Faculty & Staff
Professor of French
Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Francophone Literature
- Post-Colonial Criticism
(804) 289-8104
Senior Teaching Faculty of French
Director, French Intensive Language Program
Specialties:
- French and Francophone Language and Culture
- Language Teaching Methods
- Second Language Acquisition
- Intercultural Competence
- Medieval French Literature
(804) 287-6817
Visiting Associate Professor of German Studies/ Humanities Fellow in Literary Translation
Contact: 804-287-6432
Assistant Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Film Studies)
Specialties:
- Filmmaking
- World Cinema
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Editing
(804) 289-8711
Director of English Language Learning
Specialties:
- U.S. Culture
- Academic Writing
- ESL Teaching Methods
(804) 287-6305
Professor of Literature and Linguistics
William Judson Gaines Chair of Modern Foreign Languages
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Linguistics
Specialties:
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and race
- American dialectology
- Historical linguistics
- Linguistic relativism
- Psychoanalysis
- Comparative literature
(804) 289-8102
Professor of German Studies
Specialties:
- German Cultural Studies
- German Film
- Political Satire
- Postmigrant Comedy
- Holocaust Representation
804-287-6060
Dr. Olivier Delers
He/Him
Professor of French
Interim Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance
Specialties:
- 18th Century French Studies
- Film Studies
(804) 289-8106
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
Specialties:
- Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Intellectual History
- Popular Culture and Modernity Theories
- Technology in Foreign Language Education
(804) 289-8096
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Studies
Specialties:
- 20th Century Russian and Soviet literature
- Nonsense literature
- Children’s literature
- Absurdism and carnival
Professor of Russian and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Global Studies
Specialties:
- Russian literature and culture
- Czech literature and culture
- Sociobiology in cross-cultural perspective
- History of science (Soviet Union)
(804) 289-8101
Adjunct Instructor of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Contact: (804) 289-8096
Teaching Faculty of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
Director, Global Studio
Specialties:
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Russian literature and culture
- Linguistics
- Intellectual history in the sciences
- Translation
(804) 287-6838
Adjunct Lecturer of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Contact:
Associate Professor of French and Visual Culture
Specialties:
- French literature, art, and culture
- Art Criticism
- Critical Museum Studies
(804) 289-8109
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Specialties:
- Italian cinema
- Postcolonial cinema
- Italian cultural and intellectual history
- Industrial and sponsored cinema
- Cinema and history
- Mediterranean studies
- Transnational cultural practices
- Jewish Italian Culture
Adjunct Professor of Italian Studies
Specialties:
- Language development and construction. Language structure.
- Social function and role of Art.
(804) 289-8096
Professor of French and Italian Studies
Specialties:
- Early Modern Studies (French)
- Transnational Literature (Italian Studies)
- Albanian Diaspora
(804) 289-8110
Dr. Hilary C. Raymond
She/Her
Teaching Faculty in French
Specialties:
- French Language and Francophone Cultures
- Teaching Methods for World Languages
- Second Language Acquisition
(804) 287-6322
Jaime Rung
She/Her
Associate Professor of English and Italian Studies
Coordinator, Italian Studies Program
Specialties:
- Renaissance Studies
- Comparative Literature (English, Italian, French)
- Shakespeare
(804) 289-8294
Senior Teaching Faculty of Japanese
Director of the Japanese Language Program
Contact: (804) 289-8293
Associate Professor of German Studies
Specialties:
- Performance in and of German-language literature
- Theater and performance studies
- Disability studies
- Gender studies and queer theory
(804) 289-8096
Emeriti Faculty
Professor of French & Film Studies Emerita, Co-Director, Annual UR/VCU French Film Festival
Specialties:
- Contemporary French literature and culture
- French film
- Semiotics