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Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature

Distinguished Faculty

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

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

Esther Allen
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., NYU) Literary Translation, Translation Studies, Ecolinguistics, 19th and 20th-century Latin American Literature, 19th & 20th-century French literature.

Isolina Ballesteros
Asst Prof (Ph.D., Boston Univ): 19th & 20th Cent Spanish (Peninsular) & Comp. Lit.; Contemporary Spanish Cultural, Women's, Immigration Studies; European Cinema.

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. SUNY, Albany): Hispanic & General Linguistics, Puerto Rican Dialectology & Lexicology, Heritage Language Education, Foreign Language Pedagogy, & Second Language Acquisition.

place holder Antonietta D'Amelio
Full-Time Lecturer (Ph.D. , ABD, New York University): Contemporary Italian Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.

Wayne Finke
Associate Professor (Ph.D., 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 (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.

Ali Nematollahy
Associate Professor (Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center): 19th Century French literature.

Jeffrey M. Peck
Professor (Ph.D., UC Berkeley), Dean of the Weissman School. Research interests: German Jewish relations, particularly post 1945; literature & anthropology; literary & cultural theory; minority & diaspora studies; gender.

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.
Shigeru Suzuki

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

Zhiqiang (John) 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.