Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty
Mary Jane Cowles
Professor of French, Chair
Areas of Expertise: Nineteenth-century French literature and Romanticism, French film studies and film theory, psychoanalytic theory
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 102
740-427-5804
cowles@kenyon.edu
Jianhua Bai
Professor of Chinese (on leave 2012-2013)
Areas of Expertise: Foreign language pedagogy, linguistics, computer-assisted language instruction
Contact Information:
bai@kenyon.edu
Jean Blacker
Professor Emeritus of French
Areas of Expertise: 12th-century Anglo-Norman literature and chronicles, 12th-century Latin historical narrative, Arthurian legends and the Norman Conquest
Contact Information:
blacker@kenyon.edu
Read Jean Blacker's biography.
Concetta Blechschmidt
Visiting Professor of Spanish
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 003
740-427-5282
blechschmidtc@kenyon.edu
Simone Dubrovic
Assistant Professor of Italian
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 331
740-427-5066
dubrovics@kenyon.edu
Read Simone Dubrovic's biography.
Monica Garoiu
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 309
740-427-5065
garoium@kenyon.edu
Paul Gebhardt
Associate Professor of German (on leave 2012-2013)
Areas of Expertise: Twentieth-century German literature, literary theory, German poetry
Contact Information:
gebhardtp@kenyon.edu
Read Paul Gebhardt's biography.
Mortimer Martin Guiney
Professor of French
Areas of Expertise: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, comparative literature and cultural studies, French language teaching
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 027
740-427-5803
guiney@kenyon.edu
Robert Goodhand
Professor Emeritus of French
Areas of Expertise: French novels and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, feminist studies, French critical theory, interdisciplinary studies
Contact Information:
828-894-2468
goodshaman@aol.com
Read Robert Goodhand's biography.
Daniel Hartnett
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Areas of Expertise: Medieval court poetry, early modern Iberian gender studies, transcultural Mediterranean exchanges
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 021
740-427-5170
hartnettd@kenyon.edu
Read Daniel Hartnett's biography.
Katherine Hedeen
Associate Professor of Spanish
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 009
740-427-5063
hedeenk@kenyon.edu
Daria S Kabanova
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Russian
Contact Information:
(740) 427-5278
kabanovad@kenyon.edu
Travis Landry
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 109
740-427-5898
landryt@kenyon.edu
Read Travis Landry's biography.
James McGavran
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
Contact Information:
mcgavranj@kenyon.edu
Linda Metzler
Professor of Spanish (on leave 2012-2013)
Contact Information:
Acland House 20
740-427-5639
metzler@kenyon.edu
Read Linda Metzler's biography.
Evelyn Moore
Associate Professor Emerita of German
Contact Information:
mooree@kenyon.edu
Simona Moti
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Areas of Expertise: German Literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries Interdisciplinary Modernism Postcolonial and transnational approaches to German and Austrian Literature Minority and Migration Studies with reference to German-speaking countries Second Language Acquisition
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 107
740-427-5414
motis@kenyon.edu
Jennifer Nichols
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Arabic
Contact Information:
nicholsj@kenyon.edu
Natalia L. Olshanskaya
Professor of Russian (on leave 2011-12)
Areas of Expertise: Translation theory, cinema studies, stylistic analysis of texts and genres
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 111
740-427-5278
olshanskayan@kenyon.edu
Read Natalia Olshanskaya's biography.
Charles Piano
Professor Emeritus of Spanish
Areas of Expertise: Latin American novel, Latin American short story, Argentine literature
Contact Information:
piano@kenyon.edu
Read Carlos Piano's biography.
Patricia Lyn Richards
Associate Professor of Italian
Areas of Expertise: Medievel and Renaissance poetry, Italian cinema
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 210
740-427-5529
richardsl@kenyon.edu
Read Patricia Richards' biography.
Leo W. Riegert, Jr.
Assistant Professor of German
Areas of Expertise: nineteenth-century German-Jewish literature
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 103
740/427-5277
riegertl@kenyon.edu
Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez
Associate Professor of Spanish
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 023
740-427-5064
rnunezv@kenyon.edu
Read Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez's biography.
Clara Román-Odio
Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 110
740-427-5275
romanodioc@kenyon.edu
Read Clara Román-Odio's biography.
Marta Sierra
Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 003
740-427-5409
sierram@kenyon.edu
Read Marta Sierra's biography.
Chengjuan Sun
Assistant Professor of Chinese
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 311
740-427-5060
sunc@kenyon.edu
Read Chengjuan Sun's biography.
Sayumi Suzuki
Japanese Language Teaching Fellow
Contact Information:
Ascension 024
(740) 427-5362
suzukis@kenyon.edu
Hideo Tomita
Professor of Japanese
Areas of Expertise: Japanese linguistics (syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, pragmatics), communicative language teaching
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 212
740-427-5800
tomita@kenyon.edu