Faculty Directory | Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

Arabic

Name	Title	Email
Arabic	Faculty	Hind Ahmed Zaki	Assistant Professor	hind.ahmed_zaki@uconn.edu
Arabic	Faculty	Maha Darawsha	Lecturer	maha.darawsha@uconn.edu
Arabic	Faculty	Brady Ryan	Assistant Professor	brady.ryan@uconn.edu

Celtic Languages and Irish Studies

Name	Title	Email
Celtic Languages and Irish Studies	Faculty	Brendan Kane		brendan.kane@uconn.edu
Celtic Languages and Irish Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Muireann Nic Corcráin	Graduate Assistant	muireann.nic_corcrain@uconn.edu

Chinese

Name	Title	Email
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Chinese\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Zhupeng Li	UConn Graduate Assistant	zhupeng.li@uconn.edu
Chinese\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Literary Translation Studies	Faculty	Liansu Meng	Associate Professor	liansu.meng@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Chinese	Faculty	Nan Meng	Assistant Professor in Residence	nan.meng@uconn.edu
Chinese\|Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Xu Peng	UConn Graduate Assistant	xu.peng@uconn.edu
Chinese\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	graduate	Wenjing Wu	UConn Graduate Student	Wenjing.wu@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Chinese\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Zimin Wu		zimin.wu@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Chinese\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies	Faculty	Chunsheng Yang	Professor	chunsheng.yang@uconn.edu

Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Name	Title	Email
Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies	Faculty	Nina Coppolino	Associate Professor in Residence	nina.coppolino@uconn.edu
Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies	Faculty	Sara Johnson	Associate Professor	sara.johnson@uconn.edu
Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Ashmita Mukherjee	UConn Graduate Assistant	ashmita.mukherjee@uconn.edu
Chinese\|Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Xu Peng	UConn Graduate Assistant	xu.peng@uconn.edu
Admin\|Associate Department Head\|Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies	Faculty	Roger Travis	Associate Professor	roger.travis@uconn.edu

Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies

Name	Title	Email
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Rojda Idil Arslan	UConn Graduate Assistant	hwz24001@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Emeriti	Emeriti	Nehama Aschkenasy	Professor Emeritus	nehama.aschkenasy@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies\|Italian Literary & Cultural Studies\|Literary Translation Studies	Faculty	Philip Balma	Associate Professor	philip.balma@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Emeriti\|French	Emeriti	Anne Berthelot	Professor Emeritus	anne.berthelot@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Apoliana da Conceição dos Santos		apoliana.c.santos@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Spanish	Faculty	Ana María Díaz-Marcos	Professor	ana_maria.marcos@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	James Donahue	UConn Graduate Assistant	james.donahue@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|German	Faculty	Anke Finger	Professor	anke.finger@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Federico Giannuli	UConn Graduate Assistant	federico.giannuli@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Spanish	Faculty	Miguel Gomes	Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor	miguel.gomes@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Spanish	Faculty	Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann	Associate Professor	kgonzalez.seligmann@uconn.edu
Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies	Faculty	Sara Johnson	Associate Professor	sara.johnson@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|French\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	Raphael Koenig	Assistant Professor	raphael.koenig@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Rahul Koonathara	UConn Graduate Assistant	rahul.koonathara@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|French	Faculty	Hassanaly Ladha	Associate Professor	ally.ladha@uconn.edu
Admin\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Literary Translation Studies\|Spanish	Admin\|Faculty	Jacqueline Loss	Professor	jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu
Chinese\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Literary Translation Studies	Faculty	Liansu Meng	Associate Professor	liansu.meng@uconn.edu
Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Ashmita Mukherjee	UConn Graduate Assistant	ashmita.mukherjee@uconn.edu
Admin\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Spanish	Admin\|Faculty	Gustavo Nanclares	Associate Professor	gustavo.nanclares@uconn.edu
Celtic Languages and Irish Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Muireann Nic Corcráin	Graduate Assistant	muireann.nic_corcrain@uconn.edu
Chinese\|Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Xu Peng	UConn Graduate Assistant	xu.peng@uconn.edu
Admin\|Associate Department Head\|Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies	Faculty	Roger Travis	Associate Professor	roger.travis@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|German	Faculty	Manuela Wagner	Professor of Language Education	manuela.wagner@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	James Waller	Professor, Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice, Director, Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs	james.waller@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|German	Faculty	Friedemann Weidauer	Professor	friedemann.weidauer@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|German\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	Sebastian Wogenstein	Associate Professor	wogenstein@uconn.edu
Chinese\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	graduate	Wenjing Wu	UConn Graduate Student	Wenjing.wu@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Chinese\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies	Faculty	Chunsheng Yang	Professor	chunsheng.yang@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Heng Zhang		heng@uconn.edu

Film Studies

Name	Title	Email
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies\|Italian Literary & Cultural Studies\|Literary Translation Studies	Faculty	Philip Balma	Associate Professor	philip.balma@uconn.edu
Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies	Faculty	Sara Johnson	Associate Professor	sara.johnson@uconn.edu
Admin\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Literary Translation Studies\|Spanish	Admin\|Faculty	Jacqueline Loss	Professor	jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu
Admin\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Spanish	Admin\|Faculty	Gustavo Nanclares	Associate Professor	gustavo.nanclares@uconn.edu
Admin\|Department Head\|Film Studies\|French	Admin\|Faculty	Jennifer Terni	Associate Professor and Department Head	jennifer.terni@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|CLCS Faculty Affiliates\|Film Studies\|Spanish	Faculty	Eduardo Urios-Aparisi	Associate Professor	eduardo.urios-aparisi@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|German	Faculty	Friedemann Weidauer	Professor	friedemann.weidauer@uconn.edu

French

Name	Title	Email
French\|Graduate Assistants\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Aida Kamel Ahmed	UConn Graduate Assistant	aida.ahmed@uconn.edu
French	Faculty	Mary E Allen	Assistant Professor	mary.allen@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Emeriti\|French	Emeriti	Anne Berthelot	Professor Emeritus	anne.berthelot@uconn.edu
Emeriti\|French	Emeriti\|Faculty	Roger Célestin	Professor Emeritus	roger.celestin@uconn.edu
French\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Khadija Chame		auo25002@uconn.edu
French\|Graduate Assistants\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Lea Delbez		qxq25003@uconn.edu
French\|Graduate Assistants\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Romain Dupuis	UConn Graduate Assistant	uqq25002@uconn.edu
French\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Fadi Elsaid	UConn Graduate Assistant	fadi.elsaid@uconn.edu
French\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Nada Elshabrawy		nada.elshabrawy@uconn.edu
French\|Graduate Assistants\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Sofiane Estrade		FID25001@UCONN.EDU
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|French\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	Raphael Koenig	Assistant Professor	raphael.koenig@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|French	Faculty	Hassanaly Ladha	Associate Professor	ally.ladha@uconn.edu
French	Faculty	Florence Marsal	Associate Professor in Residence	florence.marsal@uconn.edu
French\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Patience Odeh	UConn Graduate Assistant	patience.odeh@uconn.edu
French	Faculty	Valérie Saugera	Associate Professor	valerie.saugera@uconn.edu
Admin\|Department Head\|Film Studies\|French	Admin\|Faculty	Jennifer Terni	Associate Professor and Department Head	jennifer.terni@uconn.edu

German

Name	Title	Email
German\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Laila Almotwaly		laila.almotwaly@uconn.edu
German\|Graduate Assistants\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Serafima Antonenko	UConn Graduate Assistant	serafima.antonenko@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|German	Faculty	Anke Finger	Professor	anke.finger@uconn.edu
German	Faculty	Anna Horakova	Assistant Professor	anna.horakova@uconn.edu
German\|Graduate Assistants\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Marie Huebler		marie.huebler@uconn.edu
German\|Graduate Assistants\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Simon King	UConn Graduate Assistant	simon.king@uconn.edu
German\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Christina Meier		cnb24005@uconn.edu
German\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Elisabeth Scharnhorst		eyh24001@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|German	Faculty	Manuela Wagner	Professor of Language Education	manuela.wagner@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|German	Faculty	Friedemann Weidauer	Professor	friedemann.weidauer@uconn.edu
German	Faculty	Florian White	Visiting Assistant Professor	florian.white@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|German\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	Sebastian Wogenstein	Associate Professor	wogenstein@uconn.edu

Hebrew & Judaic Studies

Name	Title	Email
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies\|Italian Literary & Cultural Studies\|Literary Translation Studies	Faculty	Philip Balma	Associate Professor	philip.balma@uconn.edu
Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	Jessica Cooperman	Doris and Simon Konover Chair in Judaic Studies, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life	js.cooperman@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|French\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	Raphael Koenig	Assistant Professor	raphael.koenig@uconn.edu
Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	Yonatan Miller	Assistant Professor	yonatan.miller@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	James Waller	Professor, Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice, Director, Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs	james.waller@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|German\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies	Faculty	Sebastian Wogenstein	Associate Professor	wogenstein@uconn.edu

Italian Literary & Cultural Studies

Name	Title	Email
Graduate Assistants\|Italian Literary & Cultural Studies\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Laura Albanese	UConn Graduate Assistant	laura.albanese@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|Italian Literary & Cultural Studies\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Chiara Avallone		chiara.avallone@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies\|Italian Literary & Cultural Studies\|Literary Translation Studies	Faculty	Philip Balma	Associate Professor	philip.balma@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|Italian Literary & Cultural Studies\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Maria Brennan		maria.brennan@uconn.edu
Italian Literary & Cultural Studies	Faculty	Andrea Celli	Associate Professor	andrea.celli@uconn.edu
Italian Literary & Cultural Studies	Faculty	Concetta Chiappetta-Miller	Assistant Professor In-Residence and UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator	chiappetta-miller@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|Italian Literary & Cultural Studies\|MAs	Graduate Assistant	Mariano Rosales Chavetta		mariano.rosales_chavetta@uconn.edu

Literary Translation Studies

Name	Title	Email
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Hebrew & Judaic Studies\|Italian Literary & Cultural Studies\|Literary Translation Studies	Faculty	Philip Balma	Associate Professor	philip.balma@uconn.edu
Literary Translation Studies	Faculty	Peter Constantine	Professor	peter.constantine@uconn.edu
Admin\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Literary Translation Studies\|Spanish	Admin\|Faculty	Jacqueline Loss	Professor	jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu
Chinese\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Literary Translation Studies	Faculty	Liansu Meng	Associate Professor	liansu.meng@uconn.edu

Spanish

Name	Title	Email
Graduate Assistants\|PhDs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Jesus Arias		jesus.arias@uconn.edu
Admin\|Spanish	Faculty	Rosa Helena Chinchilla	Professor	rosa.chinchilla@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|MAs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Brendan Cole		brendan.cole@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|PhDs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Ivonne Cortorruelo	UConn Graduate Assistant	ivonne.cotorruelo_perez@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|MAs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Micaela Degollada		ouy25001@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Spanish	Faculty	Ana María Díaz-Marcos	Professor	ana_maria.marcos@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|MAs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Sandra Fernandez		fln25003@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Spanish	Faculty	Miguel Gomes	Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor	miguel.gomes@uconn.edu
Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Spanish	Faculty	Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann	Associate Professor	kgonzalez.seligmann@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|PhDs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Inileidys Hernandez Delgado	UConn Graduate Assistant	inileidys.hernandez@uconn.edu
Spanish	Faculty	Daniel Hershenzon	Associate Professor	daniel.hershenzon@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|MAs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Amelia Hickey		amelia.hickey@uconn.edu
Spanish	Faculty	Guillermo Irizarry	Associate Professor	guillermo.irizarry@uconn.edu
Admin\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Literary Translation Studies\|Spanish	Admin\|Faculty	Jacqueline Loss	Professor	jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu
Admin\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Film Studies\|Spanish	Admin\|Faculty	Gustavo Nanclares	Associate Professor	gustavo.nanclares@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|PhDs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Paul Noguerol	UConn Graduate Assistant	paul.noguerol@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|PhDs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Omar Osorio-Amoretti	UConn Graduate Assistant	omar.osorio_amoretti@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|MAs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Melissa Peña		melissa.perez_pena@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|PhDs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Glorimarie Peña Alicea	UConn Graduate Assistant	glorimarie.pena_alicea@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|MAs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Olaia Santamaria	Graduate Assistant/Spanish Resource Center	rsv24001@uconn.edu
Spanish	Faculty	Michelle Tennyson	Visiting Assistant Professor	michelle.tennyson@uconn.edu
Graduate Assistants\|MAs\|Spanish	Graduate Assistant	Angela Yasmin Uriarte		mmj24001@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|CLCS Faculty Affiliates\|Film Studies\|Spanish	Faculty	Eduardo Urios-Aparisi	Associate Professor	eduardo.urios-aparisi@uconn.edu
Spanish	Faculty	Celines Villalba Rosado	Associate Professor in Residence	villalba@uconn.edu

Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies

Name	Title	Email
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Tamara Devine		tamara.devine@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Chinese\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Zhupeng Li	UConn Graduate Assistant	zhupeng.li@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Chinese	Faculty	Nan Meng	Assistant Professor in Residence	nan.meng@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Angela Pitassi	UConn Grduate Assistant	angela.pitassi@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|CLCS Faculty Affiliates\|Film Studies\|Spanish	Faculty	Eduardo Urios-Aparisi	Associate Professor	eduardo.urios-aparisi@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|German	Faculty	Manuela Wagner	Professor of Language Education	manuela.wagner@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Chinese\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Zimin Wu		zimin.wu@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Chinese\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies	Faculty	Chunsheng Yang	Professor	chunsheng.yang@uconn.edu
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies\|Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies\|Graduate Assistants\|PhDs	Graduate Assistant	Heng Zhang		heng@uconn.edu