Full-Time Faculty Directory
Education: Ph.D., 1995, University of Michigan
Interests: Classical Persian texts; history, historiography, & the literature of the early Perso-Islamic world
Education: Ph.D., 2006, University of California, Irvine
Interests: Peninsular Literature and Culture, Poetry, Avant-Garde Literature
Education: Ph.D., 1991, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Japanese studies, sociolinguistics, Japanese linguistics
Education: Ph.D., 1999, Washington University in St. Louis
Interests: Travel literature, the historical novel, Swiss Studies, feminist theories 1789-present, transnational literature
World Languages & Culture
Education: Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Interests: 20th-21st century French and Francophone studies; film and media; memory studies; Holocaust studies; critical geography and the spatial humanities
Education: M.A., University of Utah
Interests: Learning abroad, travel, second language acquisition and pedagogy, literature, culture, and Don Quixote.
Education: Ph.D., 2022, Indiana University Bloomington
Interests: Chinese linguistics, Bilingual phonetic acquisition, L2 production and perception, Dual language immersion
Education: Ph.D., 2006, Florida State University
Interests: Roman archaeology, Latin literature & epigraphy, mythology, classical reception, Roman history
Education: Ph.D., 2013, University of Michigan
Interests: Latin American Literature, Film and Visual Culture
Education: Ph.D., 2000, University of California, Davis
Interests: Modern French literature & culture, film & visual culture, Francophone literatures & cultures
Education: Ph.D., 2010, Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Religious Studies; Jewish Civilization; African Studies; Cultural Studies
Education: Ph.D, 2023, University of Oxford
Interests: Pragmatics, honorifics and relational dynamics in East Asian languages, Korean literature and media, first and additional language acquisition.
Education: Ph.D., 1993, Yale University
Interests: Indigenous Feminist Studies; Business and Culture
Education: Ph.D., 2006, Ghent University, Belgium
Interests: Hindi & Urdu 20th-century short stories; Comparative (socio-) linguistics between Hindi and Urdu; Subversive Indo-Pakistani literature; Sufism and Shi’ism in South Asia
World Languages & Culture
Education: M.A., Middlebury College
Interests: Foreign Language Pedagogy, L2 Russian, Translation, Central Asia
Education: Ph.D., 2014, Indiana University Bloomington
Interests: Sociolinguistics, Phonetics
Education: Ph.D., 1993, Cornell University
Interests: Contemporary German literature; Environmental Humanities; women’s literature; feminist theory; autobiography studies; city literature
World Languages & Culture
Education: Ph.D., 2019, University of Utah
Interests: Mexican literature and Cinema, U.S.-Mexican Border Studies, Mexican Transnational Literature and Cinema, Transborder Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, ChicanX and LatinX Studies.
Education: Ph.D., 2012, University of Kansas
Interests: Germanic Language History, Philology & Dialectology; Mythology; Medievalism; Arthurian Romance; German Film; Old Norse and Danish
Education: Ph.D., 1999, University of California, San Diego
Interests: Latin American Literature and Caribbean Studies
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Education: Ph.D., King's College, University of Cambridge, 2018
Interests: Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan literature; Queer & Transgender Theory; Medieval Trans Studies; Hagiography; Medieval Visual Culture
Education: Ph.D., 2018, University of Arkansas
Interests: Portuguese Language and Literature, Business Portuguese, Brazilian Cinema.
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Education: Ph.D., 1999, University of New Mexico
Interests: Sociolinguistics, Spanish in the United States, Bilingualism, Language contact
Jordan Johansen
Assistant Professor
Classics
World Languages & Culture
Education: Ph.D., 2022, University of Chicago
Interests: Ancient Mediterranean Culture and Literature; Greco-Roman Egypt and Nubia; Papyrology; Classical Reception; Gender & Sexuality; Cross-Cultural Interactions
Motomi Kajitani
Instructor (Lecturer)
Japanese
World Languages & Culture
Education: ABD, University of New Mexico
Interests: Cognitive pragmatics, Japanese linguistics, Content-Based Learning, Reflective practices
Education: M.A., 2002, Durham University (UK)
Interests: Japanese Language Pedagogy, Language Teaching and ICT, Curriculum Design
World Languages & Culture
Education: Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Interests: Japan; Arab-Islamic World; East Asian (Sinitic) Cultural Sphere; Islamicate Cultural Sphere; Comparative Intellectual History; History of Science and Medicine; East-West Communication
World Languages & Culture
Education: Ph.D., 2018, University of Utah
Interests: Heritage language Education among Korean-American family, language ideologies and identities, Bilingual Education
Education: Ph.D., 2018, West Virginia University
Interests: Russian language pedagogy, bi/multilingualism, and identity, language ideology
Education: Ph.D., 2003, The Ohio State University
Interests: The teaching of culture; pedagogy; cultural aspects of the French business world; the symbolism of culinary art in French culture, literature, and art
World Languages & Culture
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Classical and medieval Japanese literature; Sino-Japanese literature; folk performance; performance history; sound studies; sensory studies; translation
Education: Ph.D., 2011, Harvard University
Interests: 21st-century Brazilian Literature, Machado de Assis, time studies, intersections of music, politics, literature, and cinema throughout the Lusophone world
Education: M.A.T., University of Utah
Interests: BA, French Literature & International Relations, Brigham Young University
Education: Ph.D., 1999, Harvard University
Interests: Aesthetics and affect; the sublime; Austrian & German Realism & Modernism; Literary Theory; Lyric poetry; Contemplative pedagogy & empathy
Nick Ott
Postdoctoral Scholar
German
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Education: Ph.D., 2024, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Accommodation, Study Abroad, Teacher Training, Sociolinguistics, Language Contact, Computer-Aided Language Learning
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Education: M.A., Ewha Womans University
Interests: Korean Culture, Contents-Based Instruction (CBI), Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT)
Education: Ph.D., 2015, University of Notre Dame
Interests: Christian systematic theology, Christology and soteriology, interreligious dialogue and ecumenism
Education: Ph.D., 2011, University of Michigan
Interests: Latin American Literature and Culture
Education: M.A., 2008, Brigham Young University
Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Business Arabic, Mastering Arabic through Debate, Arabic Culture, Middle Eastern History, Translation.
World Languages & Culture
Education: Ph.D., USC
Interests: 20th and 21st Spanish Peninsular Literature, Film, and Visual Culture; Media Studies; Memory Studies; Critical Theory; Architecture and Urbanism; Surrealism; Experimental and Documentary Cinema.
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Education: Ph.D., 2022, Washington University in St. Louis
Interests: Chinese Buddhism, Women's Culture and Literature
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Education: Ph.D., 2024, University of Michigan
Interests: Latin American cultural studies; Indigenous studies; Science and technology studies; History and philosophy of
Education: Ph.D., 2016, University of Washington
Interests: modern Japanese literature, modern Korean literature, Zainichi literature, empire and post- colonialism, critical race studies, translation
Education: Ph.D., 2010, Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Korean culture, religion, & literature; religion & identity; intellectual history & identity; East-West exchange & influence
Education: Ph.D., 2002, University of Utah
Interests: gender & sexuality, myth & religion, reception of ancient Classical world in film, Mormon feminism
Education: Ph.D., 2000, Harvard University
Interests: Popular culture in Late Imperial China; Chinese vernacular fiction of the Ming & Qing; martial arts novels; Digital Humanities
World Languages & Culture
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Contemporary Peninsular literature and film; post-Franco Spanish politics; historical memory; Iberian national identities
Rawad Wehbe
Assistant Professor
Arabic
World Languages & Culture
Education: Ph.D., 2024, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Arabic poetry and poetics, affect and emotion, translation, and Arabic language pedagogy
World Languages & Culture
Education: Ph.D., 1995, Brown University
Interests: Classical Chinese poetry, East-West comparative literature and poetics, translation studies
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Education: Ph.D., 2008, Cornell University
Interests: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, especially of the Hellenistic and later periods; Cicero; philosophy of religion and philosophical skepticism
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Education: Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
Interests: Modern Chinese literature and culture, topolect literature and culture, translation and translation studies.