LLC Directory

Full Time Faculty

 

 

Henryk BARAN
Office: HU 213
Professor and Director of Russian Graduate Studies (PhD, Harvard University) - Slavic and Eurasian Studies (Russian Silver Age literature, Russian avant-garde; poetics; history of Slavic philology within a broad intellectual and political context; history of the forgery "Protocols of the Elders of Zion") website

Susan BLOOD
Office: HU 236
Associate Professor and Coordinator of French Lower Division Pre-Major Sequence (PhD, Johns Hopkins) - French Studies (Baudelaire; 19th Century French literature; literary and aesthetic theory) website

Eloise BRIÈRE
Office: HU 219
Professor (PhD, University of Toronto) - French Studies (literatures, cultures, and language issues of the Francophone areas of the world, particularly West Africa, the Caribbean (Haiti, Guyana, Martinique, Guadeloupe), and North America (Quebec, New England, Louisiana); women’s writing; cinema of Francophone West Africa, Caribbean and Quebec) website

Jean-François BRIÈRE
Office: HU 232
Professor (PhD, York University) - French Studies (cultural studies; social and cultural history of France; history of French expansion; political and intellectual developments connected to the evolution of the French colonial empire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries) website

Alicia DE COLOMBI-MONGUIO
Office: HU 223
Research Professor, (PhD, Stanford University) - Hispanic Studies (Golden Age Spanish literature, Medieval and Renaissance, Spanish American colonial and Spanish poetry, Renaissance poetics, humanism)

Cynthia FOX
Office: HU 221
Associate Professor (PhD, Indiana University) - French Studies (French linguistics; sociolinguistics; applied French linguistics) 442-4102 website

Ilka KRESSNER
Office: HU 239
Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Virginia) - Hispanic Studies (Spanish American literature (20th and 21st century), intermediality (word, sound, image), comparative studies of theater and film, conceptions of space (utopos, dystopos, atopos)) website

David LISENBY
Office: HU 212
Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Kansas) - 21st century Latin American narrative and theatre; Theories of race, ethnicity, nation, and diaspora; Cuban literature and culture website

Olimpia PELOSI
Office: HU 225
Associate Professor (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - Italian Studies (Renaissance women poets; Baroque theatre; Baroque women mystics; comparative literature) website

Lotfi SAYAHI
Office: HU 215
Associate Professor and LLC Department Chair (PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - Hispanic Studies (sociolinguistics; contact linguistics; language variation and change; variation in L2) website

Timothy SERGAY
Office: HU 214
Assistant Professor (PhD, Yale University) - Slavic and Eurasian Studies (20th century Russian poetry, especially Pasternak and Blok; Silver Age culture in general; translation theory and criticism; theory and practice of verse translation; Russian religious philosophy; the Russian “guitar poets” of the 1960s to the present day) website

Julio TORRES
Office: HU 238
Assistant Professor (PhD, Georgetown) -Hispanic Studies (heritage/second language acquisition, bilingualism, cognition, task-based language learning, curriculum & instruction) website

Maurice WESTMORELAND
Office: HU 222
Associate Professor and Director of Spanish Graduate Studies (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) - Hispanic Studies (Spanish syntax and morphology, Romance linguistics, second language acquisition) website

David WILLS
Office: HU 216
Professor (joint appointment with English) (PhD, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle- Paris III) - French Studies (French and comparative literature; contemporary French philosophy, particularly post-structuralism, deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida; film theory; theories of technology) website

Mary Beth WINN
Office: HU 229
Professor (PhD, Yale University) - French Studies (French literature; Medieval and Renaissance studies; women in Medieval and Renaissance French literature; early French printing; manuscript studies; literature through music; the history of the book) website

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