Fields of interest of professors

ARABIC

May TELMISSANY - PhD, University of Montréal

• Arab cinema and culture
• Intercultural relations and transnationalism
• Cultural and Transcultural Studies
• Literary theory
• Film theory

 

ASIAN STUDIES

Sufeng XU - PhD, McGill University

• Classical Chinese poetry
• Classical and vernacular Chinese fiction
• Gender and Women’s writing
• Intellectual history in imperial China 

 

CELTIC

Paul W. BIRT - PhD, University of Wales, Bangor

• Modern Welsh Literature
• The Welsh in Argentina
• Early Celtic Narrative

 

GERMAN

Joerg ESLEBEN - PhD, University of Rochester

Research Interests

• German and comparative culture studies
• Intercultural studies
• Theatre

Agatha SCHWARTZ - PhD, Queen's University

• Women's studies and gender studies
• 20th and 21st century German literature and culture
• Central and East European literature and culture

 

ITALIAN

Cristina PERISSINOTTO - PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Italian studies
• Utopia
• The Italian renaissance
• Travel discourse and narratives

Franco RICCI - PhD, University of Toronto

• Contemporary Italian literature and aesthetics
• Narrative discourse and visual representation
• Italian contemporary culture

 

PORTUGUESE

José Pedro ABREU FERREIRA

• Portuguese literature and culture

 

RUSSIAN AND POLISH

Arkadi KLIOUTCHANSKI

• Russian literature and culture

Richard SOKOLOSKI - PhD, University of Toronto

• Polish language and literature
• Russian Literature

 

Emeriti / Retired

J. Douglas CLAYTON - PhD, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Russian romanticism
• Pushkin
• Chekhov
• Russian theatre since 1895

Andrew DONSKOV - PhD, University of Helsinki

• Russian languages and literatures
• Tolstoy
• Doukhobors

 

SPANISH

Luis ABANTO - PhD, University of Ottawa

• Second Language Pedagogy
• Latin American literature and culture

Rosalia CORNEJO-PARRIEGO - PhD, Pennsylvania State University

• Contemporary Spanish literature (narrative)
• Literary theory
• Gender and cultural studies
• Contemporary Latin-American literature

Jorge Carlos GUERRERO - PhD, University of Toronto

• Latin American intellectual history and cultural production
• Comparative studies between Brazil and Spanish America

Gaston LILLO - PhD, University of Montreal

• Latino American literature and cinema

James NELSON NOVOA - PhD, Universidad de Valencia

• Medieval and Early Modern Spanish and Portuguese culture
• Conversos and the Sephardic diaspora

Juana MUNOZ-LICERAS - PhD, University of Toronto

• Language acquisition
• Spanish and general linguistics
• Psycholinguistics, contrastive and descriptive grammar

Elena VALENZUELA - PhD, McGill University

• Spanish linguistics
• Second Language Acquisition

 

Emeriti / Retired

Fernando DE DIEGO PÉREZ - PhD, University of Montreal

• XXth Century Spanish Peninsular Literature
• Literary Theory
• XXth Century Spanish and Latin-American Women Writers
• Theatre Discourse

José Ruano DE LA HAZA - PhD, University of London

• Spanish literature
• History of theatre
• Textual criticism

 

YIDDISH

Rebecca MARGOLIS - PhD, Columbia University

• Canadian Yiddish culture
• Yiddish language and literature
• Canadian Jewish Studies