Professors Emeriti
| William Anselmi Professor Emeritus 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) |
| Edward Blodgett (†) Professor Emeritus |
Canadian and Medieval Literature. |
| Marisa Bortolussi Dixon Professor Emerita marisa.bortolussi@ualberta.ca |
Hispanic Literature and Culture; Literary Theory; Narrative Theory; Empirical Approaches to Literary Response; World Literature. |
| Anna Gural-Migdal Professor Emerita aguralm@ualberta.ca |
French Literature; 19th and 20th Centuries; French Cinema; Literary and Film Theory; French Language |
| Christopher Hale (†) Professor Emeritus |
Norse Mythology |
| Marianne Henn
Professor Emerita |
Specialization - Age of Goethe. Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century. German Folk and Fairy Tales. Historiography in German Prose and Drama. Biographies of German Women Writers. |
| Oleh Ilnytzkyj Professor Emeritus oleh.ilnytzkyj@ualberta.ca |
Ukrainian Literature, Language & Culture. |
| Natalie Kononenko Professor Emerita natalie.kononenko@ualberta.ca |
Film, Media, and Image Studies; Folklore Studies; Ukrainian Studies; Slavic Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies |
| Anne Malena Professor Emerita anne.malena@ualberta.ca |
French Language, Literature, Culture; Francophone Literature and Culture; Translation and Translation Theory; Translation History; Louisiana Creole Literature and Culture; Caribbean Literature and Culture |
| Uri Margolin Professor Emeritus uri.margolin@ualberta.ca |
Comparative Literature. |
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Bohdan Medwidsky (†) |
Ukrainian folklore, linguistics, folklore studies |
| Edward Mozejko Professor Emeritus emozejko@ualberta.ca |
Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies. |
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Andriy Nahachewsky |
Folklore; Ukrainian Culture; Dance; Material Culture. |
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Waclaw Osadnik |
Translation Studies; Theory of Literature; Contemporary Polish Literature and Cinema; Polish as a Second Language; Central and East European Cinema |
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Lynn Penrod |
French language (all levels); French Literature of the 20th century; Children's Literature in French; Women's Writing in French; Literary Translation; Translation Theory, Literary Theory; French Feminist Theory; Comparative Studies in Law and Literature; Jurisprudence |
| Natalia Pylypiuk Professor Emerita natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca |
Medieval and Early-Modern Ukrainian Culture; Diaspora and Dissent; Literature Today; Childrens' Literature; Ukrainian Language. |
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Claudine Potvin |
Specialization - Québec and Latin American Contemporary Studies; Women's Studies / Women's Writing (Gender & Feminist Theory, Feminist Utopias); Visual Arts and Literature. |
| Tom Priestly Professor Emeritus tom.priestly@ualberta.ca |
Specialization - Description of the Slovene dialect of the village of Sele (Zell), Carinthia, Austria. Problems of retention and loss of minority languages, especially in Austria: historical, educational, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects. Translation of Slovene literature, particularly poetry, into English. |
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Manfred Prokop |
Applied German linguistics, second language acquisition, second language teaching. |
| Robert Thornberry (†) Professor Emeritus |
French Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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Alexander A. Tumanov (†)
Professor Emeritus
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Russian Language |
| Massimo Verdicchio (†) Professor Emeritus massimo.verdicchio@ualberta.ca |
Dante and Petrarch, Theory of the Novel and the Anti-novel. |
| Raleigh Whitinger Professor Emeritus rwhiting@ualberta.ca |
Specialization - Modern German literature since the Age of Goethe, Romanticism, naturalism, women's writing, film and literature, senior language courses, translation German-English. Recent publication: Translation and Translating in German Studies |
| Robert Wilcocks (†) Professor Emeritus wilcocks@ualberta.ca |
Modern French Literature |
| Richard Young Professor Emeritus richard.young@ualberta.ca |
Specialization - Contemporary fiction in Latin America seen through the prisms of narrative structure, Postmodernism and Cultural Studies, popular music and Urban Studies. Since retirement in 2004: return to a dormant interest in naval history through study of representations of the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October, 1805) in painting and popular fiction in England, France, and Spain. |