Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Patricia White

Centennial Chair

Director, Aydelotte Foundation

Program Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8148
  2. Martin Hall 109
  3. Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00pm-3:00pm, Thursdays 11:15am-12:30pm
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Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Administrative Support, Lang Center-Social Responsibility

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

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

Program Committee

Kirby Conrod

Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6011
  2. Pearson Hall

Pearson Hall 104

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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

  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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Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Comparative Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8309
  2. Kohlberg Hall 311
  3. Office Hours: On leave academic year 2024-2025

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

Gwynn Kessler

Associate Professor

Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8467
  2. Pearson Hall 208
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Dahlia Li

Visiting Assistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6109
  2. Martin Hall 100A
  3. Office Hours: Tuesday 1-2PM, Thursday 10-11AM and by appointment
Dahlia Li

Elise Mitchell

Assistant Professor

History

Contact

  1. Trotter Hall 213
  2. Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9-11 a.m., or by appointment
Elise Mitchell

Maya Nadkarni

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8111
  2. Kohlberg Hall 244
  3. Office Hours: By appointment
    Tuesdays,  11:00am- noon, 1:00- 2:00pm
     
Professor Maya Nadkarni

Affiliated Faculty

Sa'ed Atshan ’06

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Peace & Conflict Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Sociology & Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7365
  2. Parrish Hall W237B
Sa'ed Atshan

Jamal Batts

Assistant Professor

Black Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3718
  2. Parrish Hall W223
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James Blasina

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Medieval Studies

Music

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6003
  2. Lang Music Building 403
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Paloma Checa-Gismero

Assistant Professor

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5671
  2. Beardsley Hall 203
  3. Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 4-5pm and by appointment.
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Maggie Delano

(they-them-their-themselves)

Associate Professor

On Leave - Spring

Engineering

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8295
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 233
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Farha Ghannam

Eugene M. Lang Research Professor of Anthropology

Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8104
  2. Kohlberg Hall 240
  3. Office Hours: By appointment
    Wednesdays, 10:30am- noon 
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Ryan Ku

Visiting Assistant Professor

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6133
  2. Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:15–6:00 p.m.
Ryan Ku

Luciano Martinez

Professor

Division Chair, Arts and Humanities

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8016
  2. Kohlberg Hall 343
  3. Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:15-5:15 pm, sign up in advance here. 

Interests: Latin American literatures and cultures; higher education administration; literary theory; second language pedagogy; LGBTQ+ studies 

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Marshall Smith III

Assistant Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Black Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3357
  2. Kohlberg Hall 341
  3. Office Hours: Wednesdays 4-6 p.m.

Interests: Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, African Diaspora Studies, Visual and Material Cultures, Critical Theory, Black Geographies, Africana Philosophy, and Queer Studies.

Marshall Smith