Faculty

Research Interests

• Quebec French

• Quebec identity; Quebec society and national culture

• Language attitudes and ideologies; linguistic discrimination (especially accent discrimination) and insecurity in the Francophonie

• Discourse on language in Quebec and Canada (journalistic, political, public figures)

• Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies

Research Interests

• French Caribbean literature and culture
• Anglo- and Francophone Caribbean women's writing
• Caribbean feminism(s)
• Maronnage

Research Interests

• Medieval French Bible translation and adaptation
• Taboos in translation
• Christine de Pizan and translation
• Political uses of biblical narratives
• Manuscript studies

Research Interests

• The French comic tradition
• Female alliances in French fiction and film
• Gender, power and sexuality in the early modern period
• Identity politics in the Early Modern period
• Confronting otherness in French fiction and film

Research Interests

• Gender studies
• The history of photography
• Views on mental health and neurodivergence
• The construction of racial categories in the 19^th century

Research Interests

• Italian cinema and film theory
• Film adaptation in theory and practice
• Italian popular culture in film and television
• American photography in Italy
• Italian-American film and filmmaking

Research Interests

• Poetry of the Sicilian School
• Dolce Stil Nuovo
• Dante
• Petrarch
• Boccaccio

Research Interests

• Gothic and horror fiction
• Puerto Rican literature, film and culture
• Gender violence

Research Interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Contact Linguistics
• Language Variation
• Documentary Linguistics
• Language Ideologies
• Sephardic Studies
• Aljamiado Texts

Research Interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Spanish in the U.S.
• Language contact
• Spanish as a heritage language
• Spanish language variation and change

Research Interests

• Posdictatorial societies in Latin America
• Construction and transmission of collective memory
• Civil-military relations
• Individual responsibility in oppressive systems
• Obedience and resistance in authoritarian and democratic contexts

Research Interests

• The teaching of prepositions in Spanish through prototypes that provide the embodied meanings for prepositions through spatial perceptions
• Facilitating students’ understanding of the meaning of difficult Spanish structures through the operational cognitive approach and its variations depending upon the speaker’s perspective (e.g.: the subjunctive mood, the verb ‘ser’ vs. ‘estar’, etc.).
• The role of lexically-specific usage patterns in L2 Spanish determiner production

Research Interests

• Contemporary Spanish peninsular literature and culture
• Queer theory
• Trans studies
• Gender studies
• Film and media