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.

Anna Gural-Migdal
Professor Emerita
aguralm@ualberta.ca

French Literature; 19th and 20th Centuries; French Cinema; Literary and Film Theory; French Language
Christopher Hale (†)
Professor Emeritus
Norse Mythology
Marianne Henn

Professor Emerita
marianne.henn@ualberta.ca

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.

Oleh Ilnytzkyj
Professor Emeritus
oleh.ilnytzkyj@ualberta.ca

Ukrainian Literature, Language & Culture.

Gary Kelly
Professor Emeritus
gary.kelly@ualberta.ca

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.

Bohdan Medwidsky (†)
Professor Emeritus
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Ukrainian folklore, linguistics, folklore studies
Edward Mozejko
Professor Emeritus
emozejko@ualberta.ca
Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies.

Andriy Nahachewsky
Professor Emeritus
andriyn@ualberta.ca

Folklore; Ukrainian Culture; Dance; Material Culture.

Waclaw Osadnik
Professor Emeritus
waclaw.osadnik@ualberta.ca

Translation Studies; Theory of Literature; Contemporary Polish Literature and Cinema; Polish as a Second Language; Central and East European Cinema

Lynn Penrod
Professor Emerita
lynn.penrod@ualberta.ca

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.

Claudine Potvin
Professor Emerita
claudine.potvin@ualberta.ca
Curriculum Vitae

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.

Manfred Prokop (†)
Professor Emeritus
mprokop@ualberta.ca

Applied German linguistics, second language acquisition, second language teaching.

Robert Thornberry (†)
Professor Emeritus
French Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Alexander A. Tumanov (†)
Professor Emeritus 
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.