Literary Studies

MLC faculty research in literary studies involves the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature and employs literary theory, that is, different frameworks of evaluation and the philosophical discussion of literary goals. Faculty research spans time periods, genres, and diverse languages. Focus areas include, among others, literary criticism, literary history, life-writing, theater, comedy, poetics, myth, and science fiction.

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

Charles Brown

Instructor of German, German Undergraduate Advisor (A-L)

Literature and Culture, Film, Visual Arts, Memory and Trauma, Spanish Civil War, Women Writers, Cultural Studies, Transatlantic Studies, and Gender Studies

Ana Corbalán

Professor of Spanish

Literature and Culture, film, visual Arts, memory and trauma, Spanish Civil War, women writers, cultural studies, Transatlantic studies, and gender studies

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

Gender Studies, Women Writers, Early Modernity, Social Justice, Hegemony and Power, Queer Theory

Xabier Granja

Associate Professor of Spanish, Spanish Undergraduate Director

Gender studies, women writers, Early Modernity, social justice, hegemony and power, queer theory

Barbara Gray

Instructor of Spanish

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

Micah McKay

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Latin American literature (20th/21st centuries), film studies (documentary focus), ecocriticism, environmental humanities, discard studies, biopolitics, neoliberalism, urban studies, critical animal studies, posthumanism

modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture, philosophy, and history, literary criticism, aesthetics, phenomenology, and gender and trauma studies

Alessandra Montalbano

Associate Professor of Italian

Modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture, philosophy, and history, literary criticism, aesthetics, phenomenology, and gender and trauma studies

Modernismo and women’s writing in Latin America; feminism, gender theory, aesthetics, and intellectual networks

Sarah Moody

Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Sigma Delta Pi Advisor

Modernismo and women’s writing in Latin America; feminism, gender theory, aesthetics, intellectual networks

Jean Luc Robin

Associate Professor of French, Director of French Undergraduate Studies

17th-Century Literature & Thought: Descartes, French classical literature and scientific revolution, Molière

Ignacio F. Rodeño

Professor of Spanish

US Latina/o, Caribbean, and Mexican literatures and cultures; Hispanic autobiography and narratives of the self; literary theory, and transatlantic studies

Claudia Romanelli

Associate Professor of Italian, Italian Program Director, Italian Undergraduate Advisor

Italian cinema in a transnational context, film history and theory, screenwriting practices, international co-productions, collaborative authorship, contemporary Italian literature, postcolonial studies, mixed- and intermedia

20th and 21st century literature, ecocriticism, ecopoetics, queer theory, modernism, psychoanalysis

Gina Stamm

Associate Professor of French

20th and 21st century literature, ecocriticism, ecopoetics, queer theory, modernism, psychoanalysis

April Stevens

Assistant Professor of French; Faculty Advisor, Cercle Français; French Language Program Director

Homeric epics; women in Classical Antiquity, women’s social & political status in Antiquity, women in Greek democracy; archetypal literary criticism & myth criticism; ancient civilization & history

Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers

Associate Professor of Classics

Women and democracy, women and antiquity, gender studies, epic poetry, Greek tragedy

Bill Worden

Associate Professor of Spanish

Cervantes, early modern literature, teaching pedagogy