Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

John Bundschuh

Assistant Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5537
  2. Kohlberg Hall 308
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Kelly Gomez Zimmer

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5048
  2. Old Science Hall 107
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Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; SCP Replacement, Political Science

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Old Science Hall 110
  3. Old Science Hall 107
Deb Sloman

Program Committee

Khaled Al-Masri

Associate Professor

Section Head, Arabic

Modern Languages & Literatures-Arabic

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8199
  2. Kohlberg Hall 335
  3. Office Hours: Tues/Thurs: 11:30 am-12:30 pm On Leave Spring '25.
Khaled Al-Masri

Rachel Buurma

Associate Professor

Department Chair, English Literature

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8666
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 302
  3. Office Hours: Office hours T, W, + Th 3:30-4:30. Students with questions for the department chair should come to office hours or email englishchair@swarthmore.edu.
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Desiree Diaz

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Latin American & Latinx Studies

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7682
  2. Kohlberg Hall 338
  3. Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

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

Division Chair, Interdisciplinary

Section Head, Russian

On Leave - Spring

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Comparative Literature

Interpretation Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8162
  2. Kohlberg Hall 340

Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory

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Will Gardner

Professor

Section Head, Japanese

Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-6875
  2. Kohlberg Hall 315
Will Gardner

María Luisa Guardiola

Professor

Department Chair, Spanish

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8164
  2. Kohlberg Hall 342
  3. Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 2:30 to 4:00 pm, and by appointment.

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

Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Comparative Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8309
  2. Kohlberg Hall 311
  3. Office Hours: Mon. 9-10:15 am, Thurs 3-4 pm; by appointment, in person or on Zoom

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.

 

Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

Allen Kuharski

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus Theater

Contact

  1. Phone: (215) 275-5094
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 15
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Jeremy Lefkowitz

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Classics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7894
  2. Old Science Hall 111
  3. Office Hours: On leave Fall 2025
     

Interests: Greek and Latin language and literature; mythology; ancient fable

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Rosaria Munson

J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor

On Leave - Fall

Classics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8370
  2. Old Science Hall 113
  3. Office Hours: On leave Fall 2025

Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East

Rosaria Munson

Donna Jo Napoli

Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8422
  2. Parrish Hall 213
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Bob Rehak

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Film & Media Studies

Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6204
  2. Martin Hall 108
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Olivia Sabee

Associate Professor

Associate Dean of the Faculty for Academic Programs and Research

Dance

Comparative Literature

Interpretation Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8237
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 6
  3. Parrish Hall E216
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Hansjakob Werlen

Professor

German Studies

Modern Languages & Literatures-German

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8612
  2. Kohlberg Hall 307

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