Research areas
Mushegh Asatryan
Associate Professor:
Religious, cultural, and social history of the medieval Islamic Middle East
Rachel Friedman
Instructor:
Arabic language, Arabic literature, Islamic thought
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
Instructor:
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
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
Anthony Wall
Professor:
18th-century France, Denis Diderot, literary theory and the philosophy of language, visual arts, dialogism (Mikhail Bakhtin)
German
Cornelia Burian
Senior Instructor:
German language, film, culture, and literature
Mary O’Brien
Professor:
German language, linguistics, and pedagogy
John Scott
Limited-term Instructor:
German language, language acquisition, second language phonology
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
Assistant Professor:
Modern and contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture
X. Jie Yang
Professor:
Japanese language instruction, medieval literature
Linguistics
Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Assistant Professor:
Language Acquisition, Phonology, Phonetics
Darin Flynn
Associate Professor:
Indigenous languages, phonology, sociolinguistics
David Liebesman
Associate Professor:
Philosophy of language, metaphysics
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, corpus linguistics, 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
Olga Mladenova,
Professor:
Russian language, Slavic and Balkan languages and cultures, historical linguistics, ethnolinguistics, semantics, pragmatics, etymology
Spanish
Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios
Associate Professor:
Latin American cinemas, Latin American literature, Spanish American literature
Angela George
Associate Professor:
Spanish language, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics
Elizabeth Montes Garcés
Associate Professor:
Spanish language, Latin American literature and film, Latin American women writers
Fresia Sánchez
Senior Instructor:
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