Program Coordinator and Staff
Sibelan Forrester
Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature; Interpretation Theory
Section Head, Russian
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
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Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory
![Photo of Sibelan Forrester](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/sforres1/SForresterHeadDec2022.jpg.webp?itok=XbL6tcUj)
Cheryl Sharp
Administrative Coordinator, Asian Studies; SCP Replacement, Asian Studies
Interdisciplinary Programs
Contact
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Deb Sloman
Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Temporary Administrative Coordinator, Political Science
Classics
Interdisciplinary Programs
Contact
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Program Committee
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Rachel Buurma ’99
Associate Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
English Literature
Contact
Links
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Desiree Diaz
Associate Professor
Comparative Literature
Spanish
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Links
Interests: Latin American literature and cultural studies, Caribbean literature and visual culture, US Latino/a studies, film studies, performance studies, popular and material culture, urban studies.
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Sibelan Forrester
Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature; Interpretation Theory
Section Head, Russian
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
Contact
Links
Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory
![Photo of Sibelan Forrester](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/sforres1/SForresterHeadDec2022.jpg.webp?itok=XbL6tcUj)
Will Gardner
Professor
Section Head, Japanese
Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese
Contact
Links
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María Luisa Guardiola
Professor
Department Chair, Spanish
Spanish
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Interests: Nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first century Iberian Literature; women writers; turn of the century (19th to 20th) literature and cultural developments; Iberian cinema; urban studies; Catalan women writers.
![Maria Luisa Guardiola](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_photos/Maria%20Luisa110.jpg.webp?itok=EotTCmpv)
Alexandra Gueydan-Turek
Associate Professor
Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies
Comparative Literature
Contact
Links
Interests: Postcolonial Theory; Francophone Literature of the Maghreb and the Mashreq; Comics and Graphic Novels in the Arab World; Local Publishing Markets in North Africa; (Neo)colonial representations; Representations of Islam in France.
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Haili Kong
Professor
On Leave - Fall
Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese
Asian Studies
Contact
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Jeremy Lefkowitz
Associate Professor
On Leave - Fall
Classics
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Interests: Greek and Latin language and literature; mythology; ancient fable
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Rosaria Munson
J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor
Classics
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Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East
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Donna Jo Napoli
Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice
Maurice Eldridge Faculty Fellow
Linguistics
Contact
Links
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Benjamin Ridgway
Assistant Professor
Section Head, Chinese
Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese
Asian Studies
Contact
Links
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Olivia Sabee
Associate Professor
On Leave - Spring
Dance
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
Contact
Links
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Hansjakob Werlen
Professor
Section Head, German Studies
Modern Languages & Literatures-German
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Hansjakob Werlen's research interests are late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature and contemporary literature of German speaking countries, with a special focus on Switzerland. A member of the Tri-college Food Studies group, he also teaches courses on issues of taste and aesthetics.
![Hansjakob Werlen](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/hwerlen1/hjw2.png.webp?itok=PLjGXHuT)