Program Coordinator and Staff
Olivia Sabee
Chair, Dance Program, Dept. of Music & Dance
Associate Professor of Dance
Program Director, Comparative Literature
Music & Dance
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Cheryl Sharp
Administrative Coordinator
Interdisciplinary Programs
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
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Debbie Sloman
Administrative Assistant in Classics, Interdisciplinary Programs
Classics
Interdisciplinary Programs
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Program Committee

Jean-Vincent Blanchard
Professor of French
On leave AY 2022-23
French and Francophone Studies
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Rachel Sagner Buurma
Co-director, Aydelotte Foundation
Associate Professor, English
Aydelotte Foundation
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Désirée Díaz
Associate Professor of Spanish
Program Coordinator, Black Studies Program
Department of Spanish
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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.
Sibelan Forrester
Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head
Coordinator of 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


María-Luisa Guardiola
Professor
Faculty Advisor for Off-Campus Study
Department of 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.

Alexandra Gueydan-Turek
Associate Professor of French and Section Head
French and Francophone Studies
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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.

Haili Kong
Professor, Section Head
Chinese
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Jeremy Lefkowitz
Associate Professor
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Interests: Greek and Latin language and literature; mythology; ancient fable

Rosaria Munson
J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor
On leave Spring 2023
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Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East

Donna Jo Napoli
Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice, Faculty Member at Large, Maurice Eldridge Faculty Fellow
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Olivia Sabee
Chair, Dance Program, Dept. of Music & Dance
Associate Professor of Dance
Program Director, Comparative Literature
Music & Dance
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Hansjakob Werlen
Professor, German Studies Coordinator
German Studies
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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.
