Full Time Faculty

Henryk BARAN, Professor and LLC Department Chair (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") 442-4226 website

Sylvia BARNARD, Associate Professor (joint appointment with English) (PhD, Yale University) - Latin Studies (women in antiquity, Latin and Greek literature; Greek and Roman history; ancient law; ancient religion) 442-4046

Susan BLOOD, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies (PhD, Johns Hopkins) - French Studies (Baudelaire; 19th Century French literature; literary and aesthetic theory) 442-4145

Brett BOWLES, Assistant Professor (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) - French Studies (20th century cultural history; cinema, society, and politics; cultural history of the popular front and Vichy; literature and ideology) 442-4143

Eloise BRIERE, Associate 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) 442-4439

Jean-Francois BRIERE, Associate 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) 442-4101

Jorge BRIOSO, Assistant Professor (PhD, CUNY) - Hispanic Studies (Spanish literature, mainly poetry, essay and film; transatlantic studies; Modernismo and Generación del 98; literary and film theory; Cuban literature) 442-4142 website

Alicia DE COLUMBI-MONGUIO, Research Professor, (PhD, Stanford University) - Hispanic Studies (Golden Age Spanish literature, Medieval and Renaissance, Spanish American colonial and Spanish poetry, Renaissance poetics, humanism) 437-3635

Hernan DIAZ, Assistant Professor (PhD, New York University) - Hispanic Studies (comparative study of North and South American literature; modern transatlantic literature; aesthetics; the place, role and institutional status of literary criticism; modernism, modernismo, and theories of the avant-garde; theories of space; insularisms; the problem of literary autonomy in the 19th century) 442-4105 website

Cynthia FOX, Associate Professor (PhD, Indiana University) - French Studies (French linguistics; sociolinguistics; applied French linguistics) 442-4102

Hilde HOOGENBOOM, Assistant Professor (PhD, Columbia University) - Slavic and Eurasian Studies (19th century Russian literature; aesthetics; lifewriting; women writers; noble culture; Catherine the Great; Francophone writing in Russia; translation) 442-4229 website

Olimpia PELOSI, Associate Professor (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - Italian Studies (Renaissance women poets; Baroque theatre; Baroque women mystics; comparative literature) 442-4149

Charles ROUGLE, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies (PhD, University of Stockholm) - Slavic and Eurasian Studies (general, specialized, and literary Russian-English translation; Russian literature, Russian and Soviet culture and civilization) 442-4223 website

Joana SABADELL-NIETO, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) - Hispanic Studies (contemporary Spanish literature and cultures; feminist and gender studies) 442-4156

Herman Prins SALOMON, Professor (PhD, Radbout University, Nijmegan, Netherlands) - Dutch and Portuguese Studies (Portuguese Inquisition; Portuguese, Dutch and French literatures and culture) 442-4109

Joan SAVITT, Adjunct Associate Professor of French and Associate Director, Office of International Education (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) - French Studies (linguistics; French; study abroad; secondary education) 591-8177 website

Lotfi SAYAHI, Associate Professor (PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - Hispanic Studies (sociolinguistics; contact linguistics; language variation and change; variation in L2) 442-4121 website

Timothy SERGAY, 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) 442-4227 website

Maurice WESTMORELAND, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) - Hispanic Studies (Spanish syntax and morphology, Romance linguistics, second language acquisition) 442-4146

David WILLS, Professor (joint appointment with English) and Director of Graduate Studies (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) 442-4228 website

Mary Beth WINN, Professor (PhD, Yale University) - French Studies (French literature; Medieval and Renaissance studies; women in Medieval and Renaissance French literature; literature through music; the history of the book) 442-4090 website

Full Time Visiting Faculty

Jacinto FOMBONA, Visiting Assistant Professor (PhD, Yale University) - Hispanic Studies (Spanish and Latin American literature; cultural practice; Modernismo's aesthetics; Modernidades; travel literature; Fernando Vallejo) 442-4151

Maria KEYES, Lecturer (MA, University at Albany, SUNY) - Italian Studies ( Italian and French language and literature; Italian culture and civilization; Italian cinema; the Italian-American experience; contemporary Italian society) 442-4108

Ilka KRESSNER, Visiting 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)) 442-4164

Elizabeth LANSING, Visiting Assistant Professor (PhD, University at Albany, SUNY) - Hispanic Studies (segmental and autosegmental language acquisition; language acquisition) 442-4164

Veronique MARTIN, Lecturer (ABD, University at Albany, SUNY ) - French Studies (intercultural pragmatics, second language acquisition, North American French) 442-4110

Robert SUMMERS, Coordinator, Center for Languages and International Communication (PhD candidate, University of South Florida) - Center for Language and International Communication (second language acquisition; instructional technology; the intersection of second language assessment, Vygotskian inspired pedagogy and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)) 442-4153

Juan THOMAS, Visiting Assistant Professor (PhD, MIT; PhD, UAlbany, SUNY) - Hispanic Studies (languages in contact; phonology; Italian, Spanish, and Galician-Portuguese philology) 442-4216

Aida TORRES-HORWITT, Lecturer (PhD, University at Albany, SUNY) - Hispanic Studies (Golden Age Peninsular literature; gender differences in Spanish Golden Age literature; reconstructing a female perspective in Peninsular literature, specifically 19th century authors struggling for self determination such as Rosalía de Castro and Emilia Pardo Bazán; North American cultural imperialism and its influence on Caribbean and Latin American literature) 442-4105

Faculty have received numerous University at Albany awards for excellence in research, teaching, and service.