Faculty
Olga S. Partan
Program Coordinator Studies in World Literatures
Associate Professor, Russian Studies
Ph.D. Brown University
Fields: Russian Language, Literature, and Culture
Email:opartan@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 457 Phone: 508-793-3832
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Amy Singleton Adams
Program Coordinator, Russian
Professor, Russian Studies
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison
Fields: Russian Language, Literature, and Culture
Email:aadams@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 454 Phone: 508-793-2543
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Ibrahim Abdessalam
Lecturer of Arabic Studies
Program Coordinator
M.A, the American University in Cairo
Fields: Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Corpus Linguistics, Translation
Email: iabdessa@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 429 Phone: 508-793-3042
Office hours: Monday/Wednesday 12:00-2:00 and By Appointment.
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Susan Amatangelo
Chair, World Languages, Litureatures, and Cultures
Professor, Italian Studies
Ph.D. Harvard University
Fields: 19th- and 20th-century Italian literature, Giovanni Verga, Italian women writers, and the representation of women in literature
Email:samatang@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 404 Phone: 508-793-3347
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Emma Burston
Assistant Professor, French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University / Université Paris 8
Fields: Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Visual Culture, Environmental Humanities, Contemporary French Literature and Culture, Language
Email: eburston@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 415 Phone: (508) 793-2457
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Stephanie Clark
Program Coordinator Deaf Studies and Sign Languages, Lecturer
M.Ed., Boston University
Email:sclark@holycross.edu
Heidi Grek
Visiting Assistant Professor German Studies
Fields: Her research interests include Goethe, the European epic tradition, and world literature. She continues to develop the comparative readings from her dissertation of Faust and Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy, and Byron’s Don Juan.
Email: hgrek@holycross.edu
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Ji Hao
Coordinator of Chinese Studies
Associate Professor, Chinese Studies
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Fields: Premodern Chinese Literature
Email: jhao@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 427 Phone: 508-793-2608
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Ying Li
Lecturer, Deaf Studies and Sign Languages
Ed.D., Lamar University
Email: yli@holycross.edu
Jean Ouedraogo
On Leave 2022-2023
O'Leary Chair in Francophone Studies
Ph.D., University of Georgia-Athens
Fields: African and Caribbean Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Email:joean@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 443 Phone: 508-793-2795
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Thibaut Schilt
Professor, French and Francophone Studies
Program Coordinator, French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Fields: French Cinema, Contemporary French Literature and Culture, Gender Studies
Email:tschilt@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 413 Phone: 508-793-2609
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Sylvia M. Schmitz-Burgard
Associate Professor
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
Email:sschmitz@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 461 Phone: 508-793-3305
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Giovanni Spani
Program Coordinator, Italian Studies
Coordinator, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Associate Professor, Italian Studies
Pedagogical Coordinator
Ph.D., Indiana University
Fields: Medieval & Renaissance Italian Literature
Email: gspani@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 452 Phone: 508-793-3834
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Staff
Carolyn Leeman
Academic Administrative Assistant
Email: cleeman@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 401 Phone: (508) 793-2447