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David Birdsong, Chair 201 W 21St Street, B7600, HRH 2.114A, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-5531

Faculty List

Professors

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Daniela Bini

Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature

bini@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5995  |  HRH 3.112C

Education   

Ph.D, University of Texas, Austin
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Douglas G. Biow

Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Cenntenial Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies

biow@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-7267  |  HRH 2.110B

Education   

Ph.D., 1990, Johns Hopkins University
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David P Birdsong

Professor

birdsong@austin.utexas.edu  |  471-7299  |  HRH 2.122

Education   

Ph.D, Harvard University
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Barbara E. Bullock

Professor

bbullock@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-9095  |  HRH 3.108B

Education   

Ph.D., Delaware (Linguistics)

Interests

  Bilingualism and language contact, language variation and change, lab phonology & sociophonetics

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Jean-Pierre B Cauvin

Professor

jpcauvin@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6874  |  HRH 3.108C

Education   

Ph. D., Princeton University

Interests

  Poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries; Surrealism; The Arts in France; 19th-20th C. French history

Jean-Pierre Montreuil

Professor

jpmontreuil@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6555  |  HRH 3.108A

Associate Professors

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Marc Bizer

Associate Professor

mbizer@austin.utexas.edu  |  471-7780  |  HRH 3.112B

Education   

PhD, Princeton University

Interests

  Reception of Classical Texts, Early Modern National Identity, Gender

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Carl S Blyth

Associate Professor

cblyth@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-7600  |  Homer Rainey Hall 3.114A

Education   

PhD, French Linguistics, Cornell University

Interests

  Applied linguistics (instrutional technology, corpus linguistics, pedagogical grammar); French sociolinguistics (style, stance and interaction); Discourse studies (narrative analysis, cultural scripts, indexicality)

Francois P Lagarde

Assoc Professor

lagarde@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5531  |  HRH 3.104B

Education   

PhD, Stanford

Guy P Raffa

Associate Professor

guyr@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  512-232-5492  |  HRH 3.104A

Education   

Ph.D., Indiana University

Interests

  Dante Studies, medieval Italian literature and culture, digital humanities, history and philosophy of science, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco

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Cinzia Russi

Associate Professor

russi@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-7024  |  HRH 3.110B

Education   

PhD Linguistics 2003, University of Washington

Interests

  Historical linguistics, Grammaticalization, Aspectualizers, Morphosyntax, Morphology, Italian Dialects, Comparative Romance Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar, Pragmatics, Lexical Semantics

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Hélène Tissières

Associate Professor

htissieres@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5531  |  HRH 3.114C

Education   

Ph.D., New York University

Interests

  African and Caribbean Francophone literatures, African and French film, African contemporary art, African music, Biennale of Dakar.

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Alexandra K Wettlaufer

Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Associate Director of Plan II

akw@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-1442  |  WCH 4.104, HRH 3.112AA

Education   

Ph.D., Columbia University

Interests

  19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain

Assistant Professors

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Paola Bonifazio

Assistant Professor

pbonifazio@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-1561  |  HRH 3.104C

Education   

Ph.D., New York University

Interests

  Italian Cinema; Italian Literature-Modern; Italian Cultural Studies; Film theory and history, including documentary; Futurism; P.P.Pasolini

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Bryan Donaldson

Assistant Professor

bdonaldson@austin.utexas.edu  |  471-9390  |  HRH 3.114C

Education   

Ph.D., Indiana University

Interests

  Historical linguistics (French and Occitan), corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, discourse analysis

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Michael Johnson

Assistant Professor

mjohnson@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-7470  |  HRH 3.110A

Education   

PhD, Emory University

Interests

  Classical and medieval rhetoric, Medieval European literature and culture, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, European comics

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Karen A Pagani

Asst Professor

kpagani@austin.utexas.edu  |  471-5737  |  HRH 3.112B

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century moral theory (British, French, German); Seventeenth and eighteenth-century French novel; Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie; Historical semantics; Secularization.

Senior Lecturers

Antonella D Del Fattore-Olson

Distinguished Sr Lect

ad.olson@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5531  |  HRH 2.106B

Education   

Laurea (Master Degree in Comparative Literature), L'Università degli Studi La Sapienza. Rome, Italy

Interests

  Italian Language and Culture, Teaching Methodology, Play Production, Contemporary Italian Theatre, Modern Italian Literature, Italian dialects

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Karen W Kelton

Sr Lecturer

kkelton@mail.utexas.edu  |  512 471-5511  |  HRH 2.106A

Education   

M.L.S., University of Texas at Austin

Thomas R Vessely

Sr Lecturer

trv@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-6800  |  HRH 2.118B

Lecturers

Carlos A Capra

Lecturer

ccapra@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-8458  |  HRH 4.128

Education   

DMA, University of Texas at Austin

Eric N Edwards

Lecturer

e.n.edwards@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5706  |  HRH 2.106B

Education   

Master of Arts, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas

Irene Eibenstein-Alvisi

Lecturer

iea@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-8540  |  HRH 4.134

Education   

Ph.D., Cornell University

Peter Fazziola

Lecturer

pfazz@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-8250  |  HRH 4.126

Education   

PH.D, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
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Adria Frizzi

Lecturer

adriafrizzi@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-8900  |  HRH 4.110

Education   

PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Mark E Garrison

Lecturer

marco.g@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5531  |  MUS 4.114

Education   

MFA in Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin

Nancy C Guilloteau

Language Program Director

nguilloteau@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5511  |  HRH 2.106A

Education   

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Anne-Victoire Kountz

Faculty

avbonnamour@hotmail.com  |  3473014407  |  HRH 4.108

Education   

MA, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France)

Christelle Palpacuer-Lee

Faculty

christelle_palpacuerlee@mail.utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.113

Education   

M.A. SLA (Lyon II), ABD Language Education (Rutgers)

Beatriz E Schleppe

Lecturer

bea@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-9242  |  HRH 4.132

Education   

PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Melissa E Skidmore

Lecturer

elliottskidmore@mail.utexas.edu  |  HRH 4.164

Education   

PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Other faculty

Brigitte L Bauer

Prof. B.L.M. Bauer, Ph.D., M.A., M.A.

blm.bauer@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-5531  |  PCL 5th floor

Education   

Ph.D, The University of Nijmegen, Netherlands

Professors Emeriti

Mary J Baker

Professor

mfjordan@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

PhD, Harvard University

Richard B Grant

Professor Emeritus

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Knud P Lambrecht

Professor

lambrec@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

PhD, University of California at Berkeley
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Jane N Lippmann

Professor Emeritus

j.lippmann@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5531

Education   

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Interests

  Pedagogy; Teaching with Technology; Developing Online Course Materials, Foreign Language Disabilities

Antonella C Pease

Assoc Prof Emeritus

Dina M Sherzer

Professor Emeritus

dsherzer@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania
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Seth Wolitz

Gale Chair

slwolitz@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., Yale University

Interests

  Slavic, Jewish Literature and Art

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