Distinguished Faculty

• Elena M. Martínez, Department Chair,
  Professor (PhD, NYU) Spanish & Comp. Lit. 20th Century Latin American Literature; Latin American-Women's Writing; Gay & Lesbian Literature.
  

• Ruth Adler
  Professor (PhD, NYU) Hebrew and Comp. Lit. Hebrew Literature; Jewish-American & Yiddish Literature; Sociopsychological Approaches to Literature; Pedagogy.

• Esther Allen
  Assistant Professor (PhD, NYU) Literary Translation, Translation Studies, Ecolinguistics, 19th & 20th-century Latin American Literature, 19th & 20th-century French Literature.

• Isolina Ballesteros
  Associate Professor (PhD, Boston Univ): 19th & 20th Cent Spanish (Peninsular) & Comp. Lit.; Contemporary Spanish Cultural, Women's, Immigration Studies; European Cinema.
  

• Olga Casanova-Burgess
  Professor (PhD, CUNY): Spanish & Comp. Lit.: Spanish American Literature; Caribbean Literature; Latin American Women Studies; Puerto Rican Narrative; Puerto Rican Poetry.

• David Cruz de Jesús
  Associate Professor (PhD SUNY, Albany): Hispanic & General Linguistics, Puerto Rican Dialectology & Lexicology, Heritage Language Education, Foreign Language Pedagogy, & Second Language Acquisition.

• Antonietta D'Amelio
  Full-Time Lecturer (PhD , ABD, New York University): Contemporary Italian Literature of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Century.

• Wayne Finke
  Associate Professor (PhD, NYU): Spanish & Comp. Lit. Medieval Spanish Literature & History of the Language; 18th &19th Century Spanish Literature; García Lorca's Theatre & Poetry; Contemp. Cuban Lit.

• Gayana Jurkevich
  Professor (PhD, New York University): Spanish & Comp. Lit. 19th & 20th Century Literature of Spain; History of Ideas; Ekphrasis; Literary Theory.

• Meir Lubetski
  Professor (PhD, New York University): Hebrew & Comp. Lit. Ancient Near East Languages & Literature; The Bible World; Past Biblical & Rabbinic Literature.
  

• Ali Nematollahy
  Associate Professor (PhD, CUNY Graduate Center): 19th Century French Literature.

• Jeffrey M. Peck
  Professor (PhD, UC Berkeley), Weissman School Dean. Research interests: German Jewish Relations, especially >1945; Literature & Anthropology; Literary & Cultural Theory; Minority & Diaspora Studies; Gender.
  

• Debra Popkin
  Professor (PhD, Columbia University): French & Comp. Lit. 20th Century French Drama; Foreign Language Pedagogy; Francophone African Literature.

• Isabel Cid Sirgado
  Professor (PhD, New York University): Spanish & Comp. Literature; 18th Century Spanish Literature; Second Language Acquisition; Comparative Literature. 
• Shige (CJ) Suzuki
  Assistant Professor (PhD, UC, Santa Cruz): Modern, Contemporary Japanese Lit & Film; Comparative Lit (emphasis: postwar American & Japanese); Speculative Fiction, Popular Culture Studies (manga/comics studies).

• Ping Xu
  Associate Professor (PhD, State University of New York, Binghamton): Chinese literature, language, and culture, Daoism, & Comparative Literature.

• Zhiqiang (John) Yu
  Associate Professor (PhD, University of Washington): Chinese and Japanese. Chinese Classic Novels; Chinese Classic Poetry; History of Chinese Culture; Classic & Modern Chinese Linguistics.
  

• Franco Zangrilli
  Professor  (PhD, Rutgers University): Italian and Comp. Lit. 19th & 20th Century Italian Literature; Poetry & Narrative of Italian Renaissance; Pirandello & Italian Literature.

Part-time Faculty

Leo Benardo
Literature in Translation, French, Spanish

Dina Di Donato , Spanish

Lily Du (Chinese)

Dr. Carole Fabre (French, Literature in Translation)

Albert Fayngold (Literature in Translation)

Ricardo Fernández (Spanish)

Fang Fu (Chinese)

Dr. Stephen Garrin (Literature in Translation)

Lourdes Gil (Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Spanish, Hispanic Studies)

Gail Graves (French)

Alfonso Guerriero (Literature in Translation)

Margaret Hazell (Literature in Translation)

Keiko Miyajima (Japanese)

María Montalvo (Spanish)

Michelle Nascimento-Kettner (Portuguese)

Marilyn Rivera (Spanish)

Sohair Soukkary (Arabic)

Naoko N. Sourial (Japanese)

Miguel Trelles (Latin American and Caribbean Studies)

Dilenia Ureña (Spanish)

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