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
  Associate 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.

Max Kramer

• 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.
  

• 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)

Miho Fujimori (Japanese)                                     

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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