Translation

Faculty members work on interdisciplinary issues related to the theory and practice of translation, its power dynamics, and its role as a vehicle of synchronic and diachronic communication across different linguistic systems. Publications and research interests from faculty in this area span several languages (Ancient Greek, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Spanish, Syriac), chronological periods (late antiquity to contemporary times), and genres (specialized prose to literary fiction).

Fabio Battista

Assistant Professor of Italian

Early modern European culture; translation studies; history of Italian theatre and performance; the relationship between fact and fiction

Thomas Carlton

Instructor of French

Historical French linguistics, comparative Romance language development, negation, syntax and structure, grammaticalization, phonetic representation across writing systems

Safa Elnaili

Associate Professor of Arabic, Director of Arabic Program

Libyan literature, literary translation, folktales, the Arabian Nights, stylistics analysis, critical discourse analysis

Eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature, intellectual history, philosophy

Matthew Feminella

Associate Professor of German, German Program Co-Director, Graduate Advisor, Fulbright Program Advisor, IGSEP and Study Abroad Advisor

Eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature, intellectual history, philosophy

Romanticism to Postmodernism Intellectual history Philosophy Visual arts Women’s writing Minority literatures Holocaust studies German-Jewish literature Translation studies

Renata Fuchs

Instructor of German

Romanticism to Postmodernism, intellectual history, philosophy, visual arts, women’s writing, minority literatures, Holocaust studies, German-Jewish literature, translation studies

Medieval and early modern literature and theater; gender and women’s writing; literary representations of military-historical events; spectacle and performance; print and manuscript history; prophecy and eschatology; rhetoric; intersections of Italian, Spanish, and French cultural production

Yunuen Gómez-Ocampo

Instructor of Spanish

Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies, migration and Border Studies, gender studies, women writers, testimonial genres, translation studies, literary publishing

Annemarie Lisko

Instructor of Italian

20th Century Italian history and literature, political history, memory studies, translation and translation theory, representations of Italian language and history in international media

Yuliya Minets

Associate Professor of Classics

Late Antiquity; Early Christianity; Byzantine Studies; Syriac Studies; Coptic Studies; Languages and identities in the ancient Mediterranean

Kirk M. Summers

Professor of Classics; Director, Classics Program

Reformation (especially the Reformed/Calvinist movement), Neo-Latin, Roman religion, Lucretius, and Cicero

Cheryl Toman

Department Chair, Professor of French

African women’s writing (Central Africa and Mali), Arab women writers, feminisms, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, immigration

Linguistics, Francophone studies, international trade, geopolitics, second language acquisition

K. Maxime Vignon

Assistant Professor of French, Coordinator of Affairs for African and International Graduate Students in French

Linguistics, Francophone studies, international trade, geopolitics, second language acquisition