Modern Languages and Literature Faculty

Modern Languages and Literature Faculty

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ph.D. in Spanish - Arizona State University

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature - University of Cologne (Germany) and State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Research:

19th  and 20th Century Latin-American Literature and Culture

African diaspora

Visual Culture (Photography)

Identity and alterity

Professor of Korean

B.A., M.A., Yonsei University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching:

Korean Language and Culture

Research:

Linguistics (Pragmatics, Grammaticalization, Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender, Language Education)

Phone: (909) 607-2503
Professor of French

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching:

Modern French Literature,African & Caribbean Literature and Cinema,Caribbean Society and Culture

Research:

Caribbean Literature; Haitian Literature; Caribbean Women Writers; Modern French Literature

Phone: (909) 607-3456
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

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)

Teaching:

Spanish and Portuguese Languages Brazilian Literature Political and Social Approaches to Latin American Modern and Contemporary Literatures

Research:

Comparative approaches to Brazilian and Hispanic American Literatures and Cultures Literary Theory and Criticism in Latin America Paternalism and Politics Psychoanalysis

Phone: (909) 607-3334

Visiting Faculty

Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside (Comparative Literature); MA, California State University, Los Angeles (English Literature); BA, Cadi Ayyad University (English Literature)

Teaching:

Arabic language, literature, and thought.

French language and Francophone literatures and cultures

19th and early-20th-century Arabic and French literatures

 

Research:

19th and early-20th-century Arabic and French  literatures.

The effect of French taste on elite and bourgeois Arab subjectivity.

Arab Nahda (Renaissance) and middle-class identity in the Middle-East.

European coloniality , material culture, and modernity in 19th and early-20th-century Egypt.

Early-20th-century Arabic and French women's periodicals.

Phone: 909-607-9926
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ph.D. in Linguistics. USC.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ph.D., University of Southern California, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. M.A., University of Southern California, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Phone: (909) 607-3174
Visiting Instructor of Korean
Visiting Instructor of Korean