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Abasi, Ali R.
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- JMZ 1220C
- Phone
- 301.405.3315
Assistant Professor, Persian
Ali R. Abasi has been a teacher of English and Persian to speakers of other languages in Western Asia and North America for over a decade. Currently he teaches Persian and collaborates in curriculum development for the National Persian Flagship Program. His research interests include the development of academic literacies in a second language, sociocultural theories of learning applied to second language education, and adult basic education. Some of his recent publications are soon to appear in such scholarly journals as Journal of Second Language Writing, Adult Basic Education, and New Horizons in Adult Education.
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Acedo-Garcia, Ana
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- JMZ 2103
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- 301.405.4246
Spanish Lecturer
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Aguilar-Mora, Jorge
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- JMZ 2115C
- Phone
- 301.405.6446
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
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Akbari, Nahal
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- JMZ 1220C
- Phone
- 301.405.3315
Persian Lecturer
Since 1996, Nahal has been teaching ESL, ESP and Academic Writing courses at different academic institutions including Tehran University in Iran , and the University of Ottawa and La Cite Collegiale in Ottawa , Canada . Over the past five years she has also been teaching Persian to speakers of other languages at Ottawa 's Foreign Languages Institute ( FLIO ), an affiliate of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. She finished her BA in English Language and Literature, and completed her MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Tehran, Iran. She is currently a PhD candidate in Second Language Teaching and Learning at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa , Canada . Her research interests include teacher education, contrastive rhetoric, and second language academic literacy.
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Amodeo, Stefania
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- JMZ 4109
- Phone
- 301.405.4038
Italian Lecturer
Stefania Amodeo, Instructor of Italian, holds a laurea from the University of Genoa, Italy, in Lettere e Filosofia with a thesis in medieval history. She did graduate work in Belgium at the University of Louvain and at Harvard University from which she received an M.A. in Italian Literature. She has taught at Wellesley College and at Harvard University as a teaching fellow. Her main research interest is in language pedagogy and the use of computer technology in teaching foreign languages. She recently developed an Italian language course centered on the history and cultural importance of food in Italy.
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Barilla, Anthony
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- JMZ 2103
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- 301.405.4246
Spanish Lecturer
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Beicken, Peter U
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- JMZ 3207
- Phone
- 301.405.4098
Professor, Germanic Studies
Professor Beicken teaches 19th/20th century Austrian and German literature focusing on Fin de Siècle, Expressionism, the Weimar Republic, Exile, and Post-war literature with special emphasis on authors such as Bachmann, Fleisser, Kafka, Keun, Seghers and C. Wolf. His Kafka studies include "Kafka. Eine kritische Einführung in die Forschung" (1974); 'Die Verwandlung'. A commentary (1983, 1998); "Franz Kafka. Leben und Werk" (1986, 1994). In film studies he has presented seminars on Literatur- und Filmanalyse, Kafka und Film, Gender and Space in Film. He approaches both media from cultural, semiotic, and psychoanalytic film studies perspectives including concepts of the body (Körperbilder). Awarded the Eduard-von-der-Heydt-Preis, Wuppertal 1984, for "Kindheit in W. Gedichte und Prosa" (1983) and the Elisabeth Frazer de Bussy Prose-Prize, 1998. Visiting professor at Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1987); Georgetown University (1989), Universität Giessen (1997), Univ. Wuppertal (1997). Editor, TRANS-LIT, Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German (1998-2002) and president of the SCALG (2003-2005). Among recent publications are: "Ingeborg Bachmann." Munich 1988, 1992. "The Films of Wim Wenders. Cinema as Vision and Desire." Cambridge University Press 1993. (With Robert Kolker) "Franz Kafka. 'Der Process'. Interpretation." Munich 1995, 1999. "Ingeborg Bachmann: Literaturwissen." Stuttgart 2001. "Wie interpretiert man einen Film?" Stuttgart 2004.
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Benharrech, Sarah
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- JMZ 4117
- Phone
- 301.405.1644
Assistant Professor of French
Sarah Benharrech, assistant professor, specializes in eighteenth-century French literature. She received a Ph.D in French literature from Princeton University in 2002 and has published articles in MLN, Eighteenth Century fiction and in various proceedings. Her research interest deals with the esthetic, epistemological and anthropological concepts underlying the elaboration of fictional characters in theater, novels and moralistic works. Sarah is currently working on a book about early Enlightenment moralistic genre, focusing on Marivaux’s plays and novels. She participated to the critical edition of Crébillon fils’s Oeuvres complètes as editor of the correspondence (Classiques Garnier, 2002). Presently she collaborates to the critical edition of the eighteenth-century periodical Les Mémoires Secrets de Bachaumont (Champion, forthcoming publication). Before coming to Maryland, she has taught at The University of Chicago, Tulane University, and the University of Toronto (Mississauga).
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Benito-Vessels, Carmen
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- JMZ 2215J
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- 301.405.6445
Chair of Spanish and Portuguese, Professor of Medieval Spanish Literature
A graduate of the Universities of Salamanca (1977), and California-Santa Barbara (1988), Dr. Benito-Vessels is the autor of two books Juan
Manuel: Escritura y recreación de la historia (University of Wisconsin,
Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1994) La palabra en el tiempo de las letras. Una historia heterodoxa (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007. She is also one of the editors of two volumes: The Picaresque. A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994) and Women at Work in Spain from The Middle Ages to Early Modern Times (New York: Peter Lang 1998). Benito-Vessels is also the co-author of Horizontes: Cultura y Literatura (Boston : Heinle and Heinle, 3rd edition 1997, and 4TH edition 2000). She has published articles and conducts research on the fields of Medieval historiography and poetry, the interaction of medieval literary genres and on Hispanic Philology. Courses and seminars: Medieval Spanish Literature, History of the Spanish Language. -
Bierwirth, Sabine
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- 3207
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- 301.405.4098
German Lecturer, Germanic Studies
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Brami, Joseph
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- JMZ 3106C
- Phone
- 301.405.4026
Chair of French and Italian, Professor, French and Italian
Joseph Brami, Professor of French, received his Ph. D in French Literature from New York University. Before joining the University of Maryland, he taught at New York University, Barnard College and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also taught various summer courses at Columbia University centers in New York and in Paris, and at the Institute of American Universities in Avignon. His general field of research is modern French literature, with a specialty in 19th and 20th-century French literature. His main teaching areas are the novel, poetry and essays from the 17th to the 20th centuries. His publications include Les Troubles de l'invention: Essai sur le doute poétique de José Bousquet (Summa, 1987); Théophile Gautier: Mademoiselle de Maupin (Editions Nathan,1993); co-prefaced and co-annotated edition of 2 volumes of Marguerite Yourcenar's correspondence
1) Lettres à ses amis et quelques autres (Gallimard, 1995),
2) Une volonté sans fléchissement (Gallimard, 2007).
He is currently editing a third volume of these letters as well as a two-volume series of critical work on Proust: Lecteurs de Proust au XXeme siècle, to be published by Éditions Minard in 2008 and 2009. -
Branner, David
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- JMZ 4103
- Phone
- 301.405.4383
Associate Professor, Chinese
Prof. Branner's research specializations are descriptive and historical Chinese linguistics. He is a fieldworker of Chinese, specializing in rural dialects of Fujian Province. His teaching covers a number of Chinese linguistic areas, in which he emphasizes practical command of tools to deepen students' independent learning of the language. He is also active in traditional Sinology. Homepage
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Campangne, Hervé *
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- JMZ 3102
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- 301.405.4032
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, French and Italian *Resident Director, Maryland in Nice Program Fall 2007
Hervé Thomas Campangne, Associate Professor of French, earned a Ph D. in Renaissance French Literature from Rutgers University. Previous to his appointment at UMD, he has taught at Louisiana State University, Bard College, and Rutgers. His teaching areas include French culture, literature and language with a specialization in Renaissance and Baroque culture and literature. His current research deals with travel narratives, rhetoric, eloquence and the theater in early modern France, as well as the short story in sixteenth century France. He is the author of Mythologie et rhétorique aux XVème et XVIème siècles en France (Champion, 1996)and has recently contributed chapters to the books Approaches To Teaching Marguerite de Navarre (MLA, 2005), Ronsard, figure de la variété (Droz, 2003), Diane à la Renaissance (Champion, 2003) and Poétiques de l'objet (Champion, 2002). He is currently preparing a book on the tragic in Early Modern France, and is also the author of numerous articles on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and culture which have appeared in the Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France, XVIIe siècle, Studi Francesi, Nouvelle Revue du XVIe siècle, Renaissance Quarterly, and BHR.
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Carlorosi, Silvia
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- JMZ 4104
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- 301.405.4043
Assistant Professor, Italian
Silvia Carlorosi received a Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere from the University of Urbino, Italy, an M.A. in Mass Communications at Miami University of Ohio (May 2001), and a Ph.D. in Italian at the University of Pennsylvania (August 2006). She wrote her dissertation, "Cinepoiesis: The Visual Poetics of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Franco Piavoli," on the interaction between cinema and poetry. Departing from an analysis of Pasolini's idea of "cinema of poetry," her work considers how this poetic form differs from a cinema of prose, and evaluates the ideas of the image and the gaze. Within this framework the dissertation offers an analysis of Pasolini's Mamma Roma, Michelangelo Antonioni's Deserto Rosso, and Franco Piavoli's cinema of sounds and images. Last year she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Middlebury College, where she taught courses in language, literature and culture. Her interests include 20th century Italian literature and film, cultural studies, literary theory and philosophy, and teaching pedagogy. She has published articles on Italian cinema, and is currently working on transforming her dissertation into a manuscript. She is also collaborating on the publication of an advanced intermediate textbook for Italian language and culture. The following articles are amongst her publications:"Politicizzazione dell'Estetica o Estetizzazione della Politica? 1860 di Alessandro Blasetti" Italian Culture, Vol. 18, 2, 2000. 87-104"Neo-Romanticismo in risposta al Postmodernismo? L'influenza leopardiana nella poetica cinematografica felliniana di La voce della luna" Film e Letterature: Rivista di Cinema e Letteratura. (Number 4, 2006)
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Chao, Fang-Yi
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- JMZ 4105
- Phone
- 301.405.4039
Assistant Professor, Chinese
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Cherrouk, Meryem
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- JMZ 4102
- Phone
- 301.405.5576
Arabic Lecturer
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Clough, Lauretta
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- JMZ 3106D
- Phone
- 301.405.4034
Assistant Director for Instruction, Undergraduate Advisor, French and Italian
Lauretta Clough earned an MA in linguistics (1989) and a PhD in French (1998) from the University of Maryland, with a specialization in translation theory. Her published translations include Pierre's Bourdieu's The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power (Stanford, 1997). she has spoken and published on teaching, translating, literature, and the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and has completed a book about values and culture in a French village provisionally entitled A Thousand Years in the Languedoc: Self-portrait of a French Village . The Undergraduate Advisor in French, she has taught French language, culture and literature at UMD since 1990, most recently developing the French Writing Center.
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Cypess, Sandra
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- JMZ 2215D
- Phone
- 301.405.6449
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Sandra Messinger Cypess is currently Professor of Latin American Literature and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland, whose faculty she joined in 1994 after having been at SUNY Binghamton University since 1976. Prof. Cypess received her B.A. at Brooklyn College, majoring in Spanish and French. Her MA was awarded from Cornell and her PhD from the University of Illinois. Her research deals primarily with women writers, the representation of Women in Latin American Literature, and Latin American theatre. Her theoretic focus centers on feminist theory and semiotics. Motivated by her doctoral work with Don Luis Leal at the University of Illinois, she has published extensively on writers from Mexico (Villaurrutia, Carballido, Garro, Castellanos, Berman). Her book, La Malinche in Mexican Literature: from History to Myth (U Texas Press 1991), was completed after being in Mexico under the auspices of an NEH summer fellowship, and is considered one of the major pieces of scholarship on that figure. Editor of three additional books on various topics, she is also co-editor with Mario Rojas of the Drama section of the Handbook of Latin American Studies. She was invited to write the chapter on Twentieth Century Latin American theatre for the Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. Prof. Cypess also appears in the documentary, "Indigenous Always: The Story of La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico, an award-winning documentary that was broadcast on national television through PBS.
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Deigan Brunori, Federica
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- JMZ 4109
- Phone
- 301.405.3433
Italian Lecturer
Federica Brunori Deigan, UMD instructor of Italian language, literature, and Commercial Italian, holds a "laurea" in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Rome, a professional diploma from the School for Interpreters of Rome, and a Ph. D. in Italian studies from the Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Italian language, literature, and culture at Hopkins and at the University of Pennsylvania. Recent grants and awards include a stipend for seminar work in Italian history from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Flaiano prize for Italian Studies for her book Alessandro Manzoni’s The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004).
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DeKeyser, Robert
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- JMZ 3104
- Phone
- 301.405.4030
Professor, Second Language Acquisition
Editor, Language LearningRobert DeKeyser is originally from the Flemish part of Belgium. After his BA at the University of Leuven, his MA and PhD at Stanford University, and a short stint with the Belgian National Science Foundation, he taught in the Linguistics Department at the University of Pittsburgh for 17 years.
He has published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Language Testing, the Modern Language Journal, and the AILA Review, among others, and is the editor of Language Learning since the Spring of 2005.
Robert DeKeyser's research interests concern primarily cognitive aspects of second language acquisition, from implicit and explicit learning mechanisms, automatization processes, and age differences in learning, to more applied concerns such as aptitude-treatment interaction, error correction, and the effects of study abroad. Link to publications -
DeMaria, Laura
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- JMZ 2215B
- Phone
- 301.314.2476
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Laura Demaria received her undergraduate degree at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, and her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research explores the complex ways in which the nineteenth-century is re-inscribed in contemporary Southern Cone literature and concentrates primarily on Argentina. By reading contemporary texts in dialogue with those written in the nineteenth-century, she is particularly interested in exploring alternative counter-discourses that have been diachronically erased and forgotten from the official national archive. She has published articles on 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literatures in refereed journals, and is the author of the book Argentina's Ricardo Piglia diáloga con la generación del 37 en la discontinuidad (Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor, 1999). Currently, she is working on her second book, Mapping Argentina: Spatial (Hi)-stories between Buenos Aires and the provinces.
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Eades, Caroline M
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- JMZ 3106G
- Phone
- 301.405.4029
Associate Professor, French and Italian
Caroline Eades is Assistant Professor, specializing in Filmic Studies and Contemporary French Culture at the University of Maryland and Associate Professor of French Literature and Cinema at the Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France. She received a PhD in Film Studies from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III and has worked in the film distribution business as well as for the French diplomatic service. She has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her main fields of research are European Cinema (French, Italian and Greek), Film Feminist Theory, Film and Myth, and she has published many articles on these subjects in America ("From Film Analysis to Oral-Formulaic Theory: The Case of the Yellow Oilskins", Rowman and Littlefield Publ., "Mainstreaming the margins in French Cinema", University of British Columbia Press…), in France ("A propos de Nice : les représentations filmiques de la Côte d'Azur" in Géocritique, "Le Colonel Chabert : récits écrit et filmiques" in L'Année balzacienne, "La Théâtralité dans l'oeuvre de Fellini et d'Angelopoulos" in CinémAction…) and in other countries ("O telespectador-consumidor: de olho no bolso", Novos Olhares, Sao Paulo, Brazil…).
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Elgibali, Alaa
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- JMZ 3121
- Phone
- 301.405.4037
Professor of Arabic
Alaa Elgibali: Professor of Arabic and Linguistics and Director of the University of Maryland Undergraduate and Flagship Programs. Received an M.A. in TAFL from the American University in Cairo (AUC) and a doctorate in general linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught at SAIS of Johns Hopkins, UC-Berkeley, Kuwait University, Ain-Shams University, AUC, the American University of Beirut and the University of Maryland at College Park. Elgibali is the author of several seminal publications, including Arabic as a first language: A study in language acquisition and development in 2003. He has also edited a number of important volumes including Understanding Arabic (1996) and Investigating Arabic (2004) and is the associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Elgibali served as executive director of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), director of the TAFL program at AUC and acting director of the Arabic Language Institute and co-director of CASA. Current research agenda include K-12 Arabic, Advanced language proficiency, and the development of Standards for acquisition and testing.
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Elgibali, Mahmoud
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- PKT 1226
- Phone
- 301.405.7859
Arabic Lecturer
Mahmoud Elgibali has an M.A. in linguistics and translation from Ain Shams University, Egypt. He taught Arabic in Korea, Egypt, Saudi Arabia. In the United States, he worked for 17 years at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State, before accepting a teaching Job ib the United Arab Emirates' Zayed University. He is a certified tester and materials developer. Current research agenda includes morphological analysis of Arabic.
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El-Hefnawy, Dina
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- JMZ 4102
- Phone
- 301.405.3015
Arabic Lecturer
Dina El-Hefnawy got her B.A from the English Department at the Faculty of Arts at Alexandria University in Egypt. She obtained her M.A. in T.E.F.L. from the American University in Cairo in 1984. She became a Lecturer at UMD, in SLLC starting January 2004. She worked as an English Lecturer and student advisor at the United Arab Emirates University from 1999 until 2003, and from 1989 until 1999 she was an Arabic Lecturer at University of Pittsburgh. Dina is specialized in teaching Arabic as a foreign language, using communicative exercises and video and audio for extra listening practice. Also, she likes to reinforce her teaching by using a variety of media to help students remember what they learn in class, e.g. movies, songs and news broadcasts, etc.
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Falvo, Giuseppe
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- JMZ 3103
- Phone
- 301.405.4031
Italian Undergraduate Advisor, Romance Languages Advisor, Associate Professor, French and Italian
Giuseppe Falvo is Associate Professor of Italian. He received his Ph.D. in Italian from the Johns Hopkins University in 1986 with a specialization in the Italian Renaissance. He has published numerous articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Della Casa and a book on Baldesar Castiglione entitled The Economy of Human Relations. Castiglione's "Libro del Cortegiano" (Peter Lang, 1992). He recently contributed to the six volume Encyclopedia of the Renaissance published by Charles Scribner's Sons in association with the Renaissance Society of America. He is currently working on a volume on Stefano Guazzo and La Civil Conversazione and on a project dealing with the study of ceremony and ritual in Boccaccio's Decameron. He has been a participant at many conferences and colloquia, delivering papers on various aspects of Italian literature and culture, including the Italian cinema. He is recipient of several honors, including an award from the Folger Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Fleri, Maria S
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- JMZ 4109
- Phone
- 301.405.3433
Italian Lecturer
Maria S. Fleri, Instructor of Italian, holds an M.A. in Italian Literature from The Catholic University of America where she worked as a Teaching Assistant. She has been teaching at the University of Maryland since 1994. She is an experienced translator and interpreter and has worked as an Italian researcher for a law firm in Washington, D.C. Her main interest is in second language acquisition and pedagogy with a special interest in Sicilian dialects and folklore.
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Frederiksen, Elke
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- JMZ 3211
- Phone
- 301.405.4107
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator, Germanic Studies
Professor Elke Frederiksen is an internationally known scholar who has lectured and published on issues of German and Austrian literature and culture in Europe, the United States, Canada, China and Japan. Her discovery of an unknown manuscript by the 19th century German-Jewish writer Heinrich Heine in Kraków, Poland, drew attention all over Europe. Her research and teaching interests focus on a variety of aspects in 19th and 20th century German and Austrian literature and culture (e.g. authors such as Bettina von Arnim, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Heinrich Heine, Franz Grillparzer, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Gabriele Reuter, Luise Rinser; genre studies, letters, travel literature) with emphasis on individual authors such as Bettina von Arnim and Heinrich Heine, on the intersections of women's social and literary history, as well as Cultural Studies including Post-Colonialism. Breaking away from traditional approaches to literature, she has incorporated concepts of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and nationality into both her research and teaching. She received the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award in 1986/87, and her book edition Women Writers of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (1989) received an "Outstanding Academic Book" award. Professor Frederiksen was also a Distinguished Visiting Professor (Friedrich Kittler Chair) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 1998. Her latest book publication Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past was published 2000 with SUNY Press.
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Frisch, Andrea
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- JMZ 3106F
- Phone
- 301.405.4028
Associate Professor of French
A specialist in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Andrea Frisch received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation on early modern travel literature and the novel. She subsequently did research in law and literature for The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France (University of North Carolina P, 2004). Her work has appeared in Representations, Romanic Review, Discourse, Esprit créateur and Modern Language Quarterly. Andrea has received fellowships from the Newberry Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities and, most recently, from the National Humanities Center, where she was a fellow in 2004-2005. She is currently writing a book about the impact of the civil wars of the sixteenth century on the literature and aesthetics of the seventeenth century in France.
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Gonen, Einat
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- JMZ 4202
- Phone
- 301.405.1002
Hebrew Lecturer
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Gor, Kira
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- JMZ 2106E
- Phone
- 301.405.0185
Associate Professor, Russian
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Harrison, Regina
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- JMZ 2203/ SQH 4124
- Phone
- 301.405.0497 / 301.405.2853
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese & Comparative Literature
Regina Harrison's scholarship combines the disciplines of anthropology and literature, as reflected in her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her book Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture (University of Texas, 1989) received the first Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Prize from the Modern Language Association in 1991, and was also awarded prizes from the Latin American Studies Association and the New England Council of Latin American Studies. A Professor in Spanish and Comparative Literature and affiliate Professor in Anthropology, Harrison teaches Quechua, the language spoken by the Incas, as well as Latin American cultures and literatures. Her third book, Entre el tronar épico y el llanto elegíaco (Quito, Ecuador; 1997), analyzes the use of the Indian symbol in poetry as Ecuador "negotiates nation" in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her first video, Cashing in on Culture: Indigenous Communities and Tourism (2002), is a collaboration with indigenous Ecuadorians who comment on tourism, the economic benefits, and the downside of cultural assimilation. Mined to Death--a DVD she filmed and produced with Quechua-speaking miners from Potosí, Bolivia-- was awarded the Latin American Studies Association “Award of Merit in Film” in 2007. With fellowship funding from the Simon J. Guggenheim Foundation (1999-2000), Harrison analyzes confession manuals and sermons written in Spanish and Quechua to determine "semantic conversions." In 2004-05 she researched Quichua indigenous communities’ reaction to the ‘dollarization’ of Ecuadorian currency, funded by a Fulbright grant. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, and later lived with indigenous communities in the tropical forest and the Andes. Her research has been sponsored by S.S.R.C., A.C.L.S., Rockefeller, Fulbright, N.E.H., and the Mellon Foundation. She is also a Visiting Faculty member at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito, Ecuador) and in the Centro de Estudios Regionalistas Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas (Cusco, Peru). Link to Homepage
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Hassan, Inas
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- JMZ 4102
- Phone
- 301.405.2280
Arabic Lecturer. Arabic Liasion for Language House
Inas Hassan, lecturer of Arabic, earned an MA (1997), and a PhD (2003) in Arabic language and Arabic linguistics from Alexandria University, Egypt. Previous to her appointment at UMD, She has taught Arabic language at Montgomery College, Dickinson College, central Pennsylvania Community College where she established new Arabic credit and non-credit program, TAFL (Teaching Arabic as a second language) institute, and Alexandria University. She has more than fifteen years of experience in teaching Arabic as a second language and as academic study with new and different techniques. Her learning and teaching in the foreign language classrooms have provided her with the motivation to start working in her proposed research; "Alphabet Arabic language". In this research, she is trying to facilitate the most difficult points of Arabic by relating it to the learner's native language, using narratives of classroom successes and failures as the bases for essential reflection on modern linguistics theory.
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Hitchcock, Donald
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- JMZ 4210
- Phone
- 301.405.0465
Associate Professor of Russian
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Igel, Regina
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- JMZ 3123
- Phone
- 301.405.6457
Professor, Portuguese Advisor, Spanish and Portuguese
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Inoue, Makiko
- Office
- JMZ 4218
- Phone
- 301.405.0405
Japanese Lecturer
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Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad
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- JMZ 1220B
- Phone
- 301.405.3147
Professor, Founding Director, Center for Persian Studies
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Persian Studies (CPS) at the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC), University of Maryland. For nineteen years he was Professor of Persian language and literature and Iranian culture and civilization at the University of Washington. He has studied in Iran and the United States, receiving his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in 1979, and has taught English and comparative literature and translation studies, as well as classical and modern Persian literature at the University of Tehran, Rutgers University, Columbia University, and the University of Texas.
Professor Karimi-Hakkak is the author of eighteen books and over one hundred major scholarly articles. He has contributed articles on Iran and Persian literature to many reference works, including The Encyclopedia Britannica, The Encyclopaedia Iranica, and The Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. His works have been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Persian, and Japanese. He has won numerous awards and honors, and has served as President of the International Society for Iranian Studies and several other professional academic organizations.
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Kashima, Miki
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- JMZ 4218
- Phone
- 301.405.0405
Japanese Lecturer
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Kerkham, Eleanor
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- JMZ 2106C
- Phone
- 301.405.2855
Associate Professor of Japanese
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Kong, Mei
- Office
- JMZ 4223
- Phone
- 301.405.0411
Chinese Instructor
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Lacorte, Manel
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- JMZ 2202
- Phone
- 301.405.8233
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Manel Lacorte received his BA from the University of Barcelona (Spain), an MA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish linguistics and applied linguistics as part of the SLA/A program, he is the Director of the Spanish Language Program. His research focuses on language classroom interaction and development, language use and identity, social and cultural issues in second language (L2) and heritage language (HL) teaching and learning, L2/HL teacher education, L2/HL methodology, and issues in Spanish applied linguistics. He has published in journals such as Language Teaching Research, Foreign Language Annals, Spanish in Context, Heritage Language Journal, Hispania, and Cultura & Educación, among others. He has also published a teachers’ guide on task-based teaching, and edited “Romance languages and linguistic communities in the United States” a collection of papers from an international conference held at the University of Maryland (LASC, 2002). More recently, he co-edited “Contacto y contextos lingüísticos: El español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas”, on Spanish in the U.S. and in contact with other languages (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2005), and edited “Lingüística aplicada del español” a volume on Spanish applied linguistics (Arco/Libros, 2007). At present, Manel Lacorte is writing an academic book on interaction and context in foreign language teaching and learning, and editing a volume on sociolinguistic, politic, and pedagogical dimensions of Spanish in the U.S.
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Landa, Marianna
- Office
- JMZ 3106B
- Phone
- 301.405.4207
Assistant Professor, Russian
Marianna Landa specializes in the literature, culture, and visual experience of Russian Modernism, also called the Silver Age of Russian literature (1880s-1920s).
Since Marianna literally grew up in the Hermitage museum where her mother was an art curator, she passionately loves art history and museums. Her other hobbies include reading, watching theater shows, and spending time with her family and friends. -
Lavine, Roberta
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- JMZ 2102
- Phone
- 301.405.6443
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Roberta Z. Lavine received her PhD from the Catholic University of America in 1983. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Program and Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She has 25 years of teaching experience and has taught all levels of Spanish language, Business Spanish, Cross-cultural Communication, and methodology, among other courses. Her current research interests deal with learner variables in language learning, especially learning disabilities, Language for Specific Purposes, and technology. She has extensive experience in technology and the use of computers for instructional purposes, and currently teaches Business language and cross-cultural communication in a technology-enhanced environment. She has won the University of Maryland Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology as well as a Fellowship from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. She has published in all of the above mentioned areas and has lectured and given workshops all over the world.
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Lee, Jung Jung
- Office
- JMZ 4223
- Phone
- 301.405.0411
Chinese Lecturer
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Lekic, Maria D.
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- JMZ 2106A
- Phone
- 301.405.4099
Associate Professor, Asian and East European
Dr. Maria Lekic completed her doctoral degree in 1983 in Russian language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania where she also taught for several years. She has authored or co-authored a number of multi-media textbooks used widely at universities and schools in the U.S. and is director of RussNet and CenAsiaNet, the principal resource-sharing networks for the Russian and Central Asian language fields. Dr. Lekic teaches courses in Russian language and literature in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She is currently finishing work on a multi-year investigation of the acquisition of Russian verbal morphology by American learners in immersion environments.
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Letzter, Jacqueline
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- JMZ 3124
- Phone
- 301.405.4036
Associate Professor of French
Jacqueline Letzter, Associate Professor of French, was awarded a Ph.D. in French from Harvard University in 1995. She specializes in the literature and culture of the Old Regime and the French Revolution, and is particularly interested in the literature of women; including novels, memoirs, essays, political tracts, theatre, and opera. In her book, Intellectual Tacking: Questions of Education in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998). Letzter examines Isabelle de Charrière's contribution to the debate over education. With musicologist Robert Adelson, Letzter has written Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), a book which examines the unprecedented success of women opera composers and librettists during the French revolutionary period. She has published articles in numerous journals, including Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge Opera Journal, Feminist Studies, Revue d'Histoire du Théâtre, Lettre de Zuylen, Nineteenth-Century French Studies , and Eighteenth-Century Women. She is currently working on a project about women and early modern cultural identity in Belgium.
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Levy, Nili
- Office
- JMZ 4202
- Phone
- 301.405.1002
Hebrew Instructor and Advisor
Nili Levy has been teaching Hebrew language at the University of Maryland since 1983. Before moving to the United States, Ms. Levy taught Hebrew language and literature for ten years in Israeli high schools. During this time, she also served as the head of a Hebrew Literature Department. Ms. Levy taught Hebrew at the Baltimore Hebrew University for four years. Since coming to UM, she has taught all levels of Hebrew. She also developed a course on Israeli cinema, served as Hebrew Coordinator and Advisor, and worked on a variety of departmental committees. In addition, she was the Hebrew Program Liaison to the language house for ten years. Ms. Levy served on the Hebrew Committee for the SAT II subject examinations administered by the Princeton College Board. Currently, Ms. Levy is the Hebrew Program Advisor.
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Liu, Jianmei
- Office
- JMZ 4124
- Phone
- 301.405.7376
Associate Professor, Asian and East European,
Professor Liu received her Ph.D of East Asian Studies from Columbia University in 1998. Her research interests include modern Chinese literature, film studies, popular culture, and gender studies. She has published three books: Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction(U.of Hawaii,2003); Goddess in the Carnival (Mingbao, 2004) and Understanding Life (coauthored with Liu Zaifu) (Tiandi,2000).
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Long, Michael H
- Office
- JMZ 1105C
- Phone
- 301.405.6464
Director, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Professor, Second Language AcquisitionPh.D., Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1980. Areas of interest: epistemological issues and theory change in SLA; age differences; maturational constraints and sensitive periods in SLA; SLA processes, e.g, stabilization/fossilization in interlanguage development, negative feedback (models and recasts) in second language acquisition; language aptitude; the advanced learner; second language research methods; foreign language needs analysis; task-based language teaching. Link to CV
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Martin, Cynthia
- Office
- JMZ 2106B
- Phone
- 301.405.4244
Associate Professor of Russian
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Mason, Michele
- Office
- JMZ 4224
- Phone
- 301.405.3745
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Michele Mason is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures. Her training in modern Japanese literature has been informed by a cultural studies approach, with an abiding concern for historical understanding. Mason's research and teaching interests include modern Japanese literature and history, colonial and postcolonial studies, gender and feminist studies, and masculinity studies. She also continues her engaged study of the history of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear studies, and peace and nuclear abolition movements.
Mason is currently working on her manuscript, titled Peripheral Visions: Imagining Hokkaido and Instituting Imperial Japan. This work examines how "visions" of Japan's first modern colony, Hokkaido, played a crucial role in the construction of imperial ideology, the modern military, Japanese subjects and national identity. Through her readings of Meiji literary representations, government policies and pronouncements, and media and popular accounts, she argues that powerful rhetorical modes were deployed to construct Hokkaido, variously, as a natural part of the Japanese archipelago and a remote foreign land; a fount of untouched natural resources and an empty wasteland of snow and ice; a utopian escape and a desolate dead-end; a proving ground for national masculinity and a metaphor for modern angst. This project reconsiders Hokkaido's ambivalent colonial status, and highlights the significance of gender, and specifically masculinity, in shaping modern Japan.
Mason is also a co-producer, with Kathy Sloane, of a short documentary film entitled Hibakusha (survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki). In this fifteen-minute film, Keiji Tsuchiya uses 12 powerful watercolors that he painted in 2000 to tell the story of his experiences in Hiroshima as a 17-year-old soldier during the month immediately following the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. While the film addresses a horrific moment in history, it emphasizes how Mr. Tsuchiya has directed his life towards purpose and healing through his life-long commitments to advocating for atomic bomb survivors, opposing nuclear war, and preserving the Japanese horseshoe crab.
Mason received a B.A. in Linguistics and Japanese from the University of Oregon, Eugene (1989), an M.A. in modern Japanese literature from the University of California, Los Angeles (1995) and a Ph.D. in Modern Japanese Literature from the University of California, Irvine (2005). -
Merediz, Eyda
- Office
- JMZ 2215H
- Phone
- 301.405.6451
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
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Miura, Eiko
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- JMZ 4211
- Phone
- 301.405.4248
Japanese Lecturer
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Mossman, Carol
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- JMZ 3106E
- Phone
- 301.405.3200
Professor of French
Carol Mossman, Professor of French, received a Ph.D. from Rice University in French Literature; before coming to this university she taught at the University of Texas at Austin. Her general field of research and teaching is 19th-century French literature. Within that framework she has a special interest in gender studies. She particularly enjoys teaching an interdisciplinary course which encompasses opera, cinema and narrative with respect to the figure of the femme fatale and the performance of violence. Currently her research bears on rereading and deconstructing the concept of "boheme." She has published two books: The Narrative Matrix: A Study of Stendhal's "Le Rouge e le Noir" ( French Forum Publishers, 1984) and Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
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Moussavi, Ahmad
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- JMZ 1220D
- Phone
- 301.405.2735
Persian Lecturer
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Moyer, Alene
- Office
- JMZ 3202
- Phone
- 301.405.4101
Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
Alene Moyer received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in Germanic and Applied Linguistics. She taught for several years at Georgetown University before coming to the University of Maryland. Dr. Moyer has published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development, Issues in Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Annals and Modern Language Journal. Her first book appeared in 2004 with Multilingual Matters, entitled: Age, Accent and Experience in Second Language Acquistion. An Integrated Approach to Critical Period Inquiry. She is currently working on a second book on second language phonological acquisition. Her research interests include critical period theory, sociolinguistics, adult acquisition of phonology, social implications of accent, and advanced learner issues in SLA. Dr. Moyer directs the language program and supervises TAs in Germanic Studies.
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Naharro Calderón, José M
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- JMZ 2204
- Phone
- 301.405.6455
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Dr. José María Naharro-Calderón (Ph.D. 1985 University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor of Spanish that teaches Spanish contemporary literature and film. He has been a Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Universidad de Alcalá where he also directed the Maryland Spring Program (1998-2005) as well as a Summer Program at the Instituto Internacional and San Roque (1989-2001). His research covers both contemporary Spain and Latin America, specially exile literature and film. He has translated Salvo en el cumplea?os de la reina Victoria: Historia de las minas de Río Tinto (1985; reprint 2007) and has edited a double issue of the journal Anthropos on Juan Ramón Jiménez and Zenobia Camprubí (1989), as well as the Selected Proceedings of El exilio de las Españas de 1939 en las Américas: ¿Adónde fue la canción? (1991), and Los exilios de las Espa?as de 1939: Por sendas de la memoria (1999), both conferences held at College Park. He has authored Entre el exilio y el interior: el "entresiglo" y Juan Ramón Jiménez (1994). He has also edited a volume of poetry of Chilean poet Raul Barrientos, Jazz (1997), a critical edition of Manuscrit corbeau and Manuscrito cuervo by Max Aub (1998-9) and an issue on "De Memorias" (2004) and Ochenta nuevos aforismos (1921-1928) by Juan Ram?n Jim?nez (2006). He has just completed critical editions on Campo francés and El rapto de Europa by Max Aub and a book entitled "Sangrías españolas y terapias de Vichy: de los campos de concentración a las vueltas de exilio". He has published over fifty articles on Francisco Martínez de la Rosa, Pío Baroja and Benito Pérez Galdós, César Vallejo, Luis Cernuda, Francisco Villaespesa, Mercedes Escolano, Jorge Guillén, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Ana Rossetti, Camilo José Cela, Antonio Machado, Rafael Morales, Ana Mar?a Fagundo, Juan Ram?n Jiménez, Max Aub, Paulino Masip, Leopoldo Lugones, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, María Luisa Elío, the X Generation, literature and Madrid, Spanish film, the literature of the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish Exile of 1939 and their memories. His articles have appeared among other journals in Hispanic Review, Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, Insula, Revista monográfica, Bulletin hispanique, España contemporánea, Letras peninsulares, Revista canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, etc. He has lectured at European and US universities, as well as directed several summer seminars on exile and delivered multiple papers at national and international conferences. Among his grants, there are one Semester and two Summer awards from the Graduate Research Board at Maryland, and several grants from the Md. Humanities Council, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States's Universities and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain. He has been a Modern Language Association Regional Delegate (1992-94) as well as the Twentieth Century Spanish Division Delegate (1998-2000). He is a board member of AEMIC and sits on the Editorial Board of the journals Migraciones y Exilios, Laberintos and El correo de Euclides.
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Orlando, Valérie
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- JMZ 3106B
- Phone
- 301.405.4207
Associate Professor of French
Valérie Orlando is Associate Professor of French & Francophone Literature. She received her MA in French in 1993 from George Mason University and her PhD in French Studies in 1996 from Brown University. She has published two books: Nomadic Voices of Exile: Feminine Identity in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb, (Ohio University Press, 1999) and Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood Through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean (Lexington Books, 2003) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on Francophone literature from the African diaspora, African Cinema, and French literature and culture. She recently completed a book entitled, Francophone Voices of the 'New Morocco' in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Society in Transition (forthcoming 2008) while conducting Fulbright research in Morocco and Tunisia. She is currently working on a book entitled: Writing in/on the Front Lines of Exile: Political Dissidence, Memory and Cultural (Dis)location in Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean. She has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University (1999-2006), Purdue University (1997-1999) and Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Northern Republic of Cyprus (1996-1997).
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Oster, Rosemarie
- Office
- JMZ 3224
- Phone
- 301.405.4096
Professor Scandinavian Studies, Germanic Studies
Professor Oster's specialization is modern Scandinavian literature and culture. Her research focus is on contemporary Swedish women's literature with particular emphasis on the social and cultural context; publications also include articles on Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. On the graduate level she teaches courses on Germanic philology and Germanic mythology.
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Papazian, Elizabeth
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- JMZ 4123
- Phone
- 301.405.4329
Associate Professor Asian and East European
Elizabeth Papazian is an Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Asian & East European, where she teaches courses in Russian Language, Literature, and Film. She received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University in December 2000, and has taught at Vassar College. Her research interests include early Soviet Russian literature and culture, Soviet film, and Czech literature of the interwar period. Current projects include research on the Ukrainian filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko; the interwar and wartime writings of the Czech-Jewish author Karel Polacek; and changing models of authorship in Soviet Russian culture, 1921-1934.
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Pelleg, Tamar
- Office
- JMZ 4223
- Phone
- 301.493.4942
Hebrew Lecturer
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Penrose, Mehl
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- JMZ 2210
- Phone
- 301.405.8902
Assistant Professor
Mehl Penrose is a native of Independence, Missouri. He became interested in languages, literature and culture at an early age and began study of French and Spanish when he was around 12 years old. After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, graduating with a double major in Political Science and Spanish. He spent his junior year in Mexico City. After working in international marketing for one year after graduation, he knew that academe would be the best profession for himself. He attended Kansas University to obtain a master's degree in Spanish and Latin American literature. Next, he taught for two years at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts, a residential preparatory institute for advanced students. In 1995, Mehl commenced his doctoral program at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he focused on nineteenth-century Spanish literature and minored in contemporary Latin American literature and applied linguistics. He studied under Dr. Ruben Benitez and wrote his dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Jesus Torrecilla. Since 2000, he has taught at Miami University of Ohio and Prairie View A&M University, one of the Texas A&M University campuses. His research interests include periodical literature of the 18th and 19th centuries (Spain), reader response and reception theory, studies in sexuality and gender role-playing, costumbrismo, and German philosophical influences on Spanish Romanticism and Realism.
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Peres, Phyllis
- Office
- Main Administration Building 1122
- Phone
- 301.405.6836
Associate Professor of Portuguese
Associate Provost for Academic Planning and ProgramsPhyllis Peres hold a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of Minnesota (1986). She has published widely on the literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world, particularly on Africa, the African Diaspora in Brazil, and the Portuguese Atlantic. Dr. Peres has co-directed two NEH Summer Institutes in Brazil and for 2007-2009 serves as the President of the American Portuguese Studies Association.
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Pfister, Günther G.
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- JMZ 3210
- Phone
- 301.405.4106
Professor Emeritus & Department Chair, Germanic Studies
Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, Study Abroad AdvisorProfessor Pfister's research focuses on second language acquisition, German culture, and Landeskunde. His investigation of the Affective Domain examines its relationship to culture as exemplified in the study of cultural contrasts. He incorporates the insights into cultural differences into the first and second year German language instruction. His research is also reflected in his training and supervising of teaching assistants to improve the cultural awareness of language instructors.
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Quintero Herencia, Juan Carlos
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- JMZ 2215 A
- Phone
- 301.405.6450
Professor, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Spanish and PortugueseJuan Carlos Quintero-Herencia (BA. University of Puerto Rico, M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University), Professor of Latin American Literature. Professor Quintero-Herencia taught at the University of Puerto Rico's Department of Hispanic Studies, Rio Piedras Campus, from 1992 to 2001 and was appointed Andrew W. Mellon Research Associate at Brown University's Department of Hispanic Studies from 1998 to 2000. Quintero-Herencia has published Fulguración del espacio: Letras e imaginario institucional de la Revolución cubana (1960-1971) Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo, 2002 (Latin American Studies Association-Premio Iberoamericano 2004); La máquina de la salsa. Tránsitos del sabor. San Juan: Ediciones Vértigo, 2005. As a published poet Quintero-Herencia is the author of La caja negra. San Juan, Editorial Isla Negra, 1996; El hilo para el marisco/Cuaderno de los envíos. San Juan: Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2002 (Poetry Award Pen Club of Puerto Rico). He is currently working on a third book dedicated to the complex relations between poetry and the traditional cultural settings of politics in the Hispanic Caribbean. Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature, Contemporary Puerto Rican and Cuban Literatures, Literary Theory, Cultural Analysis, Poetry and Literary Politics.
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Ramsey, Robert
- Office
- JMZ 2106G
- Phone
- 301.405.4256
Professor / Chair, Asian and East European
S.Robert Ramsey is professor of East Asian linguistics at the University of Maryland and immediate past chair of the Department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures. He has also taught at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. He has received teaching awards from the Korean Student Association and the Asian Student Union at the University of Maryland, and from the Center for Teaching Excellence at the same university. Ramsey does primary research on the historical development of Japanese and Korean and the historical relationships between the two languages. He is perhaps best known for his work on Korean dialects and the reconstruction of prehistoric stages of Korean. He has also written extensively on sociolinguistic topics. Author of three books and several dozen articles, he has also lectured widely on various linguistic topics in Japan, Korea, Europe, and the United States.
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Ramsey, Younghi
- Office
- JMZ 2106G
- Phone
- 301.405.1056
Korean Lecturer
Kim Younghi has been an instructor in Korean at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1989. Kim is a graduate of Yonsei University in Korean language and literature and has also taught Korean language at Yonsei. Prior to joining the Maryland faculty, she had been an instructor of Korean language at Yale and Columbia. Since 1985, she has also taught Korean language at the Korean Information Center of the Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C. For the program at that institution, she has constructed and written curriculum guides for multiple levels of instruction.
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Remson, Karen
- Office
- JMZ 2211
- Phone
- 301.405.6452
Instructor, Spanish and Portuguese, Undergraduate Advisor
Karen Remson, Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor for Spanish, has been at the University of Maryland as an undergraduate and graduate student as well as a faculty member. She has more than 25 years experience teaching college students in all levels of Spanish. She is currently teaching a course in reading and writing strategies. She finds working with undergraduate students interested in the Spanish language and cultures very fulfilling. She has been recognized at the University of Maryland with an award for Teaching Excellence and a Presidential Award for Service to the Schools.
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Rodríguez, Ana Patricia
- Office
- JMZ 2215E
- Phone
- 301.405.2020
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
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Ruzza, Carmen Elena
- Office
- JMZ 2210
- Phone
- 301.405.8902
Spanish Lecturer
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Sanchez de Pinillos, Hernán
- Office
- JMZ 2215G
- Phone
- 301.405.3400
Associate Professor Spanish and Portuguese
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Scullen, Mary Ellen
- Office
- JMZ 3125
- Phone
- 301.405.4033
Teaching Assistant Supervisor, Associate Professor French and Italian
Mary Ellen Scullen, Associate Professor of French, received a joint Ph.D. in French and Theoretical Linguistics from Indiana University in 1993 and holds a Maîtrise de français langue étrangère from l'Université François Rabelais in Tours, France. Before joining the University of Maryland, she taught at the University of Louisville and at Chancellor College, University of Malawi in Southern Africa. Her research interests include French linguistics, second language acquisition and pedagogy, and theoretical phonology. She is currently working on a book, The Art and Practice of Circumlocution in Foreign and Second Language Acquisition with Sarah Jourdain of SUNY, Stony Brook, as well as a textbook, Chez Nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, 2nd edition, with Cathy Pons, Albert Valdman, and Sarah Jourdain. She is the author of French Prosodic Morphology: A Unified Account (IULC Publications, 1997) and a number of book chapters and articles, the most recent of which are "New Insights into French Reduplication" in Romance Phonology and Variation (2001), "Les dictionnaires français: un lieu privilégié du sexisme" in Cahiers de lexicologie (2001), "The Effect of Explicit Training on Successful Circumlocution" (co-authored with Sarah Jourdain) in Meaning and Form: Multiple Perspectives (2000), and "French Syllable Structure: Reconsidering the Onset" in Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages (1996). She is also TA Supervisor and Coordinator.
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Sosnowski, Saul
- Office
- HOLZ 1122
- Phone
- 301.405.4772
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Provost for International Affairs
Office of International Programs and Latin American Studies CenterSaúl Sosnowski (Buenos Aires, 1945), holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Maryland at College Park, he has chaired the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (1979-2000) and is Director of the Latin American Studies Center, which he founded in 1989. His current research focuses on democratization in the context of cultural and educational developments.
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Strauch, Gabriele
- Office
- JMZ 3225
- Phone
- 301.405.4104
Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
Professor Strauch's research and teaching interests include German medieval literature and culture; race, class, culture, and gender in medieval texts; medieval women writers; and medieval Crusade literature. In pursuit of these research areas, she considers the concept of otherness as it is reflected in the representation of literary figures outside the societal norms prevalent in German literary texts of the Middles Ages.
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Verdaguer, Pierre
- Office
- JMZ 1105B
- Phone
- 301.405.4102
Associate Director of Academic Affairs, Professor, French and Italian
Pierre Verdaguer, Professor of French, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia as well as a French Agrégation. Before coming to the University of Maryland he taught at Georgetown University. He specializes in twentieth-century fiction, French cultural studies, and the history of ideas. He is the author of L'univers de la cruauté, une lecture de Céline (Droz, 1988) and La séduction policière: Signes de croissance d'un genre réputé mineur (Summa, 1999). He is also the co-editor of Regards sur la France des années 80: Le roman (Anma Libri 1994) and the co-author of an introduction to literary analysis, Transition: Le plaisir des textes (Prentice Hall,1990 and 1995). He has published articles on novelists and thinkers (Henri Bosco, Céline, Denis de Rougemont); popular heroes (Astérix, Superman); stereotypes; and detective fiction. In 1999 he received the Millstone Prize for his article "Manipulating the Past: The Role of History in Recent French Detective Fiction" published in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History. His recent research has focused on French and Anglo-American popular fiction and film.
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Wang, Yuli
- Office
- JMZ 4223
- Phone
- 301.405.0411
Chinese Instructor
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Yaginuma, Kazuo
- Office
- JMZ 4211
- Phone
- 301.405.0495
Japanese Instructor
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Yamakita, Etsuko
- Office
- JMZ 4218
- Phone
- 301.405.4257
Japanese Lecturer
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Yotsukura, Lindsay
- Office
- JMZ 2106F
- Phone
- 301.405.0038
Lindsay Yotsukura received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from The Ohio State University in 1997. She specializes in Japanese linguistics, focusing on cross-cultural pragmatics and discourse analysis from a corpus-linguistic perspective. Recent publications include her book, Negotiating Moves: Problem Presentation and Resolution in Japanese Business Discourse (Elsevier, 2003), and numerous articles and chapters, including “Making inquiries: Toiawase strategies by Japanese L1 and L2 callers to Japanese educational institutions” (in Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives, Continuum, in press); “Beikoku ni okeru Nihongo kyôiku no genjô oyobi gakushûsha dôki ni tsuite (Japanese language education and student motivation in the United States)” (Bonjinsha, 2006); "Japanese Business Telephone Conversations as Bakhtinian Speech Genre: Applications for Second Language Acquisition" (Erlbaum, 2005); and “Learning Words, Learning Worlds” (Japanese Language and Literature 39:2, 2005). In 2006 she also completed a series of seven translations for the new bilingual edition of the Nihongo Kyoiku Jiten, to be published by Taishûkan. In addition to teaching courses at UM in Japanese language and linguistics, she serves as the Coordinator of the undergraduate Japanese program and as Director for the Japanese MA program in Second Language Acquisition and Application. For the 2006-07 year, she was awarded a Lilly Fellowship by the Center for Teaching Excellence, and she has been the recipient of several Instructional Improvement Grants, also awarded by CTE and the College of Arts and Humanities.
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Zakim, Eric
- Office
- JMZ 4225
- Phone
- 301.405.4250
Associate Professor of Hebrew, Coordinator, Hebrew Program, Asian and East European
Eric Zakim received his Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. He has taught various aspects of modernist and post-modernist literature and cultural studies, focusing especially on Hebrew literature and Israeli culture. Before coming to the University of Maryland in the fall of 2002, Eric Zakim taught for several years at Duke University. His current research interests include Holocaust representation, critical theory in the study of music, and the discourses of nature in Zionist culture. His book, To Build and Be Built: Landscape, Literature, and the Construction of a Zionist Identity, will appear in late 2004, and he is now co-editing a volume of essays on Mediterranean studies.
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Zhu, Aijun
- Office
- JMZ 4124
- Phone
- 301.405.7376
Chinese Lecturer
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Nemes, Graciela
- Office
- JMZ 2215H
- Phone
- 301.405.6448
Professor Emerita, Spanish and Portuguese
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Russell, Charles
- Office
- JMZ 3106
- Phone
- 301.405.4025
Professor Emeritus French and Italian
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Walker, Richard
- Office
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Professor Emeritus, Germanic Studies
Dr. Walker's current research and teaching focus on literary expressions of religious discontent and social change during the period from the late 15th through the 17th centuries. Emphasizing texts, contexts and continuity, a wide range of material is examined, including sermons and polemical treatises, various forms of satirical popular literature (Schwänke, Fastnachtspiele, Anekdoten), and examples of both religious and secular drama. Of special interest is the inter-relatedness of literary history and social history. Areas of Interest and Expertise include Medieval German Literature and Culture; Early Modern German Literature and Culture; Polemic of the Catholic Reform Period; Folklore and Folk Literature; Medieval Heroic and Courtly Epic.
