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	18th-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
Hall Bjornstad Assistant Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 618 (812) 855-6596 hallbjor @indiana.edu	17th-century literature and culture, emphasis on the relationship between literature and politics
Andrea Ciccarelli Professor of Italian	Ballantine Hall 622 (812) 855-6029 aciccare @indiana.edu	19th- and 20th-century poetry, narrative and theatre, literary criticism and theory, contemporary Italian literature and culture
Ermanno Conti Lecturer in Italian	Ballantine Hall 632 (812) 855-6806 econti @indiana.edu	Italian language pedagogy
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 20th-century French and francophone novel in sociocultural context, narrative dynamics, reading practices
Eileen Julien Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 914 (812) 855-8432 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 604 (812) 855-4336 jmercero @indiana.edu	French medieval studies, French folklore and mythology
Emanuel J. Mickel Professor of French & Chair	Chair: Ballantine 642B (812) 855-5458 FRITchr @indiana.edu Advising: Ballantine 621 (812) 855-8253 mickel @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. Course supervisor for French F250.
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 Ballantine Hall 608 (812) 855-0034 sonsteph @indiana.edu	19th-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	Medieval and Renaissance Italian and Old Occitan, book history, manuscript and material studies, textual editing
Nicolas Valazza Assistant Professor of French	Ballantine Hall 624 (812) 855-5764 nvalazza @indiana.edu	19th-century French literature, relationship between painting and literature, history of esthetic forms, art theory of Italian Renaissance
Barbara Vance Associate Professor of French Linguistics	Ballantine Hall 617 (812) 855-2702 bvance @indiana.edu	French linguistics, syntax, history of French (including Occitan)
Alicia Vitti Lecturer in Italian	Ballantine Hall 614 (812) 855-6324 amvitti @indiana.edu	Second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, translation, contemporary Italian theater. Course supervisor for Italian M200 and M250.
Antonio C Vitti Professor of Italian Cinema	Ballantine 630 (812) 855-2508 ancvitti @indiana.edu	Italian cinema, modern Italian literature and culture, Italian emigration

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Visiting Professors

	Faculty Member	Contact	Research Interests
	Juliette Dade Visiting Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall 625 (812) 855-2342 jdade @indiana.edu	19th- and 20th-century literature and culture, especially fin de siècle literature, emphasis on gender studies
	Peter Vantine Visiting Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall 612 (812) 855-3127 pvantine @indiana.edu	19th-century literature and culture, particularly the visual arts and the press; metatextual discourse

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Short-term teaching appointments

Lecturers	Contact	Teaching Area
Olga Amarie Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 607 (812) 855-7538 oamarie @indiana.edu	Course supervisor for F200
Tania Convertini Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 625 (812) 855-2342 tconvert @indiana.edu	Italian M100, M150
Giuseppina De Masi Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 632 (812) 855-6806 gdemasi @indiana.edu	Course supervisor for M100 and M150
Aiko Okamoto MacPhail Visiting Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall 619 (812) 855-2514 macphail @indiana.edu	French F300, F313
Rebecca Petrush Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 607 (812) 855-7538 rpetrush @indiana.edu	Course supervisor for F100
Christopher Semk Adjunct Assistant Professor	Ballantine Hall 614 (812) 855-6324 csemk @indiana.edu	French F300
Anne-José Villeneuve Visiting Lecturer	Ballantine Hall 607 (812) 855-7538 avillene @indiana.edu	Course supervisor for F150

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Emeriti

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

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Dept of French & 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: 16-Nov-2009 Comments: Nancy Stoute