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Professors

William Anselmi Professor wanselmi@ualberta.ca	19th and 20th Century Italian Literature; Italian Canadian Culture and Literature; Image era, communication systems and representations in and outside of Italy; Italian alternative music (from the sixties to present day); Italian cinema post-1945; Italian television from the fifties to present day; Italian politics, political figures, and social contexts (from P. P. Pasolini to S. Berlusconi)
Laura Beard Professor lbeard@ualberta.ca	Brazilian Studies; Comparative Literature; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Literary and Critical Theory; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Spanish & Latin American Studies; Aboriginal or Indigenous Literature; (Auto) Biographical and Life Writing
Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn Professor & Kule Chair cheladyn@ualberta.ca	Ukrainian Folklore and Cultural Studies; Forms of Folklore; Visualizing Cultural Identity; Folklore in Contemporary Media - Comics, Memes, and Tattoos; Research-Creation in Academia
Odile Cisneros Professor cisneros@ualberta.ca	Spanish American Literature; Brazilian Literature; Latin American Cultural Studies; Translation
Russell Cobb Director of Graduate Programs & Associate Professor rcobb@ualberta.ca	Cultural Studies; Comparative Literature; Spanish & Latin American Studies
Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain Professor jenniedo@ualberta.ca	Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
Ann De León Associate Professor adeleon1@ualberta.ca	Mexico; Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies; Colonial Latin America; Indigenous America; Translation Theory and Praxis; Gender Studies
Daniel Fried Associate Professor dfried@ualberta.ca	Medieval Chinese literature and literary theory; comparative approaches to Chinese and European philosophy; early Chinese intellectual history; classical traditions and the construction of world literatures.
Xavier Gutierrez Associate Professor xavier.gutierrez@ualberta.ca	Applied Linguistics
Gary Kelly Distinguished University Professor gary.kelly@ualberta.ca	Comparative Literature, World Literature as Print Culture and Book History, History and Uses of Reading, Language in Everyday Life, 18th Century Literature and Culture, 19th Century Literature and Culture, Literary And Cultural Theory, Media Studies, Area Studies: The Atlantic World, Women's History, Genre Studies (Gothic, Melodrama, the Novel, Popular Forms), Social Theory, Gender And Sexuality. Cross-appointed with English & Film Studies
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen Professor Hucular Chair CIUS Director nkhanenk@ualberta.ca	Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian Studies; cultural anthropology; oral history
Claudia Kost Director of Undergraduate Programs & Associate Professor ckost@ualberta.ca	German Language; German Applied Linguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Foreign Language Pedagogy and Methodology
Daniel Laforest Professor daniel.laforest@ualberta.ca	Health and Medical Humanities; Quebec and Canadian Literatures; French and Francophone Studies; Comparative Literature; Literature and Philosophy; Literary and Critical Theory; Media, Film and Image Studies; Cultural Studies.
Yvonne Lam Associate Professor yvonne.lam@ualberta.ca	Spanish Language and Grammar; Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy; Sociolinguistics; Introductory Linguistics
Elisabeth Le Professor elisabeth.le@ualberta.ca	Applied Linguistics; Discourse Studies; Media Studies; Linguistic Anthropology
Iman Mersal Associate Professor iman.mersal@ualberta.ca	Arabic Language; Modern Arabic Literature; Arabic Travel Literature; Arab Cinema; Postcolonial Literature; Diasporic Literature.
Florian Mundhenke Associate Profesor (DAAD) mundhenk@ualberta.ca	German Studies; Media and Cultural Studies; Media between fiction and non-fiction, audiovisual practice in the digital era, narration and storytelling across diverse media and arts.
Alla Nedashkivska Professor alla.nedashkivska@ualberta.ca	Applied Linguistics; Slavic Linguistics; Ukrainian Language and Culture
Waclaw Osadnik Professor waclaw.osadnik@ualberta.ca	Translation Studies; Theory of Literature; Contemporary Polish Literature and Cinema; Polish as a Second Language; Central and East European Cinema
Simone Pfleger Assistant Professor pfleger@ualberta.ca	German language and culture; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; German Studies; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Queer Studies; Cultural Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Literary and Critical Theory
Jelena Pogosjan Professor jelena.pogosjan@ualberta.ca	Cultural Studies; 18th Century Studies; 17th Century Studies; Slavic Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Literary and Critical Theory; 19th Century Studies
Sathya Rao Professor sathya.rao@ualberta.ca	French Translation; Francophone Literature; Minority Media; Contemporary Philosophy; Technology & Second Language Acquisition
Chris Reyns Associate Professor reynschi@ualberta.ca	Cultural Studies; Comics Studies; French & Francophone Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Transcultural Studies; Children's Literature; European Studies
Victoria Ruétalo Chair & Professor victoria.ruetalo@ualberta.ca	Cultural Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Literary and Critical Theory; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Spanish & Latin American Studies; Transcultural Studies
Elena Siemens Associate Professor elena.siemens@ualberta.ca	Visual Culture; Cultural Studies; Post-Soviet Culture (Film, Theatre, Media); Urban Studies; Critical Theory
Carrie Smith Professor carrie.smith@ualberta.ca	German Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Cultural Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Literary and Critical Theory
Irene Sywenky Associate Professor irene.sywenky@ualberta.ca	History of Literary Theory; Critical Theory; Comparative and World Literature; Genre Studies; European Tradition; Autobiography; Science Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folk Tales; Translation; Central and East European Literature and Cultures
Julie Tarif Full Teaching Professor jtarif@ualberta.ca	Translation Studies
Micah True Associate Professor micah.true@ualberta.ca	French and Francophone Literature, Culture, and Folklore, with particular emphasis on the early modern period (16th -18th centuries) and contact between Cultures
Natalie Van Deusen Associate Professor Henry Cabot and Linnea Lodge Scandinavian Professor vandeuse@ualberta.ca	Scandinavian Studies; Medieval Literatures; Pre-Modern and Early Modern Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Jerry Varsava Professor jerry.varsava@ualberta.ca	20th And 21st Century Studies, American Literature, World Literatures in English; Comparative Literature Program; Cross-appointed with English & Film Studies.