Faculty Experts

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        Jeanette Altarriba

Jeanette Altarriba
College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Office of the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences


Expert in the following: psychology of language, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, knowledge representation, eye movements and reading, concept and category formation, cognition and emotion, cross-cultural psychology, false and autobiographical memory within and between languages, survival processing, interaction between language, memory, and perception
Campus phone: (518) 442-4651
Campus email: [email protected]



        Anthony DeBlasi

Anthony DeBlasi
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: East Asian Studies


Expert in the following: China, Chinese culture, Chinese history, Confucianism
Campus phone: (518) 442-5316
Campus email: [email protected]



        Susanna Fessler

Susanna Fessler
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: East Asian Studies


Expert in the following: Japanese literature and culture of the modern era
Campus phone: (518) 442-4119
Campus email: [email protected]



        Istvan Kecskes

Istvan Kecskes
School of Education
Distinguished Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice


Expert in the following: Second language acquisition; bilingualism; multilingualism; intercultural communication; foreign language learning; English as a Lingua Franca; cognitive linguistics
Campus phone: (518) 442-5030
Campus email: [email protected]



        Maria Keyes

Maria Keyes
College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer
Department: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures


Expert in the following: Italian and French language and literature; Italian culture; civilization; film and cinema; the Italian American experience; contemporary Italian society
Campus phone: 442-4222
Campus email: [email protected]



        Carla J. Meskill

Carla J. Meskill
School of Education
Professor
Department: Educational Administration and Policy Studies


Expert in the following: Language of teaching and learning with technology; distance/online education; computer-assisted language learning (CALL); second language and bilingual education; media literacy; electronic literacy
Campus phone: (518) 442-5007
Campus email: [email protected]



        Olimpia Pelosi

Olimpia Pelosi
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures


Expert in the following: Italian and comparative literature; women mystic writers of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque period; Italian theatre of the Renaissance and Baroque period
Campus phone: (518) 442-4100
Campus email: [email protected]



        Timothy Sergay

Timothy Sergay
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures


Expert in the following: Russian language; Russian-English translation; 20th century Russian literature
Campus phone: 614-599-3061
Campus email: [email protected]



        Kristen Wilcox

Kristen Wilcox
School of Education
Assistant Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice


Expert in the following: Second language acquisition; foreign language acquisition; teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL); multicultural education; diversity in education
Campus phone: (518) 442-9085
Campus email: [email protected]