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Faculty (Alphabetical)

Chair

Alioune Sow
Associate Professor of Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature
484 Grinter
301C Pugh Hall
sow@ufl.edu
352.392.8149

Faculty

  • Akintunde Akinyemi
    Professor – Yoruba language and literature
  • Salah Algabli
    Associate Instructional Professor – Arabic Studies and Educational Technology
  • Deborah Amberson
    Associate Professor – Modern Italian literature and Italian cinema
  • Theresa Antes
    Associate Professor – French applied linguistics
  • Gianfranco Balestriere
    Instructional Professor – Italian language and culture
  • Gabriele Belletti
    Assistant Professor – Italian and French languages, literatures, and cultures
  • Hélène Blondeau
    Professor – French linguistics and culture; North American Francophone culture
  • Rori Bloom
    Professor – Eighteenth-century French literature
    Director – France-Florida Research Institute
  • Sylvie Blum-Reid
    Professor – French cinema, Women and film, Music in film and literature, Fashion history and theory, Translation studies
  • Soraya Bouguettaya
    Associate Instructional Professor – Arabic language
  • Alexander Burak
    Associate Professor – Russian language and culture; Ukrainian language and culture; Translation studies
  • Nathalie Ciesco
    Assistant Instructional Professor – French language
  • James Essegbey
    Professor – African languages and linguistics
  • Matthieu Felt
    Assistant Professor – Premodern Japanese literature, history, and religion
  • Elinore Fresh
    Instructional Professor – Chinese language and culture
  • James Goodwin
    Associate Professor – Russian literature, language, visual arts, and culture
  • Michael Gorham
    Professor – Language and politics; Contemporary Russian culture; New Media Culture; 20th- and 21st-century Russian literature; Language pedagogy
  • Will Hasty
    Professor – German and European Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Arthurian Studies, Digital Humanities and E-Learning, Global-Cultural Resource Analyses, Medieval Feminism
  • Benjamin Hebblethwaite
    Associate Professor – Haitian Creole and French
  • Roy Holler
    Assistant Professor – Israeli literature and culture
  • Ingrid Kleespies
    Associate Professor – Late eighteenth and nineteenth century Russian literature and culture; Travel literature; The Soviet avant-garde
  • Eric Kligerman
    Associate Professor – German literature and theory; continental philosophy, Holocaust studies, Comparative literature; Visual studies
  • Stephen Kory
    Assistant Professor – Chinese literature and culture
  • Haruna Kyomoto
    Lecturer – Japanese Language and Culture
  • Rose Lugano
    Instructional Professor – Swahili language and culture
  • Fiona McLaughlin
    Professor – African languages and linguistics; Language contact in urban Africa; Phonology of Atlantic languages; Language and Islam in Africa
  • Barbara Mennel
    Professor – Film studies, Feminist theory, European cinema, Urban studies and film
  • Sherrie Nunn
    Instructional Professor – Italian language
  • Kole Ade Odutola — Yoruba, Senior Lecturer
    Associate Instructional Professor – Yoruba language and literature
  • Kensaku Ogata
    Assistant Instructional Professor – Japanese
  • Guelden Olgun
    Instructional Professor – German Language and Culture
  • Andrea Pham
    Professor – Vietnamese language and linguistics
  • Galina Rylkova
    Professor – Russian and European modernism; Anton Chekhov; Contemporary Russian literature; Cultural studies; and Russian cinema
  • Christopher Smith
    Assistant Professor – Modern Japanese literature
  • Alioune Sow
    Associate Professor – Sub-Saharan Francophone literature
  • Sarra Tlili
    Associate Professor – Arabic language and literature; Qur’an studies, animals in Islam, Arabic literature and civilization; Sustainability.
  • Yasuo Uotate
    Instructional Professor – Japanese language
  • Risa Wada
    Associate Instructional Professor – Japanese language
  • Richard G. Wang
    Professor – Premodern Chinese fiction and Taoism
  • Mary A. Watt
    Professor – Medieval Italian literature and culture
  • Brigitte Weltman-Aron
    Professor – Eighteenth- and twentieth-century French and Francophone literature and critical theory
  • Ying Xiao
    Associate Professor – Transnational Chinese cinema, popular music, youth culture, and sound studies
  • Han Xu
    Instructional Professor – Chinese language
  • Shu-Han Yeh
    Associate Instructional Professor – Chinese language
  • Gayle Zachmann
    Associate Professor – Nineteenth-century French literature and critical theory

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