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, Associate Professor and Director of the Spanish and Portuguese Program, B.A., Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, 1997; M.A., Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 2001; Ph.D., Ohio State, 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 and Undergraduate Program Director of Comparative Literature, 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.

Jessica Barr, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Comparative Literature, B.A., Oberlin, 1997; M.A., Brown, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.

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.

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

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, Portuguese Language Program Coordinator, 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, 2000; M.A., Middlebury College in Spain, 2002; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2008.

Edwin Gentzler, Professor and Director of Comparative Literature, 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.

Stacy Giufre, Lecturer, B.A., Cornell, 1999; Ph.D., Cambridge, 2011.

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, 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, Associate 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.

Sara Jackson, Assistant Professor, B.A., Oregon, 2002; M.A., 2004; Ph.D., Michigan, 2013.

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, Associate Professor, B.A., Yale, 1998; M.A., 1998; Ph.D., Princeton, 2008.

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.

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, Assistant Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Advising Center, and Undergraduate Advisor of Portuguese Majors and Minors, B.A., Queens, 1969; M.A., 1972; Ph.D., City University of New York, 1976.

Michael Papio, Professor, 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.

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.

David Rodriguez Solas, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of Granada, 1999; M.A., 2001; Ph.D., City University of New York, 2009.

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

David Schneider, Associate 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, 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.

Eva Valenta, Lecturer, M.A., Canada, 1984; Ph.D., Cornell, 1991.

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

Yuki Yoshimura, Senior 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, Professor and Director of the Translation Center, 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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