RUTH ADLER, Professor. (Ph.D., New York University): Hebrew and Comp. Lit. Hebrew Literature; Jewish-American and Yiddish Literature; Sociopsychological Approaches to Literature; Pedagogy.

ESTHER ALLEN, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., New York University). Literary Translation, Translation Studies, Ecolinguistics, 19th and 20th-century Latin American Literature, 19th & 20th-century French literature.

MARIA MERCEDES ANDRADE, Assistant Professor, Joint Appointment of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature and Black and Hispanic Studies Department (Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook): Spanish and Comp. Lit. 19th and 20th century Latin American literature; Aesthetics and Literary Theory; Urban Studies; Women's Writing.

ISOLINA BALLESTEROS, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Boston University): Hispanic Literature; 20th Century Spanish (Peninsular) Literature; Contemporary Spanish Cinema, Culture and Society.

OLGA CASANOVA-BURGESS, Professor. (Ph.D., City University of New York): Spanish & Comp. Lit. Spanish American Literature; Caribbean Literature; Latin American Women Studies; Puerto Rican Narrative; Puerto Rican Poetry.

DAVID CRUZ DE JESÚS, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., State University of New York, Albany): Spanish linguistics and Puerto Rican dialectology.

WAYNE FINKE, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., New York University): Spanish & Comp. Lit. Medieval Spanish Literature & History of the Language; 18th -19th Century Spanish Literature; García Lorca's Theater & Poetry; Contemporary Cuban Literature.

GAYANA JURKEVICH , Professor. (Ph.D., New York University): Spanish & Comp. Lit. 19th & 20th Century Literature of Spain; History of Ideas; Ekphrasis; Literary Theory.

MEIR LUBETSKI, Professor. (Ph.D., New York University): Hebrew & Comp. Lit. Ancient Near East Languages and Literature; The Bible World; Past Biblical and Rabbinic Literature.

ELENA M. MARTINEZ, Professor and Department Chair. (Ph.D., New York University): Spanish & Comp. Lit. 20th Century Latin American Literature; Latin American-Women's Writing; Gay and Lesbian Literature.

ALI NEMATOLLAHY, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center): 19th Century French literature; doctoral dissertation examines connections between anarchism and literature during the late nineteenth-century.

DEBRA POPKIN, Professor. (Ph.D., Columbia University): French & Comp. Lit. 20th Century French Drama; Foreign Language Pedagogy; Francophone African Literature.

ISABEL CID SIRGADO, Professor. (Ph.D., New York University): Spanish & Comp. Lit. 18th Century Spanish Literature; Second Language Acquisition; Comparative Literature.

NORIKO WATANABE, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo.): Japanese linguistics, pragmatics, oral storytelling, Japanese literature and language, Japanese orthography, literacy theories on humor, and sociolinguistics.

PING XU, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., State University of New York, Binghamton): Chinese literature, language, and culture, Daoism and comparative literature.

ZHIQIANG YU, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of Washington): Chinese and Japanese. Chinese Classic Novels; Chinese Classic Poetry; History of Chinese Culture; Classic and Modern Chinese Linguistics.

FRANCO ZANGRILLI, Professor. (Ph.D., Rutgers University): Italian and Comp. Lit. 19th & 20th Century Italian Literature; Poetry & Narrative of Italian Renaissance; Pirandello and Italian Literature.

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