Faculty Experts
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Eloise Briére
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
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Areas of expertise:
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 |
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ebriere@albany.edu |
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(518) 442-4103 |
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Hilde Hoogenboom
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures |
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Areas of expertise:
Catherine the Great; Russia; Russian; women
writers; autobiography; memoirs |
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hhoogenboom@albany.edu |
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(518) 442-4151 |
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Areas of expertise:
Italian and French language and
literature; Italian culture; civilization; film
and cinema; the Italian American experience;
contemporary Italian society |
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mgkeyes@csc.albany.edu |
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(518) 442-4108 |
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Areas of expertise:
Russian and Ukrainian Languages; Second Language Acquisition; current Russian and Ukrainian media; youth language; practical stylistics; methods of teaching foreign language; East Slavic mythology |
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sm7031@albany.edu |
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(518) 442-4490 |
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Carla J. Meskill
Associate Professor
Department of Educational
Theory and Practice |
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Areas of expertise:
Language of teaching and learning with
technology; distance/online education; computer
assisted language learning (CALL); second
language and bilingual education; media
literacy; electronic literacy |
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cmeskill@uamail.albany.edu |
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(518) 442-5007 |
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Timothy D.
Sergay
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and
Cultures |
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Areas of expertise:
Russian language; Russian-English
translation; 20th century Russian literature |
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tsergay@albany.edu |
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(518) 442-4227 |
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Robert Summers
Director
Center for Language and International
Communication |
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Areas of expertise:
Computer-assisted language learning
(CALL); computer-based language testing; foreign
language teaching and testing; learning
languages at distance; tele-conferencing as a
tool for language learning |
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rsummers@albany.edu |
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(518) 442-4153 |
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Areas of expertise:
Holocaust; anti-semitism; Yiddish; Kiryas
Joel, N.Y. |
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btrachtenberg@albany.edu |
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(518) 442-3078 |
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David Wills
Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and
Cultures
Department of English |
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Areas of expertise:
French and comparative literature;
contemporary French philosophy, particularly
post-structuralism, deconstruction and the work
of Jacques Derrida; film theory; theories of
technology |
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dwills@albany.edu |
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(518) 442-4228 |
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