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Faculty and Staff

Program Coordinators

Tariq al-Jamil

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Islamic Studies

Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8054
  2. Pearson Hall 205
  1. Profile
photo of Professor al-Jamil

James Blasina

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Medieval Studies

Music

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6003
  2. Lang Music Building 403
  1. Profile

Desiree Diaz

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature

Spanish

Comparative Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7682
  2. Kohlberg Hall 338
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays and Thursdays

    10:30 am - 12:00 pm (or by appointment)

  1. Profile

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

Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages

Program Coordinator, Interpretation Theory

Section Head, Russian

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Contact

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

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

Chris Graves

Professor

Program Coordinator, Environmental Studies

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Environmental Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6260
  2. Science Center 184
  1. Profile
  2. Research Lab

Research interests: synthetic inorganic & organometallic chemistry, catalyst development

Dan Grodner

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Psychology

Psychology

Cognitive Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8436
  2. 220

Interests: Human language understanding: pragmatics and conversational inferencing; sources of linguistic complexity; structural ambiguity resolution.

Office Hours: By email-appointment (dgrodne1)

Daniel Grodner

Sam Handlin ’00

(he-him-his-himself)

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Latin American & Latinx Studies

Political Science

Latin American & Latino Studies

Contact

  1. Trotter Hall 313
  1. Profile
  2. CV
  3. Office Hour Sign Up

Steven Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

Division Chair, Interdisciplinary Programs

Program Coordinator, Asian Studies

Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8035
  2. Pearson Hall 209
  1. Profile
Steven Hopkins at Collioure

Ayse Kaya

Professor

Program Coordinator, Global Studies

On Leave - Academic Year

Political Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8471
  2. Trotter Hall 311
  1. Website

Lei Ouyang

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Music

Program Coordinator, Asian American Studies

Music

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2020
  2. Lang Music Building 412
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Lee Smithey

(he-him-his-himself)

Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2064
  2. Parrish Hall
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment

  1. Profile
Professor Lee Smithey

William Turpin

Scheuer Family Chair of Humanities

Department Chair, Classics

Classics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8681
  2. Trotter Hall 114
  1. Profile

Interests: Roman history

William Turpin

Patricia White

Centennial Chair

Director, Aydelotte Foundation

Program Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8148
  2. Kohlberg Hall 111A
  3. Office Hours:

    Wednesdays 10:00am-12:00pm on Zoom
    Thursdays 1:00pm-2:00pm in Kohlberg 111A

  1. Profile
  2. Aydelotte Foundation
Patricia White Headshot

Staff

Cheryl Sharp

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7750
  2. Trotter Hall 107

Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Administrative Assistant, Temporary, College Art Collection; Temporary Administrative Coordinator, Political Science

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

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