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Faculty of the Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures


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Gioacchino Balducci, MA, Lecturer, Italian Language and Literature, Theater and Cinema.

Robert K. Bloomer, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Coordinator of the German Program:  Ph.D., University of Michigan: Germanic linguistics; morphology; etymology.

Mary Jo Bona, Associate Professor: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison: Italian American Studies.

Peter Carravetta, Alfonse M. D'Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies. PhD, New York University: Italian and French Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Italian American Studies, Migration and Post-Colonial Studies, Early Modern Europe, Poetics.

Giuseppe Costa, Lecturer in Italian. DA Stony Brook University. Italian Language.

Frank Dalmas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, French Language and Literature.

Andrea Fedi, Associate Professor: Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze; Ph.D., University of Toronto: Italian Renaissance literature; historiography.

Luigi Fontanella, Professor: Ph.D. Harvard University: Modern Italian Literature.

Charles Franco, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Italian Program, Academic Adviser of Italian Programs, Coordinator of Medieval Studies Program: Ph.D., Rutgers University: Medieval Italian Literature.

Fred Gardaphé, Professor and: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago. Italian American Studies

Giuseppe Gazzola , Instructor, Yale University, 19-century Italian literature,

Aaron W. Godfrey, Lecturer and Coordinator of Classics Studies Program: M.A. Hunter College: Latin; Medieval Studies.

Sarah Jourdain, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Teacher Preparation Program: PhD. Pedagogy, Teacher Preparation & Applied French Linguistics.

Izabella Kalinowska-Blackwood, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Yale University, Russian and Polish Literature, Culture and Film.

Thomas A. Kerth, Associate Professor, Ph.D.Yale University: Medieval literature; Middle High German; philology; German poetry. Recipient of the State University Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1992, and the President's Award for excellence in Teaching, 1992.

Mikle Ledgerwood, Assistant Professor and Director of Language Learning Center and Coordinator of the French Programs; Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Education and Technology; semiotics, French civilization, Quebec.

Irene Marchegiani, Lecturer, Pedagogy, Italian Language and Literature. Doctorate from the University of Florence, Italy.

Mario B. Mignone, Professor, Director of the Center for Italian Studies: Ph.D., Rutgers University: Contemporary Italian Literature.

Sophie Raynard Leroy, Assistant Professor: Ph.D., Columbia University; Doctorate Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne; Pre-Modern French Literature (17th-18th)

Nicholas Rzhevsky, Professor and Chair: Ph.D., Princeton University: Russian and Soviet literature; Russian theater; Russian intellectual history.

Prosper Sanou, Assistant Professor, French Language and Pedagogy.

Birgit Grosse-Middeldorf Viola, Lecturer: D.A., SUNY at Stony Brook: German Language and Culture, Business German.

Monique Watts, Lecturer: M.A., SUNY at Stony Brook: French Language.

Timothy Westphalen, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies: Ph.D., Harvard University: Russian poetry; Russian Symbolism; Russian Literature of the 19th century; Bakhtin. 

 

Emeriti

Harriet Allentuch, Professor Emerita: Ph.D. Columbia University: 17th-century French literature.

Carol Blum, Professor Emerita: Ph.D., Columbia University: 18th-century French Literature; Literature of the French Revolution.

Frederick Brown, Professor Emeritus: Ph.D., Yale University: 19th- and 20th-century French Literature.

Anthony Rizzuto, Professor Emeritus: Ph.D. Columbia University; 19th- and 20th-century French literature.

Joseph Tursi, Professor Emeritus: Ph.D., CUNY; Italian Language and Foreign Language Pedagogy.

 

Affiliated Faculty

John F. Bailyn, (Department of Linguistics) Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University: Slavic Linguistics; Russian language and linguistics; syntax.

Christina Y. Bethin, (Department of Linguistics) Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Slavic linguistics; Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian languages; phonology. Recipient of the State University Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1983.

Robert Harvey, (Department of Comparative Studies), Professor: Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley; Contemporary French and Maghrebian Francophone literature, critical theory, and film. Recipient of the State University Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996.

E. Anthony Hurley, (Department of Africana Studies) Associate Professor: Ph.D. Rutgers University; Francophone Literature of the Caribbean and Africa; 19th-century French literature.

Sandy Petrey, (Department of Comparative Studies) Professor: Ph.D. Yale University; 19th-century French Literature; Comparative literature; literary theory.

Jacqueline Reich, (Department of Comparative Studies) Associate Professor: Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley: Italian Film Studies.

Lori Repetti, (Department of Linguistics) Associate Professor: Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles: Romance linguistics, Italian dialectology, history of the Italian language

Hugh Silverman, Professor (Department of Philosophy) Ph.D. Stanford University. Continental philosophy (hermeneutics / semiologies / deconstructions) and contemporary European thought.

 

Part Time Lecturers

Giuseppe Battista, DA: Stony Brook University, Italian Language

Isabella Cosentino, D.A.: Stony Brook University, Italian Language

Stana Dolezal, D.A: Stony Brook University: Eastern European literature and culture; Czech language.

Anna Geisherik, D.A. Stony Brook University, Russian Language, Heritage Speaker Pedagogy

Michele Giua, MAT, Stony Brook University, Italian Language

Eva Gold, Lecturer, Ph.D., New York University: Modern Italian Literature, Cultural Studies.

George Guida, Ph.D. Italian American Studies

Frank Scricco, DA: Stony Brook University, Italian Language

Franco Varuolo, MA: Stony Brook University, Italian Language, Pedagogy


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Last updated: 09/29/08.