Distinguished Faculty

• Elena M. Martínez,
  Professor (PhD, NYU) Spanish & Comp. Lit. 20th Century Latin American Literature; Latin American-Women's Writing; Gay & Lesbian Literature.
  
• Ruth Adler
  Professor (PhD, NYU) Hebreww and Comp. Lit. Hebrew Literature; Jewish-American & Yiddish Literature; Sociopsychological Approaches to Literature; Pedagogy.

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

• Isolina Ballesteros
  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.

• Max Kramer
  Assistant Professor (PhD, Columbia Univ, Sorbonne). 19th-21st century French Lit., Francophonie (Maghreb, Québec), Comp. Lit. (Europe, Muslim World, the Americas), Postcolonialism, Sexuality, Poetry, Metaphor
• Meir Lubetski
  Professor (PhD, New York University): Hebrew & Comp. Lit. Ancient Near East Languages & Literature; The Bible World; Past Biblical & Rabbinic Literature.
• Ali Nematollahy  Department Chair
  Associate Professor (PhD, CUNY Graduate Center): 19th Century French Literature.
  

• Shige (CJ) Suzuki
  Associate 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.
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• 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

Lily Du (Chinese)

Dr. Carole Fabre (French, Literature in Translation)

Albert Fayngold (Literature in Translation)

Hedwig Feit (Latin American and Caribbean Studies)

Ricardo Fernández (Spanish)

Fang Fu (Chinese)

Miho Fujimori (Japanese)                                     

Alfonso Guerriero (Literature in Translation)

Margaret Hazell (Literature in Translation)

Keiko Miyajima (Japanese)

María Montalvo (Spanish)

Pablo Perez Wilson (Spanish)

Naoko N. Sourial (Japanese)

Miguel Trelles (Latin American and Caribbean Studies)

Dilenia Ureña (Spanish)

Office Assistant

Jennifer Tavarez

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