Faculty of Resident Instruction

LLC Department Chair, TBD. Visit umass.edu/llc for current information.

Luiz Amaral, Associate Professor, Director of Portuguese Studies, and Undergraduate Advisor of Portuguese, B.A., Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, 1997; M.A., Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 2001; Ph.D., Ohio State, 2007.

Meghan Armstrong-Abrami, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of Spanish, B.A., Maryland at College Park, 2000; M.A., Ohio State, 2007; Ph.D., 2012.

Philippe Baillargeon, Senior Lecturer II and Director of French and Francophone Studies, B.A., McGill, 1998; M.A., McGill, 1999; M.A., Princeton, 2001; Ph.D., 2006.

Bruce P. Baird, Professor and Graduate Program Director of Japanese, B.A., Columbia, 1992; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 1996; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 2004.

Maria Soledad Barbón, Professor, M.A., Cologne, Germany, 1993; Ph.D., 2000.

Jessica Barr, Associate Professor and Director of Comparative Literature, B.A., Oberlin, 1997; M.A., Brown, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.

Maria Biezma, Assistant Professor, B.A., Complutense Madrid, 2003; M.A., Ottawa, 2005; M.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2008; Ph.D., 2011.

Luke Bouvier, Senior Lecturer II and Graduate Program Director of French and Francophone Studies, B.A., Rutgers, 1986; M.A., Cornell, 1990; Ph.D., 1993.

Emmanuel Buzay, Assistant Professor, M.A., Sorbonne, 2006; Ph.D., Connecticut at Storrs, 2012.

Suet-Ying Chiu, Associate Professor and Director of Chinese Language & Literature, B.A., Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995; M.A., California State at Long Beach, 1999; Ph.D., California at Los Angeles, 2007.

Carole Cloutier, Senior Lecturer II and Spanish Language Program Director, B.A., McGill, 1991; M.S., Georgetown, 1994; Ph.D., 1999.

Jolene Costa, Lecturer, B.A., New South Wales, 2004; M.A., Nanyang Technological, 2012.

N. C. Christopher Couch, Senior Lecturer II, B.A., Columbia, 1976; M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1987.

Andrea Dallas, Senior Lecturer and Director of English As A Second Language, B.A., Florida at Miami, 1999; M.Ed., Framingham, 2001; M.A., Florida at Gainesville, 2004; Ph.D., 2008.

Andrew Donson, Associate Professor, B.A., Cornell, 1991; M.A., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1995; Ph.D., 2000.

Julia Feldhaus, Lecturer and Director of iSTEP, M.A., Rutgers, 2007; Ph.D., 2010.

Yi Feng, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Xi’an International Studies University, 2004; M.A., East China Normal University, 2011.

Stephanie Fetta, Associate Professor, B.A., California at Irvine, 1992; M.A., 1996; Ph.D., 2008.

Arthur Figliola, Senior Lecturer II, B.A., Dartmouth, 1973; M.A., Middlebury, 1978; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2001.

Stephen M. Forrest, Senior Lecturer and Chief Undergraduate Advisor of Japanese Language and Literature, B.A., Oxford, England, 1987; M.A., 1991; Ph.D., Harvard, 2005.

Regina Galasso, Associate Professor and Director of the Translation Center, B.A., Rutgers, 2000; M.A., Middlebury College in Spain, 2002; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2008.

Ela Gezen, Associate Professor and Director of German Studies, B.A., Freie Universität Berlin, 2001; M.A., Indiana at Bloomington, 2005; Ph.D., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2012.

Jorge Gimeno Robles, Lecturer,B.A. Honors Drama & Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, 1995. B.A. & M.A Translation & Interpretation University of Alicante, Spain, 2007. B.A. & M.A. English Philology University of Alicante, Spain, 1998. M.A. Spanish Literature & Cultural Studies, Arizona State University, 2018. PhD. Spanish Literature & Cultural Studies, Arizona State University, 2019

Stacy Giufre, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Italian Language Program and the Italian Graduate Program, B.A., Cornell, 1999; Ph.D., Harvard, 2011.

Tal Goldfajn, Assistant Professor, B.A., Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil, 1986; M.A., Oxford, 1990; Ph.D., 1993.

Rachel Green, Assistant Professor, B.A., Chicago, 2008; M.A., Texas at Austin, 2013; Ph.D., 2017.

Patricia Gubitosi, Professor, Assistant Dean of Advising, B.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991; M.A., Houston, 2004; Ph.D., 2006.

James Hicks, Senior Lecturer II, B.A., B.S., Michigan State, 1982; M.A., Pennsylvania, 1987; Ph.D., 1992.

Moira Inghilleri, Professor, and Director of the Interpreting Studies Certificate Program, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979; M.A., Massachusetts at Boston, 1987; Ph.D., University of London, Institute of Education, 1996.

Mariana Ivanova, Associate Professor, B.A., Shumen, Bulgaria, 2001; M.A., Pittsburgh, 2003; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 2011.

Sara Jackson, Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director of German Studies, B.A., Oregon, 2002; M.A., 2004; Ph.D., Michigan, 2013.

Nahla Abdel-Kader-Ahmed Khalil, 5 College Senior Lecturer, B.A., Mansoura University, 1993; M.A., 1995; M.A., Ain Shams University, 2002; Ph.D., Ain Shams and Massachusetts at Amherst, 2008.

Mako Koyama, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan, 1988; M.A., Columbia, 1990.

Kathryn Lachman, Associate Professor, B.A., Yale, 1998; M.A., 1998; Ph.D., Princeton, 2008.

Don E. Levine, Associate Professor and Honors Program Coordinator for Comparative Literature, B.A., Columbia, 1964; M.A., Princeton, 1967; Ph.D., 1972.

Yu Liu, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Beijing Language & Culture University, 2004; M.A., Indiana, 2010.

Albert Lloret, Associate Professor, M.A., Universitat de Girona, 2009; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2010.

Roberto Ludovico, Associate Professor, Laurea, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy, 1993; M.A., McGill, 1997; Ph.D., Brown, 2003.

Andrea Malaguti, Associate Professor, Laurea, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy, 1989; Ph.D., Harvard, 1999.

Andrea Manent Lujan, Visiting Lecturer of Catalan, B.A., in Translation and Interpreting (2021) from the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló and a M.A., in Secondary Education Teacher Training (2022) from the Universitat de València.

Luis A. Marentes, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor of Spanish, B.A., Texas at Austin, 1987; M.A., 1990; Ph.D., 1994.

Patricia Martinho Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Portuguese, B.A., Coimbra, Portugal, 2005; M.A., 2009; M.Ed., Porto, 2012; Ph.D., Brown, 2018.

Melina Masterson, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Colorado College, 2002; M.A., Boston College, 2007; Ph.D., Connecticut, 2016.

Cristiano A. Mazzei, Senior Lecturer II and Director of Translator and Interpreter Training, B.A., Centro Universitario Ibero-Americano Sao Paulo, 1985; M.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2007.

Patrick Mensah, Associate Professor, B.A., Leson, Ghana, 1980; M.A., Cornell, 1989; Ph.D., 1991.

Stephen D. Miller, Associate Professor, B.A., Ohio State, 1971; M.A., Columbia, 1983; Ph.D., California at Los Angeles, 1993.

Guillem Molla, Senior Lecturer and Director of Catalan Program, B.A., Universitat de Girona, 2003; M.A., 2005; Ph.D., 2010.

Kerstin Mueller Dembling, Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Director of German Studies, and German Language Program Coordinator, M.A., Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 1995; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005.

Michael Papio, Professor and Director of Medieval Studies, B.A., Florida State, 1990; M.A., Virginia, 1993; Ph.D., Brown, 1998.

Chan Young Park, 5 College Senior Lecturer, B.A., Ewha Womans University, 1996; M.TESL., Arizona State, 2000; Ph.D., 2007.

Emma Rivera-Rábago, Senior Lecturer II, B.A., Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, 1988; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998.

David Rodriguez Solas, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor of Spanish, B.A., University of Granada, 1999; M.A., 2001; Ph.D., City University of New York, 2009.

Krzysztof Rowinski, Lecturer, B.A., University of Warsaw, 2010; M.A., 2013; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2013.

Julie Roy, Lecturer, Coordinator of the French Teacher Education Program, and Director of the Online Summer French Language Program, B.A., Université de Nantes, France, 2006; M.A., Université de Nantes, France, 2007; M.A.T., UMass Amherst, 2021; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2015.

Márgara Russotto, Professor, B.A., Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1977; M.A., Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela, 1983; Ph.D., Universidade Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1987.

David Schneider, Associate Professor, B.A., Colorado at Boulder, 1980; M.A., Columbia, 1987; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2005.

Amanda C. Seaman, Professor and Director of Japanese Language & Literature, B.A., Wellesley, 1988; M.A., Chicago, 1994; Ph.D., 2001.

Pamela Shea, Lecturer, B.A., New York at Oneonta, 1994; M.A., School for International Training Brattleboro, 2000; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2019.

Yasuko Shiomi, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Nara Women's, 1998; M.A., Wisconsin at Madison, 2004.

Anna Shkireva, Five College Lecturer of Russian, Ph.D. TESOL, University of New Mexico, 2022. M.A. TESOL, University of New Mexico, 2019. B.A. Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of New Mexico, 2014. B.A./M.A. International Relations, Nizhny Novgorod State University, 2011.

Jonathan Skolnik, Associate Professor, B.A., Columbia College, 1990; M.A., 1994; Ph.D., 1999.

Reiko Sono, Senior Lecturer II and Undergraduate Advisor of Japanese Language and Literature, B.A., Tsukuba, 1988; M.A., 1991; M.A., Princeton, 1996.

Barry Spence, Senior Lecturer, M.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2013; Ph.D., 2017.

Robert G. Sullivan, Associate Professor, and Director of the Medieval Studies Certificate Program, B.A., McGill, 1983; M.A., 1985; Pd.D., Wisconsin, 1991.

Jeremi Szaniawski, Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director of Comparative Literature, B.A., Bruxelles, 2002; M.A., 2003; Ph.D., Yale, 2012.

Corine Tachtiris, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Comparative Literature, B.A., Earlham, 2000; M.F.A., Iowa, 2003; Ph.D., Michigan, 2012.

Cara Takakjian, Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Director and Undergraduate Advisor of Italian Studies, B.A., Georgetown, 2003; Ph.D., Harvard, 2013.

Eva Valenta, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director of French and Francophone Studies, M.A., Canada, 1984; Ph.D., Cornell, 1991.

Ena Vulor, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Univ. of Ghana, 1980; M.A., Cornell, 1990; Ph.D., 1994.

Zhijun Wang, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director in Chinese, Chinese Language Program Director, B.A., Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, 1987; M.A., Beijing Language and Culture University, 1992; M.A., Iowa, 1999; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.

Yuki Yoshimura, Senior Lecturer and Japanese Language Program Director, B.A., Aoyama Gakuin, Japan, 1999; M.A., 2002; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 2006.

Barbara Zecchi, Professor and Director of Film Studies, Laurea, Università Ca’Foscari Venezia, Italy 1986; M.A., California at San Diego, 1990; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 1994; Ph.D., 1998.

Enhua Zhang, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor of Chinese Language & Literature, B.A., Nankai, China, 1997; M.A., 2000; M.Phil., Colombia, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.