Professors Emeriti
| William Anselmi Professor Emeritus wanselmi@ualberta.ca |
19th and 20th Century Italian Literature; Italian Canadian Culture and Literature; Image era, communication systems and representations in and outside of Italy; Italian alternative music (from the sixties to present day); Italian cinema post-1945; Italian television from the fifties to present day; Italian politics, political figures, and social contexts (from P. P. Pasolini to S. Berlusconi) |
| Edward Blodgett (†) Professor Emeritus |
Canadian and Medieval Literature. |
| Marisa Bortolussi Dixon Professor Emerita marisa.bortolussi@ualberta.ca |
Hispanic Literature and Culture; Literary Theory; Narrative Theory; Empirical Approaches to Literary Response; World Literature. |
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Anna Gural-Migdal |
French Literature; 19th and 20th Centuries; French Cinema; Literary and Film Theory; French Language |
| Christopher Hale (†) Professor Emeritus |
Norse Mythology |
| Marianne Henn
Professor Emerita |
Specialization - Age of Goethe. Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century. German Folk and Fairy Tales. Historiography in German Prose and Drama. Biographies of German Women Writers. |
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Oleh Ilnytzkyj |
Ukrainian Literature, Language & Culture. |
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Gary Kelly |
Comparative Literature, World Literature as Print Culture and Book History, History and Uses of Reading, Language in Everyday Life, 18th Century Literature and Culture, 19th Century Literature and Culture, Literary And Cultural Theory, Media Studies, Area Studies: The Atlantic World, Women's History, Genre Studies (Gothic, Melodrama, the Novel, Popular Forms), Social Theory, Gender And Sexuality. |
| Natalie Kononenko Professor Emerita natalie.kononenko@ualberta.ca |
Film, Media, and Image Studies; Folklore Studies; Ukrainian Studies; Slavic Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies |
| Elisabeth Le Professor Emerita elisabeth.le@ualberta.ca |
Applied Linguistics; Discourse Studies; Media Studies; Linguistic Anthropology |
| Anne Malena Professor Emerita anne.malena@ualberta.ca |
French Language, Literature, Culture; Francophone Literature and Culture; Translation and Translation Theory; Translation History; Louisiana Creole Literature and Culture; Caribbean Literature and Culture |
| Uri Margolin Professor Emeritus uri.margolin@ualberta.ca |
Comparative Literature. |
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Bohdan Medwidsky (†) |
Ukrainian folklore, linguistics, folklore studies |
| Edward Mozejko Professor Emeritus emozejko@ualberta.ca |
Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies. |
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Andriy Nahachewsky |
Folklore; Ukrainian Culture; Dance; Material Culture. |
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Waclaw Osadnik |
Translation Studies; Theory of Literature; Contemporary Polish Literature and Cinema; Polish as a Second Language; Central and East European Cinema |
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Lynn Penrod |
French language (all levels); French Literature of the 20th century; Children's Literature in French; Women's Writing in French; Literary Translation; Translation Theory, Literary Theory; French Feminist Theory; Comparative Studies in Law and Literature; Jurisprudence |
| Natalia Pylypiuk Professor Emerita natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca |
Medieval and Early-Modern Ukrainian Culture; Diaspora and Dissent; Literature Today; Childrens' Literature; Ukrainian Language. |
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Claudine Potvin |
Specialization - Québec and Latin American Contemporary Studies; Women's Studies / Women's Writing (Gender & Feminist Theory, Feminist Utopias); Visual Arts and Literature. |
| Tom Priestly Professor Emeritus tom.priestly@ualberta.ca |
Specialization - Description of the Slovene dialect of the village of Sele (Zell), Carinthia, Austria. Problems of retention and loss of minority languages, especially in Austria: historical, educational, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects. Translation of Slovene literature, particularly poetry, into English. |
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Manfred Prokop (†) |
Applied German linguistics, second language acquisition, second language teaching. |
| Robert Thornberry (†) Professor Emeritus |
French Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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Alexander A. Tumanov (†)
Professor Emeritus
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Russian Language |
| 20th and 21st Century Comparative LIterature | |
| Massimo Verdicchio (†) Professor Emeritus massimo.verdicchio@ualberta.ca |
Dante and Petrarch, Theory of the Novel and the Anti-novel. |
| Raleigh Whitinger Professor Emeritus rwhiting@ualberta.ca |
Specialization - Modern German literature since the Age of Goethe, Romanticism, naturalism, women's writing, film and literature, senior language courses, translation German-English. Recent publication: Translation and Translating in German Studies |
| Robert Wilcocks (†) Professor Emeritus wilcocks@ualberta.ca |
Modern French Literature |
| Richard Young Professor Emeritus richard.young@ualberta.ca |
Specialization - Contemporary fiction in Latin America seen through the prisms of narrative structure, Postmodernism and Cultural Studies, popular music and Urban Studies. Since retirement in 2004: return to a dormant interest in naval history through study of representations of the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October, 1805) in painting and popular fiction in England, France, and Spain. |