Faculty
Listing
To search for faculty by discipline, and to read more detailed descriptions of their specialties and publications, go to the individual language listings on the Modern Languages & Classics home page.
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Instructor
of Japanese Koji Arizumi teaches the upper levels of Japanese language, as well as classes in Modern Japanese Literature and Film. As Director of the Critical Languages Center, Dr. Arizumi oversees the administration of 15 different languages. |
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Instructor
of Japanese via Distance Laurie Arizumi is a specialist in online format distance education and computer assisted language learning. |
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Dr. O. Kimball Armayor
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Classics He is currently working
on Herodotus, Hecataeus, and the Persian |
Julia Borek |
Latin
Instructor and Web Developer for Latin |
Dr. Jose Cano
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Doctor
of Jurisprudence (Madrid, Spain) |
Dr. Alicia Cipria
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Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics Coordinator, Basic and Intermediate Spanish. Ph. D. (Ohio State) Research interests include:
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Dr. Ana Corbalán
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Assistant
Professor, Spanish Section Specialties/Research Interests: 20th & 21st Spanish literature and culture, Women writers, Cultural Studies, Film, Narrative, Theater and Gender Studies. |
Dr. Andrew Drozd |
Associate
Professor, Russian Section Ph. D. (Indiana University) Specialties/Research Interests: 19th century Russian literature, Chernyshevskii, old Russian literature, Russian history, Czech language & literature, East European history, Slavic folklore Current Project(s): Czech-Russian Literary Interrelations |
Dr. Bruce Edmunds
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Associate
Professor of French, French Program Director, Undergraduate Advisor,
French Club Advisor Dr. Edmunds teaches many courses at UA, including Honors Intermediate French, Survey of French Literature I, and 17th-Century French Literature. |
Dr. Barbara Fischer
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Associate Professor of German Specialties: 18th & 20th
century literature, language & culture, German-Jewish studies |
Dr. Thomas Fox |
Chair
of Modern Languages and Classics |
Jeffrey Guenther |
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Dr. Barbara Godorecci
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Associate
Professor of Italian Her specialties include Medieval and Renaissance literature, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Machiavelli. She has published on a variety of topics. In 1993 she published After Machaivelli:”Re-Writing “and the “Hermeneutic Attitude” with Purdue University Press. Recently she contributed to Vickie B. Sullivan’s book, The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli. |
Dr. Maurizio Godorecci
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Associate
Professor of Italian His specialties include Medieval literature, Dante, Vico, modern and contemporary poetry, and critical theory. He has written articles and presented on a variety of topics, on Dante, Vico, Gentile, Ungaretti, Montale, De Luca. His books are Saggi su Dante e Petrarca (2001), Tra Ottocento e Novecento. Ombre e Corpi di Fedele Romani (1993), The Empty Set. Five Essays On 20-Th Century Italian Poetry (1985). He has also published Poena (1999), a book of poetry, and a collection of poems in Poesaggio. Poeti italiani d’America (1993). |
Dr. Constance Janiga-Perkins
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Associate
Professor of Spanish Author of Immaterial
Transcendences: Colonial Subjectivity as Process in Brazil's "Letter"
of Discovery (1500). |
Ernesto Kortright |
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Chika Kobayashi
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Instructor of Japanese Degree: Master of Arts in Asian Civilization: Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, University of Iowa Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language, Southeast Missouri State University |
Dr. Douglas Lightfoot
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Associate
Professor of French and German Linguistics, Undergraduate Advisor
for German, Director of Alabama in Austria 2008, |
Dr. Rasma Lazda |
Assistant
Professor of German, Advisor for Study Abroad |
Dr. Elaine Martin
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Professor
of German, Director of the German House and World Literature Program
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Dr. Carmen Mayer-Robin
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Assistant
Professor of French Dr. Mayer-Robin's field of specialization is 19th-century French literature. Her current interests within her field include: naturalism and end-of century reactions to naturalism; theories of literature in the writings and correspondence of Flaubert and Zola; cultural and political history during the Third Republic; pathological eating and drinking in narrative as allegories for modern experience in the Industrial age; depictions of women and other minorities in fin-de-siècle novels; literature, art and popular iconography.
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Gabriella Merriman |
Instructor
in Italian She regularly teaches language courses. Born in Venice, Italy, Ms. Merriman brings native fluency in Italian and authentic cultural knowledge to her classes. She is the current director of the Alabama in Italy program, and the advisor to the Italian Club. |
Dr. Michael Picone
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Professor
of French and Linguistics Michael D. Picone is Professor of French and Linguistics, subjects
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Dr. Shirin Posner |
Instructor
of Spanish |
Elizabeth Ravello |
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Dr. Jean Luc Robin |
Assistant Professor of French |
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Dr. Ignacio Rodeño
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Assistant
Professor of Spanish Expertise/Research interests:
US Latino Literatures and Cultures, 20th and 21st Centuries Caribbean
Literatures and Cultures, Narratives of the Self, Identity and Nationalism,
Cultural Studies, Transatlantic Studies. |
Dr. Michael Schnepf
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Professor
of Spanish Dr. Michael Schnepf has been studying the original manuscripts of Benito Pérez Galdós since 1987. Web Site: The
Galdós Manuscripts and Drawings |
Dr. Kirk Summers
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Classics Advisor; Cicero, Lucretius, Neo-Latin, Roman Religion. Current research: A book forthcoming from Ohio State Univ. Press on the poetry of Marc-Antoine Muret (1552) and an essay entitled "The Classical Foundations of Beza's Thought" in the Proceedings of the Theodore Beza conference held in Geneva, 2005. I serve as the secretary-treasurer of the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies. |
Dr. Aida Toledo
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Associate
Professor of Spanish |
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Dr. Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers
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Associate Professor of Classics Ph.D.(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Her research interests expand from studies in the social status of women in ancient Greece and their portrayal in the Homeric epics, Virgil's Aeneid and the Greek tragedies, to studies in the Classical Tradition and the revival of the Classics in the Renaissance. She is the author of Lessons from the Past: Feminism and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Greek Culture (2004). She is currently researching the effects of democratic laws and procedures on the life of women. |
Dr. Rosita Villagómez |
Assistant
Professor of Spanish |
Dr. William Worden
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Assistant
Professor of Spanish, Graduate Advisor |
Dr. Xiang Zhang
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Instructor
of Chinese Master of Arts, Linguistics and Translation, (Wuhan University, Hubei, China, 1997) |
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Dr. Metka Zupancic
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Associate
Professor of French, Graduate Advisor, Blount Scholar. Research interests focus
on contemporary thought in French and At the Department of
Modern Languages and Classics, Metka Zupancic Dr. Zupancic can best be reached over email |
