Research areas
Mushegh Asatryan
Associate Professor:
Religious, cultural, and social history of the medieval Islamic Middle East
Rachel Friedman
Associate Professor (Teaching):
Arabic language, Arabic literature, Islamic thought
Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri
Assistant Professor (Teaching)
Iranian Studies, Middle East Feminist Studies, Resistance and Social Movements, Life writing studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Chinese
Wei Cai
Associate Professor:
Chinese language pedagogy, second language acquisition, second language listening
Mung Ting Chung
Limited-term instructor:
Chinese language, Chinese literature and culture
E-mei Wang
Associate Professor (Teaching):
Chinese language, second language acquisition, curriculum development
East Asian Studies
A.W. Barber
Associate Professor:
Buddhism, Eastern spirituality
French
Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato
Associate Professor:
Second language teaching, sociolinguistics, linguistics-literature interface, Émile Benveniste
Marie-Andrée Bergeron
Associate Professor:
Québec literature and culture, Québec intellectuals in the 1960s and 70s, feminism, post-colonialism
Cyrielle Faivre
Assistant Professor:
19th century French literature, prisons and penal colonies, literature and visual arts, neurodiversity in French literature and culture, French and Francophone contemporary pop culture.
K. Sélom Gbanou
Professor:
French language, Francophone African literature, cinema and theatre, post-colonial studies, literary theory
Miao Li
Limited-term Instructor:
18th - Century France, Language Pedagogy
Jean-François Richer
Associate Professor:
French language, 19th - century French literature, Honoré de Balzac
Devika Vijayan
Assistant Professor:
French language, French 17th - and 18th - century travel literature, Jesuit writings on India and Canada
German
Cornelia Burian
Senior Instructor:
German language, film, culture, and literature
Martin Wagner
Associate Professor:
German language, literature, culture, and philosophy
Indigenous Languages
Darin Flynn
Associate Professor:
Indigenous languages, phonology, sociolinguistics
Elizabeth Ritter
Professor:
Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, Blackfoot, Hebrew
Italian
Eleonora Buonocore
Instructor:
Italian language, Italian literature, culture and philosophy in the medieval and early modern periods
Francesca Cadel
Associate Professor:
Italian language and culture, 20th-century Italian poetry and cinema, Fascism and literature
Japanese
Yoko Kodama
Senior Instructor:
Japanese language, teacher-student interaction
Akiko Sharp
Senior Instructor:
Japanese language, second language acquisition
Ben Whaley
Associate Professor:
Modern Japanese literature and popular culture
Linguistics
Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Assistant Professor:
Language Acquisition, Phonology, Phonetics
Darin Flynn
Associate Professor:
Indigenous languages, phonology, sociolinguistics
David Liebesman
Professor:
Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Pragmatics
Amanda Pounder
Associate Professor:
German, historical linguistics, morphology, semantics
Elizabeth Ritter
Professor:
Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, Blackfoot, Hebrew
Dimitrios Skordos
Assistant Professor:
Language Acquisition, Cognitive Science, Experimental Semantics, Pragmatics
Dennis Storoshenko
Associate Professor:
Syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, psycholinguistics, Tree Adjoining Grammar
Stephen Winters
Assistant Professor:
Phonetics, speech perception
Russian
Elena Bratishenko
Associate Professor:
Slavic historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, analogy in language change
Mark Conliffe
Professor:
Russian language, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, culture
Spanish
Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios
Associate Professor:
Latin American cinemas, Latin American literature, Spanish American literature
Angela George
Associate Professor:
Spanish language, applied linguistics, additional language acquisition, sociolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics
Elizabeth Montes Garcés
Associate Professor:
Spanish language, Latin American literature and film, Latin American women writers
Fresia Sánchez
Professor (Teaching):
Spanish as a second language, colonial literature, cross-border narratives
Luis Torres
Professor:
Contemporary Spanish American Literature, Literary and cultural Theories, Latin American and Spanish Exiles’ Literature in Canada