Modern Languages and Literature Faculty
Modern Languages and Literature Faculty
Ph.D. in Spanish - Arizona State University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature - University of Cologne (Germany) and State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
19th and 20th Century Latin-American Literature and Culture
African diaspora
Visual Culture (Photography)
Identity and alterity
B.A., Damascus University, Syria; M.S., Ph.D., Georgetown University
Modern and Classical Arabic Poetry,Arabic Novel,Arab Culture and Society,Arabic Language
B.A., M.A., Yonsei University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Korean Language and Culture
Pragmatics, Grammaticalization, Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender, Language Education
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Modern French Literature,African & Caribbean Literature and Cinema,Caribbean Society and Culture
Caribbean Literature; Haitian Literature; Caribbean Women Writers; Modern French Literature
Ph.D., Yale University (Brazilian and Hispanic American Literatures); M.A., New York University (Humanities and Social Thought); B.A., Universidad de los Andes (Magna cum Laude in Literature)
Spanish and Portuguese Languages Brazilian Literature Political and Social Approaches to Latin American Modern and Contemporary Literatures
Comparative approaches to Brazilian and Hispanic American Literatures and Cultures Literary Theory and Criticism in Latin America Paternalism and Politics Psychoanalysis
B.A., University of Guadalajara, Mexico; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Latin American Cinema,Colonial and Contemporary Latin American Literature,Latin American Documentary
The Heirs: Mexican Documentary Cinema of the 21st Century. It presents a series of close readings of a variety of documentary types and formal approaches that exemplify the extraordinary vitality of this genre in Mexico.
Visiting Faculty
Arabic language and pedagogy.
Arabic literature and culture(s).
19th and early-20th-century Arabic and French literatures.
The effect of French taste on elite and bourgeois Egyptian subjectivity.
Arab Nahda (Renaissance) elite and middle-class identity in the Middle-East.
European coloniality and the material conditions of modernity in 19th and early-20th-century Egypt.
Ph.D., University of Southern California, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. M.A., University of Southern California, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
