Graduate School Bulletin

Spring 2025

Faculty - Languages and Cultural Studies

Professors

Polezzi, Loredana, Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies, Ph.D., 1999, University of Warwick: Italian and Italian American studies; translation studies.

Associate Professors

culture; French language.

Fedi, Andrea, Ph.D., 1994, University of Toronto: Italian Literature; Digital Humanities

Gazzola, Giuseppe, Ph.D., 2008, Yale University: 19th-century Italian literature; travel literature.

Jourdain, Sarah, Ph.D., 1996, Indiana University: pedagogy and teacher training; French language.

Raynard-Leroy, Sophie, Ph.D., 1999, Columbia University: French Literature

Westphalen, Timothy, Ph.D., Harvard University: Russian Literature

Senior Lecturers

Marchegiani, Irene,  Outstanding Provost Lecturer, Dottore in Lettere e Filosofia, 1973, University of Florence: Italian language and literature; pedagogy.

Lecturers

Giesherik, Anna, D.A., 2005, Stony Brook University: Russian language; heritage speaker pedagogy.

de Riesthal, Kathleen, M.Latin, 2017, University of Florida. M.Ed., 1999, Vanderbilt University: Latin

language and literature; Classical studies; pedagogy.

Sanou, Sini Prosper, Ph.D., 1992, University of Minnesota: French language and pedagogy.

Turan, Madeline, M.S., 1975, Long Island University: foreign language pedagogy; French language. Named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 2016

Affiliates

Bailyn, John F.,  Department of Linguistics, Professor, Ph.D., 1995, Cornell University: Slavic linguistics; Russian language and linguistics; syntax.

Bona, Mary Jo, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor, Ph.D., 1989, University of Wisconsin at Madison: Italian American studies; English literature, American literature, Italian American literature, multiethnic American literature, women's literature, gender/genre theory, theories of narrativity, theories of ethnicity, migration histories.

Fouron, Georges, Department of Africana Studies, Professor, Ed.D., 1985, Columbia University: transnationalism.

Repetti, Lori,  Department of Linguistics, Professor, Ph.D., 1989, University of California, Los Angeles: Romance linguistics; Italian dialectology; history of the Italian language.