French Faculty
Yulia Bosworth
Associate Professor of French Linguistics; Undergraduate Director
Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Interests
- Quebec French
- Quebec identity and culture
- Language ideologies and linguistic insecurity
- Public discourse in Quebec and Canada
- Critical sociolinguistics
- Critical discourse analysis
Robyn Cope
rcope@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- French Caribbean literature and culture
- Anglo- and Francophone Caribbean women's writing
- Caribbean feminism(s)
- Marronnage
Jeanette Patterson
jpatters@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Medieval French Bible translation and adaptation
- Taboos in translation
- Christine de Pizan and translation
- Political uses of biblical narratives
- Manuscript studies
Dora Polachek
dpolachk@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- The French comic tradition
- Female alliances in French fiction and film
- Gender, power and sexuality in the early modern period
- Identity politics in the Early Modern period
- Confronting otherness in French fiction and film
Anne-Caroline Sieffert
sieffert@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Gender studies
- The history of photography
- Views on mental health and neurodivergence
- The construction of racial categories in the 19th century
Italian Faculty
Brendan Hennessey
bhenness@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Italian cinema and film theory
- Film adaptation in theory and practice
- Italian popular culture in film and television
- American photography in Italy
- Italian-American film and filmmaking
Dana Stewart
stewart@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Poetry of the Sicilian School
- Dolce Stil Nuovo
- Dante
- Petrarch
- Boccaccio
Spanish Faculty
Dalya Alkass-Blaise, Ph.D.
dalkass@binghamton.edu
Sandra Casanova-VizcaÃno
Affiliated Faculty
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Gothic and horror fiction
- Puerto Rican literature, film and culture
- Gender violence
Carla Estefania Flores Ortiz
floresc@binghamton.edu
Antonio Tomas Guerrero Diaz
aguerrer@binghamton.edu
Bryan Kirschen
Chair of Romance Languages; Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Contact Linguistics
- Language Variation
- Documentary Linguistics
- Language Ideologies
- Sephardic Studies
- Aljamiado Texts
Rocio Leguisamon Tolentino
rleguisamont@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Spanish in the U.S.
- Language contact
- Spanish as a heritage language
- Spanish language variation and change
Research Interests
- Modern and Contemporary Spanish Poetry
- Spanish Civil War and Francoism
- Psychoanalysis
- Exile and Transatlantic Studies
- Spanish Cultural Studies
Nahed Noureddine
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Gerardo Pignatiello
Affiliated Faculty
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Cheri Robinson
crobinson6@binghamton.edu
Ana Ros
Associate Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Posdictatorial societies in Latin America
- Construction and transmission of collective memory
- Civil-military relations
- Individual responsibility in oppressive systems
- Obedience and resistance in authoritarian and democratic contexts
Sarah Rubio, Ph.D.
srubio@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- The teaching of prepositions in Spanish through prototypes that provide the embodied meanings for prepositions through spatial perceptions
- Facilitating students’ understanding of the meaning of difficult Spanish structures through the operational cognitive approach and its variations depending upon the speaker’s perspective (e.g.: the subjunctive mood, the verb ‘ser’ vs. ‘estar’, etc.).
- The role of lexically-specific usage patterns in L2 Spanish determiner production
Azucena Trincado Murugarren
atrincadomur@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Contemporary Spanish peninsular literature and culture
- Queer theory
- Trans studies
- Gender studies
- Film and media
Emeriti Faculty