Faculty Experts
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Language
Eloise Briére
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Literatures, cultures, and language issues of the Francophone areas of the world, particularly West Africa, the Caribbean (Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe), and North America (Quebec, New England, Louisiana); cinema of Francophone West Africa, Caribbean and Quebec
George Broadwell
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Language; bilingualism; English-only movement; Native American languages; gay and lesbian language; linguistic discrimination; English language usage; language endangerment
Anthony DeBlasi
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
China, Chinese culture, Chinese history, Confucianism
Susanna Fessler
Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
Japanese literature and culture of the modern era
Hilde Hoogenboom
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Catherine the Great; Russia; Russian; women writers; autobiography; memoirs
Maria Giuliana Keyes
Lecturer
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture
Italian and French language and literature; Italian culture; civilization; film and cinema; the Italian American experience; contemporary Italian society
Carla J. Meskill
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Theory and Practice
Language of teaching and learning with technology; distance/online education; computer assisted language learning (CALL); second language and bilingual education; media literacy; electronic literacy
Olimpia Pelosi
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Italian and comparative literature; women mystic writers of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque; Italian theatre of the Renaissance and Baroque
Timothy D. Sergay
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Russian language; Russian-English translation; 20th century Russian literature
Barry C. Trachtenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Judaic Studies
Holocaust; anti-semitism; Yiddish; Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
David Wills
Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Department of English
French and comparative literature; contemporary French philosophy, particularly post-structuralism, deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida; film theory; theories of technology
