Graduate Faculty

William Moebius, Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, B.A., Lawrence (Wis.), 1963; Ph.D., New York at Buffalo, 1969.

Amanda Seaman, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature and Program Director, B.A., Wellesley College, 1988; A.M., University of Chicago, 1994; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001.

María Soledad Barbón, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, M.A., University of Cologne, Germany, 1993; Ph.D., 2000.

Edwin Gentzler, Professor and Director of the Translation Center, B.A., Kenyon College, 1973; Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1990.

N. C. Christopher Couch, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Columbia, 1976; M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1987.

James Hicks, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Michigan State, 1982; M.A., Pennsylvania, 1987; Ph.D., 1992.

Moira Inghilleri, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1979; M.A., University of Massachusetts Boston, 1987; Ph.D., University of London, Institute of Education, 1996.

Kathryn Lachman, Assistant Professor, B.A., Yale, 1998; M.A., 1998; Ph.D., Princeton, 2008.

Don E. Levine, Associate Professor, B.A., Columbia, 1964; M.A., Princeton, 1967; Ph.D., 1972.

Annette Damayanti Lienau, Assistant Professor, B.A., Wellesley College, 2002; M.A., Middlebury College Language Schools, Paris, France, 2003; Ph.D., Yale, 2011.

Catherine Portuges, Professor, B.A., California at Los Angeles, 1964; M.A., 1966; Ph.D., 1981.

Robert A. Rothstein, Professor, S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960; A.M., Harvard, 1961; Ph.D., 1967.

Maria Tymoczko, Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1965; M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1973.


Adjunct/Associated Faculty

Aviva Ben-Ur, Associate Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies.

Barton B. Byg, Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies.

Daniel Gordon, Professor of History.

Julie C. Hayes, Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts.

Luis A. Marentes, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

Stephen D. Miller, Associate Professor of Japanese.

Daphne Patai, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

James E. Smethurst, Professor of Afro-American Studies.

Robert Sullivan, Associate Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies.

James Young, Professor of English.


Faculty Emeriti

Laszlo Dienes, Professor Emeritus (2015)

Sarah N. Lawall, Professor Emerita (2001)

David R. Lenson, Professor Emeritus (2015)

Lucien M. Miller, Professor Emeritus (2004)

Elizabeth P. Petroff, Professor Emerita (2014)

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