Fields of interest of professors — Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
ARABIC
May TELMISSANY - PhD, University of Montréal
- Arab cinema and culture
- Contemporary Arab literature
- Literary theory
- Film theory
- Intercultural relations and multiculturalism
ASIAN STUDIES
Sheri ZHANG - PhD., Language and Culture Studies, University of Ottawa
- Chinese and Japanese educational and cultural studies
- Second language didactics
- Canadian and international education
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
- German studies
- Intercultural studies
Agatha SCHWARTZ - PhD, German Language and Literature, 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, Illinois at Urbana-Champlaign- 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
RUSSIAN AND POLISH
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
Richard SOKOLOSKI - PhD, University of Toronto
- Polish language and literature
- Russian Literature
SPANISH
Luis ABANTO
Rosalia CORNEJO-PARRIEGO - PhD, Spanish, The Pennsylvania State University- Contemporary Spanish literature (narrative)
- Literary theory
- Gender and cultural studies
- Contemporary Latin-American literature
Fernando DE DIEGO - PhD, University of Montreal
- XXth Century Spanish Peninsular Literature
- Literary Theory
- XXth Century Spanish and Latin-American Women Writers
- Theatre Discourse
Jorge Carlos GUERRERO - Ph.D., Latin American Literature, 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
Juana MUNOZ-LICERAS - PhD, University of Toronto
- Language acquisition
- Spanish and general linguistics
- Psycholinguistics, contrastive and descriptive grammar
José Ruano DE LA HAZA - PhD, University of London
- Spanish literature
- History of theatre
- Textual criticism
Rodney WILLIAMSON - PhD Spanish, University of Toronto
- Spanish linguistics and discourse analysis
- Media discourse
- Spanish translation
- Multimodal semiotics
YIDDISH
Rebecca MARGOLIS - Ph.D., Columbia University- Canadian Yiddish culture
- Yiddish language and literature
- Canadian Jewish Studies