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Sibelan Forrester

Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head, Coordinator of Comparative Literature
sforres1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8162
Kohlberg 340
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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

Emily Frey

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Acting Russian Section Head F' 17
Russian
efrey1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8161
Kohlberg 340

Program Committee

Khaled Al-Masri

Khaled Al-Masri

Assistant Professor and Section Head
Arabic
kalmasr1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8199
Kohlberg 335
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Elizabeth Bolton

Betsy Bolton

Professor and Department Chair
English Literature
ebolton1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8153
Lang Performing Arts Center 205
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Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Professor of French and Section Head
French and Francophone Studies
jblanch1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8159
Kohlberg 313
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Rachel Buurma

Director, Aydelotte Foundation
Associate Professor, English
rbuurma1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8666
Fax: rachelsagnerbuurma.org
Lang Performing Arts Center 302
Parrish W201
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Richard Eldridge, Professor of Philosopy

Richard Eldridge

Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy
reldrid1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8428
Beardsley 211B
On leave 2017-2018 F'18 office hours:and by appointment
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Interests: Aesthetics and Theory of Criticism, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy and Literature, German Idealism, Wittgenstein, Romanticism
Ph.D., University of Chicago. 

Will Gardner

William Gardner

Professor and Section Head
Japanese
wgardne1@swarthmore.edu
610-690-6875
Kohlberg 336
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Maria Luisa Guardiola

María-Luisa Guardiola

Professor (on leave Fall 2018 - Spring 2019)
Modern Languages and Literatures
mguardi1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8164
Kohlberg 342
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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

Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

Associate Professor of French
French and Francophone Studies
Office Hours: Mardi 11h15-12h15, Mercredi 9h00-10h00, et sur rendez-vous
agueyda1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8309
Kohlberg 311
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Haili Kong - On Leave 2013-14

Haili Kong

Professor and Section Head
Chinese
hkong1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8457
Kohlberg 310
Allen Kuharski

Allen Kuharski

Professor and Chair
Stephen Lang Professor of the Performing Arts (On Leave 2016-2018)
Theater
akuhars1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-7794
Fax: 610-957-6179
LPAC 015
Faculty Bibliography
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Rosaria Munson

Rosaria Munson

J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor
rmunson1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8370
Trotter 113
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Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East

Emeriti Faculty

Faber

Marion Faber

Professor Emerita
German Studies
mfaber1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8155
Train Station 203

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