Faculty & Staff
Professor and Coordinator of German Studies
Interim Chair, LLC
Specialties:
- East/West German Relations
- German Cultural Studies
- German Film
- Holocaust Representation
- Political Satire
- Turkish German Comedy
Visiting Assistant Professor Italian Studies
Specialties:
- Dante & Italian Medieval Literature and Culture
- Decolonial Theory in the context of Italian film and literature
Director, French Intensive Language Program
Specialties:
- French and Francophone Language and Culture
- Language Teaching Methods
- Second Language Acquisition
- Intercultural Competence
- Medieval French Literature
Assistant Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Film Studies)
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Director of English Language Learning
Specialties:
- U.S. Culture
- Academic Writing
- ESL Teaching Methods
Professor of Literature and Linguistics
William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages
Program Coordinator, Linguistics
Specialties:
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and race
- American dialectology
- Historical linguistics
- Linguistic relativism
- Psychoanalysis
- Comparative literature
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Film Studies
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Professor of French
Specialties:
- 18th Century French Studies
- Film Studies
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
Specialties:
- Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Intellectual History
- Popular Culture and Modernity Theories
- Technology in Foreign Language Education
Professor of Russian and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
- Russian literature and culture
- Czech literature and culture
- Sociobiology in cross-cultural perspective
- History of science (Soviet Union)
Professor of French
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Francophone Literature
- Post-Colonial Criticism
Director, Global Studio
Specialties:
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Russian literature and culture
- Linguistics
- Intellectual history in the sciences
- Translation
Associate Professor of French and Visual Culture
Specialties:
- French literature, art, and culture
- Art Criticism
- Critical Museum Studies
Professor of French and Italian Studies
Specialties:
- Early Modern Studies (French)
- Transnational Literature (Italian Studies)
- Albanian Diaspora
Professor of French & Film Studies Emerita, Co-Director, Annual UR/VCU French Film Festival
Specialties:
- Contemporary French literature and culture
- French film
- Semiotics
Associate Professor of English and Italian Studies
Coordinator, Italian Studies Program
Specialties:
- Renaissance Studies
- Comparative Literature (English, Italian, French)
- Shakespeare
Associate Professor of German Studies
Specialties:
- Performance in and of German-language literature
- Theater and performance studies
- Disability studies
- Gender studies and queer theory