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French & Italian Faculty

Daniela Bini

Professor, Italian and Comparative Literature, Italian Studies; Graduate Advisor, 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 3.108A

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; Assistant Graduate Advisor, 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 2.112

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 Studies; Italian Language Program Director

amanda.bush@utexas.edu |
HRH 3.112AA

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

Antonella Del Fattore-Olson

Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies; Director, Rome Study Program; Undergraduate Italian Faculty Advisor

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

Emily Drumsta

Faculty

drumsta@austin.utexas.edu |
404 Calhoun Hall

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

Interests: The Arabic Novel, Modernist Arabic poetry, Maghrebi Literature & Culture, Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, Gender and Translation

Yasmina Fawaz

Lecturer, French Studies

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, French Studies

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

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

Claire C. Jones

Lecturer, French Studies

clairejones@utexas.edu |
HRH 3.112A

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

Patricia Kyle

Lecturer, Director of Online Instruction, French Studies

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 Studies

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 Studies

silvia.luongo@utexas.edu |
HRH 4.108

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 Studies

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, Undergraduate French Faculty Advisor, French Studies

hpelletier@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7470 |
HRH 3.110C

Education: PhD, Vanderbilt University

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

Hervé Picherit

Associate Professor, French Studies; Graduate Advisor, 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

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

Cinzia Russi

Professor, French Linguistics, Italian Studies; Graduate Advisor, French Linguistics; Program Director, Portfolio Program in Romance Linguistics

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 Studies

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 Studies

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

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Melissa E. Skidmore

Lecturer, French Studies

mskidmore@austin.utexas.edu |
HRH 3.114C

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Ryan Swankie

Lecturer, French Studies

swank1@utexas.edu |
HRH 4.138

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

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

Aurora Wolfgang

Visiting Professor, University Affiliate

aurorawg@msu.edu

Education: PhD in French Literature, New York University

Interests: 17th- and 18th-century French Literature

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

Aurora Wolfgang

Visiting Professor, University Affiliate

aurorawg@msu.edu

Education: PhD in French Literature, New York University

Interests: 17th- and 18th-century French Literature

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)

Luisa Nardini

Associate Professor, School of Music

nardini@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-2069 |
MBE 3.602

Interests: Gregorian chant, medieval music theory, music and visual art, manuscript studies, oral and written transmission of liturgical chant

Wayne A. Rebhorn

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

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

Education: Ph.D., 1968, Yale University

Interests: English and European Renaissance literature, Renaissance rhetoric

Circe Sturm

Professor, Department of Anthropology

circe@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1561 |
SAC 5.122

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis

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