Tenure-line Faculty

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.

Paul S. Cha

Assistant Professor

Korean: Modern Korean History; Korean Christianity; Religious nationalism; Religious Cold War; Humanitarianism

Nathaniel Greenberg

Associate Professor

Arabic: MENA studies; comparative literature; discourse analysis; film&media

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

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

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

Kristina Marie Olson

Associate Chair

Associate Professor

Italian: Medieval and Early Modern Italy; Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch; Translation and Adaptation Studies

Hyun Seon Park

Assistant Professor

Korean: Korean Cinema, Cold War Culture in Asia, Cine-feminism, Memory Studies, Affect Theory, Political Aesthetics

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.

Lisa M. Rabin

Associate Professor

Spanish: Film history, "useful" and instructional film, mass media, political economy of culture.

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).

Esperanza Roman-Mendoza

Professor

Spanish: E-learning, Distance Education, Applied Linguistics, Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Artificial Intelligence and Language Learning

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

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.

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

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

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.

Karl Kuan Zhang

Associate Professor

Chinese: Comparative literature, literary criticism and cultural studies