Faculty

Faculty

Core Faculty

Pedro Palou

Fletcher Professor of Oratory and Department Chair of Romance Studies

Spanish Program

Juliana Berte

Associate Teaching Professor

Spanish Program

Hispanic Linguistics, Language change, Heritage Language Teaching

Elena Carrion Guerrero

Associate Teaching Professor

Spanish Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Translation, Audiovisual Translation, Curriculum Design for All.

Maria Isabel Castro

Associate Teaching Professor

Spanish Program

Journalism and Literature; Journalistic crónicas (chronicles); Modernismo and Vanguardia; 20th Century Fantastic Literature; Boom and Post-Boom; Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language.

Anne de Laire Mulgrew

Teaching Professor

Spanish Program

Languages for specific purposes

Juan Escalona Torres

Assistant Teaching Professor and Spanish Language Director

Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Second Language Pedagogy

Marisol Fernandez-Garcia

Associate Teaching Professor

Spanish Program

Spanish Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Hispanic Linguistics

Isabela Fraga

Assistant Professor

Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Affect Studies, Medical Humanities, Critical Race Studies, History of Psychiatry, Histories of Slavery

Nina Gerassi-Navarro

King Felipe VI of Spain Professor in Spanish Culture and Civilization

Spanish Program

Nineteenth-Century Latin American literature; Nation building; The culture of outlaws; Visual culture and film studies; Travel narratives; Popular culture

Tony Haouam

Assistant Professor

Race and media; 20th and 21st-century Francophone cultures; postcolonial and cultural studies; stand-up comedy and performance studies; affect studies; sociology of reception; North- and West-African theater; humor studies; intersectionality; Maghrebi film and literature; graphic novels & caricatures; disability studies, with a focus on deaf cultures.

Brenna Heitzman

Associate Teaching Professor

French language, teaching writing, instructional uses of technology, the 17th-, 18th-, and early 19th-century French literature, motherhood and female mentoring, Rousseau and the Enlightenment, women's writing, defining genre, publishing history

Nancy Levy-Konesky

Teaching Professor

Spanish Program

Foreign language methodology; Second language acquisition; Immersion techniques; Curriculum and instruction: university/high school/middle school with an emphasis on interdisciplinary curriculum development, content-based learning, technology/video in the classroom, cooperative learning, blended and distance learning; Experiential learning/Community and service learning; Caribbean literature and culture with an emphasis on Puerto Rico

Magdalena Malinowska

Associate Teaching Professor

Spanish Program

Secondary language acquisition

Amy Millay

Teaching Professor

Spanish Program

Twentieth-Century Latin American literature; Oral tradition; Testimonial literature; Health in the Spanish-speaking world

Tracy Pearce

Teaching Professor

French language, 20th-century literature, film

Vincent Pollina

Associate Professor

Italian Program

Medieval and Renaissance French and Italian Literature

Anne-Christine Rice

Teaching Professor and French Language Director

French cinema, second language pedagogy, French history

Maria Rincon Calero

Associate Teaching Professor

Spanish Program

Spanish Language and Literature Foreign Language Pedagogy

Kevin Rocheron

Assistant Teaching Professor

Comparative constitutional law European studies International relations

Pablo Martín Ruiz

Associate Professor

Spanish Program

Twentieth century Latin American fiction; poetry and poetics; translation studies; song and songwriting; Jorge Luis Borges; Oulipo

Colleen Ryan

Vice Provost for Faculty

Daniele Santucci

Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Italian Studies

Contemporary Italian literature, gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, border studies, environmental humanities, second language acquisition.

Claire Schub

Teaching Professor

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone literature, Women's Studies, Film Studies

Anne Taieb

Teaching Professor

French Language; Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition; Integration of Technology into Second Language Acquisition; Hybrid Courses (face-to-face and online learning)

Part-time Faculty

Laura Arevalo-Catalan

Spanish Program

Nathan Benvenuto

Anne Cantú

Spanish Program

Mexican studies, identity, indigenous literature, Latin American theater, Spanish language pedagogy

Sandra Chaouche

Mathilde Colard

Barbara Corbett

Spanish Program

Maria-Concepcion Lagunas Davis

Senior Lecturer

Spanish Program

Latin American and Spanish Cinema, Second Language Pedagogy

Patricia DiSilvio

Senior Lecturer

Italian Program

Italian Language and Culture, AP Italian Course and Exam, Foreign Language Methodology

Adrienne Eldredge

Rose Facchini

Italian language, contemporary Italian literature, translation, foodways

Isabel Fernandez Franco

Marie Gillette

Eugenio Lanzas

Spanish Program

Teresa Marcelin

Spanish Program

Spanish Language

Tamara Marquez-Raffetto

Spanish Program

Latin American studies, twentieth-century Latin American narrative, Golden Age literature

Raysa Mederos

Spanish Program

Kerri Miller

Lovia Mondesir

French and Francophone Literature Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies Caribbean Historical, and Cultural Studies

Antonio Ochoa

Spanish Program

Elena Paolini

Spanish Program

Cristina Pausini

Italian Program

Modern and contemporary Italian literature, women's studies, and the pedagogy of Italian as a foreign language; Teaching of Italian language and culture through cinema, modern media, and instructional technology

Kathleen Pollakowski

Spanish Program

20th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature: Generation of 98, post-Civil War, historical memory, women authors

Katherine Risse

Spanish Program

Conquest narrative, eco-criticism and climate justice, intercultural dialogue and global citizenship education, Spanish language instruction, Spain's early modern period,

Patricia Sánchez Martín

Alfonso Sanchez-Moya

Anibal Serra

Dean Simpson

Spanish Program

Patricia Smith

Spanish Program

Grammar and linguistics, pedagogy. National Endowment fellowships to investigate the Diaries of Christopher Columbus and Mexican Revolution. Language development in young children, comparative grammar of Romance Languages.

Daryl Spurlock

Cheryl Tano

Spanish Program

Josep Vicente

Spanish Program

Hannah Vinande

Emeriti Faculty

Gustavo Alfaro

Professor Emeritus

Charles Dietrick

Senior Lecturer Emeritus

Gerard Gasarian

Professor Emeritus

19th- and 20th-Century French Poetry, with an emphasis on Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton and Bonnefoy French Symbolism and French Surrealism Poetry and Philosophy Poetry and music

Elizabeth Howe

Professor Emerita

Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir

Associate Professor Emerita

Martine Loutfi

Professor Emerita

Isabelle Naginski

Professor Emerita

19th-Century French Prose; Women Writers; Franco-Russian Literary Relations; Romanticism; Utopian Thought; Feminist Criticism

Marta Rosso-O'Laughlin

Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emerita

Spanish Program

Developing of content-based, communicative activities for intermediate level language learners and fostering independent language learners