Fabian ALFIE Ph.D. Wisconsin. Associate Professor of Italian. Courses taught include Italian language (all levels), literature, culture and the folklore of Italy. Research focuses on medieval comic literature, including publications on authors such as Dante and Boccaccio.E-mail.

Robert ARIEW Ph. D. Illinois. Professor of French and member of the faculty of the doctoral program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Pedagogical Theory and Program Administration; Computer-Assisted language learning; Materials Development.Email

Dalila AYOUN Ph.D. Florida, 1992. Associate Professor of French Linguistics. Member of the faculty for the PhD program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Research interests: Second language acquisition; web-based elicitation tasks; French linguistics. Teaching: French language, linguistic courses; theoretical and applied linguistics. Publications: see website. Awards: Humanities Research Initiative, UA. E-mail

Carine BOURGET Ph.D. Michigan State University . Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies.  Research on Francophone literature and cinema from the Arab world, with focus on Islam in literature, Islam in France, politics and literature, history and literature, religion and conflicts. Publications: Coran et Tradition dans la littérature maghrébine (Karthala, 2002), articles in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, L’Esprit Créateur, The French Review, Etudes Francophones, and forthcoming in Research in African Literatures, Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature.E-mail.

Jonathan BECK Ph.D. Harvard. French Middle Ages and 16th century.Professor of French (Arizona) and Research Associate, Centre d'Etudes supérieures de la Renaissance (Tours). Areas of research & publication: popular culture, politics, and religious history in medieval and Renaissance France; general literature and literary theory; medieval and Renaissance French literature; French linguistics and philology (for details, click name).E-mail.

Beppe CAVATORTA Ph.D. UCLA, 2005. Assistant Professor of Italian. His research interests are experimental writings, Italian Futurism and neo-avant-garde, the Second World War in literature and film, theory and practice of translation and language pedagogy.  His essays have appeared in journals like Studi Novecenteschi, Anterem, Rivista di studi italiani, Nuova prosa, Il Verri, Carte Italiane, NAE, Italica, Italian Culture, and Lectura Dantis Virginiana. Book & anthology editions: A. SPATOLA, The Position of Things (Green Integer, 2008), The Promised Land (Sun & Moon Press, 2000). He is also the co-author of Ponti.Italian terzo millennio, a textbook for second year Italian language, mirror of his methodological interests in language pedagogy. E-mail.

Irène d'ALMEIDA Ph.D. Emory. Department Head.Professor of French and Francophone African Literature. Areas of research and publication: African literature in French, Comparative Literature, Feminist/Womanist/”Misovire” theory, African women’s fiction (Mariama Bâ, Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking, Aminata Sow Fall), African women’s poetry (Dominique Aguessy, Tanella Boni, Veronique Tadjo). Other areas of interest: creative writing, translation, problematics of “francophonie” and globalization as it affects African feminist discourses. . E-mail.

Beatrice DUPUY Ph. D University of Southern California. Director of Basic Language for French and Italian. Language, Learning and Literacy.Associate Professor of French Language and pedagogy.Email

Aileen Astorga Feng, Ph.D.University of California, Berkeley (2008).  Assistant Professor of Practice, Italian.  Late-Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Italian literature; Medieval and Renaissance French literature; comparative literature (Latin, French, Italian).  Her research and teaching interests include literature and politics, Italian lyric, especially Petrarch, neo-Latin humanism, Petrarchism in Italy and France, Querelle des Femmes, women writers, Questione della lingua, and Renaissance exemplarity.   Email

Lise LEIBACHER Ph.D. Stanford.Professor of French. Publications (17th-18th c.): utopias/utopianism; libertinism/Libertinage; gender studies; medical, confessional and literary discourses on sexuality. Grants: ACLS (1990); NEH (1991,1999). Editorial Boards: Utopian Studies, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, French Forum. (for details, click name). E-mail.

Reginald MCGINNIS Ph.D. Stanford. Assoiciate Professor of 18th and 19th century French Lliterature, philosophy and religion. Graduate courses on The Anthropology of the Enlightenment, Philosophy and Harmony,Fiction and Criticism. Publications include a critical essay on Baudelaire, La Prostitution sacrée (Paris: Bein, 1994, collection l'Extrême contemporian), as well as articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, i'Atelier du roman, PO&SIE, Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Romantic Review. E-mail.

Phyllis TAOUA Ph.D. Harvard University in 1996. Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century French literature; literature and film in French from Africa and the Caribbean. Publications in the areas of French literature, comparative literature, African and Caribbean literature in French, anthropology and politics. Other areas of interest include intellectual history, avant-garde movements, cross-cultural innovation, critical theory. Email. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~taoua/

William Van WATSON. Ph.D University of Texas at Austin, 1987. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Italian. Publications: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Theatre of the Word (UMI, 1989), chapters in books on Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini and Franco Zeffirelli, articles in journals such as Il Veltro, Annali d'italianistica, Semicerchio, Theatre Journal, Romance Languages Annual, and Theatre InSight. Research interests include Italian cinema, Italian theatre, Brazilian cinema, and MTV.E-mail.

Linda R. WAUGH Ph.D. Indiana. Professor of French, English and Linguistics; SLAT faculty. Research: French linguistics, discourse and textual analysis, pragmatics, grammatical and lexical semantics, language and literature, history of linguistics, and semiotics. Current research: use of grammar and lexicon in spoken language and written texts. Teaching: French linguistics, semiotics, language and literature, and discourse-pragmatics. Publications: The Sound Shape of Language (with Roman Jakobson), Discourse-Pragmatics and the Verb: the Evidence from Romance (with Suzanne Fleischman). Articles on French semantics and discourse-pragmatics; markedness, iconicity, the linguistic sign, and reported speech.E-mail.

Elizabeth Chesney ZEGURA Ph.D. Duke University, 1976. Associate Professor of French and Italian. Teaching: XVI c. French literature, medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, French and Italian theater, novel, existentialism and the absurd; language courses. Publications: articles on Rabelais, Ariosto, and Garnier and The Countervoyage of Rabelais and Ariosto: a comparative reading of two Renaissance mock epics(Duke University Press, 1982), and Rabelais revisited(Twayne/ Macmillan, 1993; with Marcel Tetel). In progress: a reference work on Rabelais and an article on politics, class, and gender in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. E-mail.