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Arabic Faculty

• George Berg:��Empirical research in applied linguistics with a focus on the development of communicative-based teaching materials for students of Arabic.
• Erez Naaman:��Classical Arabic literature and culture, and the intellectual history of the premodern Islamic world.

Chinese Faculty

• Jie Cai: Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), Teaching Chinese as a Heritage Language, Second Language Acquisition, Modern Chinese Literature and Classical Chinese language.��
• Svetlana Xu:��Philosophy, literature, Chinese culture, and communication.
• Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang:��Literature and culture of late imperial China.

French Faculty

• Naima Hachad:��North African literature and cultural productions.
• Elizabeth Lang:��Political, economic, social and cultural issues in Francophone Africa and international development.

German Faculty

• William Quirk:��German, English, and French literature from the Romanticism to the present.

Italian Faculty

• Ranieri Moore Cavaceppi:��16th century Italian Hospitaller Knights and 20th century literature and modern cinema.

Russian Faculty

• Alina Israeli:��Russian linguistics and literature.

Spanish Faculty

• Lilian Baeza-Mendoza:��The use of media as a language learning tool and learning disabilities in the language classroom.
• Luis Cerezo:��Empirical research methods with audiovisual technology for second language learning.
• Ester Holtermann:��Immigration and the Latino community.
• Juliana Martinez: Intersection of violence and body politics in Latin America, mainly representation of historical violence in recent cultural production; and gender and sexuality - particularly transgender studies.
• Gemma Sune Minguella:��Relationship between poetry and philosophy, as well as cinema and visual arts.��Restoring the integrity of Spanish classic movies seriously censored under the Franco regime (50's and 60's).
• Amy Oliver:��Marginality, feminism, nepantlismo, and transfronterismo in Latin America.
• Amelia Tseng:��Sociolinguistics of migration and diaspora: Bilingualism, heritage languages, dialects, identity, discourse, ideology, race/ethnicity; Washington, D.C. Latinx Language and Identity Project (DCLLIP). Linguistics Coordinator.
• Nuria Vilanova: Impact of migration on cultural production and narratives of violence and poverty.
• Brenda Werth:��Professor Werth specializes in contemporary Latin �鶹��ý theater. Her areas of interest include performance, memory studies, documentary theater, and film. She teaches courses on diverse aspects of the Southern Cone, including Postdictatorial literature, performance, and human rights.

• TESOL Faculty

• Naomi Baron:��The effects of technology on reading and writing. One branch of her research is on differences between reading in print versus onscreen. A second branch is on the impact of artificial intelligence on how we write.
• Robin Barr: Indo-European and psycholinguistics, morphology, relationship between language learning and language change.
• Henry Chip Gerfen:��Phonology and linguistic studies.
• Tabitha Kidwell:��Language teacher education, culture in language teaching and learning, student-centered and interactive language teaching methods, equitable learning opportunities for ELLs.
• Sarah Knowles:��Second language acquisition, language teaching methods, applied linguistics, metalinguistic awareness, and working with low-literate adult learners.
• Polina Vinogradova:��Advocacy and student empowerment; multiliteracies and multimodality; pedagogical uses of digital storytelling; postmethod pedagogy in teacher education.