Professors

 

Laura Beard
Professor
lbeard@ualberta.ca
Brazilian Studies; Comparative Literature; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Literary and Critical Theory; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Spanish & Latin American Studies; Aboriginal or Indigenous Literature; (Auto) Biographical and Life Writing
Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn
Professor & Kule Chair
cheladyn@ualberta.ca
Ukrainian Folklore and Cultural Studies; Forms of Folklore; Visualizing Cultural Identity; Folklore in Contemporary Media - Comics, Memes, and Tattoos; Research-Creation in Academia
Odile Cisneros
Professor
cisneros@ualberta.ca
Spanish American Literature; Brazilian Literature; Latin American Cultural Studies; Translation
Russell Cobb
Director of Graduate Programs & Professor
rcobb@ualberta.ca
Cultural Studies; Comparative Literature; Spanish & Latin American Studies
Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
Professor
jenniedo@ualberta.ca
Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
Ann De León
Associate Professor
adeleon1@ualberta.ca
Mexico; Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies; Colonial Latin America; Indigenous America; Translation Theory and Praxis; Gender Studies
Daniel Fried
Associate Professor
dfried@ualberta.ca
Medieval Chinese literature and literary theory; comparative approaches to Chinese and European philosophy; early Chinese intellectual history; classical traditions and the construction of world literatures.
Xavier Gutierrez
Associate Professor
xavier.gutierrez@ualberta.ca
Applied Linguistics
Aude Jehan
Assistant Professor
ajehan@ualberta.ca
(Non-European) Francophone Literary Studies
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Professor
Hucular Chair
CIUS Director
nkhanenk@ualberta.ca
Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Canadian Studies; cultural anthropology; oral history
Claudia Kost
Professor
ckost@ualberta.ca
German Language; German Applied Linguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Foreign Language Pedagogy and Methodology
Daniel Laforest
Professor
daniel.laforest@ualberta.ca
Health and Medical Humanities; Quebec and Canadian Literatures; French and Francophone Studies; Comparative Literature; Literature and Philosophy; Literary and Critical Theory; Media, Film and Image Studies; Cultural Studies.
Yvonne Lam
Associate Professor
yvonne.lam@ualberta.ca
Spanish Language and Grammar; Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy; Sociolinguistics; Introductory Linguistics
Iman Mersal
Professor
iman.mersal@ualberta.ca
Arabic Language; Modern Arabic Literature; Arabic Travel Literature; Arab Cinema; Postcolonial Literature; Diasporic Literature.
Stefano Muneroni
Associate Professor
muneroni@ualberta.ca
Italian, Translation Studies, Theater History and Performance Studies

Alla Nedashkivska
Professor
alla.nedashkivska@ualberta.ca

Applied Linguistics; Slavic Linguistics; Ukrainian Language and Culture
Simone Pfleger
Associate Professor
pfleger@ualberta.ca
German language and culture; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; German Studies; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Queer Studies; Cultural Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Literary and Critical Theory
Jelena Pogosjan
Professor
jelena.pogosjan@ualberta.ca
Cultural Studies; 18th Century Studies; 17th Century Studies; Slavic Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Literary and Critical Theory; 19th Century Studies
Sathya Rao
Professor
sathya.rao@ualberta.ca
French Translation; Francophone Literature; Minority Media; Contemporary Philosophy; Technology & Second Language Acquisition
Chris Reyns
Professor
reynschi@ualberta.ca
Cultural Studies; Comics Studies; French & Francophone Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Transcultural Studies; Children's Literature; European Studies
Victoria Ruétalo
Chair & Professor
victoria.ruetalo@ualberta.ca
Cultural Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Literary and Critical Theory; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Spanish & Latin American Studies; Transcultural Studies
Elena Siemens
Associate Professor
elena.siemens@ualberta.ca
Visual Culture; Cultural Studies; Post-Soviet Culture (Film, Theatre, Media); Urban Studies; Critical Theory
Carrie Smith
Professor
carrie.smith@ualberta.ca
German Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Cultural Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Literary and Critical Theory
Irene Sywenky
Associate Professor
irene.sywenky@ualberta.ca
History of Literary Theory; Critical Theory; Comparative and World Literature; Genre Studies; European Tradition; Autobiography; Science Fiction, Fairy Tales and Folk Tales; Translation; Central and East European Literature and Cultures
Julie Tarif
Full Teaching Professor
jtarif@ualberta.ca
Translation Studies
Micah True
Professor
micah.true@ualberta.ca
French and Francophone Literature, Culture, and Folklore, with particular emphasis on the early modern period (16th -18th centuries) and contact between Cultures
Natalie Van Deusen
Director of Undergraduate Programs & Professor
Henry Cabot and Linnea Lodge Scandinavian Professor
vandeuse@ualberta.ca
Scandinavian Studies; Medieval Literatures; Pre-Modern and Early Modern Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies