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Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, comparative literature and cultural studies, French language teaching.
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Modern Arabic literature; contemporary Iraqi literature; world literature; nationalism and literature; literary and cultural theory; and translation studies.
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19th– and 20th–century Russian literature; Russian and Soviet film; Russia and Iran.
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Renaissance poetry and poetics; theories of metaphor; book history; the history of science; and science fiction and fantasy.
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Nineteenth-century French literature and Romanticism, French film studies and film theory, psychoanalytic theory.
Pierre Dairon
Associate Professor of French
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Transatlantic Studies, Modern Peninsular Literature, Avant-Garde Movements
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Professor Elkins’ research interests include literature and philosophy, computational textual analysis, modernist studies, cognitive studies, and artificial intelligence.
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Post-colonial literature(s) and theory, South Asian literature, Canadian diasporic writing.
Janelle Gondar
Visiting Instructor of Spanish
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Medieval court poetry, early modern Iberian gender studies, transcultural Mediterranean exchanges.
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Literary translation and translation studies, Spanish American poetry, and contemporary Spanish-Caribbean literatures and cultures.
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Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish literature, science and literature, theory of the novel, Islam and Spain, world literature.
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Restoration drama, eighteenth-century British literature and culture, Canadian literature.
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Poetry and poetics; Indigenous American literatures; gender and sexuality in Indigenous American cultures.
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20th-century Russian poetry and poetics (Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva), poetic translation, Soviet-era prose and theories of the comic.
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Postcolonial studies, critical theory, transnational studies.
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Latin literature, ancient travel, Greek lyric poetry.
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Medieval and Renaissance poetry, Italian cinema.
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Creative writing in Spanish, Spanish American poetry and essays, literature of the Cuban Revolution, Latin American film.
Chengjuan Sun
Associate Professor of Chinese
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Premodern Japanese literature, Sino-Japanese comparisons and interactions, Sino-Japanese (kanbun) literature.