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Professors

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
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.
Stefano Muneroni Associate Professor muneroni@ualberta.ca	Italian, Translation Studies, Theater History and Performance Studies
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 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 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 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.