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Paulina Alberto

Associate Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and History 4422 MLB 1275

Modern Latin American History and Historiography; Brazil and Argentina; Ideologies of Race, Nation, and Citizenship; Intellectual/Cultural History; Afro-Latin America/Diaspora734.763.3208 / palberto@umich.edu
Fernando Arenas

Professor of Lusophone African, Brazilian, and Portuguese Studies 4202 MLB 1275

Postcolonialism; Globalization; Modernity; the Lusophone Transatlantic; Film; Literature; Popular Music734.647.2337 / farenas@umich.edu
Giorgio Bertellini

Associate Professor of Italian and Screen Arts and Cultures 6330 North Quad. 1045

Silent Cinema History, Transnational Visual Culture, Italian Cinema734.763.1144 / giorgiob@umich.edu
Vincenzo A. Binetti

Professor of Italian 4004 MLB 1275

19th-20th Century Italian Literature; Cultural Studies; Film; the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s; relations between Literature, Philosophy, and Political Theory734.647.2685 / vbinetti@umich.edu
Catherine Brown

Associate Professor of Romance Languages 4002 MLB 1275

medieval Iberian Romance and Latin literatures, early medieval Iberian visual and textual cultures, history of the book, medieval theory734.647.2680 / mcbrown@umich.edu
Eric Calderwood

Assistant Professor of Spanish 4008 MLB 1275

Modern Spanish Literature and Film; North African Literature and Film in Arabic, French, and Spanish; Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Arabic Language and Literature; Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain); Travel Writing734.764.6301 / ecalderw@umich.edu
David Caron

Professor of French 4218 MLB 1275

20th-21st Century literature and culture, Queer Studies, AIDS, Holocaust & Jewish Studies734.647.2665 / dcaron@umich.edu
Alina Clej

Associate Professor of French

19th and 20th Century French Literature and Culture; Comparative Literature; European Studies; 20th Century Art and Architectureaclej@umich.edu
Alison Cornish

Professor of Italian 4216 MLB 1275

Italian Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, Dante, Translation, Vernacularity, Science and Literature, Music and Literature, Renaissance Drama734.764.4382 / acorn@umich.edu
Steven Dworkin

Professor of Romance Linguistics and Spanish 4144 MLB 1275

Linguistics, Medieval Spanish Linguistics734.764.4381 / dworkin@umich.edu
Frieda Ekotto

Professor of French 4124 MLB 1275

20th and 21st century literature, culture and cinema, Africana Studies, Critical Race Theory and Comparative Literature734.764.5368 / ekotto@umich.edu
Olga Gallego

Lecturer IV of Spanish 4022 MLB 1275

Elementary Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition734.647.2354 / ogallego@umich.edu
Enrique García Santo-Tomás

Professor of Spanish
On Leave 2012-2013

Early Modern Spanish Literature734.647.2333 / enriqueg@umich.edu
Romana Habekovic

Lecturer IV of Italian 4012 MLB 1275

Foreign Language Methodology, Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture734.764.5327 / romanah@umich.edu
Michele Hannoosh

Professor of French 4208 MLB 1275

Nineteenth-century French literature, art, and society; art criticism, relations between the arts; the city, Walter Benjamin, the history of modernity; the representation of history; parody; comparative literature; the Mediterranean734.647.2339 / hannoosh@umich.edu
Jarrod Hayes

Associate Professor of French 4220 MLB 1275

French and Francophone Literature734.647.2670 / hayesj@umich.edu
Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola

Associate Chair
Professor of Spanish 4142 MLB 1275

Latin American Literature, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Trans-Atlantic Studies, The Politics of Publishing, Censorship and Literary Markets, The Culture Industry734.647.2336 / aherrero@umich.edu
Juli Highfill

Professor of Spanish 4222 MLB 1275

19th and 20th century literature, the Spanish and Argentine historic avant-gardes, material and visual culture, early cinema in Spain, literary and cultural theory734.763.5249 / highfill@umich.edu
George Hoffmann

Associate Professor of French 4126 MLB 1275

16th-Century French Literature; Renaissance Studies734.647.2329 / georgeh@umich.edu
Kate Jenckes

Associate Professor of Spanish 4404 MLB 1275

Contemporary Latin American literature, Southern Cone, literary and cultural theory, visual arts, cultural studies, poetry, testimony734.647.3028 / kjenckes@umich.edu
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Associate Professor of Spanish
Director, Latina/o Studies Program 4408 MLB 1275

Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino/Latina Literature and Culture; Theater and Performance Studies; Queer, Lesbian and Gay Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies734.763.0510 / lawrlafo@umich.edu
Karla Mallette

Associate Professor of Italian 4010 MLB 1275

Medieval Mediterranean literature in Italian, Arabic, Latin; translation between Greek, Arabic and Latin during the Middle Ages734.647.2351 / alrak@umich.edu
Peggy McCracken

Graduate Chair
Professor of French 4206 MLB 1275

Medieval French Literature, Medieval Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Women's Studies734.647.2338 / peggymcc@umich.edu
Cristina Moreiras-Menor

Department Chair
Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies 4210 MLB 1275

Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film, Psychoanalysis, Cultural and Political Theory, and Women's Studies734.647.2475 / moreiras@umich.edu
Daniel Nemser

Assistant Professor of Spanish 4122 MLB 1275

Colonial Latin American literature, history and historiography, race, Nahuatl textuality/indigenous studies.734.647.2328 / dnemser@umich.edu
Helene Neu

Lecturer IV of French 4014 MLB 1275

Elementary Language Instruction, French phonetics, Second Language Acquisition734.647.2323 / hneu@umich.edu
William Paulson

Edward Lorraine Walter Collegiate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures 4224 MLB 1275

18th- & 19th-Century French Literature; Literary Theory; Contemporary Literature; Relations of Culture, Science, & Technology734.647.2675 / wpaulson@umich.edu
Jaime Rodriguez Matos

Assistant Professor of Spanish 4136 MLB 1275

Caribbean literature, Latin American poetry, Latino/a culture, political theory and philosophy734.764.4397 / jaimerod@umich.edu
Javier Sanjinés

Professor of Spanish 4204 MLB 1275

Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies734.764.4396 / sanjines@umich.edu
Teresa Satterfield

Associate Professor of Spanish 4138 MLB 1275

Romance linguistics, (first) language acquisition734.647.2332 / tsatter@umich.edu
Paolo Squatriti

Associate Professor of Italian 4138 MLB 1275

Italian History and Culture; Medieval European History; Landscape and Power; Technology and Resource Use; Environment734.647.4897 / pasqua@umich.edu
Ryan Szpiech

Assistant Professor of Spanish 4140 MLB 1275

Medieval Iberian Literatures, Converso Studies, Medieval Islam, Religious Polemics734.647.2334 / szpiech@umich.edu
Gustavo Verdesio

Associate Professor of Spanish 4212 MLB 1275

Colonial Studies, Native American Studies, Pre-Contact Indigenous Societies, Material Culture, Popular Culture, Theory734.647.2645 / verdesio@umich.edu
Gareth Williams

Professor of Spanish 4130 MLB 1275

Contemporary Latin American Literature, Film, and Cultural/Critical Theory (Deconstruction, Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies)734.647.2337 / garethw@umich.edu

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Graduate Program Faculty

Associate Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and History 4422 MLB 1275

Modern Latin American History and Historiography; Brazil and Argentina; Ideologies of Race, Nation, and Citizenship; Intellectual/Cultural History; Afro-Latin America/Diaspora734.763.3208 / palberto@umich.edu

Professor of Lusophone African, Brazilian, and Portuguese Studies 4202 MLB 1275

Postcolonialism; Globalization; Modernity; the Lusophone Transatlantic; Film; Literature; Popular Music734.647.2337 / farenas@umich.edu

Associate Professor of Italian and Screen Arts and Cultures 6330 North Quad. 1045

Silent Cinema History, Transnational Visual Culture, Italian Cinema734.763.1144 / giorgiob@umich.edu

Professor of Italian 4004 MLB 1275

19th-20th Century Italian Literature; Cultural Studies; Film; the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s; relations between Literature, Philosophy, and Political Theory734.647.2685 / vbinetti@umich.edu

Associate Professor of Romance Languages 4002 MLB 1275

medieval Iberian Romance and Latin literatures, early medieval Iberian visual and textual cultures, history of the book, medieval theory734.647.2680 / mcbrown@umich.edu

Assistant Professor of Spanish 4008 MLB 1275

Modern Spanish Literature and Film; North African Literature and Film in Arabic, French, and Spanish; Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Arabic Language and Literature; Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain); Travel Writing734.764.6301 / ecalderw@umich.edu

Professor of French 4218 MLB 1275

20th-21st Century literature and culture, Queer Studies, AIDS, Holocaust & Jewish Studies734.647.2665 / dcaron@umich.edu

Associate Professor of French

19th and 20th Century French Literature and Culture; Comparative Literature; European Studies; 20th Century Art and Architectureaclej@umich.edu

Professor of Italian 4216 MLB 1275

Italian Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, Dante, Translation, Vernacularity, Science and Literature, Music and Literature, Renaissance Drama734.764.4382 / acorn@umich.edu

Professor of Romance Linguistics and Spanish 4144 MLB 1275

Linguistics, Medieval Spanish Linguistics734.764.4381 / dworkin@umich.edu

Professor of French 4124 MLB 1275

20th and 21st century literature, culture and cinema, Africana Studies, Critical Race Theory and Comparative Literature734.764.5368 / ekotto@umich.edu

Lecturer IV of Spanish 4022 MLB 1275

Elementary Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition734.647.2354 / ogallego@umich.edu

Professor of Spanish On Leave 2012-2013

Early Modern Spanish Literature734.647.2333 / enriqueg@umich.edu

Lecturer IV of Italian 4012 MLB 1275

Foreign Language Methodology, Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture734.764.5327 / romanah@umich.edu

Professor of French 4208 MLB 1275

Nineteenth-century French literature, art, and society; art criticism, relations between the arts; the city, Walter Benjamin, the history of modernity; the representation of history; parody; comparative literature; the Mediterranean734.647.2339 / hannoosh@umich.edu

Associate Professor of French 4220 MLB 1275

French and Francophone Literature734.647.2670 / hayesj@umich.edu

Associate ChairProfessor of Spanish 4142 MLB 1275

Latin American Literature, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Trans-Atlantic Studies, The Politics of Publishing, Censorship and Literary Markets, The Culture Industry734.647.2336 / aherrero@umich.edu

Professor of Spanish 4222 MLB 1275

19th and 20th century literature, the Spanish and Argentine historic avant-gardes, material and visual culture, early cinema in Spain, literary and cultural theory734.763.5249 / highfill@umich.edu

Associate Professor of French 4126 MLB 1275

16th-Century French Literature; Renaissance Studies734.647.2329 / georgeh@umich.edu

Associate Professor of Spanish 4404 MLB 1275

Contemporary Latin American literature, Southern Cone, literary and cultural theory, visual arts, cultural studies, poetry, testimony734.647.3028 / kjenckes@umich.edu

Associate Professor of SpanishDirector, Latina/o Studies Program 4408 MLB 1275

Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino/Latina Literature and Culture; Theater and Performance Studies; Queer, Lesbian and Gay Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies734.763.0510 / lawrlafo@umich.edu

Associate Professor of Italian 4010 MLB 1275

Medieval Mediterranean literature in Italian, Arabic, Latin; translation between Greek, Arabic and Latin during the Middle Ages734.647.2351 / alrak@umich.edu

Graduate Chair Professor of French 4206 MLB 1275

Medieval French Literature, Medieval Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Women's Studies734.647.2338 / peggymcc@umich.edu

Department ChairProfessor of Spanish and Women's Studies 4210 MLB 1275

Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film, Psychoanalysis, Cultural and Political Theory, and Women's Studies734.647.2475 / moreiras@umich.edu

Assistant Professor of Spanish 4122 MLB 1275

Colonial Latin American literature, history and historiography, race, Nahuatl textuality/indigenous studies.734.647.2328 / dnemser@umich.edu

Lecturer IV of French 4014 MLB 1275

Elementary Language Instruction, French phonetics, Second Language Acquisition734.647.2323 / hneu@umich.edu

Edward Lorraine Walter Collegiate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures 4224 MLB 1275

18th- & 19th-Century French Literature; Literary Theory; Contemporary Literature; Relations of Culture, Science, & Technology734.647.2675 / wpaulson@umich.edu

Assistant Professor of Spanish 4136 MLB 1275

Caribbean literature, Latin American poetry, Latino/a culture, political theory and philosophy734.764.4397 / jaimerod@umich.edu

Professor of Spanish 4204 MLB 1275

Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies734.764.4396 / sanjines@umich.edu

Associate Professor of Spanish 4138 MLB 1275

Romance linguistics, (first) language acquisition734.647.2332 / tsatter@umich.edu

Associate Professor of Italian 4138 MLB 1275

Italian History and Culture; Medieval European History; Landscape and Power; Technology and Resource Use; Environment734.647.4897 / pasqua@umich.edu

Assistant Professor of Spanish 4140 MLB 1275

Medieval Iberian Literatures, Converso Studies, Medieval Islam, Religious Polemics734.647.2334 / szpiech@umich.edu

Associate Professor of Spanish 4212 MLB 1275

Colonial Studies, Native American Studies, Pre-Contact Indigenous Societies, Material Culture, Popular Culture, Theory734.647.2645 / verdesio@umich.edu

Professor of Spanish 4130 MLB 1275

Contemporary Latin American Literature, Film, and Cultural/Critical Theory (Deconstruction, Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies)734.647.2337 / garethw@umich.edu

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Professor of Spanish
On Leave 2012-2013

Associate Chair
Professor of Spanish 4142 MLB 1275

Associate Professor of Spanish
Director, Latina/o Studies Program 4408 MLB 1275

Graduate Chair
Professor of French 4206 MLB 1275

Department Chair
Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies 4210 MLB 1275