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Francisco Gago-Jover - Associate Professor - Chair of the Department
(Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Fields: Medieval Spanish Literature, History of the Spanish Language, Lexicography, Medieval Military Art and Science, Computers in Modern Languages.
fgagojov@holycross.edu


Isabel Alvarez-Borland - Professor - Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program
(Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University)

Fields: US Cuban and Latino Literature, Cuban Literature, Caribbean Literature, Contemporary Latin American Narrative.
ialvarez@holycross.edu


John T. Cull - Professor - Director of the Office of Distinguished Fellowships
and Graduate Studies
(Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Fields: European Emblem Literature, Spanish Golden Age Comedia, Spanish Golden Age Prose, Medieval Spanish Medicine, Spanish Sentimental Fiction.
jcull@holycross.edu


Ambroise Kom - Professor and Eleanor Howard O'Leary Chair in Francophone Studies - Coordinator of STWL
(Dr. d'État ès lettres. Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III)

Fields: French and Francophone Literature, and Culture
akom@holycross.edu


Claudia Ross - Professor - Coordinator of Chinese
(Ph.D. University of Michigan)

Fields: Linguistics (lexical and semantic structure), Chinese language pedagogy.
cross@holycross.edu


Amy Singleton Adams - Associate Professor - Coordinator of Russian
(Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Fields: Russian Language, Literature, and Culture
aadams@holycross.edu


Susan Amatangelo - Associate Professor - Coordinator of Italian
(Ph.D. Harvard University)

Fields: 19th- and 20th-century Italian
literature, Giovanni Verga, Italian women writers, and the representation of women in literature

samatang@holycross.edu


Estrella Cibreiro - Associate Professor
(Ph.D. University of Connecticut)

Fields: Women's Writing, 20th Century Spanish Theater, Film and Cultural Studies, Feminism and Literature.
ecibreir@holycross.edu


Laurence Enjolras - Associate Professor - Coordinator of French
(Ph.D. Brown University)

Fields: 20th - 21st Century French Literature, French Women Writers, Contemporary French Culture and Film.
lenjolras@holycross.edu


Cynthia Stone - Associate Professor - Coordinator of Spanish
(Ph.D. University of Michigan)

Fields: Mesoamerican Codices, Early Missionary Writings in the New World, Films set in Colonial Spanish America, Translations of Indigenous Traditions.
cstone@holycross.edu


Jorge Valdés - Associate Professor
(Ph.D. University of Connecticut)

Fields: Modern Spanish and Spanish-American Poetry.
jvaldes@holycross.edu


Josep Alba-Salas - Assistant Professor - Pedagogical Coordinator for the Foreign Exchange Visitors Program
(Ph.D. Cornell University)

Fields: Spanish and Romance Linguistics, Theoretical Syntax (Spanish, Italian, and Catalan), Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics.
jalba@holycross.edu


Daniel Frost - Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. Harvard University)

Fields: 19th Century Spanish Literature; 19th Century Latin American Literature; Landscape Studies.
dfrost@holycross.edu


Baozhang He - Assistant Professor
(Ph.D.
Ohio State University)

Fields: Chinese Linguistics, Language, Literature, and Culture.
bhe@holycross.edu


Paola Marconi - Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University)

Fields: Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Literature, Italian Language and Culture, Italian Cinema.
pmarconi@holycross.edu


Thibaut Schilt - Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. Ohio State University)

Fields: French Cinema, Contemporary French Literature and Culture, Gender Studies.
tschilt@holycross.edu


Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard - Assistant Professor - Coordinator of German
(Ph.D. University of Virginia)

Fields: 20th-, 19th-, and 18th-Century German Literature and Culture, Austrian Cultural History, 18th-Century European Novel, Women Writers, Law and Literature, Contemporary Literary Theory
sschmitz@holycross.edu


Stephen Shapiro - Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. New York University)

Fields: 17th-century French literature, memoir and autobiography, literature and historiography, comedy, French culinary culture, Francophobia and Francophilia in America.
sshapiro@holycross.edu


Judy Freedman Fask - Lecturer - Director Deaf Studies Program - Coordinator of ASL
(M.Ed. Smith College)

Fields: American Sign Language, Deaf Studies, Program Development, Community Learning Based Partnerships.
jfask@holycross.edu


Helen Freear-Papio - Lecturer - Coordinator of the Foreign Exchange Visitors Program
(Ph.D. University of Connecticut)

Fields: Contemporary Spanish Drama written by Women, 20th Century Drama and Novel, Directed Independent Language Instruction, Technology in the Language Classroom.
hfreear@holycross.edu


Esther L. Levine - Lecturer - Class Dean of 2010 - With special responsibilities for ALANA and international students - International Scholar and Student Advisor
(M.A.Brown University)

Fields: Spanish Language, Contemporary Latin American Literature.
elevine@holycross.edu


Elizabeth O’Connell-Inman - Lecturer - Coordinator of Directed Independent Spanish Curriculum
(M.A. Brown University)

Fields: Technology in the Language Classroom, Directed Independent Language Instruction, Contemporary Latin American Literarure.
einman@holycross.edu


Lucia Ducci - Visiting Lecturer
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Fields: Italian Language
lducci@holycross.edu


Claudia Esposito - Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. Brown University
)

Fields: Francophone literature of North Africa, 20th century French literature, Mediterranean Studies.
cesposit@holycross.edu


Rocío Fuentes - Visiting Lecturer
(
)

Fields: Spanish Language
rfuentes@holycross.edu


Ying Li - Visiting Lecturer
(Ed
. D. Lamar University)

Fields: American Sign Language, Deaf Studies
yli@holycross.edu


Sofía Linares Abella - Visiting Lecturer
(Diploma de Estudios Avanzados. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

Fields: Spanish Language, Second language acquisition.
slinares@holycross.edu


Elena Luongo - Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. John Hopkins University)

Fields: Italian Language and Literature
eluongo@holycross.edu


Rose Mambert - Visiting Lecturer
(D.M.L. candidate, Middlebury College)

Fields: Italian Language and Literature, Italian horror film.
rmambert@holycross.edu


Adele Parker - Visiting Assistant Professor
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Fields: French Language and Literature
aparker@holycross.edu


Olga S. Partan - Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. Brown University)

Fields: Russian Language, Literature, and Culture.
opartan@holycross.edu


Denisse Scott - Visiting Lecturer
(M.S. Springfield College)

Fields: American Sign Language, Deaf Studies
dscott@holycross.edu


Dana "Dean" Simpson - Visiting Assistant Professor
(D.M.L. Middlebury College)

Fields: Medieval & Renaissance Literature, Poetry, Gender Studies
dsimpson@holycross.edu


Jonathan Wipplinger - Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of Michigan)

Fields: German Language and Literature
jwipplin@holycross.edu


Zhenjun Zhang - Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Fields: Chinese Language and Literature
zzhang@holycross.edu


Lynne Lengel - Administrative Assistant

Responsibilities: MLL Department, Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Russian sections.
llengel@holycross.edu


Bernadette Robertson - Administrative Assistant

Responsibilities: American Sign Language, and Spanish sections.
broberts@holycross.edu