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Romance Languages and Literatures Faculty Listing

 

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Professor Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Chair

Professor Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Associate Chair

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Academics and Requirements

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Professors

Fernando Arenas, Lusophone African, Brazilian, and Portuguese Studies: Film; Literature; Popular Music; Postcolonialism; Globalization; Modernity; the Lusophone Transatlantic

Vincenzo Binetti, 19^th- and 20^th-century Italian literature; cultural studies and literary theory

David Caron, Modern and contemporary France, Queer Studies, HIV/AIDS, Holocaust Studies

Alison Cornish, Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, Dante

Steven N. Dworkin, Linguistics; medieval Spanish linguistics

Enrique García Santo-Tomás, Early Modern Spanish literature

Michèle Hannoosh, French language and literature; 19^th-century literature, art, and culture, the Mediterranean

Jarrod L. Hayes, French and Francophone literature

Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Latin American literature; critical theory; comparative literature; relations between Peninsular and Latin American studies

Juli Highfill, Modern Peninsular Spanish literature, the historic Spanish avant-garde

George Hoffmann, 16^th-century French literature

Karla Mallette, medieval literature in Italian, Arabic and Latin; Mediterranean Studies

Peggy McCracken, Medieval French literature; gender studies

Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Modern and contemporary Peninsular literature and culture; film

William Paulson (Edward Lorraine Walter Collegiate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures), 18^th- and 19^th-century French literature; relations among culture, science, and technology

Javier Sanjinés, 19^th- and 20^th-century Latin American literature; Andean literature and cultural studies

Paolo Squatriti, Italian history and culture; Medieval history; technology and resource use

Gareth Williams, Contemporary Latin American literature; film

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Associate Professors

Paulina Alberto, Brazilian and Latin American history

Giorgio Bertellini, Silent film; Italian, North American and Eastern European cinema; Intersections of Gender and Racial Culture; Immigration; National Identity and International Film Culture

Catherine Brown, Medieval European literature, philosophy, theology; the practice of scholarship; the poetics of scholarly prose; materialities of thought and communication

Alina Clej, 19^th- and 20^th-century French literature; comparative literature

Kate Jenckes, 20^th and 21^st-century Latin American literature; literary and cultural theory

Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino/Latina Literature and culture; theatre and performance studies; Queer, Lesbian, and Gay Studies; Women's and Gender Studies

Teresa Satterfield, Linguistics; Romance linguistics

Ryan Szpiech, Medieval Iberian Literatures, Sephardic Studies, Medieval Islam

Gustavo Verdesio, Latin American Colonial studies; popular culture; literary theory

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Assistant Professors

Eric Calderwood (Michigan Society of Fellows),  Modern Spanish Literature and Film; Cultural relations between Spain and the modern Arab world; Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies; Historiography

Daniel Nemser, Colonial Latin American literature and history, indigenous studies

Jaime Rodríguez-Matos, Caribbean literature, Latin American poetry, Latino/a culture, political theory and philosophy

 

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Lecturers

Romana Capek-Habekovic, Director, elementary Italian language program

Rachael Criso, Business French Program Coordinator

Carlos de los Santos, Spanish language coordinator

María Dorantes, Director, elementary Spanish language program

Olga Gallego, elementary Spanish language; Spanish syntax

Raquel González, elementary Spanish language

Ann Hilberry, elementary Spanish language coordinator

Lori McMann, elementary French language coordinator

Kathleen Meyer, elementary French language coordinator

María Dolores Morillo, SPANISH 295 & 296 Coordinator

Helene Neu,  French phonetics

Andrew Noverr, elementary Spanish language coordinator; Instructional technology and New Media

Michelle Orecchio, elementary Spanish language coordinator

Dennis Pollard, elementary Spanish language coordinator

Kristina Primorac-Waggoner, elementary Spanish language coordinator

Amaryllis Rodriquez Mojica, elementary Italian language coordinator

Adelaide Smith, elementary Italian language coordinator

Lorrel Sullivan, elementary French language coordinator

Yannick Viers, French language coordinator

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Professors Emeriti

Frank P. Casa, Golden Age literature; 20^th-century literature

Ross Chambers, Modern French and European Literature, Literary Theory

Charles Fraker, Medieval Spanish literature, 13th-Century literature

Cedomil Goic, Spanish American literature; Chilean literature, Literary History and Criticism

Floyd F. Gray, 16th and 17th century French literature

Monroe Z. Hafter, Spanish Literature from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

Luisa López-Grigera, Golden Age Philology and Rhetoric

Marcel Muller, 19th and 20th century French literature

Domna C. Stanton, Seventeenth century French literature, Women writers, Critical Theory

David Wolfe, Spanish linguistics

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