Faculty & Staff

Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth-Century Literature, German Cinema, Contemporary Germany, Foreign Language Pedagogy

Areas of Specialization: Poetry of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spanish Golden Age Literature. Visual Art in Literature

Areas of Specialization: German-American history, culture, and literature, German literature of the nineteenth century, Twentieth-century German poetry, Early eighteenth-century literary culture and criticism in Germany

Areas of Specialization: Modern Spanish Fiction (19th-21st century)

Areas of Specialization: Medieval/Renaissance Italian Literature, the Literature of Migration, Italian-American Culture

Areas of Specialization: Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Linguistics, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Teacher Education

Areas of Specialization: 20th Century Spanish Literature, Spanish Realism and Naturalism, Women writers

Areas of Specialization: Eighteenth Century French Literature, Foreign language pedagogy

Areas of Specialization: Advanced Arabic Curriculum, Classical Arabic linguistics and modern linguistics theories, Bilingualism, Applied linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, 
Teaching with Technology

Areas of Specialization: Colonial Spanish American Literatures and Cultures, Visual Culture in Spanish America

Areas of Specialization: Latin American narratives of violence and displacement, Colombian literature and culture, Latin American and Latino studies

Adaptation, 18th - 20th century French Literature, Gender Studies, Film

Areas of Specialization: Medieval and Renaissance Italian and French literature, Foreign language pedagogy, Humor

Areas of Specialization: French, Italian, and Dutch languages, The Trojan Legend in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth Century Western European Dance Music, Italian-American Mandolin Music

Teaching Professor Emerita Italian

Area of Specialization: French

Current CV

Areas of Specialization: 20th century Francophone Literatures and Cultures, Trauma Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Second Language Acquisition: French Language (all levels)

Areas of Specialization: Late imperial Chinese literature, Intersection of gender, text, and religion at the turn of the twentieth century

Areas of Specialization: 19th - 21st Century French and Francophone Literature, Adaptation, Textual History and Criticism, French Theatre

Areas of Specialization: Early and Medieval Chinese Literature, Classical Chinese Poetry, Chinese Language

Areas of Specialization: Colonial and 19th-Century Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American and Latino Studies, Peruvian Literature