayed Elsisi
Assistant Professor
Arabic: Modern Arabic Language and Literature Theories of Modernity Comparative Literature Film Studies Islam in the Middle East Arabian Nights Folkloric Studies
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Paola Enríquez Duque
Assistant Professor
Spanish: Sociolinguistics; Language Contact; Language Ideologies; Morphosyntax; Andean Spanish
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Humberto González Chávez
Italian Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor
Italian: Late medieval Italian literature and culture, especially Dante and Petrarch
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Nathaniel Greenberg
Associate Professor
Arabic: MENA studies, film studies, media studies, discourse analysis, public diplomacy
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Elena Guglielmi
Russian Program Coordinator
Senior Instructor
Russian: Russian Language and Linguistics
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Mika Hama
Assistant Professor
Japanese Studies: Japanese Studies | Second Language Acquisition | Language Assessment | AI in Language Learning
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Young A Jung
Korean Graduate Advisor
Assistant Professor
Korean: Modern Korean Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Pop Culture, Popular Narrative, Fan Studies, Motherhood Studies, Sense of Place
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Dae Yong Kim
Korean Program Coordinator
Senior Instructor
Korean: Korean Languages & Cultural Studies, task-based language teaching, North Korean culture and language, technology in language education, Digital Storytelling
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Jennifer Leeman
Professor
Spanish: Spanish in the US; heritage language education; critical, antiracist language teaching; ethnicity, race, and language in censuses; language and social justice
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Liang Luo
Chair
Professor
Chinese: Politics of Performance, Folklore and Mythology, Popular Culture, The International Avant-Garde, Nationalism, Music and Literature
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Francien Markx
Associate Professor
German: German language, literature and culture; Musicology; Intersections of music, literature and theater; The Age of Goethe; German Romanticism; Poetry; Cultural Studies
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Jihye Moon
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Korean: second language acquisition, heritage language acquisition, bilingualism, Korean linguistics, translation studies, language assessment, language pedagogy
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Kristina Marie Olson
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
Italian: Medieval and Early Modern Italy; Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch; Translation and Adaptation Studies
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Hyun Seon Park
Assistant Professor
Korean: Korean Cinema, Cold War Culture in Asia, Cine-feminism, Memory Studies, Affect Theory, Political Aesthetics
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Christy L Pichichero
Associate Professor
French: Early Modern, Enlightenment, Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, & Music of the French Empire; Theories, Histories, and Practices of African Diaspora; Slavery & its Afterlives; War & Culture; Critical Race & Mixed-Race Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Human Rights & Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing & History; History of News & Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy & Curricular Design; Student, Faculty, Staff Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.
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Lisa M. Rabin
Associate Professor
Spanish: Film history, "useful" and instructional film, mass media, political economy of culture.
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Jonathon Repinecz
French Graduate Advisor
Associate Professor
French: Modern African literatures and cultures; Modern francophone literatures and cultures; Intersections of literature and anthropology; Genocide studies; Folklore and oral literature; Postcolonial theory; Wolof (advanced reading) and Swahili (beginner).
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Esperanza Roman-Mendoza
Professor
Spanish: E-learning, Distance Education, Applied Linguistics, Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Artificial Intelligence and Language Learning
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Raluca Romaniuc
French Program Coordinator
French Undergraduate Advisor
Associate Professor
French: 19th and 20th Century French Literature, Romanian Writers of French Expression, Translation Studies, Business French and French for the Professions
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Mohammad R. Salama
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor
Arabic: Classical Arabic; Qur’anic Studies; Comparative Literature; Intellectual History, Postcolonialism
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Jasmina Savic
Assistant Professor
Russian: 20th- and 21st-century Russian literature and culture / sexuality / taboo discourses / postmodernism / South Slavic languages and cultures
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Ellen Johnson Serafini
Director of Graduate Programs
Associate Professor
Spanish: Task-based Language Teaching; Critical Language Pedagogy; Community-Based Learning; Learner Individual Differences; Critical Language Awareness; Heritage Language Education.
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Hongmei Sun
Chinese Graduate Advisor
Associate Professor
Chinese: Chinese: literature, film, popular culture, myth and folklore, media and digital culture; cross-cultural Traditional Chinese medicine; comparative literature; translation studies; Asian American literature
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Colleen A Sweet
Associate Professor
Spanish: Language teaching and methodology, Latin American Colonial Literature, Critical approaches to literary analysis.
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Ricardo F Vivancos-Pérez
Associate Professor
Spanish: Latina/o/x Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Latin American Studies, Iberian Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Migration Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, LGTBQIA+ Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, Panhispanic Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Editing & Publishing
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Martin M. Winkler
Classics Program Coordinator
University Professor, Professor of Classics. Coordinator: Classical Studies and Latin.
Classical Studies: Teaching and research interests: Greek and Roman literature, classical mythology, Roman history, the classical tradition; classical literature, history, and myth on film.
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Peiyu Yang
Assistant Professor
Arabic: Modern Arabic literature; Nahda studies; translation studies; gender studies; Arabic-Chinese comparative literary and cultural studies
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Andrea K. K Zach
Associate Professor
German: Political economy, German contemporary films, critical theory, immigration, theories of nationalism & citizenship.
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Karl Kuan Zhang
Associate Professor
Chinese: Comparative literature, literary criticism and cultural studies
