Modern Languages and Literature Faculty
Modern Languages and Literature Faculty
Ph.D. in Spanish - Arizona State University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature - University of Cologne (Germany) and State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
19th and 20th Century Latin-American Literature and Culture
African diaspora
Visual Culture
Identity and alterity
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
B.A., Damascus University, Syria; M.S., Ph.D., Georgetown University
Modern and Classical Arabic Poetry,Arabic Novel,Arab Culture and Society,Arabic Language
B.A., M.A., Yonsei University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Korean Language and Culture
Language Change, Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender, Language Education
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Modern French Literature,African & Caribbean Literature and Cinema,Caribbean Society and Culture
Caribbean Literature; Haitian Literature; Caribbean Women Writers; Modern French Literature
Ph.D., Yale University (Brazilian and Hispanic American Literatures); M.A., New York University (Humanities and Social Thought); B.A., Universidad de los Andes (Magna cum Laude in Literature)
Spanish and Portuguese Languages Brazilian Literature Political and Social Approaches to Latin American Modern and Contemporary Literatures
Comparative approaches to Brazilian and Hispanic American Literatures and Cultures Literary Theory and Criticism in Latin America Paternalism and Politics Psychoanalysis
B.A., University of Guadalajara, Mexico; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Latin American Cinema,Colonial and Contemporary Latin American Literature,Latin American Documentary
The Heirs: Mexican Documentary Cinema of the 21st Century. It presents a series of close readings of a variety of documentary types and formal approaches that exemplify the extraordinary vitality of this genre in Mexico.
Visiting Faculty
M.A., Université de Paris 2, Assas, Sorbonne. Ph.D., Université of Paris 1, Panthéon, Sorbonne, France.
Arabic Language, Literature and Culture; Modern Arab thought; Religion, Gender, and Cultural Identity in the Modern Arab World.
My book “Women in Lebanon: Living with Christianity, Islam, and Multiculturalism” is situated at the intersection of religion, gender, multiculturalism, and feminism, as it explores the unity of a country through the lens of the evolution of women in different religious communities. I examine and describe the Lebanese “alternative modernities”, a conceptual thesis that has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history and politics in contemporary Arab thought. My work brings together in a unified work the themes of women in Christianity, Islam and multiculturalism as Lebanon signifies a real synthesis of the questions related to Arab modernity. My interests also include the Intercultural Competence in foreign language teaching, and Multiculturalism vs. The Assimilationist theory.