Faculty

Faculty

Core Faculty

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

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 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 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

Italian Program

Medieval and Renaissance French and Italian Literature

Anne-Christine Rice

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

French cinema, second language pedagogy, French history

Maria Rincon Calero

Senior Lecturer

Spanish Program

Spanish Language and Literature Foreign Language Pedagogy

Kevin Rocheron

Comparative constitutional law European studies International relations

Pablo Martín Ruiz

Associate Professor

Spanish Program

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

Colleen Ryan

Vice Provost for Faculty

Daniele Santucci

Lecturer and Italian Language Coordinator

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

Claire Schub

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

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

Anne Taieb

Senior Lecturer

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

Anne Cantú

Spanish Program

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

Maria Champlin

Portuguese Program

Sandra Chaouche

Kerri Conditto

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

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

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,

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

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