Full Directory
Barrett, Andrew
Andrew Barrett is a translator and musician, who lives in Detroit, Michigan. He translates poetry and literature from Ancient Greek, Modern Greek and Latin. Andrew is currently working on translations of the alchemical texts of Zosimus, the fragments of Heraclitus and Nonnus' Dionysiaca. He holds an MA in literary translation studies from the University of Rochester and currently teaches classical mythology at Wayne State University.
Bernardi, Joanne
Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies
Head, Japanese Program
Project Director, Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual and Material Culture
- Office Location
- 409 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
- Web Address
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Interests: Japanese cinema and culture, especially popular culture; film and media studies; visual and material culture; moving image archiving and preservation; travel and tourism studies; nuclear culture; digital humanities; ephemera studies; object-based learning
Cerami, Lisa
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
- Office Location
- 426 Lattimore Hall
Charette, Allison
Allison M. Charette is a French translator and writer. A 2014 graduate of the MALTS program, she founded the Emerging Literary Translators’ Network in America (ELTNA.org), a networking and support group for early-career translators, during her studies. She has published two book-length translations, in addition to short translated fiction that has appeared in InTranslation, the SAND Journal, and others. Currently, she is collaborating with French-speaking authors from Madagascar to introduce the Anglophone world to Malagasy literature in translation.
Cho, Myounghee
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Korean
Language Coordinator, Korean
- Office Location
- 430 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Language pedagogy; language acquisition; Korean linguistics; socio-pragmatics; curriculum design; development of learning and teaching methodologies and materials
Givens, John
Professor of Russian
Head, Russian Program
- Office Location
- 423 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Russian language and literature; Russian film; translation
Grotz, Jennifer
Professor of English
- Office Location
- 406 Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Poetry; creative writing; translation
Gustafson, Susan E.
Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
- Office Location
- 425 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Interests: German literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; feminism and gender studies; psychoanalysis
LeFebvre, Jesse
Assistant Professor of Japanese
- Office Location
- 411 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Premodern Japanese literature and culture; East Asian Buddhism; Shinto; Christianity in Japan; Japanese Illustrated Narrative Scrolls; Translation (theory and practice); Myth and Legend; Ritual and Religious Practice; Secularity and Modernity
Mahany, J.T.
J.T. Mahany translates from French to English. He has a BA in Philosophy from Oglethorpe University, and is currently attending the University of Arkansas for an MFA in Literary Translation. His first translated novel, "Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons: Lesson Eleven," by Antoine Volodine, is being published by Open Letter.
Michael, John
John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, American Studies
- Office Location
- 405 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9259
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
O'Connor, Acacia
Acacia O'Connor was among the first cohort of MALTS students, completing her degree in 2011 with a translation of Tommaso Pincio's "Exhausted Space" (minimumfax). An Italian translator, she works largely on contemporary prose and her special interests include dialect, southern Italy and works by women writers. Acacia earned her BA in English and Italian from Vassar College. In 2009 she was awarded for a Fulbright fellowship in Southern Italy. She currently lives in New York City and works at Columbia University as a writer and researcher. She also runs a lot.
Papaioannou, Julie
Professor of Instruction in French
Language Pedagogy Coordinator, French
Study Abroad Advisor, French
- Office Location
- 427 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: French language and culture; French and Francophone literature and film (twentieth and twenty-first centuries); French literary translation; French criticism, literary and postcolonial theory
Post, Chad
Director, Open Letter Press
- Office Location
- 1-219 Dewey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 319-0823
Prendergast, Ryan
Associate Professor of Spanish
Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures
- Office Location
- 408A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4113
Interests: Representations of identity and difference in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America
Pytalski, Janek
Janek Pytalski is a graduate of the American Studies Center and the Department of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. In May of 2014 he graduated from the University of Rochester with MA in Literary Translation. He translates from Polish into English. Apart from translating fiction, Janek is interested in Machine Ethics, Philosophy of Science and Existential Risks.
Rosensweig, Anna
Associate Professor of French and Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 508 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9249
Interests: Early modern French literature and culture; Theater and performance studies; Political theory
Rozenski, Steven
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 416 Morey
Interests: Middle English devotional literature; translation studies; book history; medieval German and Dutch literature; trans-Reformation England
Schaefer, Claudia
Rush Rhees Professor
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Professor of Film and Media Studies
Program head fall 2024, minors, transfers, and study abroad credit for minors, Take Five
- Office Location
- 418 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; Spanish cinema; critical theory; popular culture; the visual arts; Spanish modernity; the culture of science in Spain; surrealism in Spain; digital humanities
Schottenfeld, Stephen
Professor of English
- Office Location
- 414 Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; fiction writing; playwriting; screenwriting
Scott, Joanna
Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
Professor of English
Director, Literary Arts Programs
- Office Location
- 404C Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing
Stocchi-Perucchio, Donatella
Arnold Lisio ’56, ‘61M (MD) and Anne Moore Lisio, MD Endowed Distinguished Professor in Italian Language and Culture
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Head, Italian Program
Director, Literary Translation Studies (MALTS)
- Office Location
- 405 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Dante; Nineteenth-century poetry and prose; Fascism
Straumanis, Kaija
Kaija Straumanis translates from Latvian and German, and was one of the first cohort of students in the MALTS program. Her thesis project, Latvian author Inga Ābele’s novel High Tide, was subsequently published by Open Letter Books in 2013. Her second translation, Flesh-Coloured Dominoes by Latvian author Zigmunds Skujiņš, was published in 2014 by Arcadia Books. She is currently the Editorial Director at Open Letter, and is sometimes better known for her “Headshots” series of photographs.
Vanderhyden, Will
Will Vanderhyden is a translator of Spanish and Latin American Fiction, he graduated from the MALTS program in 2013, and his translation of Carlos Labbé's Navidad & Matanza came out from Open Letter Books in the Spring of 2014. Will currently lives and works in Oakland, California.
Wang, Stella, PhD
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- G-121G Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 273-2474
Weber, Liz Evans
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Chinese
Research Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 402 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Translation and translation studies; Modern and late Qing Chinese literature; Late Qing nationalism and history ; Issues of migration, race, and labor; Asian American studies