Migration, Diaspora and Post-Colonial Studies

MLC faculty members are dedicated to advancing scholarly understanding of the determinants, processes, and outcomes of human migration in all its manifestations in the context of postcolonialism. They further this aim by studying dispersed ethnic populations, often named diaspora; a term carrying a connotation of forced resettlement due to coercion and expulsion.

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

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

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

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

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

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