Modern Languages & Literatures Faculty

Twentieth-century Russian poetry, poetic translation, theories of the comic

Modern Arabic literature; Arab Atlantic literature and culture; literary and cultural theory; translation studies

Contemporary Arabic literature, Arab women’s writing, literary and cultural theory, gender studies, translation studies

Foreign language pedagogy, linguistics, computer-assisted language instruction.

Chinese poetry, women's writing, Qing-dynasty literature

Twentieth- and twenty-first century French literature, youth culture and crime, gender and sexuality

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, comparative literature and cultural studies, French language teaching

Twentieth-century German literature, literary theory, German poetry.

Nineteenth-century German-Jewish literature.

Italian Renaissance, Italian literature and cinema, interplay between visual arts and literature

Italian literature, migration and transnationalism, translation theory and practice

Medieval and Renaissance poetry, Italian cinema.

Modern Japanese literature and intellectual history, translation studies, modern Russian literature and Russo-Japanese literary relations

Pedagogy; community development

Premodern Japanese literature, Sino-Japanese comparisons and interactions, Sino-Japanese (kanbun) literature.

19th– and 20th–century Russian literature; Russian and Soviet film; Russia and Iran.

Transatlantic Studies, Modern Peninsular Literature, Avant-Garde Movements

Eighteenth to twenty-first century Spanish and Latin American literature and media; transatlantic and hemispheric studies; museum studies; ethnic and race studies

Medieval court poetry, early modern Iberian gender studies, transcultural Mediterranean exchanges.

Spanish American Poetry, Literary Translation, Translation Studies

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish literature, science and literature, theory of the novel, Islam and Spain, world literature.

Andean cultures; Amerindian literatures; Latin American poetry; Baroque aesthetics

12th-century Anglo-Norman literature and chronicles, 12th-century Latin historical narrative, Arthurian legends and the Norman Conquest.

Nineteenth-century French literature and Romanticism, French film studies and film theory, psychoanalytic theory.

French novels and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, feminist studies, French critical theory, interdisciplinary studies.

Research interests and teaching interests: 18th and 19th century rhetoric and culture; visual culture in relation to literature; psychoanalytic approaches to literature; Lacanian theory; film and film theory; feminist theory; innovative teaching methods for language learning.

Creative writing in Spanish, Spanish American poetry and essays, literature of the Cuban Revolution, Latin American film.

Latin America / Latino cultural productions, border studies, transnational feminisms

Japanese linguistics (syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, pragmatics), communicative language teaching.