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Mary T. Rice-DeFosse

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

mricedef@bates.edu | 207-786-6279

19th century French literature, critical theory, cultural studies, Franco-American culture and identity, Franco-American history and literature, French feminist theory, French women writers of the 19th century, literature, literature as history, narrative, post-structuralist theory, race and ethnicity, representations of political and social change, women and gender studies

Laura C. Balladur

Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

lballadu@bates.edu | 207-786-8318

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, Democratic Republic of Congo, ecology of bodies in movement, French Cinema, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance, Translation Studies

Raluca Cernahoschi

Associate Professor of German

rcernaho@bates.edu | 207-786-6285

contemporary German literature and film, East-Central European literature and film, film adaptation, German literature and culture since the 19th century, German literature and film, intercultural literature and film, literatures and cultures of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, poetry, Romanian-German literature, spatial constructions in literature and film

Kirk D. Read

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

kread@bates.edu | 207-786-6280

early modern French literature (1500-1700), early modern medicine and midwifery, femininity, French renaissance poetry, gender, intersexuality, literary analysis, masculinity, medical and anthropological readings of literature, sex and sexuality, women writers

Zhenzhen Lu

Assistant Professor of Chinese

zlu2@bates.edu | 207-786-6406

chinese language pedagogy, late imperial China, literature and history, manuscript studies, material culture, popular culture, vernacular literatures of East Asia

Alexandre E. Dauge-Roth

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

adaugero@bates.edu | 207-786-6281

20th and 21st century French and Francophone, AIDS literature, autobiography and testimony as genre, genocide against the Tutsi, genocide studies, identity politics, literary and cinematic analysis, post-genocide in Rwanda, writing of history

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

dgeorge@bates.edu | 207-786-8347

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

Sylvia A. Federico

Professor of English

sfederic@bates.edu | 207-786-6317

Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature and history, Benedictine manuscript culture, Chaucer, French literary and historical connections to England, Iberian and Italian literary and historical connections to England, late medieval literary London, manuscript studies, medieval studies, Middle English language and culture, Middle English literature

Claudia Aburto Guzmán

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

caburtog@bates.edu | 207-786-6049

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Integration of humanistic and natural science pedagogical approaches, Latin American culture, Latin American intellectual inquiry on coloniality, Latin American literature, Latin American literatures and cultures of the 19th- 21st centuries, Latin American Photography and Social Art, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women's literatures and feminist inquiry, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, Latinx poetry and translation, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

Zef M. Segal

Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies and History

zsegal@bates.edu | 207-755-5998