Program Coordinator and Staff
Sibelan Forrester
Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature; Interpretation Theory
Section Head, Russian
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
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Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory
Cheryl Sharp
Administrative Coordinator
Interdisciplinary Programs
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Deb Sloman
Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies
Classics
Interdisciplinary Programs
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Program Committee
Khaled Al-Masri
Associate Professor
On Leave - Spring
Modern Languages & Literatures-Arabic
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Rachel Buurma
Associate Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
English Literature
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Desiree Diaz
Associate Professor
Comparative Literature
On Leave - Academic Year
Spanish
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Interests: Latin American literature and cultural studies, Caribbean literature and visual culture, US Latino/a studies, film studies, performance studies, popular and material culture, urban studies.
Sibelan Forrester
Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature; Interpretation Theory
Section Head, Russian
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
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Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory
Will Gardner
Professor
Section Head, Chinese; Japanese
Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese
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María Luisa Guardiola
Professor
Department Chair, Spanish
Spanish
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Interests: Nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first century Iberian Literature; women writers; turn of the century (19th to 20th) literature and cultural developments; Iberian cinema; urban studies; Catalan women writers.
Alexandra Gueydan-Turek
Associate Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies
Comparative Literature
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Interests: Postcolonial Theory; Francophone Literature of the Maghreb and the Mashreq; Comics and Graphic Novels in the Arab World; Local Publishing Markets in North Africa; (Neo)colonial representations; Representations of Islam in France.
Jeremy Lefkowitz
Associate Professor
Classics
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Interests: Greek and Latin language and literature; mythology; ancient fable
Rosaria Munson
J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor
Classics
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Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East
Donna Jo Napoli
Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice
Maurice Eldridge Faculty Fellow
Linguistics
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Benjamin Ridgway
Assistant Professor
Chinese
On Leave - Spring
Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese
Asian Studies
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Olivia Sabee
Associate Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
Dance
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
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Hansjakob Werlen
Professor
German Studies
On Leave - Spring
Modern Languages & Literatures-German
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Hansjakob Werlen's research interests are late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature and contemporary literature of German speaking countries, with a special focus on Switzerland. A member of the Tri-college Food Studies group, he also teaches courses on issues of taste and aesthetics.
