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
Research Interests
- French Caribbean literature and culture
- Anglo- and Francophone Caribbean women's writing
- Caribbean feminism(s)
- Marronnage
Research Interests
- Medieval French Bible translation and adaptation
- Taboos in translation
- Christine de Pizan and translation
- Political uses of biblical narratives
- Manuscript studies
Dora Polachek
Visiting Associate Professor
Romance Languages and Literatures
Research 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
Lecturer - Coordinator French Lower-Level Classes
Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Interests
- Gender studies
- The history of photography
- Views on mental health and neurodivergence
- The construction of racial categories in the 19th century
Italian Faculty
Research 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
Associate Professor
Romance Languages and Literatures
Collegiate Professor of Mountainview
Residential Life
Research Interests
- Poetry of the Sicilian School
- Dolce Stil Nuovo
- Dante
- Petrarch
- Boccaccio
Spanish Faculty
Sandra Casanova-VizcaÃno
Affiliated Faculty
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Associate Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages and Literatures
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Gothic and horror fiction
- Puerto Rican literature, film and culture
- Gender violence
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
Research Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Spanish in the U.S.
- Language contact
- Spanish as a heritage language
- Spanish language variation and change
Marisol Marcin
Lecturer
Global Studies
Lecturer
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Lecturer
Romance Languages and Literatures
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Modern and Contemporary Spanish Poetry
- Spanish Civil War and Francoism
- Psychoanalysis
- Exile and Transatlantic Studies
- Spanish Cultural Studies
Nahed Noureddine
Lecturer
Romance Languages and Literatures
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Gerardo Pignatiello
Assistant Professor
Romance Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Ana Ros
Associate Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Associate Professor
Romance Languages and Literatures
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.
Assistant Professor in Spanish Pedagogy
Romance Languages and Literatures
Research 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
Romance Language Faculty Advisor and Lecturer
Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Interests
- Contemporary Spanish peninsular literature and culture
- Queer theory
- Trans studies
- Gender studies
- Film and media
Emeriti Faculty
Dora Polachek
Visiting Associate Professor
Romance Languages and Literatures