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Bruce Anderson
Associate Teaching Professor, French, Language Program Director, French
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- Gilman 417
- 410-516-0478
Education: PhD, Indiana University
Wilda Anderson
Professor of French, Director of Graduate Studies, French
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- Gilman 418
Research Interests: Literature of the French Enlightenment; the relationship between science and literature; the French Revolution and its aftermath; Newton and newtonianism; digital culture; post-print forms of literacy
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Flavia De Azeredo-Cerqueira
Associate Teaching Professor in Portuguese, Language Program Director, Portuguese
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- Gilman 469A
- 410-516-6738
Research Interests: Second language acquisition with a focus on bilingualism, the effects of corrective feedback, cognitive aspects in SLA, motivation and the impact of study abroad on SLA.
Education: PhD, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Marina Bedran
Assistant Professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures
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- Gilman 422
Research Interests: Amazonia, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, new materialisms, visual culture, media theory, film, and literary theory and translation.
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Mirit Bessire
Lecturer, Hebrew, Language Program Director, Hebrew
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- Gilman 405
Research Interests: Hebrew Language; Foreign Language Pedagogy; Universal Instructional Design
Education: MSEd, Emira College, MS, Syracuse University
Kristin Anna Cook-Gailloud
Associate Teaching Professor of French, Coordinator, Advanced French for Writing
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- Gilman 442
- 410-516-8017
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
María del Rosario Ramos
Associate Teaching Professor, Spanish, Assistant Director & Spanish Superior Courses Coordinator
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- Gilman 466
- 410-516-4055
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins
Daniel Desormeaux
William D. and Robin Mayer Professor, Head of the French Subdivision
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- Gilman Hall 482
- 410-516-7727
Research Interests: French and Caribbean literature and thought of the “long” 19th century; Haitian Revolution, race, and slavery; comparative analysis of Caribbean literature and religion; history of the book and French literary history; Fin-de-Siècle literature and transatlantic anthropology
Education: PhD, Emory University; M.A., Université du Québec à Montréal; M.A. Johns Hopkins University
Laura Di Bianco
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Advanced Media Studies, Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Environmental Science and Studies Program, Director of Graduate Studies, Italian
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- Gilman 492
- 410-516-2022
Research Interests: Italian Cinema, 20th and 21st Italian Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities.
Education: PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY
William Egginton
Department Chair, Decker Professor in the Humanities, Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
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- Gilman 470
- 410-516-7510
Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American literatures, comparative European literature and thought
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Christiane Frey
Associate Professor of German, Co-Director, Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought
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- Gilman 408
Research Interests: 17th- and 18th-century German literature in the European context; history of science; literature and astronomy; early modern philosophy and aesthetics; critical theories of secularization; baroque temporalities; small forms; historical epistemologies and ecologies
Education: PhD, University of Bonn
Maia Gil’Adí
Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies
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- San Martin Center Room 263
Research Interests: Latinx literature and culture, multiethnic literature, Latin American literature and visual culture, aesthetic theory, speculative fiction studies, horror
Education: PhD, George Washington University
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
Professor and William Kurrelmeyer Chair in German, Director of Graduate Studies in German
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- Gilman 416
- 410-516-7509
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy; Phenomenology; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature; Cognitive Literary Theory; Philosophy of Imagination; Modern German Literature and Thought., Literary Ecology and Environmental Studies
Education: DPhil, University of Oxford, PhD, Villanova University
Claude Guillemard
Senior Lecturer, French, Coordinator, French Elements
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- Gilman 444
- 410-516-6041
Education: MA, Paris IV, Agrégation, Lettres classiques, Paris IV
Jacob Haubenreich
Assistant Professor of German
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- Gilman 435
Research Interests: 19th-21st century German literature, posthermeneutics, theory and history of media, Schriftbildlichkeit, book history, writing process, archival theory and practice, experimental literature, literature and the visual arts, new materialism, multilingualism
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Gisela Heffes
Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture, Head of the Spanish and Portuguese Subdivision, Director of Graduate Studies, Spanish and Portuguese
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- Gilman 480
- 410-516-4615
Education: PhD, Yale University
Daniela Hernández Rodríguez
Lecturer, Spanish
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Education: PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
Virginia Jewiss
Associate Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; Teaching Professor
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- Gilman 330D
Education: PhD, Yale University
Paul Michael Johnson
Associate Research Professor, Spanish
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- San Martin Center 237
Education: PhD, U.C. Irvine
Beatrice Lang
Lecturer, Yiddish, Language Program Director, Yiddish
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 493
- 410-516-6183
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Kenneth Loiselle
Visiting Associate Professor of French
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- Gilman 449
- 410-516-4736
Research Interests: Freemasonry, secret societies and political revolutions; La Nouvelle France; male homosociality; 18th- and 19th-century egodocuments; interspecies relations
Education: PhD, Yale University
Naiara Martínez-Vélez
Senior Lecturer, Spanish, Coordinator, Intermediate Spanish
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- Gilman 465
- 410-516-5523
Education: MA, West Virginia University
Deborah McGee Mifflin
(retired) Associate Teaching Professor of German, Language Program Director, German, Study Abroad Advisor
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Research Interests: German language, literature & linguistics; pedagogy of language teaching, theories of second language acquisition
Education: MA, Temple University
Arancha Moreno Hubbard
Senior Lecturer, Spanish, Coordinator, Advanced Spanish
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 487
- 410-516-4859
Education: PhD, University of Jaén, PhD, University of Leon
Ellen Nagasawa
Lecturer
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Education: Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Marcelo Nogueira
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
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- San Martin Center 265
- (410) 516 8768
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary poetry, literary history, media theory, sonic and visual cultures, sound studies, ethnomusicology; Latin American avant-gardes, Brazilian concrete poetry, and the art of songwriting in Latin America
Education: PhD, Duke University
Katrin Pahl
Professor of German
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- Gilman 414
- 410-516-7513
Research Interests: German literature and philosophy in comparative perspective (US and French); the theory, poetics and history of emotionality, gender and sexuality; contemporary theater; Hegel; Kleist
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Leonardo Proietti
Senior Lecturer, Italian
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- Gilman 481
- 410-516-4239
Research Interests: Italian cultural studies, with a particular focus on visual culture, including film, art, and fashion
Education: MA, UCLA
Suzanne Roos (she/her/hers)
Senior Lecturer, Coordinator, Intermediate French
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- Gilman 446
- 410-516-8059
Education: MPhil, Yale University
Elena Russo
Professor of French, Director of Undergraduate Studies, French, Study Abroad Officer, French
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 488
- 410-516-7622
Research Interests: 17th- and 18th-century French literature; cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment; religious dissidences; sociability; the history of aesthetics; literary theory
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Arielle Saiber (she/her/hers)
Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, Head of the Italian Subdivision
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- Gilman 478
Research Interests: Dante, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Humanism, Early Print History, History of Science and Mathematics, Science Fiction, Electronic Music, Mysticism, Psychedelic Studies
Education: PhD, Yale University
Loreto Sánchez Serrano
Teaching Professor of Spanish, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Language Program Director, Spanish
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- Gilman 463
Research Interests: Computer-assisted language learning
Education: PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Maria Sánchez Paraíso
Lecturer, Spanish
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- Gilman 464B
- 410-516-0152
Research Interests: Spanish sociolinguistics, language variation and change, contact linguistics and bilingualism, Spanish in contact with Quechua, The Andes (Peru)
Education: PhD, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Derek Schilling
Professor of French, Director of the Centre Louis Marin
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- Gilman 426
- 410-516-4626
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French literature; film esthetics and theory; geocriticism; urban and suburban studies
Education: PhD/Doctorat du 3e cycle, University of Pennsylvania/University of Paris 8 (Vincennes/Saint-Denis)
Bécquer Seguín
Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies
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- Gilman 490
- 410-516-8571
Research Interests: Modern Spanish literature, political theory, intellectual history, cultural sociology
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Samuel Spinner
Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture
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- Gilman 406
- 410-516-0099
Research Interests: Yiddish literature 19th and 20th centuries, German-Jewish culture and literature, modernism, visual culture, history of anthropology, museum studies, Holocaust studies
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Neta Stahl
Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Head of the Hebrew and Yiddish Subdivision
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- Gilman 474
- 410-516-2208
Research Interests: Modern Hebrew literature, religion and literature, narrative theory, genre theory
Education: PhD, Tel Aviv University
Heiko ter Haseborg
Associate Teaching Professor, German, Director, German Language Program, Study Abroad Advisor
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 469B
- (410) 516-7592
Research Interests: World language pedagogy, curriculum design, curriculum evaluation, assessment, teacher and learner role in language education, second language acquisition, and metacognition
Education: PhD, West Virginia University
Rochelle Tobias
Professor of German, Head of Section, Co-Director, Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 404
- 410-516-7512
Research Interests: 18th to 20th century German and European literature and thought; phenomenology; religious studies; continental philosophy; modern poetry; theory of the novel, fiction, and autobiography; German-Jewish culture.
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Carmen Torres Burgos
Lecturer, Spanish
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- Gilman 477
- 410-516-4736
Education: MA, West Virginia University
Michelle Tracy
Senior Lecturer, Spanish, Coordinator, Spanish Elements
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 467
- 410-516-6246
Education: MA, Johns Hopkins
Bernadette Wegenstein (she/her/hers)
Professor of Media Studies, Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies
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- Gilman 461
- 410-516-7511
Research Interests: Film and media studies, documentary film practice, body and media theory, gender studies
Education: PhD, Vienna University
Heidi Wheeler
Senior Lecturer, German, Coordinator, Intermediate German
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 491
- 410-516-8756
Education: MA, University of Kansas
April Wuensch
Senior Lecturer, French, Coordinator, Advanced French for Speaking
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 448A
- 410-516-7228
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Alessandro Zannirato
Teaching Professor of Italian, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Italian, Language Program Director, Italian
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 448B
- 410-516-7230
Research Interests: foreign language pedagogy; foreign language teacher training; liaison, community and conference interpreting; program evaluation.
Education: PhD, University of Cape Town
Associated Faculty
Lucy Allais
Miller Professor of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Kant, forgiveness, punishment
Education: D.Phil., Oxford
Shane Butler
Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics, Director, Classics Research Lab
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- [email protected]
- 410-516-3835
Research Interests: Classical and nineteenth-century reception of Italy, Italian humanism
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Stephen J. Campbell
Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor, Department of History of Art
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 170
- 410-516-4928
Research Interests: Renaissance and Baroque, notions of style and visual communication
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Christopher S. Celenza
James B. Knapp Dean, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
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Research Interests: Renaissance latin, Paleography, History of classical tradition
Education: PhD, Duke University, PhD, University of Hamburg
Jennifer Culbert
Associate Professor, Political Science
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Research Interests: Political theory, jurisprudence
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Earle Havens
Adjunct Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, Director, The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance
Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries
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- [email protected]
- Department of Special Collections, Brody Learning Commons
- 443-743-7849
Research Interests: History of the Book, Scribal Culture and the History of Reading, Catholic Reformation, Literary Forgery
Education: PhD, Yale University (History and Renaissance Studies)
Peter Jelavich
Professor, History
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Research Interests: European cultural and intellectual history
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Katharina Kraus
Miller Associate Professor of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Philosophy of Enlightenment, 19th and 20th century German philosophy
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Michael Kwass
Professor and Chair of History
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Research Interests: Early modern France; the French Revolution; globalization
Laura Vasilyeva
Assistant Professor, Musicology
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Research Interests: Nineteenth-century Italy, opera, sound studies, built environments
Education: PhD, University of California
Theodore J. Lewis
Blum-Iwry Professor of Near Eastern Studies
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- [email protected]
- 410-516-6791
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Leonardo Lisi (he/him)
Associate Professor, Comparative Thought and Literature, Diversity Champion, Executive Editor, Comparative Literature Issue, MLN
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Research Interests: European literature of the 19th century, modernism, Kierkegaard and German idealism
Education: PhD, Yale University
James Loeffler
Felix Posen Professor in Modern Jewish History, Director of the Stulman Program in Jewish Studies
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 394
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Pawel Maciejko
Associate Professor, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture
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Education: DPhil, University of Oxford
Alice Mandell
William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 140
- 410-516-4701
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Yitzhak Melamed
Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, German idealism, metaphysics
Education: PhD, Yale University
Mitchell Merback
Professor, History of Art
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Research Interests: Late medieval and northern Renaissance art
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Dean Moyar
Professor, Philosophy
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Research Interests: German Idealism, ethics, political philosophy
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Karen ní Mheallaigh
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics
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Research Interests: Greek literature, culture, and science
Education: PhD, Trinity College Dublin
Lawrence M. Principe
Drew Professor of the Humanities and Director, Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe
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Research Interests: Early modern and late medieval science and technology; history of alchemy/chemistry; science and theology
Education: PhD, History of Science, Johns Hopkins University, PhD, Organic Chemistry, Indiana University
Matthew Roller
Professor, Classics
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 102
- 410-516-5095
Research Interests: Latin literature; Roman social and cultural history; Graeco-Roman philosophy
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Caroline Lillian Schopp
Assistant Professor, History of Art
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Research Interests: Modern and contemporary art, critical theory, performance
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Todd Shepard
Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History
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- [email protected]
- 410-516-8512
Research Interests: Modern France and French empire, decolonization, gender and sexuality
Education: PhD, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Mark Christian Thompson
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, English
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Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century African-American, German and French literature; the history and representation of race in literature and philosophy; political philosophy; aesthetics; art theory
Education: PhD, New York University
staff
Monica Bradik
Sr. Administrative Manager
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- Gilman 401C
Education: MBA, UB/Towson
Calvin Cummings
Administrative Coordinator
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- Gilman 401G
- (410) 516 7508
Education: M.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Ralph Hubbell
Sr. Academic Coordinator
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- Gilman 401F
Education: MFA, Johns Hopkins University
Mackenzie Zalin
Librarian
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- Eisenhower Library 11
- 410-516-0215
Education: PhD, MSLS
Postdoctoral fellow
Emeritus professors
Mary Miglio Bensabat-Ott
Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Sociolinguistics with a focus on bilingualism
Education: PhD, Georgetown
Sara Castro-Klarén
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Colonial cultures and literatures; theory; women's writing; modern Latin American cultures and literatures
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Jacques Neefs
Professor Emeritus
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- Gilman 401
- 410-516-7727
Research Interests: 19th-20th-century French literature; genetic criticism
Education: PhD (Doctorat d’État), University Paris 8
Stephen Nichols
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Medieval French literature
Education: PhD, Yale University
Walter Stephens
Professor Emeritus
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Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, history and theory of forgery, the literature of witchcraft.
Education: PhD, Cornell University, PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Susan Weiss
Professor Emerita
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Research Interests: Medieval music and learning; music and memory
Education: PhD, University of Maryland