Research Areas

French

André Djiffack

  • Francophone literatures, 20th-century French literature, colonial and postcolonial studies

Nathalie Hester

  • Renaissance and Baroque literature, travel literature, early modern French and Italian historiography, early modern Italian convent culture, feminist theory, seventeenth-century women’s writing

Fabienne Moore

  • Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; Staël; European Enlightenment; the French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophone cultural and literary history; prose poetry; the evolution of the novel; bande dessinées and graphic narratives; blue humanities


Italian

Diana Garvin

  • Transnational Italian Studies (East Africa, Brazil), Fascism and Neo-Fascism, Food Studies, Environmental Humanities, Medical Humanities

Nathalie Hester

  • Renaissance and Baroque literature, travel literature, early modern French and Italian historiography, early modern Italian convent culture, feminist theory, seventeenth-century women’s writing


Portuguese

Lanie Millar

  • 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory


Spanish

Robert Davis

  • Second language teaching and learning, technology in second language learning, Romance linguistics

Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel

  • 19th and 20th century Spanish and Latin American Poetry and Poetics; Film Studies; Transatlantic Studies; Comparative literature; Gender Studies; Memory Studies: Spanish Civil War and Exile Studies

Pedro García-Caro

  • Nationalism, Postmodernity, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Studies, US Hispanic Literatures, Mexican Literature, Border Literature, Comparative American Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Satire, Drama, Translation

Amalia Gladhart

  • Translation Studies (theory and practice), Latin American theater

Devin Grammon

  • Sociocultural Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Linguistic Ethnography, Language Contact, Quechua and Andean Spanish, Linguistic Landscapes

Gina Herrmann

  • Communist and Leftist Studies, Holocaust Studies, Spanish Memory Studies

Sergio Loza

  • Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness

Leah Middlebrook

  • Poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; critical race studies; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain

Lanie Millar

  • 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory

Analisa Taylor

  • Culture and Social Movements in Latinx USA and Latin America; Mesoamerican Foodways, Migrations, and Human Rights; Ecology, Culture, Capital, and the State in the Americas

David Wacks

  • Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies