Research areas

Research areas

Arabic Language and Muslim Cultures


Mushegh Asatryan

Associate Professor:

Religious, cultural, and social history of the medieval Islamic Middle East

 

Rachel Friedman

Associate Professor (Teaching):

Arabic language, Arabic literature, Islamic thought

 

Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri

Assistant Professor (Teaching)

Iranian Studies, Middle East Feminist Studies, Resistance and Social Movements, Life writing studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies



 

 

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

Associate Professor (Teaching):

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

 

Cyrielle Faivre

Assistant Professor:

19th century French literature, prisons and penal colonies, literature and visual arts, neurodiversity in French literature and culture, French and Francophone contemporary pop culture.

 

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

 

German


Cornelia Burian

Senior Instructor:

German language, film, culture, and literature

 

Martin Wagner

Professor:

German literary and intellectual history, comparative literature

 

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

Associate Professor (Teaching):

Japanese language education, second language acquisition

Akiko Sharp

Associate Professor (Teaching):

Japanese language, second language acquisition

 

Ben Whaley

Associate Professor:

Modern Japanese literature and popular culture

 

Linguistics


Angeliki Athanasopoulou

Assistant Professor:

Language Acquisition, Phonology, Phonetics

Darin Flynn

Associate Professor:

Indigenous languages, phonology, sociolinguistics

 

David Liebesman

Professor:

Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Pragmatics

 

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, 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

 

Spanish


Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios

Associate Professor:

Latin American cinemas, Latin American literature, Spanish American literature

 

Angela George

Associate Professor:

Spanish language, applied linguistics, additional language acquisition, sociolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics

 

Elizabeth Montes Garcés

Associate Professor:

Spanish language, Latin American literature and film, Latin American women writers

 

Fresia Sánchez

Professor (Teaching):

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