Programs Faculty  

Department Administrators

Name Phone
Hosea Hirata, Professor, Department Chair, Director of Film Studies Minor (CMS), Interim Director of Japanese and Arabic, Japanese Literature 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, Co-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, ON LEAVE SPRING 2012 617.627.2637
Isabelle H. Naginski, Professor, Co-Director of ILVS Program 617.627.2769
Kamran Rastegar, Assistant Professor, Director of Arabic Program, Modern Arabic Literature, Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, Postcolonial Studies, ON LEAVE AY2011-2012 617.627.2650
Christiane Zehl Romero, Professor, Director of German Program, Director of German Graduate Program Spring 2012 617.627.3499
Joel Rosenberg, Co-Director of Judaic Studies 617.627.2037
Xueping Zhong, 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
Hosea Hirata, Professor, Department Chair, Director of Film Studies Minor (CMS), Interim Director of Japanese and Arabic, Japanese Literature 72671
Kamran Rastegar, Assistant Professor, Director of Arabic Program, Modern Arabic Literature, Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, Postcolonial Studies, ON LEAVE AY2011-2012 72650
Rana Abdul-Aziz, Lecturer, Language Coordinator, Director of Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Language 75963
Mohammed Alwan, Senior Lecturer, Arabic Language and Literature 74898
Haci Osman Gündüz, Lecturer, Arabic Language 72576
Lara Harb, Part-time Lecturer, Arabic Culture 74880
Fadi Jajji, Lecturer, Arabic Language 72576
Rabab El Nady, Lecturer, Arabic Language 70823
Souhad Zendah, Part-time Lecturer, Arabic Language 74853

Asian

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Name Ext
Elizabeth Remick, Associate Professor, Director of Asian Studies, Chinese Politics (Department of Political Science) 75848
Brian Hatcher, Professor, South Asian religions (Department of Religion) 73418
Hosea Hirata, Professor, Japanese Literature 72671
Charles Inouye, Professor, Japanese Literature 72359
Ayesha Jalal, Professor, South Asian History (Department of History) 72133
Ikumi Kaminishi, Associate Professor, Asian Art (Department of Art History) 72424
Gary Leupp, Professor, Japanese History (Department of History) 72426
Ning Ma, Assistant Professor, Pre-Modern Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature
ON LEAVE AY 2011-2012
70823
Kris Manjapra, Assistant Professor, Modern South Asia (Department of History) 73799
Beatrice Manz, Professor, Middle East and Inner Asian History (Department of History) 72539
Nimah Mazaheri, Assistant Professor, South Asian politics (Department of Political Science) 75840
Susan Napier, Professor, Japanese Literature and Popular Culture 72199
Sarah Pinto, Associate Professor, Medical Anthropology, Gender, India (Department of Anthropology) 75842
Modhumita Roy, Associate Professor, World Literature, India, Women's Studies (Department of English) 75171
Joseph Walser, Associate Professor, Asian Religions, (Department of Religion) 72322
Xueping Zhong, Professor, Modern Chinese Literature, Film 72375

Chinese

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Name Ext
Xueping Zhong, Professor, Director of Chinese Program; Modern Chinese Literature, Film 72375
Jianping Feng, Lecturer, Chinese Language 72373
Jinyu Li, Senior Lecturer, Chinese Language 72374
Mushi Li, Part-Time Lecturer, Chinese Language 74853
Ning Ma, Assistant Professor, Pre-Modern Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature
ON LEAVE AY 2011-2012
70823
Jascha Smilack, Part-time Lecturer, Chinese Culture 74853
Min Wan, 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; Director of German Graduate Program Spring 2012; 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 Lecturer, German Culture 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
ON LEAVE SPRING 2012
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
Monika Totten, Part-time Lecturer, German Language 72621

International Literary & Visual Studies

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Name Ext
Arabic
Rana Abdul-Aziz, Lecturer, Language Coordinator, Director of Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Language 75963
Kamran Rastegar, Assistant Professor, Director of Arabic Program, Modern Arabic Literature, Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, Postcolonial Studies
ON LEAVE AY 2011-2012
72650
Art History
Monica McTighe, Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Museum Studies Advisor, Art Since 1960, including the History of Installation and Site-Specific Art, Photography, Film and Video 75384
Peter Probst, Professor, Contemporary African Art, Critical Theory, Visual Culture, Globalization
ON LEAVE FALL 2011
75384
Adriana Zavala, Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art, Art of Mexico, and Gender and Women's Studies 72423
Chinese
Ning Ma, Assistant Professor, Pre-Modern Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature
ON LEAVE AY 2011-12
70823
Xueping Zhong, Professor, Director of Chinese Program; Modern Chinese Literature, Film 72375
Drama
Barbara Grossman, Professor, Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Criticism, Directing 72535
Monica White Ndounou, Assistant Professor, Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Criticism, Acting 76541
English
Judith Haber, Professor; Early Modern Literature and Culture 75492
Ichiro Takayoshi, Assistant Professor; American Literature, American Culture 72378
French
Gérard Gasarian, Professor, 19th- and 20th-century French poetry 75156
Brigitte Lane, Associate Professor, French cultural studies, contemporary French literature, film studies 72768
Isabelle H. Naginski, Professor, Co-Director of ILVS Program 72769
German
Bernhard Martin, Associate Professor, Director of German Graduate Program; Medieval German Literature, Cultural Studies
ON LEAVE SPRING 2012
72637
Christiane Romero, Professor, Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric; Tübingen Professor of German; Director of German Program; Director of German Graduate Program Spring 2012; Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Film, Advanced Language 73499
Italian
Laura Baffoni Licata, Senior Lecturer, Italian literature and culture 72763
Japanese
Hosea Hirata, Professor, Department Chair, Director of Film Studies Minor (CMS), Interim Director of Japanese and Arabic, Japanese Literature 72671
Charles Inouye, Professor, Co-Director of ILVS Program 72359
Susan Napier, Professor, Japanese Literature, Popular Culture, Anime 72199
Judaic Studies
Sol Gittleman, Professor, Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor of Judaic Studies; Earlier Twentieth Century, Yiddish Literature, National Socialism 74840
Joel Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Lee S. McCollester Associate Professor of Biblical Literature; Co-Director of Judaic Studies; Central European Writers, South African Writers 72037
Russian
Gregory Carleton, Associate Professor, Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Culture 75962
Vida Johnson, Professor, Director of Russian Program; Twentieth Century, Film, Women Writers 73407
SMFA
Diane O'Donoghue, Asian Art History and Archaeology, Theories of Art and Representation (Department Chair) (617) 369-4102
Tina Wasserman, Cinema Studies, Film and Media Theory, and Visual Culture Studies (617) 369-4102
Spanish
José Antonio Mazzotti, Chair, Professor, Latin American literature and culture, colonial studies 73289
Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Associate Professor, Latin American literature and culture 72755
Pablo M. Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Latin American modern literature, Borges, travel narratives, on leave, fall and spring 72737

Japanese

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Name Ext
Hosea Hirata, Professor, Department Chair, Director of Film Studies Minor (CMS), Interim Director of Japanese and Arabic, Japanese Literature 72671
Charles Inouye, Professor, Director of International Literary 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
Susan Napier, Professor, Japanese Literature, Popular Culture, Anime 72199
Jun Ono Cheung, Part-time Lecturer, Japanese Language 73015

Judaic Studies / Hebrew

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Name Ext
Joseph Litvak, Chair; Professor; Nineteenth-century British literature, Literary Theory, Jewish Cultural Studies 72455
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
Sol Gittleman, Professor, Nathan and Alice Gantcher University Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of German 74840
Hedda Harari-Spencer, Lecturer, Language Coordinator; Hebrew Language 72069
Barbara Grossman, Professor, Theatre History, Dramatic Literature and Criticism, Directing 72535
Jonathan Wilson, Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate; American literature, creative writing; Director, Center for the Humanities 73364
Janis Freedman-Bellow, Lecturer 72457
Hava Kimelman, Part-time Lecturer, Hebrew Language 73015
Jeffrey Summit, Rabbi, Executive Director, Tufts Hillel; Associate Chaplain; Research Professor, Judaic Studies
ON LEAVE SPRING 2012
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 73407
Tonya Goldenstein, Part-time Lecturer, Russian Language 73442
Scarlet Marquette, Part-time Lecturer, Russian Language 74774
Nancy Petrov, Part-time Lecturer, Language Coordinator; Russian Language 72596
Sasha Senderovich, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Part-time Lecturer, Russian Culture 73342

Swahili

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Name Ext
Daniel Brown, Associate Professor, Director of Swahili Studies; Reformation, German Drama 72370

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