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

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) - Hispanic Studies (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

Carmen SERRANO
Office: HU 227
Assistant Professor (PhD, University of California, Irvine) - Hispanic Studies (Transatlantic Studies, Latin American Historical Fiction, Latin American Film and Film Adaptation Theory, Latin American Avant-garde, The Novel of the Mexican Revolution, Magical Realism, the Fantastic, and the Gothic in Latin American Literature, Twentieth Century U.S. Latina and Latino Literature and Cultural Studies) 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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