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French & Italian Faculty

Daniela Bini

Professor, Italian and Comparative Literature, Italian Studies

bini@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5995 |
HRH 3.112C

Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Douglas G. Biow

Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Italian Studies

biow@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7267 |
HRH 2.110B

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Interests: cultural, literary, art, medical, diplomatic, and intellectual history of Renaissance Italy; masculinities; the history of individualism

David P. Birdsong

Professor, French Linguistics

birdsong@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7299 |
HRH 2.122

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures

Interests: second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, French linguistics

Marc Bizer

Professor, French Studies

mbizer@utexas.edu |
512-471-7780 |
HRH 3.112B

Education: PhD, Princeton University

Interests: Early Modern French identities: national, social, religious, authorial, gendered; tragedy and the tragic; history of emotions

Carl S. Blyth

Associate Professor, French Linguistics

cblyth@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7600 |
HRH 3.114A

Education: Ph.D., French Linguistics, Cornell University

Interests: Applied linguistics (instructional technology, corpus linguistics, pedagogical grammar); French sociolinguistics (style, stance and interaction); Discourse studies (narrative analysis, cultural scripts, indexicality)

Paola Bonifazio

Chair; Associate Professor, Italian Studies

pbonifazio@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1561 |
HRH 3.110A

Education: PhD, New York University

Interests: Italian Cinema; Film Theory and History, including Documentary and Experimental; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; media convergence and transmedia storytelling

Barbara E. Bullock

Professor, French Linguistics

bbullock@austin.utexas.edu |
HRH 3.108B

Education: Ph.D., Linguistics, Delaware

Interests: Code-switching; bilingualism and language contact; language variation and change; sociophonetics; computational and corpus linguistics

Amanda Bush

Lecturer, Italian

amanda.bush@utexas.edu |
HRH

Education: PhD Italian Studies- The University of Texas at Austin, BA Italian Studies, English Literature- John Cabot University

Antonella D. Del Fattore-Olson

Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies

adolson@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5531/5706 |
HRH 2.106B

Education: Laurea (Master Degree in Comparative Literature), L'Università degli Studi La Sapienza. Rome, Italy

Interests: Italian Language and Culture, Teaching Methodology, Play Production, Contemporary Italian Theatre, Modern Italian Literature, Italian History

Yasmina Fawaz

Lecturer, French

yazzfawaz@utexas.edu |
HRH 4.164

Education: PhD French studies, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Online Language Instruction, Language Course development, Environmental and Cultural Studies, Post-Colonialism

Nancy C. Guilloteau

Senior Lecturer, French Language Program Director

nguilloteau@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-5511 |
HRH 2.106A

Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Claire C. Jones

Lecturer, French

clairejones@utexas.edu |
HRH 3.112A

Education: PhD, French Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Patricia Kyle

Lecturer, Director of Online Instruction, French

patricia.kyle@austin.utexas.edu |
512 471 2200 |
HRH 3.108C

Education: PHD French Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington

Interests: Language Learning and Instruction, Second Language Acquisition, Teaching Languages with Technology, Digital Instructional Design

Maxence P. Leconte

Lecturer, French

mpl642@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D in French Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A in European History, Université Catholique de Lille.

Silvia Luongo

Lecturer, Italian

silvia.luongo@utexas.edu

Education: MA in Foreign Languages for International Communication (Specialization in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language), Università di Bergamo - Italy

Interests: Cultural Mediation, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

Elizabeth Mayne

Lecturer, French

lizmayne@utexas.edu

Education: PhD in French Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Social media discourse, YouTube, Critical Discourse Analysis

Heather G. Pelletier

Lecturer, French

hpelletier@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7470 |
HRH 3.112A

Education: PhD, Vanderbilt University

Interests: 20th Century French literature; French language and civilization

Hervé Picherit

Associate Professor, French Studies

picherit@utexas.edu |
512-471-6874 |
HRH 3.104B

Education: PhD, Stanford

Interests: 20th century French literature, French cinema, the novel, the avant-garde, philosophies of fiction

Guy P. Raffa

(on leave)

Professor, Italian Studies

guyr@utexas.edu |
512-232-5492 |
HRH 3.104A

Education: PhD, Indiana University

Interests: Dante Studies, Italian Literature and Culture, Public Scholarship, Digital Humanities

Wayne A. Rebhorn

Professor, Mildred Hayek Vacek and John Roman Vacek Chair of English, Italian Studies

warebhorn@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8759 |
PAR 328

Education: Ph.D., 1968, Yale University

Interests: English and European Renaissance literature, Renaissance rhetoric

Cinzia Russi

Professor, French Linguistics, Italian Studies

russi@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7024 |
HRH 3.110B

Education: Ph.D., 2003, Linguistics, University of Washington

Interests: Historical linguistics, Grammaticalization, Aspectualizers, Morphosyntax, Morphology, Italian Dialects, Comparative Romance Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar, Pragmatics, Lexical Semantics

Beatriz E. Schleppe

Lecturer, French

bea@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5531 |
HRH 3.114C

Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Ellenor M. Shoemaker

Adjunct Associate Professor, French

eshoemaker@utexas.edu |
512-471-5737 |
HRH 3.114B

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Melissa E. Skidmore

Lecturer, French

mskidmore@austin.utexas.edu |
HRH 3.114C

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Ryan Swankie

Lecturer, French

swank1@utexas.edu

Education: PhD, French Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Face to Face & Online Language Instruction, 20th century Theater, 19th century Prose-Poems, Sade Theory

Maurizio Viroli

Professor, Department of Government, Italian Studies

maurizio.viroli@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., European University Institute in Florence

Interests: History of political thought; classical republicanism and neo-republicanism; Niccolò Machiavelli; Jean Jacques Rousseau; republican iconography; the relationship between religion and politics, patriotism, constitutionalism, classical rhetoric; political communication; citizenship and civic education

Alexandra K. Wettlaufer

Professor, Director of Plan II, French and Comparative Literature, French Studies

akw@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1442 |
HRH 3.104C

Education: PhD, Columbia University

Interests: 19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain

Affiliated Faculty - French

Benjamin Claude Brower

Associate Professor, Department of History

benbrower@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 2005, Cornell University

Interests: France and its colonies with a focus on Algeria, European imperialism, questions of secularism and Islam, understanding violence in history

Mounira M. Charrad

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

charrad@utexas.edu |
512 2326311 |
CLA 3.526

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: Gender and women's rights, political sociology, social theory, colonialism, comparative-historical sociology, globalization, Middle East and North Africa

Judith G. Coffin

Associate Professor, Department of History

jcoffin@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 1985, Yale University

Interests: European social and cultural history, especially 20th-century France; gender, sexuality and history of feminism; history of radio; private and public; the "sexual revolution" in post-war France

Patience L. Epps

Professor, Department of Linguistics

pattieepps@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Linguistic Anthropology, University of Virginia

Interests: Descriptive and documentary work on indigenous Amazonian languages, typology, language contact and language change

Zenzi M. Griffin

Professor, Department of Psychology

zgriffin@utexas.edu |
SEA 5.214

Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Interests: Language production, speech errors, personal names, and psycholinguistics

Julie Hardwick

Professor, Department of History

jhardwick@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 1991, Johns Hopkins University

Interests: Early modern social and economic history, legal history, women's and family history

Lars Hinrichs

Associate Professor, Department of English

TxE@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 2006, English Linguistics, University of Freiburg

Interests: Sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; corpus linguistics, Pidgins and Creoles; computer-mediated communication

David Kornhaber

Associate Professor, Department of English and Program in Comparative Literature

david.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8712 |
CAL 209

Education: Ph.D., 2009, Columbia University

Interests: Modern and contemporary drama, intersections of theatre and philosophy, critical theory, modernism and the avant-garde

Richard P. Meier

Professor, Department of Linguistics

rmeier@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Interests: Linguistics of signed languages, American Sign Language, first language acquisition

Sofian Merabet

Associate Professor of Anthropology

sofian.merabet@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0057 |
SAC 5.156

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University

Interests: Arab Diaspora; socio-cultural theory; urban studies; gender studies; queer theory; Muslim world, Europe, and South America

Martha G. Newman

Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts

newman@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 1988, Stanford University

Interests: Medieval Christian monasticism, monastic miracle collections, monastic attitudes toward women & the poor

Marc Pierce

Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies

mpierc@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D, Germanic Linguistics, University of Michigan

Interests: Historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics and philology, history of linguistics, phonology, Scandinavian studies

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

toribio@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 1993, Linguistics, Cornell University

Interests: Bilingualism and language contact, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, Caribbean studies, US Latino and border studies, Afro-Latin American and African studies

Lynn R. Wilkinson

Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies

lrw@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European literature, culture, and film; women writers and women's and gender studies; literary and cultural theory; Scandinavian film.

Hannah C. Wojciehowski

Professor, Department of English

gemelli@austin.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, Yale University

Affiliated Faculty - Italian

Mirka Benes

Associate Professor, School of Architecture

mirkabenes@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-7384 |
SUT 3.138

Education: Ph.D., M.Phil., Yale University, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests: History of landscape architecture, Renaissance architectural and landscape history, history of landscape architecture, Antiquity to the Present, Italian Renaissance  and Baroque Architecture, especially the City of Rome, landscape representation, p ainting, and cartography, historiography and methodologies

John R. Clarke

Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor in Fine Arts, Department of Art History

j.clarke@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2355 |
DFA 2.114

Education: PhD, Yale

Interests: Greek and Roman art and architecture

Penelope Davies

Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History

pdavies@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-2319 |
DFA 2.510

Education: PhD, Yale University

Interests: Roman art and architecture

Andrew Dell'Antonio

Professor, School of Music; Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies

dellantonio@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-7836 |
MRH 3.214

Education: Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Interests: Musicology and ethnomusicology

Alison K. Frazier

Associate Professor, Department of History and Department of Religious Studies

akfrazier@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6375 |
GAR 2.148

Education: Ph.D., 1997, Columbia University

Interests: Machiavelli and trauma, humanist contributions to the breviary, hexameral commentary in the Renaissance, editions of Renaissance saints' lives, census of the hagiographic collection entitled Sanctuarium (Milan c. 1478)