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Wilda Anderson

Professor of French
Director of Graduate Studies

PhD, Cornell University
- wilda@wilda.org
- Gilman 418
- Research Interests: Literature of the French Enlightenment; the relationship between science and literature; the French Revolution and its aftermath; Newton and newtonianism
Sara Castro-Klarén

Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature/Spanish section
Commander of the Order of the Sun. Peru

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
- 410-516-8790
- sck@jhu.edu
- Gilman 492
- Research Interests: Colonial cultures and literatures; theory; women's writing; modern Latin American cultures and literatures
Daniel Desormeaux

William D. and Robin Mayer Professor and Head of the French Subdivision

PhD, Emory University; M.A., Université du Québec à Montréal; M.A. Johns Hopkins University
- 410-516-7727
- 410-516-5358
- ddd@jhu.edu
- Gilman Hall 482
- 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
Laura Di Bianco

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian

PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- 410-516-2022
- lauradibianco@jhu.edu
- Gilman 435
- Research Interests: Research Interests: Italian Cinema, Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, Film Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Ecocriticism, and Translation Studies.
William Egginton

Decker Professor in the Humanities
Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute

PhD, Stanford University
- 410-516-7510
- egginton@jhu.edu
- Gilman 470
- Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American Literatures, comparative European literature and thought
Eduardo González

Professor of Spanish, Director of the Spanish Subdivision, and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Spanish

PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington
- 410-516-4615
- cocuyo@jhu.edu
- Gilman 480
- Research Interests: Latin American literature and cinema
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei

Professor and William Kurrelmeyer Chair in German, Director of Graduate Studies in German

DPhil, University of Oxford
PhD, Villanova University
- 410-516-7509
- 410-516-5358
- jgosett1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 416
- Research Interests: Continental Philosophy; Phenomenology; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature; Cognitive Literary Theory; Philosophy of Imagination; Modern German Literature and Thought.
Katrin Pahl

Associate Professor

PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- 410-516-7513
- kpahl@jhu.edu
- Gilman 414
- Research Interests: German literature and philosophy in comparative perspective (US and French); the theory, poetics and history of emotionality, gender and sexuality; theater; Hegel; Kleist
Elena Russo

Professor of French
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Study Abroad Officer for French

PhD, Princeton University
- 410-516-7622
- erusso@jhu.edu
- Gilman 488
- Research Interests: 17th- and 18th-century French literature; cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment; religious dissidences; sociability; the history of aesthetics; literary theory
Derek Schilling

Professor, Chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures
Director of the Centre Louis Marin

PhD/Doctorat du 3e cycle, University of Pennsylvania/University of Paris 8 (Vincennes/Saint-Denis)
- 410-516-4626
- dschill4@jhu.edu
- Gilman 426
- Research Interests: Modern and contemporary French literature; film esthetics and theory; geocriticism; urban and suburban studies
Bécquer Seguín

Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies

PhD, Cornell University
- 410-516-8571
- becquer@jhu.edu
- Gilman 490
- Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Iberia, comparative literature, political theory, art history, media studies
Samuel Spinner

Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture

PhD, Columbia University
- 410-516-0099
- spinner@jhu.edu
- Gilman 406
- Research Interests: Yiddish literature 19th and 20th centuries, German-Jewish culture and literature, visual culture, history of anthropology, museum studies, Holocaust studies
Neta Stahl

Associate Professor
Director of The Stulman Program in Jewish Studies

PhD, Tel Aviv University
- 410-516-2208
- nstahl1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 474
- Research Interests: Modern Hebrew literature, religion and literature, narrative theory, genre theory
Walter Stephens

Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies and Director of the Italian Subdivision
Director of Graduate Studies for Italian

PhD, Cornell University, PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
- 410-516-7229
- walter.stephens@jhu.edu
- Gilman 408
- Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature
Rochelle Tobias

Professor and Director of the German Subdivision; Co-Director, Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought

PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- 410-516-7512
- rtobias@jhu.edu
- Gilman 404
- Research Interests: Modern German literature and thought; German-Jewish culture
Bernadette Wegenstein

Professor of Media Studies; Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies

PhD, Vienna University
- 410-516-7511
- berna@jhu.edu
- Gilman 461
Visiting Faculty
Marton Dornbach

Visiting Assistant Professor in German
Director of Undergraduate Studies for German

PhD
- mdornba1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 481
Earle Havens

Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries
Visiting Associate Professor in German and Romance Languages and Literatures

PhD, Yale University (History and Renaissance Studies)
- 443-743-7849
- earle.havens@jhu.edu
- Brody Learning Commons, Special Collections
Joint and Secondary Appointments
Eckart Förster

Professor, Philosophy

PhD, Oxford University
- 410-516-8041
- eckart.forster@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Kant and German idealism
Margaret Keck

Professor, Political Science
- 410-516-7536
- mkeck@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Latin American politics
Michael Kwass

Professor and Chair of History
- mkwass1@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Early modern France; the French Revolution; globalization
Gianna Pomata

Professor, Institute of the History of Medicine
- 410-955-3037
- gpomata1@jhmi.edu
- Research Interests: Early modern European social and cultural history
Lawrence M. Principe

Drew Professor of the Humanities and Director, Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe
- lmafp@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Early modern and late medieval science and technology; history of alchemy/chemistry; science and theology
Todd Shepard

Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History

PhD, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- 410-516-8512
- tshep75@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Modern France and French empire, decolonization, gender and sexuality
Susan Weiss

Professor, Peabody Conservatory

PhD, University of Maryland
- sweiss@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Musicology
Affiliated Faculty
Stephen J. Campell

Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor, History of Art
- 410-516-4928
- stephen.campbell@jhu.edu
- Gilman 170
Peter Jelavich

Professor, History

PhD, Princeton University
- Research Interests: Cultural and intellectual history of Europe since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on Germany, popular culture, mass culture, and the media, modern social and cultural theory
Richard Katz

Professor and Chair, Political Science
- 410-516-7534
- richard.katz@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 327
- Research Interests: Comparative Politics (Parties, Elections, European politics), American Politics
Leonardo Lisi

Associate Professor, Comparative Thought and Literature

PhD, Yale University
- Research Interests: European literature of the long nineteenth century; European modernism; Kierkegaard and German idealism; tragedy and the tragic; philosophical aesthetics and literary forms
Jean McGarry

Professor and Co-chair, Writing Seminars
- 410-516-6286
- mcgarry@jhu.edu
Yitzhak Melamed

Professor, Philosophy

PhD, Yale University
- Research Interests: Early modern philosophy; German idealism; metaphysics
Mitchell Merback

Professor, History of Art

PhD, University of Chicago
- Research Interests: Northern Renaissance art
Dean Moyar

Associate Professor, Philosophy

PhD, University of Chicago
- Research Interests: German Idealism; ethics; political philosophy
Lawrence M. Principe

Professor, History of Science and Technology; Director, Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe

PhD, History of Science, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Organic Chemistry, Indiana University
- 410-516-4807
- lmafp@jhu.edu
- Gilman 376
- Research Interests: Early modern and late medieval science and technology, especially the history of alchemy/chemistry and issues of science and theology/religion
Matthew Roller

Professor, Classics

PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- 410-516-5095
- mroller@jhu.edu
- Gilman 102
- Research Interests: Latin literature; Roman social and cultural history; Graeco-Roman philosophy
Mark Christian Thompson

Associate Professor, English

PhD, New York University
- 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
Language Program Directors
Flavia De Azeredo-Cerqueira

Portuguese Language Program Director and Associate Teaching Professor in Portuguese

PhD, Federal University of Minas Gerais
- 410-516-6738
- flavia_azeredo@jhu.edu
- Gilman 469A
- 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.
Kristin Anna Cook-Gailloud

Senior Lecturer and French Language Program Director

PhD, Johns Hopkins University
- 410-516-8017
- kacg@jhu.edu
- Gilman 442
Deborah McGee Mifflin

Associate Teaching Professor, German Language Program Director and Study Abroad Advisor

MA, Temple University
- 410-516-7592
- mifflind@jhu.edu
- Gilman 469B
- Research Interests: German language, literature & linguistics; pedagogy of language teaching, theories of second language acquisition
Loreto Sánchez Serrano

Associate Teaching Professor and Spanish Language Program Director

PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- 410-516-4618
- lsanchez@jhu.edu
- Gilman 463
- Research Interests: Computer-assisted language learning
Alessandro Zannirato

Associate Teaching Professor and Italian Language Program Director

PhD, University of Cape Town
- 410-516-7230
- zannirato@jhu.edu
- Gilman 448B
- Research Interests: Foreign language pedagogy; foreign language teacher training; liaison, community and conference interpreting; program evaluation
Professors Emeriti
Mary Miglio Bensabat-Ott

Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus

PhD, Georgetown
- maryott@jhu.edu
- Research Interests: Sociolinguistics with a focus on bilingualism
Jacques Neefs

Professor Emeritus

PhD (Doctorat d’État), University Paris 8
- 410-516-7727
- jneefs@jhu.edu
- Gilman 401
- Research Interests: 19th-20th-century French literature; genetic criticism
Stephen Nichols

Professor Emeritus

PhD, Yale University
- 410-516-7227
- stephen.nichols@jhu.edu
- Gilman 401
- Research Interests: Medieval French literature
Harry Sieber

Professor Emeritus

PhD, Duke University
- 410-516-7227
- sieber@jhu.edu
- Gilman 401
- Research Interests: Renaissance and Baroque Spanish literature
Lecturers
Mariana Alvarez Torres

Lecturer
- 410-516-2020
- malvar25@hu.edu
- Gilman 440
Bruce Anderson

Senior Lecturer, French Language; Coordinator, Advanced Writing and Speaking in French
- 410-516-0478
- bcanderson70@gmail.com
- Gilman 417
Grecia Chirinos Delgado

Lecturer in Spanish
- 410-516-4736
- gchirin1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 477
Zvi Cohen

Lecturer, Hebrew
- zcohen3@jhu.edu
- Krieger 510
Cortney Davila

Lecturer
- 410-516-2020
- cdavila4@jhu.edu
- Gilman 440
Maria del Rosario Ramos

Senior Lecturer, Spanish Language; Coordinator, Advanced Spanish
- 410-516-4055
- rosario.ramos@jhu.edu
- Gilman 466
Claude Guillemard

Senior Lecturer, French Language and Culture; Coordinator, French Elements
- 410-516-6041
- claude@jhu.edu
- Gilman 444
Beatrice Lang

Language Program Director and Lecturer, Yiddish Language
- 410-516-6183
- bcaplan7@jhu.edu
- Gilman 493
Julie Lirot

Lecturer, Spanish Language
- 410-516-5523
- jlirot1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 464
Julio López Raja

Lecturer, Spanish
- 410-516-5523
- jlopezr3@jhu.edu
- Gilman 464
Naiara Martínez-Vélez

Sr. Lecturer, Spanish Language
- 410-516-5523
- nmarti37@jhu.edu
- Gilman 465
Arancha Moreno Hubbard

Senior Lecturer, Spanish Language; Coordinator, Advanced Spanish
- 410-516-4859
- ahubba11@jhu.edu
- Gilman 405
Leonardo Proietti

Lecturer, Italian Language and Culture

MA, UCLA
- 410-516-4239
- leonardo.proietti@jhu.edu
- Gilman 405
- Research Interests: Italian cultural studies, with a particular focus on visual culture, including film, art, and fashion
Suzanne Roos

Senior Lecturer; Coordinator, Intermediate French
- 410-516-8059
- sroos@jhu.edu
- Gilman 446
Magali Spiker

Lecturer
- 410-516-0095
- mspiker2@jhu.edu
- Gilman 449
Carmen Torres Burgos

Lecturer in Spanish
- 410-516-4736
- ctorre25@jhu.edu
- Gilman 477
Michelle Tracy

Senior Lecturer, Spanish Language; Coordinator, Spanish Elements
- 410-516-6246
- mrisdon1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 467
Heidi Wheeler

Senior Lecturer, German Language, Culture, and Literature; Coordinator, Intermediate German
- 410-516-8756
- heidiw@jhu.edu
- Gilman 491
April Wuensch

Senior Lecturer, French Language; Coordinator, La France Contemporaine
- 410-516-7228
- april@jhu.edu
- Gilman 448A
in memoriam
Pier Massimo Forni

Professor

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
- Research Interests: Italian literature; history and theory of civility
staff
Teri M. Caughman (Robinson)

Administrative Manager

MBA and MS
- 410-516-7227
- 410-516-5358
- trobin52@jhu.edu
- Gilman 401C
Kimberly Holton

Budget Specialist
- 410-516-7508
- 410-516-5358
- kholton1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 401G
Kathy Loehmer

Sr. Academic Program Coordinator
- 410-516-7226
- 410-516-5358
- kathy.grll@jhu.edu
- Gilman 401F
Mackenzie Zalin

Librarian

PhD, MSLS
- mzalin1@jhu.edu
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Professor of French Director of Graduate Studies

PhD, Cornell University

Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature/Spanish section Commander of the Order of the Sun. Peru

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

William D. and Robin Mayer Professor and Head of the French Subdivision

PhD, Emory University; M.A., Université du Québec à Montréal; M.A. Johns Hopkins University

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian

PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Decker Professor in the Humanities Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute

PhD, Stanford University

Professor of Spanish, Director of the Spanish Subdivision, and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Spanish

PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington

Professor and William Kurrelmeyer Chair in German, Director of Graduate Studies in German

DPhil, University of Oxford PhD, Villanova University

Associate Professor

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Professor of French Director of Undergraduate Studies and Study Abroad Officer for French

PhD, Princeton University

Professor, Chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures Director of the Centre Louis Marin

PhD/Doctorat du 3e cycle, University of Pennsylvania/University of Paris 8 (Vincennes/Saint-Denis)

Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies

PhD, Cornell University

Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture

PhD, Columbia University

Associate Professor Director of The Stulman Program in Jewish Studies

PhD, Tel Aviv University

Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies and Director of the Italian SubdivisionDirector of Graduate Studies for Italian

PhD, Cornell University, PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Professor and Director of the German Subdivision; Co-Director, Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Professor of Media Studies; Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies

PhD, Vienna University

Visiting Faculty

Visiting Assistant Professor in German Director of Undergraduate Studies for German

PhD

Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Sheridan LibrariesVisiting Associate Professor in German and Romance Languages and Literatures

PhD, Yale University (History and Renaissance Studies)

Joint and Secondary Appointments

Professor, Philosophy

PhD, Oxford University

Professor, Political Science

Michael Kwass

Professor and Chair of History

Professor, Institute of the History of Medicine

Lawrence M. Principe

Drew Professor of the Humanities and Director, Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe

Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History

PhD, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Professor, Peabody Conservatory

PhD, University of Maryland

Affiliated Faculty

Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor, History of Art

Professor, History

PhD, Princeton University

Professor and Chair, Political Science

Associate Professor, Comparative Thought and Literature

PhD, Yale University

Professor and Co-chair, Writing Seminars

Professor, Philosophy

PhD, Yale University

Professor, History of Art

PhD, University of Chicago

Associate Professor, Philosophy

PhD, University of Chicago

Professor, History of Science and Technology; Director, Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe

PhD, History of Science, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Organic Chemistry, Indiana University

Professor, Classics

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Associate Professor, English

PhD, New York University

Language Program Directors

Portuguese Language Program Director and Associate Teaching Professor in Portuguese

PhD, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Senior Lecturer and French Language Program Director

PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Associate Teaching Professor, German Language Program Director and Study Abroad Advisor

MA, Temple University

Loreto Sánchez Serrano

Associate Teaching Professor and Spanish Language Program Director

Professor of French
Director of Graduate Studies

Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature/Spanish section
Commander of the Order of the Sun. Peru

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian

Decker Professor in the Humanities
Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute

DPhil, University of Oxford
PhD, Villanova University

Professor of French
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Study Abroad Officer for French

Professor, Chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures
Director of the Centre Louis Marin

Associate Professor
Director of The Stulman Program in Jewish Studies

Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies and Director of the Italian Subdivision
Director of Graduate Studies for Italian

Visiting Assistant Professor in German
Director of Undergraduate Studies for German

Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries
Visiting Associate Professor in German and Romance Languages and Literatures