(file last updated: [7/6/1999 - 13:20:47])
Faculty
Stephen Gendzier, Cochair and French and Francophone Area Head
Luis Yglesias, Cochair and Spanish and Italian Area Head
French and Comparative Literature
Stephen Gendzier
Enlightenment. Diderot. French-English 18th-century crosscurrents. Dada and surrealism.
Jane Hale
French and comparative literature. Twentieth-century French fiction and drama. Beckett, Queneau. Literature and painting. Francophone literature of Africa and the Caribbean.
Erica Harth
Seventeenth- and 18th-century French prose. Cultural studies and comparative literature. Feminism and gender studies.
Edward Kaplan
French romanticism. Michelet. Hugo. Modern French poetry and theory. Baudelaire. Jabès. Bonnefoy. Religion and literature. Translation.
Michael Randall, French and Francophone Area Undergraduate Advising Head
Late Medieval and Renaissance poetry, prose, and philosophy.
Italian and Comparative Literature
Richard Lansing, Comparative Literature Area Head and Undergraduate Advising Head and Italian Undergraduate Advising Head
Dante. Italian and European Renaissance. Courtly tradition. Modern Italian literature.
Spanish and Comparative Literature
Roxanne Dávila
Modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture. Latin studies.
Dian Fox
Spanish medieval. Spanish golden age (16th- and 17th-century) drama, prose, poetry. Cervantes.
James Mandrell
Modern and contemporary Spanish literature. Genre and gender. Film.
Angela María Pérez
Colonial Latin American literature. Latin American film and cultural studies. Latin American women writers.
Luis Yglesias, Spanish Area Undergraduate Advising Head
Poetry and narrative: traditional, modern, contemporary. Native American literature. Myth and folklore.
French
Linda Cregg-Nielsen
French language.
Hollie Harder
French language.
Esther Ratner
French language.
Italian
Paola Servino
Italian language.
Spanish
Armando Brito
Spanish language.
Victoria Cerrudo
Spanish language.
Dora Older
Spanish language.
Esther Ratner
Spanish language.
Nidia Schuhmacher
Spanish language.
Requirements
For course offerings and requirements for concentration, see Comparative Literature, European Cultural Studies, French, Italian, and Spanish.