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Logan Connors

Logan Connors, Assistant Professor of French
Ph.D. Louisiana State University

Logan Connors specializes in 17th- and 18th-century French theater, literary criticism, and journalism; literature of the French Revolution; contemporary theater and dramatic criticism/theory
(logan.connors@bucknell.edu) || More about Logan Connors

Juliette N. Dade

Juliette N. Dade, Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Scholarship interests include 19th- and 20th-century French literature, fin-de-siecle, feminist perspectives in literature, gender and sexuality, French cinema, music and literature, French language aquisition and teaching
(jnd005@bucknell.edu)

Susan Dixon

Susan Dixon, Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Doctorat, D.E.A., Maîtrise: Université Paris VIII (Vincennes à Saint-Denis) and Ph.D. Rutgers

Scholarship interests include Francophone and French literatures of "Indochina"; Vietnamese diasporic literature and film; French colonial culture and history; cultural studies; bilingualism; foreign language and writing pedagogies.
(scd017@bucknell.edu)

Philippe Dubois

Philippe Dubois, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D. Ohio State

Specializes in 19th- and 20th-century French literature, with an emphasis on novels and discourses on food, gender and sexuality. He teaches courses on French literature, culture and media, engaging with such topics as otherness, identity construction, gender performance, culinary and cultural productions. His current research explores gendered and marginalized culinary practices such as modest or local cooking, and vegetarianism, part of a larger project on food politics and national identities.
(pdubois@bucknell.edu) || More about Philippe Dubois

Nathalie Dupont

Nathalie Dupont, (Director, French and Francophone Studies Program)
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Specializes in 20th- and 21st-century French literature; poetry and poetics; literary history and theory; avant-garde and experimental approaches to literature; literature, sociology and politics; film studies; Québec literature and culture.
(nd014@bucknell.edu) || More about Nathalie Dupont

Katherine M. Faull

Katherine M. Faull, Professor of German Studies and Comparative Humanities
Ph.D. Princeton University

Specializes in the literature and thought of the 18th century with a special emphasis on the relationship between race, gender, and art. She teaches all levels of German language and literature and is actively involved in computer-aided language learning.
(faull@bucknell.edu) || More about Katie Faull

Renée Gosson

Renée Gosson, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison

Specializes in literature and culture of the French Caribbean, commemorative gestures to remember the trans Atlantic slave trade, slavery, and their abolitions in France and the French West Indies.
(rgosson@bucknell.edu) || More about Renée Gosson

Bastian Heinsohn

Bastian Heinsohn, Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D. University of California - Davis

Teaches German language and culture courses, including cinema, history, and contemporary German culture. Interests also include world cinema, street art, urban spaces, postwar architecture in East and West Germany, photography, music, and critical theory. Recent publications on German cinema in the 1950s and on Berlin literature after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
(bastian.heinsohn@bucknell.edu) || More about Bastian Heinsohn

Martin Isleem

Martin Isleem, (Director, Arabic Program)
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin

martin.isleem@bucknell.edu || More about Arabic at Bucknell

Angèle Kingué

Angèle Kingué, (Director, Bucknell en France Program)
Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

Fiction writing, Contemporary Francophone Africa, the teaching of African culture and literature, Francophone African Women Writers, Littérature de jeunesse, Nouvelles écritures africaines, littérature orale. Directs the Bucknell en France program. She has written two novels, two books of short stories for adolescents, and a children book.
(kingue@bucknell.edu) || More about Angèle Kingué

Bernhard Kuhn

Bernhard Kuhn, Associate Professor of Italian Studies
Ph.D. Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany

Specializes in 20th century Italian literature and film. His current research focuses on the relationship between opera and the Italian cinema. He teaches courses in Italian language and culture.
(bkuhn@bucknell.edu) || More about Bernhard Kuhn

James Lavine

James Lavine, (Director, Linguistics Program)
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D. Princeton University

Specializes in the syntax and morphology of the Slavic and Baltic languages. Has published on the syntax of Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, and Lithuanian. Teaches courses in all areas of linguistics as well as numerous Slavic languages.
(jlavine@bucknell.edu) || More about James Lavine

Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine

Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine, Associate Professor of Russian
Ph.D. Princeton University

Specializes in 20th-century Russian poetry. Her current research focuses on Russian poetry of the Revolution. She teaches Russian literature, Russian popular and poetic song, and Russian at all levels.
(llavine@bucknell.edu)

Heidi Lorimor

Heidi Lorimor, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Psycholinguistics, particularly adult language production, how agreement is computed, and the influences of word order, conceptual information, and morphology on agreement. Syntax, including the relationship between prosodic domains and agreement relationships, single conjunct agreement, and the cross-linguistic differences between gender and number agreement.
(hml003@bucknell.edu) || More about Heidi Lorimor

Sarah Moore

Sarah Moore, Lecturer in American Sign Language

(sarah.moore@bucknell.edu)

Helen G. Morris-Keitel

Helen G. Morris-Keitel (Director, German Studies Program)
Asssociate Professor of German Studies
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison

Interests include the relationship between gender, class, and national identity in the 19th century, fictional representations of science and technology, contemporary juvenile literature, language for special purposes such as Business German, and foreign language pedagogy including instructional technology.
(hmorris@bucknell.edu) || Learn more about Helen G. Morris-Keitel

Peter Morris-Keitel

Peter Morris-Keitel, Professor of German Studies
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison

Teaches and publishes on many aspects of 19th- and 20th-century history with a special emphasis on sociological and ecological thought.
(pmorris@bucknell.edu) || More about Peter Morris-Keitel

Anna Paparcone

Anna Paparcone, Assistant Professor of Italian
Ph.D. Cornell

Her primary area of research is contemporary Italian cinema, and she is interested in the relationship between fiction, reality and truth in the "political cinema" from the 1960s to the present. She currently teaches beginning and advanced Italian language and culture as well as an interdisciplinary course on Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature and its contemporary representation in cinema and the visual arts.
(apaparco@bucknell.edu) || More about Anna Paparcone

Lisa Ferrante Perrone

Lisa Ferrante Perrone, Visiting Instructor of Italian
MA in Italian Language and Literature, Middlebury College

Teaches introductory level Italian classes and is interested in 20th century Italian literature. She is the author of the audio script of the Random House Living Language Italian program.
(lperrone@bucknell.edu)

Or Rogovin

Or Rogovin, Silbermann Family Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew
Ph.D. University of Washington - Seattle

Teaches all levels of Modern Hebrew language, as well as courses in English on Israeli and Jewish literature and culture. Interests include Jewish writing in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish (especially literature of the Holocaust and Jewish immigrant writing); American literature; Israeli culture; Narrative theory; Hebrew linguistics, and the instruction of Hebrew as a foreign language.(or.rogovin@bucknell.edu) || More about Hebrew at Bucknell

John Westbrook

John Westbrook, (Chair, Department of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics)
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D. New York University

Specializes in post-revolutionary French intellectual history and culture; teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century society and culture. His research examines the relationships between the French avant-garde and academic disciplines between the world wars.
(jwestbro@bucknell.edu) || More about John Westbrook

Slava Yastremski

Slava Yastremski (Director, Russian Studies Program)
Professor of Russian
Ph. D. University of Kansas

Teaches a wide range of Russian courses: Russian theatre, Russian cinema, and business Russian. Perhaps his most exciting courses are his sister courses on the history of Russian culture, RU 301 and RU 302, for which he wrote the textbooks himself.
(yastrem@bucknell.edu)