Faculty

Faculty

Core Faculty

Susan Napier

Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric and Interim Department Chair of International Literary and Cultural Studies

Japanese Program

History and theory of animation Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga) Modern Japanese literature Popular culture, especially science fiction and fantasy Contemporary constructions of gender and the body Technology and culture Fan culture Representations of trauma and loss

Rana Abdul-Aziz

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Modern Arabic Literature, High school Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, second language acquisition, high school political science and philosophy instruction

Marina Aptekman

Senior Lecturer

Russian Program

Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Russian film, literature, culture and language, Russian and Soviet Jewish cultural history

Gregory Carleton

Russian Program

Twentieth-Century/Contemporary Russian Literature and Culture; Narratives of War, Comparative Literature; Reception studies

Sarah Corrigan

Assistant Professor

Jianping Feng

Senior Lecturer

Chinese Program

Theory of Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, foreign language textbook construction, language and culture, and computer assisted language learning

Hedda Harari-Spencer

Senior Lecturer

Hosea Hirata

Japanese Program

Modern Japanese Literature, fiction, poetry, criticism. Literary and Film theory. Postmodernism. Avant-garde art. Experimental film.

Dingru Huang

Rumsey Family Junior Professor

Charles Inouye

Japanese Program

Premodern and modern Japanese literature, figurality and the development of modern consciousness, gothic studies, realism, lyricism, animism, and eschatology.

Fadi Jajji

Senior Lecturer

ACTFL OPI testing Translating (English into Arabic & vise versa) Consecutive Interpreting (English to Arabic & vise versa) Communicative Method Approach in teaching Arabic Online Education Online Arabic Language and Culture curriculum designed & development

Kiyomi Kagawa

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Japanese Program

language pedagogy second language acquisition

Shiori Koizumi

Senior Lecturer

Japanese Program

Japanese Language

Jinyu Li

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Chinese Program

Chinese Language, Chinese Syntax and Language Teaching Pedagogy

Doris Pfaffinger

Senior Lecturer

Second Language Pedagogy/ Teaching, German short film, 20th and 21st century literature and culture

Kamran Rastegar

Comparative literature, film studies, modern Arabic literature, modern Persian literature, memory studies, postcolonial studies

Joel Rosenberg

Lee S. McCollester Associate Professor of Biblical Literature

Judaic Studies, Film and Media Studies, ILVS, Middle Eastern Studies, Central European writers, South African writers, and World Literature

Alexandra Shraytekh

Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor

Saskia Stoessel-Deschner

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

German language and culture teaching as a vehicle to intercultural citizenship, second language acquisition, and teacher language education.

Min Wan

Senior Lecturer

Chinese Program

Chinese Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Social linguistics, Curriculum design

Shaomei Wang

Senior Lecturer

Chinese Program

Chinese orthography and the Chinese reading process, utilizing approaches applied within a transactional socio-psycholinguistic framework that includes eye movement research and miscue analysis.

Mingquan Wang

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Chinese Program

Chinese Language, Chinese characters, second language acquisition and pedagogy, and application of technology in language learning and instruction

Markus Wilczek

Associate Professor

Seventeenth to twenty-first century German literature in its European context; Literature and the Environment, Discourses of Sustainability; Literary and Cultural Theory, Theories of Reading; Intersections of Literature, Science, and Philosophy; Media Studies, Aesthetics of the Human Voice; Post-dramatic Theater; History of Germanistik in the United States 1933-1945

Miki Yagi

Senior Lecturer

Japanese Program

Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy

Souhad Zendah

Senior Lecturer

Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, Language and Literacy acquisition K-12, and Arabic modern literature

Xueping Zhong

Chinese Program

Modern Chinese Literature, Chinese Culture, Film

Affiliate Faculty

Yonatan Brafman

Assistant Professor

Areas of Specialization: Modern Jewish thought; Jewish law and ethics; philosophy of religion; moral, legal and political philosophy. Areas of Competence: Medieval Jewish thought; rabbinic literature; pragmatism; 20th century philosophy; theories of religion.

Part-time Faculty

Efrat Amiri

Maria Andrianova

Russian Program

Naftali Brawer

Claire Cooley

Tatyana Gassel-Vozlinskaya

Russian Program

Geraldine Grimm

German Language, Literature, Culture, and Philosophy

Matthew Hass

Levente Li

Chinese Program

Huimin Li

Chinese Program

Reiko Marcos

Japanese Program

J. Brandon Pelcher

Environmental Humanities, Material Ecocriticism, Eco-Cinema & Eco-Media, Ecofeminism, 21st Century Environmental Literature, Capitalocene, Theories of Commodity Consumption, Historical Avant-Garde (esp. Futurism, Dada, Situationism, Fluxus), Visual Culture & Media Theory, Theories of Photography, Literary & Political Theory (esp. Ideology, (Post)Structuralism, Marxism), Memory Studies

Aida Vidan

Qiang Wang

Chinese Program

Qing Ye

Chinese Program

Jennifer Yoo

Japanese Program

Emeriti Faculty

Gloria Ascher

Associate Professor Emerita

Daniel Brown

Associate Professor Emeritus

Sol Gittleman

Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus

Vida Johnson

Professor Emerita

Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Russian film, literature, culture and language

Rahel Meshoulam

Senior Lecturer Emerita

Kiyoko Morita

Senior Lecturer Emerita

Christiane Romero

Goldwaithe Professor of Rhetoric Emerita

Ronald Salter

Professor Emeritus