Modern Languages & Literatures

Areas of Expertise

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish literature, science and literature, theory of the novel, Islam and Spain, world literature.

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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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Foreign language pedagogy, linguistics, computer-assisted language instruction.

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12th-century Anglo-Norman literature and chronicles, 12th-century Latin historical narrative, Arthurian legends and the Norman Conquest.

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Nineteenth-century French literature and Romanticism, French film studies and film theory, psychoanalytic theory.

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Twentieth-century French literature, youth culture and crime, Lacanian theory.

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Transatlantic Studies, Modern Peninsular Literature, Avant-Garde Movements

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Italian Renaissance, Italian literature and cinema, interplay between visual arts and literature.

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Twentieth-century German literature, literary theory, German poetry.

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French novels and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, feminist studies, French critical theory, interdisciplinary studies.

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Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, comparative literature and cultural studies, French language teaching.

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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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20th-century Russian poetry and poetics (Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva), poetic translation, Soviet-era prose and theories of the comic.

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Research interests and teaching interests: 18th and 19th century rhetoric and culture; visual culture in relation to literature; psychoanalytic approaches to literature; Lacanian theory; film and film theory; feminist theory; innovative teaching methods for language learning.

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Latin American novels, Latin American short stories, Argentine literature.

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Medieval and Renaissance poetry, Italian cinema.

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Nineteenth-century German-Jewish literature.

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Creative writing in Spanish, Spanish American poetry and essays, literature of the Cuban Revolution, Latin American film.

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Comparative literature, Arabic studies and critical theory

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Gender and sexuality studies, affect theory, narratology

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Japanese linguistics (syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, pragmatics), communicative language teaching.

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Premodern Japanese literature, Sino-Japanese comparisons and interactions, Sino-Japanese (kanbun) literature.