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  Zelma Catalan-Balinova
Visiting Professor
Department of English
 
Areas of expertise:
English literature; Victorian literature; William Makepeace Thackeray; Charles Dickens; irony
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4106
 
 
Eloise Briére  

Eloise Briére
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

 
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
 
Campus e-mail:   ebriere@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4103
 
 
Rob Edelman   Rob Edelman
Lecturer
Department of Art
 
Areas of expertise:
Baseball and film
 
Campus e-mail:   robre25@yahoo.com
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4020
 
 
Michael K. Hill   Michael K. Hill
Associate Professor
Department of English
 
Areas of expertise:
Race studies; "whiteness", U.S. minority relations; civil society; history of democracy; relation between "print culture" (the novel) and politics
 
Campus e-mail:   mikehill@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4056
 
 
Hilde Hoogenboom   Hilde Hoogenboom
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
 
Areas of expertise:
Catherine the Great; Russia; Russian; women writers; autobiography; memoirs
 
Campus e-mail:   hhoogenboom@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4151
 
 
Pierre Joris   Pierre Joris
Professor
Department of English
 
Areas of expertise:
Contemporary literature, especially poetry and poetics, of the U.S., U.K., Europe, North Africa, and beyond; theory of the avant-garde and diaspora studies; comparative literature and translation studies; North African culture
 
Campus e-mail:   joris@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4085
 
 
Judith A. Langer   Judith A. Langer
Distinguished Professor
Department of Educational Theory and Practice
 
Areas of expertise:
Student learning; literacy; reading; writing; instruction; literature; English; testing; school success
 
Campus e-mail:   jlanger@uamail.albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-5029
 
 
William Rainbolt   William Rainbolt
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of English
 
Areas of expertise:
Journalism; media ethics; media history; film; documentary studies; historical fiction
 
Campus e-mail:   rainbolt@csc.albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4087
 
 
Timothy D. Sergay   Timothy D. Sergay
Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
 
Areas of expertise:
Russian language; Russian-English translation; 20th century Russian literature
 
Campus e-mail:   tsergay@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4227
 
 
Leonard A. Slade Jr.   Leonard A. Slade Jr.
Professor
Department of Africana Studies
Adjunct Professor
Department of English
 
Areas of expertise:
Black literature, black history, black poetry
 
Campus e-mail:  

lslade@.albany.edu

Campus phone:   (518) 442-4726
 
 
Mary Valentis   Mary B. Valentis
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of English
 
Areas of expertise:
Mythology and gender studies; cultural studies; interpersonal relationships
 
Campus e-mail:   mbvbooks@aol.com
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4082
 
 
David Wills   David Wills
Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Department of English
 
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
 
Campus e-mail:   dwills@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4228
 
   
 


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