Programs Faculty  

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
Amira El-Zein, Assistant Professor, Director of Arabic Program 617.627.2650
Charles Inouye, Professor, Director of Japanese Program, Co-Director of ILVS 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
Christiane Zehl Romero, Professor, Director of German Program 617.627.3499
Joel Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Co-Director of Judaic Studies, Co-Director of ILVS 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
Professor Hosea Hirata, Chair of the Department;
Acting Director of Arabic Program, Arabic Language and Literature
72671
Rana Abdul-Aziz, Lecturer, Arabic Language 75963
Mervat Ali, Part-time Lecturer, Arabic Language 74853
Mohammed Alwan, Lecturer, Arabic Language and Literature 72521
Valerie Anishchenkova, Lecturer, Language Coordinator, Arabic Language and Culture 70823
Amira El-Zein, Assistant Professor, Arabic Program, Arabic Language and Literature 72650
Paul Wulfsberg, Lecturer, Arabic Language 74853
Souhad Zendah, Part-time Lecturer, Arabic Language 72373

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 72374
Joanna Kuriyama, Lecturer, Chinese Language 72576
Jinyu Li, Senior Lecturer, Chinese Language 72374
Ning Ma, Lecturer, Chinese Language and Literature 72371
Xianghua Tu, Part-time Lecturer, Chinese Language 72373
Min Wan, Part-time Lecturer, Chinese Language 72373
Mingquan Wang, Senior Lecturer, Language Coordinator, Chinese Language 72579
Shaomei Wang, Lecturer, Chinese Language 72576

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
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 72621
Bernhard Martin, Associate Professor, Director of German Graduate Program; Medieval German Literature, Cultural Studies 72637
Charles Nelson, Emeritus Professor, Literary Theory and Criticism, Medieval Literature 73442
Elisabeth Rettelbach, Part-time Lecturer, German Language 72621
Saskia Stoessel, Senior Lecturer, Language Coordinator, German Language, Second Language Acquisition 75635
Monika Totten, Lecturer, German Language and Culture 72621

Japanese

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Name Ext
Charles Inouye, Professor, Director of Japanese Program, Co-Director of International Letters and Visual Studies; Japanese Literature 72359
Hosea Hirata, Professor, Chair of the Department;
Director of Film Studies Minor (CMS); Japanese Literature and Film
72671
Kiyomi Kagawa, Lecturer, Language Coordinator, Japanese Language 75645
Shiori Koizumi, Lecturer, Japanese Language 72367
Kiyoko Morita, Lecturer, Japanese Language 73015
Susan Napier, Professor, Japanese Literature, Popular Culture, Anime 72199

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; Co-Director of International Letters and Visual Studies; Central European Writers, South African Writers 72037
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 72373
Rahel Meshoulam, Lecturer, Language Coordinator, 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 72373
Tonya Goldenstein, Part-time Lecturer, Russian Language 73442
Nancy Petrov, Part-time Lecturer, Russian Language 72373
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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