All 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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Lera Balchirbai
Adjunct Faculty
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Rei Berroa
Emeritus Faculty
Spanish: Poetry through the Ages, Spanish and Latin American Literary and Cultural Criticism, Relationship among the Arts, The Creative Process.
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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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Lilian Bringas
Adjunct Faculty
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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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Julie A Christensen
Emeritus Faculty
Russian: Russian language, literature and film; Soviet and post-Soviet film including the Caucasus, Central Asia, Mongolia, and Eastern Europe
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Gina Crocenzi (Masterson)
Adjunct Faculty
French: Literary Theory, 20th century Philosophy, Theology, Comparative Literature
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Gregory Dzara
Adjunct Faculty
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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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Niulka I Franco
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Spanish: Second language acquisition Second Language Acquistion for Heritage Speakers Second Language textbooks Second language vocabulary Spanish derivational morphology Second language Morphological awareness 15th-21st-Century Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures Transatlantic Studies Visual and Media Culture (Film, TV, Music, Photography, Painting) Spanish linguistics Educational linguistics Sociolinguistics: Spanish in the United States Second language acquisition and writing development Spanish systemic functional grammar Development of academic writing in Spanish by bilingual speakers in the U.S Human Rights & Memory Iberian and Latin American Social Movements & Revolutions
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Paula Ruth Gilbert
Emeritus Faculty
Nineteenth-Century French studies, Quebec studies, women writers, Literature, Society, and the Arts; Women and Gender Studies (joint appointment): Violence and Gender; Violent Women; Narrative, Gender, and Human Rights; Cultural Studies; New Century College
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Mary Gonzalez
Adjunct Faculty
Spanish: Latinos in the USA, Afrolatinidad, LatinX, Cine Latinoamericano y Caribeño
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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; comparative literature; discourse analysis; film&media
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Elena Guglielmi
Russian Program Coordinator
Senior Instructor
Russian: Russian Language and Linguistics
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Patricia Gómez Gómez
Instructor
Spanish: Phraseological units, Phraseology, Phraseography, Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language
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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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Nouha Hamdi
Adjunct Faculty
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Jayoung Heo
Adjunct Faculty
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Saburin Hirakawa
Adjunct Faculty
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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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Sun Young Kim
Adjunct Faculty
Korean: Language Assessment, Development of Teaching Materials, Korean Language Pedagogy, Corpus Linguistics, Analysis of Interlanguage
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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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Jie Li
Adjunct Faculty
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Maria F Lillo
Adjunct Faculty
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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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Toshiko Parrish
Adjunct Faculty
Japanese Studies: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic anthropology, Special Education in Japanese, and Second Language Acquisition
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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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Michael Baron Poliakoff
Adjunct Faculty
Classical Studies: Hellenistic Poetry; Virgil; Latin Elegiac Poetry; Ancient Sport
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Tatiana Rizzotto Queenan
Adjunct Faculty
Portuguese: Second Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Curriculum, and Early Childhood Education.
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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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John A Samaha
Adjunct Faculty
Arabic: Arabic Dialectology, Arabic for the Professions, Arab-American Literature, Levantine Oral Folk Literature, Levantine Arabic Idioms
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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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Oxana Sims
Adjunct Faculty
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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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Chiu-ching Tseng
Adjunct Faculty
Japanese Studies: Phonetics, Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, Object-Oriented Language Teaching/Learning (O2TL)
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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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Han-Jhen Wang
Adjunct Faculty
Chinese: Currently, Han-Jhen Wang serves as a teaching assistant for Mandarin Chinese courses and leads the Language Corner as a Fulbright grantee. Her research focuses on language teaching, particularly bilingual education in Taiwan and effective English language instruction for primary school students. With a strong academic background and practical experience, she specializes in developing innovative teaching methodologies tailored to young learners' linguistic and cognitive needs. She is also interested in Mandarin Chinese as a second language, exploring its integration into bilingual and multilingual educational settings. Her work emphasizes the importance of culturally responsive pedagogy, aiming to enhance language learning outcomes while fostering cross-linguistic and cultural understanding. Her future research endeavors aim to bridge the gap between theory and practice in language education, contributing to teacher training, evidence-based practices, and the broader implementation of bilingual education in diverse contexts.
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Dan M Wiley
Adjunct Faculty
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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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So Young Yi
Adjunct Faculty
Korean: Korean phonetics and phonology, Sociolinguistics, Language pedagogy, Instructional technology
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Hei Sook Yoo
Adjunct Faculty
Korean: Korean Linguistics, Language Assessment, Digital Literacy, Online Education, History and Language Interdisciplinary Pedagogy
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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
