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Nina Gerassi-Navarro
Professor and Department Chair of Romance Studies
Spanish Program
Nineteenth-Century Latin American literature; Nation building; The culture of outlaws; Visual culture and film studies; Travel narratives; Popular culture
Laura Baffoni-Licata
Senior Lecturer
Italian Program
20th-Century Italian Poetry; Italian Women Writers; Italian Literature of the Holocaust; Political Ideology in Italian Literature
Juliana Berte
Senior Lecturer
Spanish Program
Hispanic Linguistics, Language change, Heritage Language Teaching
Elena Carrion Guerrero
Senior Lecturer
Spanish Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, Translation, Audiovisual Translation, Curriculum Design for All.
Maria Isabel Castro
Senior Lecturer
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
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Spanish Program
Languages for specific purposes
Juan Escalona Torres
Lecturer and Spanish Language Coordinator
Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Second Language Pedagogy
Marisol Fernandez-Garcia
Senior Lecturer
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
Gerard Gasarian
Professor
French Program
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
Brenna Heitzman
Senior Lecturer
French Program
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
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
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
Senior Lecturer
Spanish Program
Secondary language acquisition
Amy Millay
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Spanish Program
Twentieth-Century Latin American literature; Oral tradition; Testimonial literature; Health in the Spanish-speaking world
Pedro Palou
Fletcher Professor of Oratory
Spanish Program
Tracy Pearce
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
French Program
French language, 20th-century literature, film
Kathleen Pollakowski
Senior Lecturer
Spanish Program
20th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature: Generation of 98, post-Civil War, historical memory, women authors
Vincent Pollina
Associate Professor
French Program
Italian Program
Medieval and Renaissance French and Italian Literature
Anne-Christine Rice
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
French Program
French cinema, second language pedagogy, French history
Maria Rincon Calero
Senior Lecturer
Spanish Program
Spanish Language and Literature Foreign Language Pedagogy
Kevin Rocheron
Lecturer
Comparative constitutional law European studies International relations
Pablo Ruiz
Associate Professor
Spanish Program
Twentieth century Latin American fiction; Jorge Luis Borges; poetry and poetics; Oulipo; translation studies; song and songwriting
Colleen Ryan
Vice Provost for Faculty
Daniele Santucci
Lecturer and Italian Language Coordinator
Claire Schub
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
French Program
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone literature, Women's Studies, Film Studies
Anne Taieb
Senior Lecturer
French Program
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
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Anne Cantú
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Mexican studies, identity, indigenous literature, Latin American theater, Spanish language pedagogy
Maria Champlin
Lecturer
Portuguese Program
Sandra Chaouche
Lecturer
Kerri Conditto
Lecturer
French Program
Barbara Corbett
Lecturer
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
Lecturer
Rose Facchini
Lecturer
Italian language, contemporary Italian literature, translation, foodways
Isabel Fernandez Franco
Lecturer
Marie Gillette
Lecturer
French Program
Eugenio Lanzas
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Teresa Marcelin
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Spanish Language
Tamara Marquez-Raffetto
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Latin American studies, twentieth-century Latin American narrative, Golden Age literature
Raysa Mederos
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Lovia Mondesir
Lecturer
French Program
French and Francophone Literature Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies Caribbean Historical, and Cultural Studies
Antonio Ochoa
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Elena Paolini
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Cristina Pausini
Lecturer
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
Katherine Risse
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Conquest narrative, eco-criticism and climate justice, intercultural dialogue and global citizenship education, Spanish language instruction, Spain's early modern period,
Alfonso Sanchez-Moya
Lecturer
Anibal Serra
Lecturer
Dean Simpson
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Patricia Smith
Lecturer
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
Lecturer
Cheryl Tano
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Josep Vicente
Lecturer
Spanish Program
Hannah Vinande
Lecturer
Emeriti Faculty
Gustavo Alfaro
Professor Emeritus
Charles Dietrick
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Elizabeth Howe
Professor Emerita
Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir
Associate 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