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French and Italian

Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
Advising Offices: Phelps Hall 4206
Administrative Offices: Phelps Hall 5206
Telephone: (805) 893-3111

Undergraduate Advisor: Megan Ashley
Undergraduate e-mail: mmashley@ucsb.edu

Graduate Program Coordinator: Jeremy Moore
Telephone: (805) 893-2131
Graduate e-mail: jmoore@ucsb.edu 

Website: www.frit.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Jean Marie Schultz
E-mail: jmschultz@frit.ucsb.edu


 
Faculty
Carla Borromeo, Laurea, University of Florence, Continuing Lecturer (Italian studies)
Maria Elena Crickette, Laurea, University of Bologna, Continuing Lecturer (Italian studies)
Laura Dahl Sarnelli, Continuing Lecturer
Tiziana de Simone, MS, University of Naples, Continuing Lecturer (Italian studies)
Jody Enders, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Professor (Medieval theater, comedy, translation, history of rhetoric, performance theory, interrelations of law and literature, Director of the Public Speaking Initiative)
Camilla Fiorina, MA, Catholic University of Milan, Continuing Lecturer (Italian literature)
Claudio Fogu, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (modern and contemporary Italian history, Modern Italian literature and cultural studies, Mediterranean studies, history and theory, digital humanities)
Stephanie Hom, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (modern Italy and the Mediterranean; Italian cultural studies; migration and detention; mobility studies; Italian colonialism and imperialism; postcolonial studies; tourism studies; 20th- and 21st-century Italian and italophone literature)
Dominique Jullien, PhD, Université de Paris III Sorbonne, Professor (19th- and 20th-century French and Comparative literature; East-West relations; cognitive approaches to literature; translation studies; Proust; Borges)
Marion Labatut, Masters, Universite de Paris 8, Continuing Lecturer (French as a Foreign Language; English as a Second Language; British Literature; British poetry; poetry of John Keats; English/French translation)
Renan Larue, PhD, Université de Picardie, Professor (18th-century French literature, animal studies, history of ideas, history of vegetarianism/veganism)
Didier Maleuvre, PhD, Yale University, Professor (history of ideas, literature, philosophy, religion and history of art)
Catherine Nesci, PhD, Université de Paris VII, Professor (modern and contemporary French and comparative literature; feminist and gender studies; Weimar studies; urban humanities; Shoah, trauma, and memory studies; medical humanities; disability studies)
Valentina Padula, PhD, University of Maryland, Continuing Lecturer (Italian studies, comparative and international politics)
Eric Prieto, PhD, New York University, Professor (music and literature, 20th-century French and Francophone literature, postcolonial studies, spatial studies, urban studies, Beckett)
Cynthia Skenazi, PhD, University of Michigan, Professor (Renaissance literature and culture, Belgian literature in French, literature and architecture, aging studies)
Giancarlo Tursi, Assistant Professor

 
Emeriti Faculty
William Ashby, PhD, University of Michigan (linguistics)
Cynthia Brown, PhD, UC Berkeley (Late medieval/early Renaissance French literature and culture)
Jean-Jacques Courtine, Doctorat d?État de Linguistique, Université de Paris X (linguistics and cultural studies)
Naomi Greene, PhD, New York University (20th-century literature, film, Artaud)
Harry Lawton, MA, B Litt, Oxford University
Sydney Levy, PhD, UC Irvine (contemporary French poetry, literary theory, fantastic literature, science and literature)
Jack Murray, PhD, Yale University
Jean Schultz, PhD, UC Berkeley
Jaqueline Simons, Diplôme d?Études Supérieures
Jon Snyder, PhD, Yale University (early modern Italian literature and culture; translation studies)
Ronald Tobin, PhD, Princeton University (17th-century French literature, French classical theatre,food in literature)

 
Affiliated Faculty
Peter Bloom, PhD (Film and Media Studies)
Brad Bouley, PhD (History)
Susan Derwin, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies)
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, PhD (Sociology)
David Marshall, PhD (English)
Fabio Rambelli, PhD (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, Religious Studies)
Elisabeth Weber, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies)