FLL Faculty Profiles

Ali Alalou
PhD (California, Davis), Associate Professor of French & Pedagogy
  • French Language and Linguistics
  • Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics
  • Arabic Language
  • Afro-Asiatic Linguistics
  • North African Studies

    • Susan Amert
    PhD (Yale), Associate Professor of Russian

  • Modern Russian Literature (19th & 20th centuries)
  • Russian poetry and poetics (19th & 20th centuries)
  • The Russian novel (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov)

    • Persephone Braham
    PhD (University of Pennsylvania), Assistant Professor of Spanish

  • Lain American literature and culture 19C-present
  • Caribbean literatures and cultures
  • Gender, cultural studies and literary theory

    • Joan L. Brown
    PhD (University of Pennsylvania), Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish

  • 20th century Spanish Novel
  • Literature by women in Spain and Spanish America
  • Canon formation
  • Second Language Acquisition

    • Jianguo Chen
    PhD Assistant Professor of Chinese

  • 20th century Chinese Literature
  • Contemporary Chinese writers
  • Chinese Cultural and Film Studies
  • Comparative Literary Studies with focus on critical theory

    • Jorge Cubillos
    PhD (Penn State) Associate Professor of Spanish & Pedagogy

  • Foreign language reading (strategy training in particular)
  • Affective variables in second language acquisition
  • Teacher training in the foreign languages

    • Mary Donaldson-Evans
    PhD (University of Pennsylvania), Elias Ahuja Professor of French

  • 19th century French Literature
  • Medicine and literature
  • Guy de Maupassant
  • Film adaptations of Madame Bovary

    • R. Gary Ferguson
    PhD (Durham, England), Professor of French

  • French Renaissance
  • Women's writing, gender, homoeroticism
  • Religious and devotional literature

    • Gabriella Finizio
    DML (Middlebury), Assistant Professor of Italian

  • 15th and 16th Century Italian and Comparative Literature
  • Italian Humanism and Renaissance
  • Ariosto and the debate on women

    • Annette Giesecke
    PhD (Harvard), Associate Professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

  • Ancient Greek and Roman Epic Poetry
  • Ancient philosophy, especially Epicureanism
  • Greek Tragedy
  • Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
  • The Relation Between Texts and Images
  • Utopianism in Classical Antiquity
  • Urbanism and the Garden in Classical Antiquity

    • Lee Glen
    PhD (University of Pennsylvania), Assistant Professor of Spanish

  • Realism and Naturalism in Spain and Latin America
  • 19th Century Peninsular Literature: Leopoldo Alas and Eca de Quieroz
  • Religious images and language in Latin American Poetry from the mystics to modern times

    • Nicolas Gross
    PhD (North Carolina), Associate Professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

  • Ovid
  • Rhetorical analysis of ancient Greek & Roman literature
  • Rhetoric and poetics

    • Cristina Guardiola
    PhD (California, Berkeley), Assistant Professor of Spanish

  • Medieval Narratives: Chronicles and Chivalric Romance
  • Women in Medieval Literature
  • Medicine in the Middle Ages

    • Rachael Hutchinson
    PhD (University of Oxford, England), Assistant Professor of Japanese

  • 20th Century Japanese Literature and Film
  • Representation and Identity Studies
  • Censorship and Counter-discourse

    • Gladys Ilarregui
    PhD (Catholic University of America), Assistant Professor of Spanish

  • Colonial Latin America
  • Indigenous orality
  • Latin American Poetry
  • Critical Theory

    • Cynthia Lees
    PhD Assistant Professor of French

  • North American French Literature : Quebec
  • New Brunswick, New England; French Cinema
  • 20th Century French Poetry and Theater

    • Alexander Lehrman
    PhD (Yale), Associate Professor of Russian

  • Philology (criticism, interpretation, & comparison of literary texts)
  • Russian philology (18th through 20th centuries)
  • Chekhov

    • Vincent Martin
    PhD (New York University), Associate Professor of Spanish

  • Art and thought of the Hispanic Baroque
  • Theater and fiesta
  • Cervantes, Calderón, Sor Juana

    • América Martínez
    PhD (Illinois), Assistant Professor of Spanish & Comparative Literature

  • 19th and 20th Century comparative literature
  • Magical realist fiction
  • Bruno Traven, Jorge Amado, Isabel Allende

    • Ikram Masmoudi
    PhD (Spain), Assistant Professor of Arabic

  • Arabic Language

    • Meghan McInnis Dominguez
    PhD (University of Pennsylvania), Assistant Professor of Spanish

  • Medicine and Literature in the Early Modern Hispanic World
  • Early Modern Spanish Novel
  • Spanish Colonial Historiographic Texts
  • Spanish Colonial Epic and Novel
  • Transatlantic Studies

    • Susan McKenna
    PhD (Indiana University), Assistant Professor of Spanish

  • 19th Century Spanish and comparative literature
  • Feminist theory and criticism
  • Emilia Pardo Bazán

    • Nancy Nobile
    PhD (Johns Hopkins), Associate Professor of German

  • Late 18th and early 19th century theories of pedagogy
  • German Romanticism
  • Kleist

    • Meredith Ray
    PhD (University of Chicago), Assistant Professor of Italian

  • Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture
  • Gender Studies and Women's Writing
  • Epistolary Writing
  • Renaissance Representations of Alchemy

    • Willy Riemer
    PhD (Yale), Associate Professor of German

  • Contemporary Austrian literature
  • German cinema
  • Literary theory related to intertextuality

    • Bonnie A. Robb
    PhD (Bryn Mawr), Associate Professor of French

  • 18th century French literature
  • Félicité de Genlis
  • Françoise de Graffigny

    • Riccarda Saggese
    PhD (Johns Hopkins), Assistant Professor of Italian

  • Twentieth Century Italian Literature
  • Nineteenth Century Italian Literature
  • Childhood and literature in 19th and 20th century

    • Laura Salsini
    PhD (Indiana), Assistant Professor of Italian

  • 19th and 20th century Italian literature
  • Italian women authors
  • Italian and Italian American cinema

    • Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz
    PhD (Wisconsin), Associate Professor of Spanish

  • Contemporary Latin American short story and novel
  • Literature of exile and feminist literary theory
  • Julio Cortázar and Cristina Peri Rossi

    • Alexander Selimov
    PhD (University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Spanish

  • 18th & 19th Century Spanish Literature
  • 19th Century Latin American Literature
  • Cultural Studies & Literary Theory

    • Monika Shafi
    PhD (Maryland), Elias Ahuja Professor of German

  • 19th and 20th century German literature
  • Gender and Cultural Studies
  • Gertrud Kolmar, Günter Grass cinema

    • Deborah Steinberger
    PhD (New York University), Associate Professor of French

  • 17th century French and comparative literature
  • Theatre
  • Early modern women writers

    • Bruno Thibault
    PhD (Paris X and Maryland), Professor of French

  • 20th century French Literature
  • 20th century French Civilization
  • 20th century French Cinema
  • Contemporary French Writers
  • Contemporary French Filmmakers

    • Richard A. Zipser
    PhD (Johns Hopkins), Chair; Professor of German

  • Literature of the German Democratic Republic
  • Literary censorship in Germany
  • 19th century German and comparative literature