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)
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Paola Bonifazio
Chair; Associate Professor, Italian Studies
pbonifazio@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1561 |
HRH 2.122
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
Assistant Professor of Instruction, 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
Professor of Instruction, Italian Studies; Director, Rome Study Program; Undergraduate Italian Faculty Advisor
adolson@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5706 |
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
Assistant Professor
drumsta@austin.utexas.edu |
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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
Assistant Professor of Instruction, 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
Associate Professor of Instruction, 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
Assistant Professor of Instruction, 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
Silvia Luongo
Assistant Professor of Instruction, 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
Education: PhD in French Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Social media discourse, YouTube, Critical Discourse Analysis
Heather G. Pelletier
Assistant Professor of Instruction, 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
Assistant Professor of Instruction, French Studies
bea@austin.utexas.edu |
HRH 3.114C
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Ellenor M. Shoemaker
Associate Professor of Instruction, French Studies; Lyon Study Program Director
eshoemaker@utexas.edu |
512-471-5737 |
HRH 3.114B
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Melissa E. Skidmore
Assistant Professor of Instruction, French Studies
mskidmore@austin.utexas.edu |
HRH 3.114C
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Ryan Swankie
Assistant Professor of Instruction, 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
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
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
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
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
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Julie Hardwick
Professor, Department of History
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Aurora Wolfgang
Visiting Professor, University Affiliate
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
Louis Waldman
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History
waldman@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-2610 |
DFA 2.110
Interests: Italian Renaissance and Baroque art
Professors Emeriti
Mary J. Baker
Professor Emeritus, French Studies
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Interests: French Renaissance prose; narrative theory
Jean-Pierre B. Cauvin
Professor Emeritus, French Studies
Education: Ph. D., Princeton University
Interests: Poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries; Surrealism; The Arts in France; 19th-20th C. French history
William W. Kibler
Professor Emeritus, French Studies
wkibler@utexas.edu |
HRH 308C
Education: PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jane N. Lippmann
Professor Emeritus, French Studies
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Interests: Pedagogy; Teaching with Technology; Developing Online Course Materials, Foreign Language Disabilities
Jean-Pierre Montreuil
Professor Emeritus, French Linguistics
jpmontreuil@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-6555 |
HRH 3.108A
Education: PhD, Romance Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Theoretical phonology and morphology; prosody, dialectology
Seth Wolitz
Professor Emeritus, French Studies
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Slavic, Jewish Literature and Art
