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	Maxime Bey-Rozet bey.rozet@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Assistant Professor of European Languages and Studies; French Interests: Extreme cinemas, 20th century French literature and culture, French cinema and television, trauma studies, industry studies, memory studies
	Anke Biendarra abiendar@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Associate Professor and Chair of European Languages and Studies; German; Director of European Studies Interests: German and European literature and culture of the 20th/21st century, esp. pop literature, GDR/reunification. Critical European Culture Studies, migration studies, transnationalism, memory studies, gender studies.
	Philip Broadbent pmb@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Assistant Professor of Teaching of European Languages and Studies; German; Director of the German Language Program Interests: Contemporary literature and history; politics and the urban space; German language learning
	Kai Evers kevers@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Associate Professor of European Languages and Studies; German Interests: Modernist literature, German film, European studies, Catastrophic Imagination and Representations of War, Violence, and Risk
	Christophe Litwin christophe.litwin@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Associate Professor of European Languages and Studies and Philosophy; French; German Joint Faculty Interests: Early Modern European/French moral and political philosophy. La Boétie, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Malebranche, Hume, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Hegel...
	Catherine Malabou cmalabou@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Professor of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies; French; German Joint Faculty Interests: German Idealism, Contemporary French Philosophy, Critical Theory, Neurobiology, Epigenetics
	David Pan dtpan@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Professor of European Languages and Studies; German, Director of German; Director of Graduate Studies Interests: Eighteenth-, Nineteenth-, and Twentieth-century German Literature and Intellectual history, Johann Georg Hamann, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bertolt Brecht, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Carl Schmitt
	Deanna Shemek dshemek@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Professor, European Languages and Studies; Italian; Director of Italian Interests: Italian literature, Italian and European history, women and gender studies, Renaissance and early modern studies, digital humanities, history of communications media
	Georges Van Den Abbeele gvandena@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and European Languages and Studies; French; Director of French Interests: French and European philosophical literature, travel narrative and tourism/migration studies; critical theory and aesthetics

	Fabrizio Di Maio fdimaio@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Lecturer in Italian and Director of the Italian Language Program Interests: Impegno in Italian Culture; Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature and Film; Language Pedagogy
	Laura Klein lkleinto@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Lecturer, French Interests: Camus, Djebar, Ben Jelloun, Francophone Literature, The Maghreb, Mediterranean Studies, Animality Studies, Translation Theory and Practice
	Maryse Mijalski mjmijals@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Lecturer in French and Director of the French Language Program Interests: Second Language Teaching & Learning, Telecollaboration, Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence
	Lora Mjolsness lora@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Lecturer of Russian and Director of Russian Interests: 19th century, 20th century and Contemporary Children's Literature; Soviet and Russian Animation; Russian Folklore
	Ghada Mourad graphael@uci.edu Lecturer in French Interests: French and Francophone studies, postcolonial Francophone North African literature, Senegalese cinema, Arabic literature, modernity, decoloniality, political dissent through non-normative gender expressions, translation practice and studies.
	Petra Petry ppetry@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Lecturer in Italian Interests: Italian music, culture, literature, Italian fashion and European history, women and gender studies, Digital and Video communications media for the purpose of teaching world languages
	Mohammad Rafi mrafi@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Lecturer in German Interests: Nationalism, Philosophy; German language learning
	Benedetta Rossi beneder@uci.edu Lecturer in Italian
	Ann Billiaert Rosen arosen@uci.edu Lecturer in French Interests: 20th-century French literature, decolonization; 20th-century Latin American literature (PhD), the Latin American detective novel, re-presentation of the Body in 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature; language and culture of francophone countries
	Zlatina Sandalska zlatina@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Lecturer in Russian Interests: Medieval humor; parodic societies; Dovlatov; dissident literature; contemporary literature
	Anaïs Tisserand atissera@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Nanterre Exchange Lecturer in French Interests: Immigration, diaspora studies, Chicana feminism, second language teaching
	Giulia Vittori vittorig@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Lecturer in Italian Interests: Italian teatro di ricerca; theatre by Carmelo Bene; image embodiment across dance, theatre, visual arts; performance as research


	Elizabeth Allen eallen@uci.edu Associate Professor of English; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty
	David Brodbeck david.brodbeck@uci.edu Professor of Music; M.A. in European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty
	Daniel R. Brunstetter dbrunste@uci.edu Associate Professor of Political Science; M.A. in European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty
	Nahum Dimitri Chandler chandlen@uci.edu Professor of African American Studies; M.A. in European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty
	Vinayak Chaturvedi vinayak@uci.edu Associate Professor of History; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty
	Ian Coller icoller@uci.edu Associate Professor of History; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty
	Herschel Farbman hfarbman@uci.edu Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature; M.A. in European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty
	Zina Giannopoulou zgiannop@uci.edu Associate Professor of Classics; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books
Sara Wallace Goodman	Associate Professor of Political Science; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty	s.goodman@uci.edu
Nicole Grimes	Associate Professor of Music; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Faculty Website	ngrimes@uci.edu
Rebeca Helfer	Associate Professor of English; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	rhelfer@uci.edu
Andromache Karanika	Associate Professor of Classics; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	karanika@uci.edu
Peter Krapp	Professor & Chair of Film & Media Studies, German Joint Faculty; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	krapp@uci.edu
Horacio Legras	Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty	hlegras@uci.edu
Jayne Lewis	Professor of English; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	jelewis@uci.edu
Nancy McLoughlin	Associate Professor of History; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	nmclough@uci.edu
Santiago Morales-Rivera	Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty	s.morales@uci.edu
Susan Morrissey	Professor of History; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	susan.morrissey@uci.edu
Jane O. Newman	Professor of Comparative Literature; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	jonewman@uci.edu
Kevin Olson	Professor of Political Science; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty	kevin.olson@uci.edu
Nasrin Rahimieh	Professor of Comparative Literature; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	nrahimie@uci.edu
Renee Raphael	Associate Professor of History; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	renee.raphael@uci.edu
Gabriele Schwab	Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature; German Joint Faculty; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	gmschwab@uci.edu
James Steintrager	Professor of English; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	jsteintr@uci.edu
Andrew Zissos	Professor of Classics; M.A in. European Thought and Culture Interdisciplinary Joint Faculty Published Books	pzissos@uci.edu

James T. Chiampi
jtchiamp@uci.edu
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Professor Emeritus of European Languages and Studies; Italian
Interests: Italian Renaissance literature, Dante

Gail K. Hart
gkhart@uci.edu
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Professor Emerita of European Languages and Studies; German
Interests: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, drama, fictional prose, history of punishment

Glenn Levine-West
glevine@uci.edu
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Professor Emeritus of European Languages and Studies; German
Interests: Applied linguistics, theoretical linguistics, foreign language pedagogy, German-Jewish literature, Yiddish language and literature

Carrie J. Noland
cjnoland@uci.edu
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Professor Emerita of European Languages and Studies; French; Comparative Literature
Interests: Twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, avant-garde, poetry & poetics, critical theory, dance and performance studies, phenomenology

John H. Smith
jhsmith@uci.edu
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Professor Emeritus of European Languages and Studies; German
Interests: Eighteenth- to twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and intellectual history; literary theory

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