Faculty: West European Studies (WEST): Indiana University Bloomington

Research Interests: European security, role of NATO and European Union in dealing with broader international security concerns.
Courses taught: International Security Issues in the 21st Century

PENELOPE ANDERSON, Assistant Professor, English

Research Interests: Early modern British literature, Renaissance humanism, Queer, feminist, and gender studies, Early modern political theory.
Courses taught: L631 Gender and Writing in Early Modern England, L317: English Poetry of the Early Seventeenth Century, L320: Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature: Early Modern Women’s Writing, E302: Literature in English, 1600-1800
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GUILLAUME ANSART, Associate Professor, French and Italian

Research Interests: aesthetics of the novel and political theory, mainly in eighteenth-century France.
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JOHN APPLEGATE, Walter W. Foskett Professor, Law

Research Interests: International Environmental Law, European Union Law.
Courses taught: International Environmental Law
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MARCO ARNAUDO, Assistant Professor, French and Italian

Research Interests: 17th- and 18th-century Italian literature and culture; European popular literature (mystery, noir, spy story) and graphic novels; theater; books of emblems; intersections between literature and the visual arts.
Courses taught: M307 & M308: Masterpieces of Italian literature I & II, M604: Literature and culture of the Italian Baroque, H203: Journeys and migrations, from Italy to the rest of the world, M235: Rome, the city and the myth
M604: 17th- and 18th-century Italian theater, M450: Italian literature and culture from Baroque to Enlightenment
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JULIE AUGER, Associate Professor, French and Italian

Research Interests: linguistic structure of Picard, sociolinguistics, variation, morphosyntax, Québec Colloquial French.
Courses taught: F672 Dialectologie et sociolinguistique, F670 Advanced phonology, F579 Morphology, L720 Language & Gender
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JOELLE BAHLOUL, Professor, Anthropology

Research Interests: ethnography of Jews in post-colonial, post-Holocaust France, collective memory.
Courses taught: E387/687 The Ethnography of Europe, E371 Modern Jewish Society and Culture, E382 Memory and Culture, E400/600 Migrations and Diasporas
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DOMENICO BERTOLONI MELI, Professor, History and Philosophy of Science

Research Interests: history of the physical and mathematical disciplines from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, anatomy and medicine in the 17th century.
Courses taught: X506 Survey of the history of science; X323 History of Medicine before 1800; H205, Anatomy and Botany in the Renaissance; X705, Descartes.
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MARYELLEN BIEDER, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Interests: fin-de-siècle Spanish culture, especially the cultural production by and about women writers; 20th-century Spanish and Catalan literature: women in the literary marketplace, historical memory narratives of the Spanish Civil War, and representing the Catalan nation and nationality in fiction.
Courses taught: S708: Seminar: The Emergence of Modernity in Spanish Narratives in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century, S538: Spanish Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries, S419: Modern Spanish Prose Fiction (20th Century), S332: Hispanic World II (Introduction to the Literature of Spain)
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JACK BIELASIAK, Professor, Political Science

Research Interests: Comparative study of electoral systems and party sytems in emerging democracies, including the formation of electoral rules and political parties in Western Europe.
Courses taught: Y490 Dictatorship to Democracy, Y490 Political Tyranny, Y657 Comparative Democratization More information on Professor Bielasiak

CLAUDIA BREGER, Associate Professor, Germanic Studies

Research Interests: 20th- and 21st century literature, film and theater, with a particular emphasis on the interrelations ethncity/race, gender, sexuality, and, as well as literary, media, and cultural theory.
Courses taught: Dissent and Distinction: Avant-garde-‘ish’ German Film Since the 1960’s, Configuring Cultural Identity: Intersections of Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Modern German Imagination, Staging Culture: 20th-Century German Theater Histories, (Post-)Modern Stories and Beyond. Narrative in Contemporary Literature, Film and Theory, German Film Culture (English-language): Representations of Violence, German Film and Popular Culture, Landeskunde/Introduction to Contemporary Germany
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MARIA BUCUR-DECKARD, Associate Professor, History

Research Interests: European history in the modern period, especially social and cultural developments, with a focus on gender and memory.
Courses taught: B300 The Idea of Europe, H645/H620 Memory and History in Modern Europe, J301 Memory and War in the Twentieth Century
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HANNAH BUXBAUM, Professor, Law

Research Interests: Comparative Law, Contracts, International usiness Transactions, International Litigation, Secured Transaction.
Courses taught: B735: International Business Transactions, B748:Comparative Law
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LINDA CHARNES, Professor, English

Research Interests: Shakespeare Studies and early modern culture through the Restoration and long seventeenth century.
Courses taught: Milton and the Libertines, Shakespeare and the Fetish of Character, Operation Enduring Shakespeare, Politically Incorrect Shakespeare, Milton and the Sublime Object, Liberty and Political Psychology 1594-1789, Monarchy and Democracy: Theories of Cultural Inheritance 1558-1800, Shakespeare and Postmodernism, Shakespeare Wars: Critical Approaches to Shakespeare, Reading the Irrational: Logics of Cultural Unreason
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J. CLANCY CLEMENTS, Associate Professor, Linguistics and Spanish and Portuguese

Research interests: Contact linguistics, specializing in the emergence, maintenance, and dissolution of language varieties that have emerged as a result of contact between colonial languages [Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, etc.] and indigenous languages of Africa and Asia; Folk music, specializing in the performance of bagpipe music from Spain, France, Ireland, Scotland, and the UK.
Courses taught: S326: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics, L103: Introduction to the Study of Language, L315: Sociolinguistics, L636: Pidgins and Creoles, L530: Historical linguistics
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GENE COYLE, Visiting Professor, WEST

Research Interests: Changing role of European intelligence services since the end of the Cold War, especially after September 11, 2001, and the changed relationship to American Intelligence
Courses taught: W605: Major Events in International Espionage, W805: Intelligence and National Security Issues

AURELIAN CRAIUTU, Associate Professor, Politcal Science

Research Interests: European political thought, democratic theory and consolidation, transitions to democracy; civic culture, political learning, conceptions of patriotism and nationalism.
Courses taught: Y105: Introduction to Political Theory, Y281: Modern Political Ideologies, Y381: History of Pol. Theory (I): Classical Political Philosophy, Y382: History of Pol. Theory (II): Modern Political Philosophy , Y396: Happiness, Politics, and Society, L416/Y396: Happiness and Market Society (LAMP), Y490/WEST 406: American through Foreign Eyes, Y675: Theories of Moderation and Radicalism, Y675: Classics of Social and Political Thought, Y675: Approaches and Issues in Political Theory, Y675/REEI: Before and After the Revolution, Y675/H 620: The French Revolution and Its Interpreters, Y675/REEI: After the Revolution
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ALLEN DOUGLAS, Professor, WEST

Research Interests: Twentieth-century Europe and Western Civilization; European Fascism; Europe and the Middle East; Culture of War; War and comic strips

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SUSANNE EVEN, Assistant Professor, Germanic Studies

Research interests: econd / foreign language pedagogy, teacher training, innovative teaching approaches, drama in education for FL teaching and learning, intercultural and multilingual competence, bilingual novels, and curriculum development for higher education.
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MICHELLE FACOS, Associate Professor, Fine Arts

Research Interests: identity – national, ethnic, cultural; intersections between science and art; nature and landscape as the antipode of cities; 19th century European art and culture, especially Scandinavian, French, and German.
Courses taught: A340: 19th Century European Art, A340/540: Women Artists, A440: European Painting - Rococo to Romanticism, A440: European Painting – Realism to Symbolism, A645: Realism, A645: Critical Theory and Art from Marx to Merleau-Ponty
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ROY GARDNER, Chancellor’s Professor, Economics

Research Interests: Democratization Processes in Eastern European, EU Enlargement, Ukraine on the Road to Europe.
Courses taught: E390/W501: Economics of Europe
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SHANNON GAYK, Assistant Professor, English

Research Interests: 15th century English literature; Medieval art and iconography; the relationships among religion, visual and material culture, and medieval literature.
Courses taught: L613: “Devotional Images and Vernacular Texts in Late Medieval England”, L383: “Holy Grails: Literature and the Religious Object in Early England”, L305: Chaucer, E301: Literatures in English to 1600; special topic: “Literary Visions: Sacred and Profane”, L213: Literary Masterpieces
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KIMBERLY GEESLIN, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Interests: Second language acquisition, the acquisition of variation in Spanish, the acquisition of Spanish by speakers of other Iberian languages.
Courses taught: S515: Introduction to the Acquisition of Spanish, S614: Topics in the Acquisition of Spanish More information on Professor Geeslin

GERHARD GLOMM, Professor, Economics

Research Interests: macroeconomics, economic growth, income distribution and political economy, especially as they relate to Western Europe.
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MARGARET GRAY, Associate Professor, French and Italian

Research Interests: Twentieth-century French canonical and feminist prose fiction; cultural, political, gendered and theoretical contexts; narrative dynamics, reading practices; francophone prose fiction.
Courses taught: Politics of Women Writers, The Quest: from Anguish to Delirium, The Contemporary Novel, Introduction to French Literature
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D. RAE GREINER, Assistant Professor, English

Research Interests: Victorian fiction, novel history, narrative (especially realism and sentimentalism), the moral sentiments, ethics, queer theory, performance, the romantic novel.
Courses taught: E303 Literatures in English 1800-1900: "States of Injury, Scenes of Distress", L348 Nineteenth-Century British Fiction: "The Historical Novel, or the Novel in History", L335 Victorian Literature (Poetry and Prose): "Arrested Development: The Victorian Miniature", L745 / V711: Seminar in English Fiction 1800-1900: "Realism and Ethics"
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KIRSTEN GRØNBJERG, Professor, SPEA

Research Interests: Nonprofit and public sector relationships, Danish civil society organizations.
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DAVID HAKKEN, Professor, Informatics

Research Interests: worker education, technology in organizations, and participatory design especially in Britain and Scandinavia, information technology and globalization.
Courses taught: I 590 Globalizing Informatics, I 651 The Ethnography of Information
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ESTHER HAM, Lecturer, WEST

Research Interests: Dutch language and culture, didactics of Dutch as a foreign language; Afrikaans.
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JEFFREY HART, Rudy Professor, Political Science

Research Interests: international politics, international political economy.
Courses taught: Y200 The Politics of Multinational Corporations, Y376 International Political Economy, Y669 International Political Economy
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DAVID HERTZ, Professor, Comparative Literature

Research Interests: Intersection of modern culture and the arts, Modern European poetry, Architectural history and modern culture, European culture and music history.
Courses taught: Proust and the Arts, Sense of Time in World Culture, Ongoing Composers and their Era series, The Image of Napoleon in Western Literature// Symbols of Napoleon
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FRANKLIN L. HESS, Lecturer, WEST

Research Interests: Greek language, Greek popular culture (film, television, music), international American Studies, violence and representation

DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER, College Professor, Computer Science

Research Interests: cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, geometry, physics, philosophy of mind, translation, mechanisms of creativity and analogy.
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CARL IPSEN, Professor, History

Research Interests: Modern Italy, fascism, population, children.
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JEFFREY ISAAC, Professor, Political Science

Research Interests: political theory, comparative politics, twentieth-century liberal political thought.
Courses taught: Approaches and Issues in Political Theory, Introduction to Political Science, Re-reading the Communist Manifesto, Modern Political Thought
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EILEEN JULIEN, Professor, Comparative Literature

Research Interests: 20th century literature and culture, especially the novel, postcolonial theory, and the literatures of Africa, the African Diaspora and France in their relationships to one another.
Courses taught: African American Artists in Paris / Black Paris
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GILES KNOX, Assistant Professor, Fine Arts

Research Interests: Southern European art of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries; art and the Counter-Reformation; the civic politics of religious art; Velázquez and Italian art theory.
Courses taught: A102: Renaissance through Modern Art, A332: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Art in Southern Europe, A335: Baroque Art in Italy, 1580-1700, A436: Italian Art of the Fifteenth Century, A432/A532: Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century, A635: Problems in Italian Art of the 17th Century: From Caravaggio to Velázquez: Art and Art Writing in Seventeenth-Century Europe, A639: Problems in 7th-Century Art outside Italy: Diego Velázquez
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DAN KNUDSEN, Professor, Geography

Research Interests: Landscape and Tourism Geography, Cultural Geography.
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NANCY LEVENE, Professor, Religious Studies

Research Interests: history of Western European philosophy and theology, beginning from the period of the scientific revolution up to the twentieth century.
Courses taught: R672: Religious Thought and Ethics: Kant and Hegel, R462/582: History and Religion, R333: Religion and its Critics, R300: Freud and Religion, H203: God and the Human Condition, E103: Theism, Atheism, and Existentialism
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JOAN LINTON, Associate Professor, English

Research Interests: nineteenth-century British literature, moral philosophy, theories of sympathy and of realism, and narrative theory.
Courses taught: E301 Literatures in English to 1600, L220 Introduction to Shakespeare, L309 Elizabethan Potery, L313 Early Plays of Shakespeare, L314 Late Plays of Shakespeare, L607 History of Literary Criticism to the Enlightenment, L621 English Literature 1500-1660, L730 Graduate Seminar in English Literature 1500-1660
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KARMA LOCHRIE, Professor, English

Research Interests: medieval studies, including gender, sexuality, and utopianism.
Courses taught: L305: Chaucer, L306: Middle English Literature, E301: Literatures in English to 1600, L613: Medieval Literature, L612: Chaucer, L712: Chaucer and Cosmopolitanism
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HERBERT MARKS, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

Research Interests: European literary history. Lyric and narrative poetry, nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and the interrelation of the arts.
Courses taught: C337 Twentieth-Century Literature (classics of European modernism and mid- to late-century experiments), C315/515 The Lyric, C603 Topic: Freud and Literature
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GERGANA MAY, Lecturer, Germanic Studies and WEST

Research Interests : Norwegian and Swedish languages; Scandinavian literature and theatre; Ibsen and Strindberg; literary theory and criticism; translation for the theatre.
Courses taught: W406: Scandinavian Literature: Henrik Ibsen, W406: Special Topics in West Eur Studies: Scandinavian Culture: Multicultural North
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JOHN MCCORMICK, Professor, Political Science

Research Interests: Politics and Policies of the EU; the EU as a global actor; enviromental policy; transatlantic relations.
Courses taught: Y335 West European Politics, Y490 Senior Seminar: British Politics, Y490 Senior Seminar: Transatlantic Relations
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ROSEMARIE MCGERR, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

Research Interests: Allegorical narrative in medieval Europe, Medieval English literature and law, Medieval European manuscript studies.
Courses taught: C313: History and Theory of Narrative, C321: Medieval Literature, C340: Women and World Literature, C415: Medieval Lyric Poetry, C417: Medieval Narrative, C523: Medieval Literature, COAS E103: King Arthur: the Once and Future Hero
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PATRICIA MCMANUS, Associate Professor, Sociology

Research Interests: social inequality in Europe and the United States, especially inequalities based in gender, ethnicity, citizenship, and national origins.
Courses taught: S660: Sociology of the Welfare State, which centers on Europe and the United States, S346: The New Europeans, which addresses immigration in Europe
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DANIEL MELAMED, Professor, Music

Research Interests: J.S. Bach and the Bach family, performance practice, Mozart's operas, and problems of authenticity and attribution.
Courses taught: M502: J. S. Bach: Major vocal works, M602: Seminar in musicology: J.S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, M502: Cantatas of J.S. Bach, M402: History and literature of music II: 1750 to the present, M602: Seminar in musicology. The original prints of the music of H. Schütz, M653: Baroque music, M502: Heinrich Schütz, M410: Mozart opera
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MASSIMO OSSI, Professor, Music

Research Interests: early seventeenth-century Italian music theory and aesthetics; humanism and music; Italian lyric poetry, 1570-1650, the history of music in Venice; and the works of Antonio Vivaldi.
Courses taught: M401: History and Literature of Music I: From the Middle Ages to the 18th Century, M410: History of the Concerto from the 17th to the 20th century, M502 (variable titles): 1) Claudio Monteverdi—Mostly Madrigals; 2) Antonio Vivaldi, M510 (variable titles): History of the Polyphonic Mass from the 11th to the 18th century, M525: Survey of Operatic Literature, M527: Survey of Symphonic Literature, M602 (variable titles): 1) The Italian Madrigal, 1530-1650; Humanism and Music, 1300-1600, M652: Renaissance Music, M653: Baroque Music
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WILLIAM RASCH, Professor, Germanic Studies

Research Interests: German philosophy, social theory, and political theory (18th-21st centuries).
Courses taught: G625: A Colder Modernism, G564: The German Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, G364: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, G825: Judgment: Kant, Arendt, Lyotard, G564: Germany and the World Wars
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EVAN J. RINGQUIST, Professor, SPEA

Research Interests: Continuing study of the effectiveness of international environmental agreements in Europe; Directing research investigating the effectiveness of the Committee of the Regions in affecting public policy proposals before the European Commission
Courses taught: Q499: The European Union in the 21st Century
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JEAN ROBINSON, Professor, Political Science

Research Interests: politics of sexualities, genders and reproduction, abortion politics in France, cross-national comparisons of same sex marriage debates in Europe and North America.
Courses taught: Y353: Politics of Gender and Sexuality, H204: Persistent Dilemmas: Religion and Politics, H204 Building Republics
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MIGUEL RODRÍGUEZ-MONDOÑEDO, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Interests: Spanish Syntax and Language Acquisition, nominals, Spanish dialects and Romance languages.
Courses taught: S326: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics, S511: Spanish Syntactic Analysis, S511: Advanced Syntax
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JULIA ROOS, Assistant Professor, History

Research Interests: Modern Western Europe with special emphases on twentieth-century Germany, the history of gender and sexuality, and the social and cultural history of politics.
Courses taught: B260: Women's Movements in Western Europe, circa 1780 to 1970, B377: History of Germany since 1648 I: Reformation to Unification, B378: History of Germany since 1648 II: Unification to the Present, J300: Comparative Historical Perspectives on Prostitution Hist J300: Contemporary Germany (1945-2008), J400 (fall 2008): Social Movements in Western Europe, 1850s through the Present, H620: Modern Europe through the Lens of Gender, H620: Dark Continent? Twentieth-Century Europe, H720: Seminar in Twentieth-Century Europe
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BRET ROTHSTEIN, Associate Professor, Fine Arts

Research Interests: Netherlandish painting and prints of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Courses taught: FINA 333: From van Eyck to Vermeer, FINA 437: Fifteenth-Century Visual Culture in Northern Europe, FINA 490: Sixteenth-Century Visual Culture in Northern Europe, FINA 637: So Much for Art. What of Thought?, FINA 638: Varieties and Consequences of Early Modern Visual Wit (Spring ’09)
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KEVIN ROTTET, Associate Professor, French and Italian

Research Interests: minority languages, especially of France and the UK; lexicography of minority languages; language endangerment and language planning; the sociolinguistics of Welsh; Welsh-English and Breton-French language contact
Courses taught: F401: Structure and Development of French, F580: Introduction to Applied French Linguistics, F675/L700: Endangered Languages and Revitalization, F677/L630: Lexicology and Lexicography, F675/L625: Bilingualism and Language Contact, F675/L636: Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
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DARLENE SADLIER, Professor, Spanish and Portugues

Research Interests: Brazilian and Portuguese literatures and cultures, Latin American cinema, Gender studies.
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MASSIMO SCALABRINI, Associate Professor, French and Italian

Research Interests: Renaissance and early modern literature and culture.
Courses taught: S103:Literature and Power in Early Modern Europe, M307:Masterpieces of Italian Literature I, M308: Masterpieces of Italian Literature II, M450: Caratteri del comico rinascimentale, M450: Italian Short Stories (From the Middle Ages to the Present), M504: The Poetics of Comedy in the Italian Renaissance, M604 Renaissance Humanism, M825: Categorie dell’eroico e dell’eroicomico: Ariosto, Tasso, Tassoni, M604: What is Italian Pastoral? Pastoral Tradition and Italian Renaissance, M504: Eros and Comedy in Italian Renaissance Literature
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WILLIAM SCHEUERMAN, Professor, WEST

Research Interests: modern political thought, German political thought, democratic theory, legal theory, normative international theory.
Courses taught: Pols 675: Globalization and Democratic Theory, Pols 675: European Political Thought from Weber to Habermas, Pols 675: The European Enlightenment: What was it?
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WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, Professor (IUPUI), History

Research Interests: French history and African history, history of medicine and health in European African colonies.
Courses taught: H-364 (and H546) History of Medicine and Public Health, H-425 (and H509) Topics: History of International Humanitarian Assistance
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SANDRA SHAPSHAY, Lecturer, Philosophy

Research Interests: 19th century Continental Philosophy, especially the philosophies of Kant and Schopenhauer.
Courses taught: PHIL P304 19th Century Philosophy
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ABDULKADER SINNO, Assistant Professor, Political Science

Research Interests: Muslim minority representation, immigration, politics of minorities in Europe.
Courses taught: Y401/WEST W405/NELC N305—Muslims in Western Politics
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BEATE SISSENICH, Assistant Professor, Political Science

Research Interests: European Union politics, transnational policy networks, comparative public policy (especially social policy, health, environment), policy convergence and divergence among advanced industrialized countries, and international/supranational governance and its challenges for democracy.
Courses taught: Y350 Politics of the European Union, Y200 Transnational Politics of Europe, Y657/Y665 Regulatory Policy in the EU, Y490 Social Movements
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JOSEP SOBRER, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Interests: Modern literature of Spain, Catalan literature, Translation theory and practice.
Courses taught: C550 Modern Catalan Literature
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REBECCA SPANG, Associate Professor, History

Research Interests: France 1715-present, Modern Europe, cultural history, social-economic theory.
Courses taught: History 104, Europe from Napoleon to the Present History B356, French Revolution and Napoleon History B357, Modern France History 620, History and Psychoanalysis [grad] History 720, Seminar in Nineteenth-Century European History
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MARTIN SPECHLER, Professor (IUPUI), Economics

Research Interests: comparative economic systems, NATO, European financial markets.
Courses taught: W605: Western European Political Economy
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REX SPROUSE, Professor, Germanic Studies

Research Interests: Minority and stateless languages in Western Europe Language, politics, and identity in Western Europe.
Courses taught: GER-G361 Contemporary Austria, GER-G451 Introduction to German Syntax
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SONYA STEPHENS, Professor, French and Italian

Research Interests: modern French literature, history and culture, especially the relationship between the different forms of cultural production.
Courses taught: F300 Reading and Expression in French: Amours et Passions: L’Écriture du désir, F306 Roman et poésie, F441 Seminar: French Literature and the Arts, F446 Great Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, F495 Individual Readings in French: History in 19th-C French Literature, F495 Individual Readings in French: Translation from and into French (co-taught with Jérôme Brillaud), F495 Readings in French: Music in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, F541 Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 2 (post 1850), F546 The Nineteenth-Century Novel 2 (post 1850): Histoires et Fictions: Ecrire le XIXe siècele, F1105 Image and Icon: reading the Visual in French Culture, F271 Writing Romance and Desire, F274 Culture and Ideology: France and la francophonie, F351Textual Revolutions in Nineteenth-Century France
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JOHANNES TÜRK, Assistant Professor, Germanic Studies

Research Interests: Literary Theory, Aesthetic Theory, Rhetoric, Philosophy, The history of the German and the European Novel, Modernism, Literature and Life Sciences (especially Immunology), Trauma and Literature.
Courses taught: G 363: German Cultural History 1500-1900, Hon 203: Accident, Catastrophe and Trauma in Literature and Film, G 400: Deutsch: Oberstufe, G 575/C 641: Soliloquies of Finitude: Narrations of Time, Life, and History in the Late Nineteenth Century, G 363: German Cultural History 1500-1900, G 825: The Impossible Return: Nostos and Nostalgia in the German Literary Tradition, G255: Accident, Catastrophe and Trauma in Literature and Film, G464: Legacies of the Enlightenment
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ESTELA VIEIRA, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Interests: Lisbon earthquake of 1755 in culture and literature, interiors and interiority in Spanish and Portuguese realist fiction, Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures.
Courses taught: Many Selves, Numerous Nations: 20th-Century Portuguese Literature, City and Country: Portuguese Literature from the 18th to the 19th Century, Luís de Camões: Epic and Empire
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REYES VILA-BELDA, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Interests: Spanish Peninsular Poetry, Art and Literature, Spanish Landscape, Scientific and Intellectual History of Spain Contemporary Spanish Culture.
Courses taught: S411 Spain: The Cultural Context, S315 Spanish for the Business World, S548 Spanish Literature of the 20th- & 21st-Centuries Topic: “20th Century Spain: Intellectual and Popular Responses to Power”, S648 Topics in Contemporary Spanish Literature. “Landscapes", S708 Seminar in Hispanic Studies. Topic: “Silence and Cultural Production in Postwar Spain”
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STEVEN WAGSCHAL, Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Interests: Early Modern/Golden Age prose, poetry and theater; Philosophical Approaches to Literature; Literature and the Emotions; Mythology in Literature; Art and Literature

STEPHEN WATT, Professor, English

Research Interests: modern Irish literature, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter
Courses taught: Understanding Northern Ireland, “Reading Joyce’s ULYSSES, Contemporary British and Irish Drama
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Lois Wise, Professor, SPEA

Research interests: Public management and employment policies and practices. Special interest in public management reform, including comparative studies of determinants of administrative reforms, variations in reform patterns, and cross-national differences in evaluation of reforms. Comparative research in pay policies and administrative pay reforms, bureaucratic behavior, and the consequences of human diversity for effective work organizations.
Courses taught: V443/ V560: Managing Work Force Diversity, V671: Public Organizaitons and Management
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