Faculty of Resident Instruction

Philippe Baillargeon, Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, Senior Lecturer II, B.A., McGill, 1998; M.A., McGill, 1999; M.A., Princeton, 2001; Ph.D., 2006.

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.

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, 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, Director of French and Francophone Studies, 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 Graduate Program Director of Chinese, 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 and Director of Center for Latin American, Carribean, and Latino Studies, 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, 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, Director of Italian Studies and Director of the Italian Language 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, Honors Program Coordinator, B.A., Chicago, 2008; M.A., Texas at Austin, 2013; Ph.D., 2017.

Patricia Gubitosi, Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Spanish, 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, Director of the Interpreting Studies Certificate Program and Director of UMass Cornerstone Scholar Initiative, 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 and Graduate Program Director of German Studies, Director of DEFA Film Library, B.A., Shumen, Bulgaria, 2001; M.A., Pittsburgh, 2003; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 2011.

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

Nahla Abdel-Kader-Ahmed Khalil, Five 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, Professor, B.A., Yale, 1998; M.A., 1998; Ph.D., Princeton, 2008.

Jee Hyun Lee, Lecturer, B.A., University of California Los Angeles, 2009; M.A., University of California Lost Angeles, 2013; Ph.D., University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2022.

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 Honors Director, 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, Undergraduate Program Director and Undergraduate Advisor of Italian Studies, 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.

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, Director of Medieval Studies and Graduate Program Director of Italian Studies, B.A., Florida State, 1990; M.A., Virginia, 1993; Ph.D., Brown, 1998.

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

Jeff Peer, Visiting Lecturer, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center, CUNY.

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

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.

Jorge Sanchez, Visiting Lecturer, A.B.D., Boston University; B.A., M.A., University of Puerto Rico

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, Co-Pl UMass Cornerstone Scholar Initiative, 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, Amesbury Professor of Polish Language and Culture, 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 of Italian Studies and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, B.A., Georgetown, 2003; Ph.D., Harvard, 2013.

Una Tanovic, Visiting Assistant Professor-UMass Cornerstone Initiative, Research and Teaching, B.A.,University of Sarajevo, 2009 ; M.A., 2014, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Ph.D, 2021, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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, Director of Chinese Language & Literature, and 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.