Programs Faculty  
Arabic
Asian Studies
Chinese
German
Int'l Letters & Visual Studies
Japanese
Judaic Studies / Hebrew
Russian
Swahili

Department Administrators

Name Phone
Hosea Hirata, Professor, Department Chair, Director of Film Studies Minor (CMS) 617.627.2671
Gloria Ascher, Associate Professor, Co-Director of Judaic Studies 617.627.2036
Daniel Brown, Associate Professor, Director of Swahili Studies 617.627.2370
Charles Inouye, Professor, Director of ILVS Program 617.627.2359
Vida Johnson, Professor, Director of Russian Program 617.627.3407
Bernhard Martin, Associate Professor, Director of German Graduate Program 617.627.2637
Susan Napier, Professor, Director of Japanese Program 617.627.2199
Christiane Zehl Romero, Professor, Director of German Program 617.627.3499
Joel Rosenberg, Co-Director of Judaic Studies 617.627.2037
Xueping Zhong, Associate Professor, Director of Chinese Program 617.627.2375

Faculty Listed Alphabetically by Program

Arabic

If you are dialing from off campus, please dial 617-62 and the extension number starting with 7.

Name Ext
Kamran Rastegar, Assistant Professor, Director of Arabic Program, Modern Arabic Literature, Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, Postcolonial Studies 72650
Rana Abdul-Aziz, Lecturer, Arabic Language 75963
Lutf Alkebsi, Lecturer, Arabic Language 72576
Mohammed Alwan, Lecturer, Arabic Language and Literature 74898
Samah Al-Salami, Part-time Lecturer, Arabic Language 74853
Fadi Jajji, Lecturer, Arabic Language 72576
Souhad Zendah, Part-time Lecturer, Arabic Language 74853

Chinese

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Name Ext
Xueping Zhong, Associate Professor, Director of Chinese Program; Modern Chinese Literature, Film 72375
Jianping Feng, Lecturer, Chinese Language 72373
Joanna Kuriyama, Lecturer, Chinese Language 72373
Jinyu Li, Senior Lecturer, Chinese Language 72374
Ning Ma, Assistant Professor, Pre-Modern Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature 70823
Xiaoya Ye, Part-time Lecturer, Chinese Language 74853
Min Wan, Part-time Lecturer, Chinese Language 72373
Mingquan Wang, Senior Lecturer, Language Coordinator, Chinese Language 72579
Shaomei Wang, Lecturer, Chinese Language 72373

German

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Name Ext
Christiane Romero, Professor, Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric; Tübingen Professor of German; Director of German Program; Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Film, Advanced Language 73499
Gloria Ascher, Associate Professor, Co-Director of Judaic Studies; German Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Sephardic Studies, Ladino Language and Literature, Scandinavian Literature 72036
Silke Brodersen, Part-time, German Literature 72637
Daniel Brown, Associate Professor, Director of Swahili Studies; Director of Africa in the New World; Reformation, German Drama 72370
Sol Gittleman, Professor, Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor of Judaic Studies; Earlier Twentieth Century, Yiddish Literature, National Socialism 74840
Geraldine Grimm, Part-time Lecturer, German Language 74880
Bernhard Martin, Associate Professor, Director of German Graduate Program; Medieval German Literature, Cultural Studies 72637
Doris Pfaffinger, Lecturer, German Language and Culture 72621
Elisabeth Rettelbach, Part-time Lecturer, German Language 72621
Saskia Stoessel, Senior Lecturer, Language Coordinator, German Language, Second Language Acquisition 75635

International Letters & Visual Studies

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Name Ext
Charles Inouye, Professor, Director of International Letters and Visual Studies; Japanese Literature 72359
Gregory Carleton, Associate Professor, Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Culture 75962
Professor Hosea Hirata, Chair of the Department;
Director of Film Studies Minor (CMS); Japanese Literature and Film		 72671
Susan Napier, Professor, Director of Japanese Program; Japanese Literature, Popular Culture, Anime 72199
Joel Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Lee S. McCollester Associate Professor of Biblical Literature; Co-Director of Judaic Studies; Central European writers, South African writers 72037

Japanese

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Name Ext
Susan Napier, Professor, Director of Japanese Program; Japanese Literature, Popular Culture, Anime 72199
Shelley Erickson, Part-time Lecturer, Japanese Language 73015
Hosea Hirata, Professor, Chair of the Department;
Director of Film Studies Minor (CMS); Japanese Literature and Film		 72671
Charles Inouye, Professor, Director of International Letters and Visual Studies Program; Japanese Literature 72359
Kiyomi Kagawa, Senior Lecturer; Language Coordinator; Japanese Language 75645
Shiori Koizumi, Lecturer; Japanese Language 73015
Kiyoko Morita, Lecturer; Japanese Language 73015

Judaic Studies / Hebrew

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Name Ext
Gloria Ascher, Associate Professor, Co-Director of Judaic Studies; German Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Sephardic Studies, Ladino Language and Literature, Scandinavian Literature 72036
Joel Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Lee S. McCollester Associate Professor of Biblical Literature; Co-Director of Judaic Studies; Central European Writers, South African Writers 72037
Deborah Einhorn, Part-time Lecturer, Judaic Studies 73242
Sol Gittleman, Professor, Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor of Judaic Studies; Earlier Twentieth Century, Yiddish Literature, National Socialism 74840
Hava Kimelman, Part-time Lecturer, Hebrew Language 73015
Rahel Meshoulam, Lecturer, Language Coordinator, Hebrew Language 72069
Ibrahim Miari, Part-time Lecturer, Hebrew Language 72069
Jeffrey Summit, Rabbi, Executive Director, Tufts Hillel; Associate Chaplain; Associate Professor, Department of Music; Lecturer, Judaic Studies 73242

Russian

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Name Ext
Vida Johnson, Professor, Director of Russian Program; Twentieth Century, Film, Women Writers 73407
Gregory Carleton, Associate Professor, Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Culture 75962
Tanya Gassel, Part-time Lecturer, Russian Language 74774
Tonya Goldenstein, Part-time Lecturer, Russian Language 73442
Nancy Petrov, Part-time Lecturer, Russian Language 74774
David Sloane, Associate Professor, Nineteenth Century Russian Literature, Poetry, Language Pedagogy 72596

Swahili

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Name Ext
Daniel Brown, Associate Professor, Director of Swahili Studies; Director of Africa in the New World; Reformation, German Drama 72370

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