Romance Languages and Literatures
Leah Adelson
Asst Professor - Educator, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5266 CLIFTCT
Ibrahim B. Amidou
Adjunct Assistant Professor of French, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
717C Old Chemistry Building
French / Francophone Literatures, Cultures and Civilizations, Basic French language and culture, French pronunciation, Francophone African cultures and literatures, social, political, economic and historical analysis of Africa, modern African literature, French and Francophone films, French/English Translation, English composition.
Andie Nicole Anderson
Instructor - Adjunct Ann, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Old Chemistry Building
Pavel E. Andrade
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mexican/Latinx Literature, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Mawuli Kwami Ankou
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Ashley Nichole Anneken
Assistant Professor Educator, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5233 CLIFTCT
Heather Marlene Arden
Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Ursula Hazembuller Atisme
Instructor - Adj Ann, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Old Chemistry Building
Susan M Bacon
Academic Director, Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Lydia Bamfi
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Lydia Bamfi is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Masters Student in the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati. She has a bachelors in French from the University of Cape Coast(UCC). As a teaching assistant, she teaches Basic French classes. She is interested in the discipline of culture, gender studies in the Francophone Literature and Teaching French as a foreign language.
Francisco Javier Barraza Alonzo
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Maria de Fatima Benages Elena
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
She graduated from the University of Seville with a B.A. in English Studies and she holds an M.A. in Literary and Cultural Studies in Great Britain and Anglophone Countries from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Siham Bouamer
Asst Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
709C Old Chemistry Building
My first research area considers French women travelers’ narratives during the protectorate in Morocco (1912-1956). I investigate how tourism discourse in those accounts served as a subtext for the promotion of French imperial expansion in Morocco. The hierarchies of class, gender, race, religion, and sexuality, constitutive of imperial legacies that still persist in contemporary discourses, guide my second research area. This work specifically focuses on intersectional oppression in contemporary France through the lenses of migration, gender, postcolonial, and queer studies.
My research on contemporary Francophone studies and my commitment to diversity and inclusion inform my teaching pedagogy. As co-founder of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum collective, I strive to implement and share best practices in curriculum development grounded in decolonial and anti-racist pedagogy.
Isaac Peter Campos
Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
320D ARTSCI
Edy J Carro
Educator Associate Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Erynn Masi de Casanova
Professor of Sociology & Head of the Sociology Department, (PhD, City University of New York Graduate Center) , Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
1017 Crosley Tower
Erynn Masi de Casanova CV
Miguel Catena Gil
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Beatriz Celaya Carrillo
Ph.D., Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
717C Old Chemistry Building
She has published a book, Sexualidad femenina en la novela y cultura española, 1900-1936 (2006), and she is currently working on representations of race, gender and social status in Spanish renaissance. She has also published a book chapter, and several academic articles in journals such as Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Arenal, Modern Language Notes, Romance Quarterly, Dieciocho, Ámbitos feministas, Afro-Hispanic Review, or eHumanista.
Martha Busy Timvane Chauya
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
My teaching interests include social linguistic studies. How do bilingual or multilingual speakers change roles and codes and why? Teaching language for social communication to young people and for examination accreditation has been my passion. I am a certified DELF and DALF Examiner.
Rosario Drucker Davis
Assistant Professor Educator, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
709A Old Chemistry Building
She currently teaches SPAN 1021 Spanish for the Health Professions I,
SPAN 1022 Spanish for the Health Professions II, Spanish 3010 Spanish for Social Work and Health Care Services, SPAN 3021/7021 Business Spanish I, and SPAN 3022/7022 Business Spanish II
Seynabou Dieye
Study Abroad Advisor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Elaine M Dunker
Financial Administrator 2, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
360D ARTSCI
Mohamed Elayyadi
Instructor, Arabic Language and Culture, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
728E Old Chemistry Building
J. Mauricio Espinoza
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature/Cultural Studies , Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
710C Old Chemistry Building
In addition to research, I write original poetry and translate the work of Central American poets (particularly the twentieth-century Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio).
Muhammad U. Faruque
Inayat & Ishrat Malik Assistant Professor and Taft Center Fellow (AY 23-24), Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
728C Old Chemistry Building
While his past research has explored modern and premodern conceptions of selfhood and identity and their bearing on ethics, religion, and culture, his current project investigates whether or not Sufi philosophy and practice—as articulated in the School of Ibn ʿArabī—support and foster an active engagement toward the planet's well-being and an ecologically viable way of life and vision. He is also at work on a book on A.I. and the ethical challenges of information technology. He edited volumes include From the Divine to the Human: Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic (Routledge, 2023) and A Cultural History of South Asian Literature, Volume 3: The Early Modern Age (1400-1700) (co-edited with S. Nair).
His interests and expertise encompass history and theory of subjectivity, environmental humanities, religion and climate change, cross-cultural philosophy, gender hermeneutics, Sufism, Perso-Arabic mystical literature, Islamic philosophy and ethics, history and philosophy of science, Islamic Psychology, and Graeco-Arabica. He teaches courses on Islam and social justice issues, climate change, mysticism, philosophy, as well as on selfhood and identity.
In his personal life, he loves gardening (plant life fascinates him), spending time in nature, travelling, cooking, photography, and watching movies. He also has a passion for classical Indian (raag) and Persian music, and for art, music, and poetry in general.
He is also affiliated with the departments of Philosophy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Environmental Studies, and the program in Religious Certificate.
Loïc Filipe-Hémery
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
My academic background encompasses a wide variety of research interests including law, languages and gender studies.
Jacqueline Elizabeth Foley
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Enrique A Giordano
Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, Literary Theory, Theatre, and Film Sttudies, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Juan Godoy Penas
Assistant Professor Educator, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5267 CLIFTCT
In the literary field, he studies the second generation of writers exiled by the Spanish Civil War, the concepts of memory and trauma, and the hybridity of literary genres, especially autobiographical genres. In relation to this topic, he has recently published the articles “La «Otra» segunda generación de escritores exiliados tras la Guerra Civil española: más allá de México” in Hispanófila, and “Niños de la guerra en México: la desterritorialización como consecuencia del exilio a través de Carlos Blanco Aguinaga y Angelina Muñiz-Huberman” in Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies. Currently, he is editing his book Memoria, identidad y literatura del yo: narrativas de la segunda generación de escritores exiliados por la Guerra Civil española, which will be released in late 2020 or early 2021.
Regarding applied linguistics and second language teaching, his research pays attention to the role of technology in the classroom and the creation of hybrid courses. This led him to create the first hybrid course in Spanish in collaboration with Dr. Liander within the Department of RLL at Harvard University in Spring 2020. Additionally, he is especially interested in the role of the learner´s identity in the process of second language acquisition, as well as the impact of the incorporation of diversity in the didactic material. In 2020, in collaboration with the Observatory Cervantes at Harvard University, he organized a series of workshops entitled “Mapping the Minorities in Spanish as Second Language Acquisition.” He has also recently been invited by the Institute Cervantes from NY to give a workshop entitled “Fostering Diversity in the Spanish Language Classroom: the role of minoritized identities.”
Ligia C Gomez.
Assistant Professor Educator , Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Trained as a psychologist and with a degree in fine arts from Colombia, South America, Ligia worked for six years in a health care as an educator and health advocate with the Hispanic population in Cincinnati prior to becoming a full time faculty in the Romance Languages and Literature Department. Ligia serves as a liaison with many different organizations in the community. She is currently involved with several professional groups that work to improve the living conditions of the Hispanic/Latino population. Presently she is Chair of the Greater Cincinnati Latino Coalition, and a founding member of the Latino Health Collaborative. Her particular areas of interest at the University include Service Learning and Spanish for Health and Social Services. Ligia's continued involvement in the local Health Care community helps her to provide the students with access to many different relevant experiences related to this undeserved population. Ligia is the Director of Certificate of Spanish for Service Learning in Social Work and Health Care Services and have been involved in the new Medical Spanish/Latino Health Elective at The school of medicine.
Ingrid Dayana Gonzalez Ochoa
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Luis M Gonzalez-Garcia
Instructor - Adjunct Ann, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Old Chemistry Building
Michael R Gott
Professor of French (RALL) and Film & Media Studies (SCFMS), Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5273 CLIFTCT
I teach graduate seminars and undergrad gourses on global screen media, travel and identity in cinema and comic books, francophone culture and cultural studies, migration and identity, cinéma-monde, road movies and mobility in cinema, and global screen industry networks andplatforms.
I am an affiliate faculty member in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Film & Media Studies Program, and the director of programming for UC's Niehoff Center for Film & Media Studies.
Maria Daniela Daniela Granja Nunez
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Academic Background
- University of Cincinnati - MA Spanish, 2020
- NYFA. MFA, Screenwriting, 2012.
- Fulbright grantee, MFA Screenwriting. August 2010 – May 2012.
- FLACSO. Associate Degree in Visual Anthropology. Quito, Ecuador. March – July 2008.
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Bachelor degree in Sociology. Quito, Ecuador. September 2000 – March 2006.
- Univeristy of Cincinnati, Introduction to Screenwriting TA. Since 2022.
- University of Cincinnati, Basic Spanish TA. Since 2018.
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Quito, Ecuador. Screenwriting teacher – online course. Since January 2018.
- Universidad de las Américas. Quito, Ecuador. Screenwriting teacher. January 2014 – June 2014.
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Quito, Ecuador. Screenwriting teacher. January 2013 – June, 2013.
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Quito, Ecuador. Screenwriting Workshop instructor, September 2012 – June 2013.
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador. Film Appreciation instructor, 2007 – 2009.
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador. Sociology teacher, January 2007 – June 2010.
- Untitled project, feature film. Co-writer. Since 2021.
- Founding partner at INCUBADORA, film and TV production company, Ecuador.
- Penas, stop motion short film project. Screenwriting advisor. Since January 2018.
- El viaje de Dante, feature film project. Screenwriting advisor. Since June 2017.
- The Sky Above Max, feature film project. Writer. Since May 2016.
- Sumergible, feature film. Directed by Alfredo León. Co-writer. Since June 2014.
- Screenwriting workshop for the Andean Countries. Reader and translator. June – November 2013, June – August 2014, July – August 2015, July – August 2017.
- Galápagos, la historia más cursi jamás contada, feature film project. Co-writer. Since August 2017.
- El Caminante, TV series. Writer. March 2017 – July 2017.
- Jorge, feature film project. Writer. Since November 2015.
- Chicago Latino Film Festival. Hospitality Coordinator. April 2015.
- Eco Chip, TV series. Writer. June 2014 – December 2014.
- La mala noche, feature film in postproduction. Directed by Gabriela Calvache. Screenwriting advisor. January 2013 – November 2014.
- UIO Sácame a pasear, feature film. Directed by Micaela Rueda. Screenwriting advisor. June 2013 – August 2013.
- Ciudad Quinde, web series. Writer. December 2013 – June 2014.
- Dino DeLaurentiis Company. Reader - internship. October 2011 – January 2012.
- Eclectic Pictures. Reader - internship. April 2011 – July 2011.
Florian Griffon
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
I have graduated from the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (FRA), with a B.A in English studies (US Civilization major) and a M.A in American Civilization from Université Bordeaux Montaigne (FRA).
I have written a thesis for the Université Bordeaux Montaigne (FRA) on the link between knowledge production, lobbying, and firearm regulation in Ohio.
Carlos M Gutiérrez
Professor of Spanish, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
726B52 CLIFTCT
http://cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/frida/
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/AQJSeywc0iFIIw
I work on a book about Cervantes and direct the Madrid Summer Program.
Janine C Hartman
Professor of History,, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5259 CLIFTCT
History
Dept Romance Languages and Literatures
College of Arts & Sciences
717D Old Chem Bldg
Ph 556-1596
My field is the history of ideas. Current research interests are Catulle Mendés,Parnassian poet and his role as witness to the Franco-Prussian war, the Commune insurrection and fall of Paris in 1871, as refracted through "ruin studies." Additional fields include witchcraft, ritual in early modern society and symbolic sovereignty in French colonial history..
Affliiate: History,Judaic Studies, Women & Gender Studies
Fenfang Hwu
Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5242 CLIFTCT
- Computer Assisted Language Learning: grammar instruction, input, learner-behavior tracking, productive and receptive practice, pronunciation, research methods.
- Second Language Acquisition: individual differences in language aptitude and personality preferences, input enhancement, pedagogical grammar, practice.
- Spanish Linguistics: phonetics, preterite vs. imperfect.
Irene Ivanova Ivantcheva-Merjanska
Assoc Professor - Educator, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
711 Old Chemistry Building
Sarah Jackson
Divisional Dean for Social Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Her broad thematic and theoretical research interests include: materiality (including the ways in which the material world is used to mediate social interactions and identities, and culturally-based visions of the material world), investigations into ancient identities, ancient ontologies, personhood (including non-human persons), indigenous political organization, and negotiation of culture change. Methodologically, she works at the intersection of text and the material record. She is particularly interested in bringing together theoretical ideas with archaeological field practices.
Dr. Jackson focuses on theoretical topics related to materiality and material culture. She is working on reconstructing aspects of a Classic Maya material worldview (i.e., how they understood and saw the materials around them, including the capabilities and identities of objects) using data from hieroglyphic and iconographic sources; this work has an applied aspect, in that she is investigating how an understanding of indigenous material perspectives might impact and transform archaeological field practices. These topics, along with an innovative digital field recording system that unites archaeological and Maya views on material culture, are also explored in the field at the site of Say Kah, Belize. Recent publications on these topics have appeared in The Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (2016), Advances in Archaeological Practice (2016), Ancient Mesoamerica (2019), and Cambridge Archaeological Journal (2020). Dr. Jackson is also currently teaming with the Digital Scholarship Center at UC to work on a big data project related to analysis of archaeological publications to illuminate implicit archaeological narratives about artifacts and excavated materials, turning her interest in culturally-specific material beliefs onto our own profession.
She co-directs an archaeological projects at the ancient Maya site of Say Kah, just outside of La Milpa, Belize, where she has excavated in 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, and 2018 together with Dr. Linda Brown (University of New Mexico, project co-director) and graduate and undergraduate students from UC, with funding from Wenner-Gren, National Geographic Society/Waitt, National Geographic Society (CRE), the American Philosophical Society, the Brennan Foundation, the Rust Family Foundation, and the Taft Research Center (University of Cincinnati).
Her doctoral work looked at the Late Classic Maya royal court as a critical political institution for disseminating shifting cultural ideals and responding strategically to changing pressures of the Late Classic era; as part of this research, she conducted excavations at the Maya sites of Piedras Negras and Cancuen in Guatemala, and also analyzed Classic-era hieroglyphic texts and historical linguistic information from the early Colonial era. This research is discussed in detail in her first book, "Politics of the Maya Court: Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period" (University of Oklahoma Press), which was published in 2013.
PDFs of publications available at:
https://uc.academia.edu/SarahEJackson
Farrah Jacquez
Associate Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
3216 CLIFTCT
Anne-Marie Jezequel
Educator Associate Professor , Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques (2014)
Specialized in 20th century French and Quebec Literature, published articles on French writers such as Jean Rouaud and Marie Nimier. Author of “Louise Dupré, le Québec au féminin” (2008), the first study on the corpus of the literary work of Louise Dupré, poet, novelist, dramaturge from Montreal.
Teaching all levels of proficiency wih emphasis on topics pertaining to French and francophone culture such as Business, Theatre, Fashion and Gastronomy.
http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/stylescoutblog/style-counsel-anne-marie-jezequel/
Study tours and international professional experiences in France, Canada and the French West Indies.
Intensive Language and cultural program, French immersion University led Program in Caen, Normandy (France)
"Discover Caen & Normandy", June 7-July 21 /2018
link: videos made by students
https://animoto.com/play/vkfSmFKnu6QTtFSyyplGJg?autostart=1
Lowanne Elizabeth Jones
Associate Professor Emerita & Former Head, Romance Languages & Literatures; Former Director, School for World Languages & Cultures, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Ethan Katz
Assistant Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
In the broadest terms, Professor Katz's research has sought to understand how global, national, and local factors have shaped the identities and relationships of various people, particularly Jews and Muslims in modern Europe and the Mediterranean. His first book is a history of Jewish-Muslim relations in France since World War I, entitled The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France, published in 2015 by Harvard University Press. The book was the winner of a 2015 National Jewish Book Award given by the Jewish Book Council and of the 2016 David H. Pinkney Prize for the best book in French history awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies. Professor Katz is also the co-editor of Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) and Colonialism and the Jews, forthcoming from Indiana University Press. He is now in the early stages of a new project provisionally entitled Freeing the Empire: The Jewish Uprising That Helped the Allies Win the War. This book will chronicle the fascinating yet little-known story of an uprising in Algiers from 1940 to 1943 that proved vital to the success of Operation Torch. The work seeks to reassess issues such as the meaning of the choice to resist and the complex relationship between colonialism and the Holocaust. Professor Katz has received multiple grants to begin work on this project during the 2016-2017 academic year, when he will be on-leave.
Ekaterina Katzarova
Program Manager, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
4240A CLIFTCT
Marouane Khadari
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
In addition to my role as a Junior Lecturer, I have also made significant contributions as an Administrative Aide with extensive experience serving the "Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire." In this capacity, I played a pivotal role in supporting the organization's events and projects. My responsibilities included meticulous planning and logistics management, demonstrating my exceptional organizational skills. Furthermore, I excelled in coordinating efforts, maintaining regular communication with team members, and ensuring the accurate collection and management of pertinent information. My skillset includes proficiency in data entry, data analysis, and effective communication.
My dedication to excellence extends to my role as an International Mobility Coordinator at Université Bordeaux Montaigne in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. In this capacity, I provided invaluable administrative support for Erasmus+ and Study Abroad programs. My duties encompassed overseeing financial transactions and processes for both staff and students, as well as managing academic processes, including Learning Agreements, Grant Agreements, Risk Assessments, Codes of Conduct, and Traineeship Agreements. My meticulous attention to detail and unwavering dedication to compliance made me an essential asset to the program.
Furthermore, I have demonstrated my ability to excel in diverse roles, including my tenure as a Special Project Assistant for the European Commission. Here, I exhibited exceptional supervisory and information management skills, overseeing and editing the flow of information within the project while facilitating coordination between the European Commission network and the International Direction of University Bordeaux. My competencies encompass process improvement, information management, supervisory skills, and cross-functional coordination.
In conclusion, my multifaceted professional background has equipped me with a comprehensive skillset that includes language education, data management, administrative support, international program coordination, and project supervision. My unwavering commitment to excellence in every role I undertake drives me to continue bringing my expertise to future endeavors.
Cam Kruse
Program Manager, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5241A CLIFTCT
In his free time, he enjoys cooking, running, traveling, and exploring the depths of foreign language acquisition and teaching.
Brianna N. Leavitt-Alcántara
Associate Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
ARTSCI
Amy C Lind
Taft Research Center Director & Faculty Chair / Mary Ellen Heintz Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
1100 EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Dr. Lind's areas of scholarship and teaching include urban studies, global political economy, development and postcolonial studies, Global South/transnational social movements, feminist and queer theory, and studies of neoliberal governance. A qualitative researcher with great interest in people's stories of survival and resistance, she has lived, worked and conducted research in Latin America for over four years, including in Euador, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela. She is the author of Gendered Paradoxes: Women’s Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador (Penn State University Press, 2005), and editor of four volumes, including Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance (Routledge, 2010) and Feminist (Im)mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Rights, Citizenships and Identities in Transnational Perspective (Ashgate Publishing, 2013, co-edited with Anne Sisson Runyan, Patricia McDermott and Marianne Marchand). Her new book, Constituting the Left Turn: Resignifying Nation, Economy and Family in Postneoliberal Ecuador (with Christine Keating), addresses the cultural, economic, and affective politics of Ecuador's postneoliberal Citizen Revolution. She has held distinguished visiting professor positions in Ecuador, Bolivia and Switzerland and has delivered over fifty invited lectures at institutions around the world.
See her UC Taft Research Center Foreign Correspondent interview here.
Anne Lingwall Odio
Asst Professor - Educator, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
717E Old Chemistry Building
Anne utilizes her research backgroud in bilingualism and second language studies to inform her teaching. As a researcher, Anne is interested in the impact that the language environment can have on linguistic development. Anne also works with local community organizations and schools to support and advocate for home language maintenance and bilingualism.
Janaina F Lopez
Instructor - Adj, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Old Chemistry Building
Nuria Rocio Lopez-Ortega
Educator Associate Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5271 CLIFTCT
Academic-related activities: writing collaborator and consultant for major foreign language publishing companies; dual-enrollment Spanish program mentor with local high schools; Spanish AP reader.
Kathryn M. Lorenz
Educator Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Koffi N. Maglo
Associate Professor of Philosophy , Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Koffi N. Maglo received his BA degree from the University of Lomé in Togo. After obtaining MA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Burgundy in France, he did postdoctoral studies at Virginia Tech in the US. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, (2003-5). His interests include philosophy of biology and biomedicine, ethics and population health, philosophy of science, history of 17thand 18thcentury physics, African philosophy.
In the area of philosophy of biology and biomedicine, his work focuses on the ontological and epistemic status of population stratification concepts in genomics and evidence-based medicine, and on theoretical and ethical issues in personalized medicine. He currently leads collaborative interdisciplinary research projects on ethics and obesity research, and on race-based therapy. He has previously organized in April 2007 an interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Cincinnati on “Race in the Age of Genomic Medicine: The Science and its Applications.” http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=5592.
Koffi Maglo published also on the structure and developments of Newtonian mechanics and its reception across European scientific institutions. His publications include essays in recent French philosophy of science and on the French Enlightenment. At a more theoretical level, his research in the history of physics and in the philosophy of biology deals with questions about the reality, validity and utility of scientific notions.
Eliezer Marquez Ramos
Student Worker, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Maria Elvira Mendoza
Assistant Professor - Adjunct Ann, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
710D Old Chemistry Building
Therese Migraine George
Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5261 CLIFTCT
Joyce A Miller
Assoc Professor - Adj Ann, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5240A CLIFTCT
Olivia Grace Miller
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Ana María Molina
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Her experience is related with editing, communitary writing and theater. Her interests are in poetry as a way to connect with communities and social differences, with problematics that are hidden in our society.
Kara Nicole Moranski
Asst Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
709D Old Chemistry Building
Maria Paz Moreno
Professor of Spanish, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5263 CLIFTCT
As a poet, she has published ten books of poetry and has been included in several anthologies, among them Poetisas Españolas 1976-2001 (Ed. Torremozas, 2003), El poder del cuerpo (Ed. Castalia, 2009), and Nueva poesía alicantina (2000-2005) (IGA, 2016). Her anthology From the Other Shore/ De la otra orilla was published in 2018 by Valparaíso Editors. Her most recent books include Amiga del monstruo (Ed. Renacimiento, 2020) and the bilingual edition of The Belly of an Iguana/ El vientre de las iguanas (Valparaíso Eds., 2021), translated by Jennifer Rathbun.
Prof. Moreno is a recipient of the George Rieveschl Jr. Award for Creative and/or Scholarly Works (2019), and the Distinguished Research Professor Award (2023).
Nury Evelyn Nuila-Stevens
Doctoral Student, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
714 Old Chemistry Building
Shureka _ Nyawalo
Assistant Professor Educator and Coordinator of the Basic French Program, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
719B Old Chemistry Building
Additionally, I organize the summer language immersion program in Bordeaux, France, at the DEFLE (Département d'Études de Français Langue Étrangère). (For more details, go to: https://defle.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/en/index.html).
More recently, my collegues and I were awarded a competitive federal grant to develop teaching materials. (Read UC's article on this grant: https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/08/uc-to-become-nationwide-resource-center-for-language-instructors.html)
Pat W O'Connor
Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
In 1982, one of her more than one hundred articles entitled "Women Dramatists in Contemporary Spain and the Male‑Dominated Canon" appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and in1988, her Dramaturgas españolas de hoy, the first book ever published on women playwrights in Spain, was followed by Mujeres sobre mujeres: teatro breve español/One-Act Plays by Women about Women(1998), Mito y realidad de una dramaturga española: María Martínez Sierra (2003), Mujeres sobre mujeres en los albores del Siglo XXI / One-Act Plays by Women about Women in the Early Years of the 21st Century(2006), Elena Cánovas y las Yeses: Teatro carcelario, teatro liberador (2009) and Patenting Destiny: A Tale of Two Shoes (Ventanilla de patentes) by Charo González Casas (2011). Shades of Violence with plays by Juana Escabias, The Hooker of a Thusand Nights, and Diana de Paco, See you in Heaven...or Maybe Not marked in 2015 her twenty-first book.
Professor O'Connor holds a number of honorific titles: she was elected Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures in 1996, the same year she was named "Alumna of Achievement" by her alma mater, the University of Florida. In 1982, she won UC’s Rieveschl Award for Creative and Scholarly Work and was named Distinguished Research Professor in 1990, the same year she was elected corresponding (i.e., non-Spanish) member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language. In 2007, she was named Outstanding Graduate of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, and selected to give the banquet address honoring those named from all the departments of Arts and Sciences. She has had homages for her theater work by SGAE in Madrid twice and two more by the University of Cincinnati for initiating, in 1964, study abroad at UC.
Danae T Orlins
Educator Assistant Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
716D Old Chemistry Building
Dr. Danae Orlins is the coordinator of the extended basic Spanish sequence (SPAN 1011-1014) and the 2nd year langage sequence (SPAN 2015-2016). Her research interests include pedagogy, Early Modern narrative and undergraduate education. She came to the University of Cincinnati after many years teaching all levels of Spanish at undergraduate liberal arts colleges, and learning and teaching language has always been close to her heart.
Violeta Orozco
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Emma Joan Ortquist
Program Manager, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5242 CLIFTCT
Julia Piastro Garcia
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Jesse Louis Pinero
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Proficient in Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes Knowledge of the Automotive Industry.
Currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Spanish Pedagogy
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Juan Andres Pizzani
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Connor Christopher Ploetz
Work Study Student, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Adriana Prieto Quintero
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Leila Rodriguez
Associate Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
450 Braunstein Hall
Affiliate faculty, Department of Africana Studies
Affiliate faculty, Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Affiliate faculty, Department of Sociology
Affiliate faculty, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Collaborator, Central American Population Center (University of Costa Rica)
I am a cultural anthropologist and demographer whose research centers on the local integration dynamics of migrants. A second line of research examines the use of culture as judicial evidence – in the form of anthropological expert testimony – in legal conflicts that involve immigrants and refugees.
Regional interests: Central America, Latin America, U.S.
Armando Romero
Charles Phelps Taft Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Karen Isela Rosen-Guevara
Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Associate Professor in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
3314 French Hall
Born and raised in Colombia, South America, Dr. Sanmiguel-Valderrama practiced law in Colombia for five years before migrating to Canada in her late 20s. Dr. Sanmiguel-Valderrama earned her LLM in international human rights law at the University of Ottawa, where she also worked at the Human Rights Research and Education Center co-directing a women's project with CEMUJER in El Salvador (Central America) funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). In 2004, she graduated with her Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, where she was also affiliated to CERLAC, The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University.
On the basis of extensive fieldwork in Colombia, her research and publications examine the contradictions between neoliberal international trade and military aid on the one hand, and respect for individual and collective human rights –in particular labor, environmental, and equality rights for women and racial minorities—on the other hand. These relationships and contradictions are examined through case studies where both trade and human rights laws and practices are in operation: first, the Colombian export-led flower industry. Her upcoming book (2012) is provisionally titled “No Roses Without Thorns: Trade, Militarization, and Human Rights in the Production and Export of Colombian Flowers” (click here to see book prospectus). Second, though the case of NAFTA and undocumented migration of Mexican and Central American into the USA.
Dr. Sanmiguel -Valderrama have published various articles in prestigious international academic journals presenting her research findings on the interrelationship between globalization, international trade, militarism, social reproduction, and human rights from multidisciplinary and transnational anti-racist feminist approaches. Her research have been supported by competitive grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, and the University of Cincinnati Research Council. Professor's Sanmiguel-Valderrama current areas of research and teaching are family-work conflict under globalization, the relationships between military aid, trade, and human rights in Colombia, feminist mothering, women, gender and law, international women's rights, and women's labor rights.
Olga Sanz Casasnovas
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Siusan Victoria Sinclair
Associate Educator Professor, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
719C Old Chemistry Building
Grace Thome
Associate Professor Educator, Arabic Language Coordinator , Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
728G Old Chemistry Building
Kenneth C. Totten
Asst Professor - Adj Ann, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5239A CLIFTCT
Nicasio Urbina
Professor of Latin American Literature., Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5264 COLLAW
Patricia Valladares-Ruiz
Professor of Latin American and Caribbean literature and film., Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5262 CLIFTCT
She is the author of Narrativas del descalabro: La novela venezolana en tiempos de revolución (Tamesis, 2018), Sexualidades disidentes en la narrativa cubana contemporánea (Tamesis, 2012), the editor of Afro-Hispanic Subjectivities (Cincinnati Romance Review, 2011), and the coeditor of El tránsito vacilante: Miradas sobre la cultura venezolana contemporánea (Rodopi, 2013). Professor Valladares-Ruiz has also published book chapters and articles on Latin American and Caribbean literature and cinema in scholarly journals such as Revista Hispánica Moderna, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, MLN: Modern Language Notes, Revista Iberoamericana, Romance Quarterly, Hispania, La Torre, Neophilologus, Monographic Review, Inti, eHumanista: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies, Cuadernos de literatura, and Letras Femeninas.
Research and Teaching Interests: Latin American and Caribbean literature, film, and popular culture; Neo-slave narratives; geographical imagination in early colonial Spanish America; cultural politics & aesthetics.
Theoretical interests: Cultural Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).
www.patriciavalladares.com
Antony Jan Carlo Varela
Graduate Assistant, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Michele E Vialet
Professor of French and Francophone Literatures, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
I teach and do research in French and Francophone studies, especially French Classicism (comic novels; Classical theater; the Moralists; the power of laughter) and 20th- 21st century colonial and post-colonial literatures, cultures and films (Maghreb, Rwanda, exile and immigration, racism, and the representation of Africa in pictures and films). On 17th-century literature, I am the author of various articles and book chapters as well as a monograph on Le roman bourgeois (1666), an iconoclastic novel by Antoine Furetière, Triomphe de l'iconoclaste: “Le roman bourgeois” et les lois de cohérence romanesque. In Francophone studies, I have published articles on contemporary women writers, co-edited a volume on Assia Djebar, Assia Djebar: écrivaine entre deux rives (2011), and most recently a volume on Julia Kristeva, Kristeva in Process: The Fertility of Thought (both available online at www.cromrev.com).
I also enjoy teaching introduction to literary analysis, intermediate and advanced linguistic and cultural literacy. I have coauthored two intermediate and advanced college books: Bravo! [1989] (Cengage, 8th rev. ed. 2015) and À vous d’écrire: atelier de francais (McGraw-Hill, 1996).
Margaret Voelker-Ferrier
Professor Emerita, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Catherine L White
Assoc Professor - Educator, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
5238 CLIFTCT
Dr. White teaches French language, literature, theatre, culture and film. She has been awarded the Darwin Turner Teaching Award twice, and was nominated for the Dolly Cohen Excellence in Teaching Award. Her primary research area is in French and Francophone cinema. She was a member of the founding committee for the first certificate in film and media studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches courses in French film to majors and minors in the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures. She has published, presented and organized panels on French and Francophone film. Her interest in film as an artifact of social relevance combines with students' love of and fascination with international cinema, French and francophone cultures and language.
Dr. White is currently teaching first and second year language courses and a new course, "La Chanson en français" - Songs in French - (FREN 3050).
Education:
Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Cincinnati, 2003
Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, University of Cincinnati, 1999
M.A. in French Literature, University of Cincinnati, 1998
B.A. in French and Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 1978
Dissertation title: "The Influence of Religious Faith on Christine de Pizan's Defense of Women"
Current areas of teaching and research: French and Francophone film studies.
Other Work Experience: Three years in advertising, Paris and New York.
Ten years in theatre, New York City.
Rebecca Williamson
MSArch and PhD Program Coordinator, Associate Professor , Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
7205 DAA Addition
Prior to joining the University of Cincinnati in fall 2006, she taught for five years in France at the Ecole d'Architecture de Versailles as part of an exchange with the University of Illinois and at the Master of Urbanism Program of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences-Po"). She initiated and coordinates an exchange between the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris and the University of Cincinnati and is involved in numerous other international initiatives including an exchange with the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, also in Paris.
She has taught architectural theory, history of cities, and topical seminars as well as undergraduate and graduate studios. These studios have investigated underserved neighborhoods and atypical urban sites such as Cincinnati's Metropolitan Sewer District. They have brought students in contact with a spectrum of residents, agencies, and institutions.
Her principal area of research is the history and theories of architecture and urbanism, including relations among form, environment, and experience. She is currently working on a study of the development of towns in Poland whose plans are based on designs by Italian architects. Among her previous publications are: "Mi punge vaghezza, ovvero i misteri del mestiere" in Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture, Ashgate, 2016; "Outside-In" in ARQ/La revue d’architecture Québec, ed. Alena Prochaska, Quebec 2014; "Les Jetsons dans la jungle" in Territoires liquides, ed. Richard Scoffier, Atelier International du Grand Paris 2013; "Mas alla de tierra y cielo / Beyond Earth and Sky" in Trans-versalidades, ed. Eduardo Rojas, Malaga, Spain, 2013; "Durisch + Nolli: Recherche impatiente / An Impatient Search," in Durisch + Nolli, ed. Heinz Wirz, Quart 2012; "Al Fresco: When Air Became Fresh," in Air, ed. John Knechtel, MIT Press 2010; and "Voices of Waste" in Speciale'Z, ed. Sony Devabhaktuni, Paris 2010.
She was research editor for Architecture School: Three Centuries of Educating Architects in North America, MIT Press 2012 and Cincinnati team leader for Métropoles et mobilités durables à l’épreuve d’un nouveau paradigme énergétique (Sustainable Mobility and Metropolitan Areas Facing a New Energy Paradigm), a research project involving partners at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Bordeaux, France (ENSAP-Bx) and the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brasil. This project, which ended in 2014, has sparked other collaborations among the teams. A Visiting Scholar at the University of Bordeaux during 2016, Rebecca Williamson is currently on the Fulbright Specialist Roster, a program that funds short-term collaborations at institutions around the world.
Carla Rita Wysokinski
Instructor - Adj Ann, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Old Chemistry Building