Faculty in French and Italian

Faculty Visiting Professors Short-term Lecturers and Adjuncts Emeriti

Faculty

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Interests
Guillaume Ansart Associate Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 620 (812) 855-9608 gansart @indiana.edu	Eighteenth-century literature and culture, especially the novel and political theory
Marco Arnaudo Assistant Professor of Italian	Ballantine Hall 633 (812) 855-7812 marnaudo @indiana.edu	Baroque and early modern literature in Italy, 20th- and 21st-century popular culture
Julie Auger Associate Professor of French Linguistics	Ballantine Hall 635 (812) 855-7958 jauger @indiana.edu	Sociolinguistics, variation, morphosyntax, phonology, Québec Colloquial French, Picard, as well as spoken French in general and other Gallo-Romance dialects
Jérôme Brillaud Assistant Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 618 (812) 855-6596 jbrillau @indiana.edu	17th- and 18th-century theater, philosophies of the 18th century
Andrea Ciccarelli Professor of Italian	Ballantine Hall 622 (812) 855-6029 aciccare @indiana.edu	Nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry, narrative and theatre, literary criticism and theory, contemporary Italian literature and culture
Laurent Dekydtspotter Associate Professor of French Linguistics	Ballantine Hall 611 (812) 855-2221 ldekydts @indiana.edu	Development of interpretive knowledge: phrasal semantics, lexical semantics and grammatically computed pragmatic inferences; sentence processing: information integration in L2 processing
Margaret Gray Associate Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 629 (812) 855-7884 megray @indiana.edu	The twentieth-century French and francophone novel in sociocultural context, narrative dynamics, reading practices
Eileen Julien Professor of Francophone Studies	Ballantine Hall 914 (812) 855-7537 ejulien @indiana.edu	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
Eric MacPhail Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 616 (812) 855-8948 macphai @indiana.edu	Renaissance literature, humanism, rhetoric
Jacques Merceron Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 624 (812) 855-4336 jmercero @indiana.edu	French medieval studies, French folklore and mythology
Emanuel J. Mickel Professor of French & Acting Chair	Advising: Ballantine 621 (812) 855-8253 mickel @indiana.edu Chair: Ballantine 642B (812) 855-5458 FRITchr @indiana.edu	Medieval romance, The Rose, allegory and persona in European literature, 19th-century literature, classic tradition, ekphrastic writings and painting
Oana Panaïté Assistant Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 627 (812) 855-1134 opanaite @indiana.edu	Literary history, theory and esthetics, French and francophone fiction, contemporary studies, writing and politics, comparative and transnational approaches to literature
Kevin Rottet Associate Professor of French Linguistics	Ballantine Hall 610 (812) 855-6164 krottet @indiana.edu	Language contact (Louisiana French, Welsh, Breton), lexicography, pidgins and creoles, endangered languages
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz Associate Professor of Italian	Ballantine Hall 626 (812) 855-1249 ryancm @indiana.edu	Italian cinema, gender studies, Italian curriculum development, teaching foreign language through theater, graduate student training and professional development
Kelly Sax Senior Lecturer in French	Ballantine Hall 636 (812) 855-1254 ksax @indiana.edu	Second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, computer-assisted language learning, French phonetics, Québécois French
Massimo Scalabrini Associate Professor of Italian	Ballantine Hall 634 (812) 855-8044 mscalabr @indiana.edu	Renaissance and early modern literature and culture (lyric poetry, heroic and mock-heroic poetry, macaronic literature, comic literature, the pastoral tradition, humanism)
Sonya Stephens Professor of French	Maxwell Hall 100 (812) 855-8783 sonsteph @indiana.edu	Nineteenth-century French literature and culture, literary criticism and theory, literature and the visual arts
H. Wayne Storey Professor of Italian	Ballantine Hall 609 (812) 855-7035 hstorey @indiana.edu mestdir @indiana.edu	Medieval and Renaissance Italian and Old Occitan, book history, manuscript and material studies, textual editing
Barbara Vance Associate Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 617 (812) 855-2702 bvance @indiana.edu	French linguistics, syntax, history of French (including Occitan)
Antonio C Vitti Professor of Italian Cinema	Ballantine 630 (812) 855-2508 ancvitti @indiana.edu	Italian cinema, modern Italian literature and culture and Italian emigration

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Visiting Professors

Faculty	Contact	Teaching Area
Devin Bryson Visiting Assistant Professor 2008-09	Ballantine Hall 612 (812) 855-3127 drbryson @indiana.edu	Francophone literature and cultural history, critical theory, gender studies
Colin Davis Visiting Professor Fall 2008	Ballantine Hall 614 (812) 855-6324 daviscoj @indiana.edu	20th-century French fiction, literary theory. Visiting from University of London
Eric Méchoulan Visiting Professor Spring 2009	Ballantine Hall 614 (812) 855-6324 emechoul @indiana.edu	17th-century French literature, literary history. Visiting from Université de Montréal

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Short-term Lecturers and Adjuncts

Lecturers	Contact	Teaching Area
Olga Amarie Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 607 (812) 855-7538 oamarie @indiana.edu	Course supervisor for F100
Ermanno Conti Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 632 (812) 855-6806 econti @indiana.edu	Course supervisor for Italian M100, M115, and M150
Giuseppina De Masi Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 632 (812) 855-6806 gdemasi @indiana.edu	Course supervisor for M200 and M250
Bryan Donaldson Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 607 (812) 855-7538 brdonald @indiana.edu	Course supervisor for F200
Audry Liljestrand Fultz Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 607 (812) 855-7538 aliljest @indiana.edu	Course supervisor to F150
Aiko Okamoto MacPhail Adjunct Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall 608 (812) 855-5764 macphail @indiana.edu	French F250, F300, and F313
Christopher Semk Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 608 (812) 855-5764 csemk @indiana.edu	French F250 and F300

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Emeriti

Faculty Member	Contact	Research Interests
Michael Berkvam	berkvam @indiana.edu	Post-1945 French literature, women’s writing, francophone literature, Postcolonial literature, literature and memory, World War II
Julia Bondanella	bondane @indiana.edu	Medieval and Renaissance literature, comparative literature, history of ideas, Petrarchism and lyric poetry, translation
Peter Bondanella	bondanel @indiana.edu	Renaissance and modern literature, comparative literature and literary theory, Italian cinema; Hollywood images of Italian Americans
Diana Carr	carr @indiana.edu	French Enlightenment, especially Diderot
Richard A. Carr	carrr @indiana.edu	16th-century French literature
Gilbert D. Chaitin	chaitin @indiana.edu	19th- & 20th-century French & European novel, thesis novel, theory, criticism & rhetoric, literature & psychoanalysis, philosophy, politics, education
Mona T. Houston	houstonm @indiana.edu	17th-century French literature, translation, diction for singers
Edoardo A. Lèbano	lebano @indiana.edu	Renaissance epic, 19th-century Italian narrative, Italian American history
Rosemary Lloyd	rolloyd @indiana.edu	French 19th- and 20th-century poetry and fiction, interrelationships between literature and the visual arts, artists' books, translation, Australian literature
Mark Musa		Dante studies, translation
Russell Pfohl	pfohl @indiana.edu	17th-century French literature
Samuel N. Rosenberg	srosenb @indiana.edu	Medieval French language and literature, especially lyric poetry and Arthurian narrative
William Trapnell		18th-century French literature, especially Voltaire
Albert Valdman	valdman @indiana.edu	French language pedagogy, Haitian Creole, Louisiana French, second language acquisition

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Department of French and Italian, Ballantine Hall 642, 1020 E Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
telephone: (812) 855-1952; fax: (812) 855-8877; email: Department of French & Italian

Last up dated: 23-Jan-2009 Comments: Nancy Stoute