Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

C. William Moebius, Professor and Chair of the Department, D.Sup., Sorbonne, 1962; B.A., Lawrence (Wis.), 1963; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1970.

Luiz Amaral, Assistant Professor, Graduate Program Director of Spanish and Portuguese, and Portuguese Language Program Coordinator, B.A., Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, 1997; M.A., Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 2001; Ph.D., Ohio State, 2007.

Alberto Ameal-Pérez, Assistant Professor, B.A., Buenos Aires, 1982; M.A., Houston, 2004; Ph.D., 2007.

Meghan Armstrong, Assistant Professor, B.A., Maryland at College Park, 2000; M.A, Ohio State, 2007; Ph.D., 2012.

Philippe Baillargeon, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director of French and Francophone Studies, B.A., McGill, Canada, 1998; M.A., Princeton, 2001; Ph.D., 2006.

Bruce P. Baird, Associate Professor, B.A., Columbia, 1992; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 1996; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 2004.

Maria Soledad Barbón, Associate Professor, M.A., Cologne, Germany, 1993; Ph.D., 2000.

Doris G. Bargen, Professor and Honors Program Director of Japanese, B.A., Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1971; M.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1972; Ph.D., Universität Tubingen, 1978.

Luke Bouvier, Senior Lecturer and Graduate Program Director of French and Francophone Studies, B.A., Rutgers, 1986; M.A., Cornell, 1990; Ph.D. 1993.

Barton Byg, Professor, B.A., Drake, 1975; M.A., Washington at St. Louis, 1977, 1978; Ph.D., 1982.

Suet-Ying Chiu, Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Advisor of Chinese Language and Literature, and Honors Program Director of Chinese, B.A., Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995; M.A., California State at Long Beach, 1999; Ph.D., California at Los Angeles, 2007.

Carole Cloutier, Lecturer and Spanish Language Program Director, B.A., McGill, Canada, 1991; M.S., Georgetown, 1994; Ph.D., 1999.

Susan Cocalis, Professor, B.A., Douglass, 1969; M.A., Princeton, 1971; Ph.D., 1974.

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

Caroline Degel, Lecturer, Teaching Degree, Stockholm Institute of Education, 2006.

Laszlo Dienes, Professor, A.M., Harvard, 1972; Ph.D., 1977.

Andrew Donson, Associate Professor and Director of the German and Scandinavian Studies Program, B.A., Cornell, 1991; M.A., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1995; Ph.D., 2000.

Frank C. Fagundes, Professor and Portuguese Major/Minor Advisor, B.A., California at Los Angeles, 1972; M.A., 1973; Ph.D., 1976.

Yi Feng, Lecturer, B.A., Xi’an International Studies University, 2004; M.A., East China Normal University, 2011.

Arthur Figliola, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Dartmouth, 1973; M.A., Middlebury, 1978; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2001.

Stephen M. Forrest, Senior Lecturer, Chief Undergraduate Advisor of Japanese Language and Literature, and Exchange Program Director for Japanese, B.A., Oxford, England, 1987; M.A., 1991; Ph.D., Harvard, 2005.

Regina Galasso, Assistant Professor, B.A., Rutgers College, 2000; M.A., Middlebury College in Spain, 2002; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2008.

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

Ela Gezen, Assistant Professor, B.A., Freie Universität Berlin, 2001; M.A., Indiana at Bloomington, 2005; Ph.D., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2012.

Patricia Gubitosi, Associate Professor, B.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991; M.A., Houston, 2004; Ph.D., 2006.

Sherrill Harbison, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor of Scandinavian Studies, B.A., Oberlin, 1965; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1996.

Julie Candler Hayes, Professor and Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, B.A., Austin College, 1977; M.A., Northwestern, 1979; Ph.D., 1982.

James Hicks, Senior Lecturer, Graduate Program Director, and Interim Director of the Comparative Literature Program, B.A., B.S., Michigan State, 1982; M.A., Pennsylvania, 1987; Ph.D., 1992.

Frank Hugus, Professor, B.S., Pennsylvania State, 1963; M.A., 1965; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972.

Moira Inghilleri, Assistant Professor and Director of the Interpreting Studies Certificate Program, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979; M.A., Massachusetts at Boston, 1987; Ph.D., University of London, Institute of Education, 1996.

Nahla Abdel-Kader-Ahmed Khalil, 5 College Lecturer, B.A., Mansoura University, 1993; M.A., 1995; M.A., Ain Shams University, 2002; Ph.D., Ain Shams and Massachusetts at Amherst, 2008.

Mako Koyama, Lecturer, B.A., Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan, 1988; M.A., Columbia, 1990.

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

Nancy E. Lamb, Assistant Professor, B.A., Mount Holyoke, 1959; M.A., Middlebury, 1960; D.M.L., 1970.

David Lenson, Professor and Director of the Comparative Literature Program, B.A., Princeton, 1967; M.A., 1970; Ph.D., 1971.

Don E. Levine, Associate Professor and Honors Program Director of Comparative Literature, 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.

Yu Liu, Lecturer, B.A., Beijing Language & Culture University, 2004; M.A., Indiana, 2010.

Albert Lloret, Assistant Professor, M.A., Universitat de Girona, 2009; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2010.

Nicolina LoRusso, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Westfield State, 1971; M.A., Middlebury, 1973.

Roberto Ludovico, Associate Professor and Director of the Italian Studies Program, Laurea, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy, 1993; M.A., McGill, 1997; Ph.D., Brown, 2003.

Andrea Malaguti, Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Program Director, and Honors Program Director of Italian Studies, Laurea, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy, 1989; M.A., Harvard, 1995; Ph.D., 1999.

Luis A. Marentes, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Spanish and Portuguese, B.A., Texas at Austin, 1987; M.A., 1990; Ph.D., 1994.

Elizabeth H. D. Mazzocco, Professor and Director of the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, B.A., Texas A&M, Commerce, 1980; M.A., Bryn Mawr, 1983; Ph.D., 1988.

Patrick Mensah, Associate Professor and Director of the French and Francophone Studies Program, B.A., Leson, Ghana, 1980; M.A., Cornell, 1989; Ph.D., 1991.

Stephen D. Miller, Associate Professor and Director of the Asian Languages and Literatures Program, B.A., Ohio State, 1971; M.A., Columbia, 1983; Ph.D., California at Los Angeles, 1993.

Kerstin Mueller Dembling, Lecturer and German and Scandinavian Studies Language Program Coordinator , M.A., Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 1995; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005.

José N. Ornelas, Professor and Assistant Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Advising Center, B.A., Queens, 1969; M.A., 1972; Ph.D., City University of New York, 1976.

Michael Papio, Professor, Graduate Program Director of Italian Studies, and Associate Chair of the Department, B.A., Florida State, 1990; M.A., Virginia, 1993; Ph.D., 1998.

Chan Young Park, 5 College Lecturer, B.A., Ewha Womans University, 1996; M.TESL., Arizona State, 2000; Ph.D., 2007.

Daphne Patai, Professor, B.A., Indiana, 1965; M.A., 1971; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1977.

Elizabeth P. Petroff, Professor and Undergraduate Advisor of Comparative Literature, B.S., Ed., Northwestern, 1960; M.A., California at Berkeley, 1964; Ph.D., 1972.

Catherine Portuges, Professor and Director of the Film Studies Program, B.A., California at Los Angeles, 1964; M.A., 1966; Ph.D., 1982.

Emma Rivera-Rábago, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, 1988; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998.

Robert A. Rothstein, Walter Raleigh Amesbury, Jr., and Cecile Dudley Amesbury Professor of Teaching and Research in Polish Language, Literature and Culture, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960; M.A., Harvard, 1961; Ph.D., 1967.

Márgara Russotto, Associate Professor, B.A., Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1977; M.A., Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela, 1983; Ph.D., Universidade Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1987.

David Schneider, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor of Chinese Language and Literature, B.A., Colorado at Boulder, 1980; M.A., Columbia, 1987; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2005.

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

Dianne E. Sears, Associate Professor, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979; M.A., Yale, 1981; Ph.D., 1990.

Zhongwei Shen, Professor, Exchange Program Director for Chinese, and Director of Linguistics and Chinese Joint Major, B.A., Fudan, China, 1982; M.A., California at Berkeley, 1988; Ph.D., 1993.

Yasuko Shiomi, Lecturer, B.A., Nara Women's University, 1998; M.A., Wisconsin at Madison, 2004.

Jonathan Skolnik, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of German and Scandinavian Studies, B.A., Columbia College, 1990; M.A., 1994; Ph.D., 1999.

Reiko Sono, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor of Japanese Language and Literature, B.A., Tsukuba, 1988; M.A., 1991; M.A., Princeton, 1996.

Robert Sullivan, Associate Professor, Chief Undergraduate Advisor of German and Scandinavian Studies, and Director of the Medieval Studies Certificate Program, B.A., McGill, 1983; M.A., 1985; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1991.

Rhonda Tarr, Senior Lecturer, Connecticut, 1973; M.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1982; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1995.

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

Zhijun Wang, Assistant Professor and Chinese Language Program Coordinator, B.A., Inner Mongolia Nationality University, 1987; M.A., Beijing Language and Culture University, 1992; M.A., Iowa, 1999; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.

Yuki Yoshimura, Lecturer, Japanese Language Program Coordinator, and Director of Linguistics and Japanese Joint Major, B.A., Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, 1999; M.A., 2002; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 2006.

Barbara Zecchi, Associate Professor and Director of the Spanish and Portuguese Program, B.A., Ca’Foscari, 1986; M.A., California at San Diego, 1990; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 1994; Ph.D., 1998.

Enhua Zhang, Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director of Chinese Language and Literature, B.A., Nankai, China, 1997; M.A., 2000; M.Phil., Colombia, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.

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