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
Joana PIMENTEL - PhD, Carleton University
- Portuguese language
- Didactics of Portuguese as a second language
- Comparative literature
RUSSIAN AND POLISH
- 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