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Xhuliana Agolli
xagolli@gmail.com
M.A. in Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research
B.A. in Liberal Arts, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM
Areas of interest: Kierkegaard and Bataille; eroticism and desire in literature and film; the representation of religious themes in art cinema; relations of the aesthetic and the ethical; notions of the sacred and the profane; ethical failure, violence, and the modern tragic hero.
Languages: Albanian, French, Italian

Pamela Albanese
palbanese@gc.cuny.edu
USA, Rhode Island
Bard College, B.A. in Literature
Area of concentration: 20th Century Literature.
Languages: Spanish, French

Elizabeth Alsop
ealsop@gmail.com
Brown, B.A. in Comparative Literature
Area of concentration: 20th Century literature; Modernism; Theories of theNovel; Film and Media Studies
Languages: English, Italian, French

Leah Anderst
leah.anderst@gmail.com
USA
Butler University B.A. in English
Area of concentration: Area of Concentration: American and French Literature, Film Studies, Narrative Theory, Henry James
Languages: French, Spanish

Anastassiya Andrianova
aandrianova@gmail.com
Kiev, Ukraine
City College, B.A. in English, Philosophy, Minor in Latin
Area of concentration: Greek Mythology and modern approaches to myth; 19th-century British, French, and Russian literature.
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, French, and Classical Latin.

Lissi Athanasiou
lyssi_a@hotmail.com
New York, NY
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Area of concentration: Modernity, Modern Greek literature, the 20 century novel, memory, mind, narrative techniques, emotions
Languages: Greek, English. French (basic), Ancient Greek and Latin

Rebecca Behrens
rbehrens@gc.cuny.edu
BA, Northwestern University
Languages: Spanish and English

Carla Baricz
cb2453@columbia.edu
Suceava, Romania
B.A. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Medieval and Early Modern European literature, in particular fifteenth and sixteenth century Italian literary culture and its relation to classical antiquity; Renaissance humanism; Early Modern intellectual history; history of the book and print culture; Milton; the Classical tradition; apophatic mysticism and the Christian visionary tradition; twentieth century Balkan modernism(s); translation theory; James Joyce. Languages: Romanian, Italian, Latin, English, basic French

Anick Boyd
aboyd@gc.cuny.edu
USA (San Diego, CA)
San Diego State University, B.A. with Honors in English
Area of concentration: The French and Anglophone Modernist novel; Louis-Ferdinand Celine; 20th century American literature
Languages: French, German

Raluca Bradu
ralucabradu@yahoo.com
Oradea, Romania
Baruch College, BBA in Advertising, Minor in Psychology
Area of concentration: French and English Medieval Romance and progress from the Romance to the 19th century Novel
Languages: Romanian, French, Italian

Heather Brown
hbrown@tishmanspeyer.com
USA
Middlebury College, Vermont, M.A. in French
Area of concentration: 19th and 20th Century Literature; French, Italian and American Modern Drama

Gray Campbell
sijiil@hotmail.com
Bard College, B.A. in Literature
Area of concentration: Live drama (Elizabethan and Jacobean); Renaissance intertextuality; Rimbaud; animalism; gender and sexuality studies.
Languages: English, French

Veruska Cantelli
vcantelli@gc.cuny.edu
Rome, Italy
Hunter College, New York, B.A. with Honors in Italian Literature and Theatre at Hunter College, CUNY.
Area of concentration: Women Studies, Italian and American 20th-Century Poetry, French and Italian Enlightenment.
Languages: Italian, Spanish

Jin Chang
jschang62@aol.com
Areas of concentration: 18th and 19th century English Novel, 19th century European Realist Fiction, 19th century Russian Novel, Narratology
Languages: Korean, Russian

Jeffrey Chih-yu Twu 涂智瑜
jeffreytwu@hotmail.com
Taipei, Taiwan
B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures
National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
Area of Concentration: Literary Theory, Postcolonial Literature & Theory, Anglophone Literature, Sinophone Literature, Southeast Asian Writing in English, National Trauma, Lieux de mémoire, Diaspora Studies
Languages: Chinese, English

Serena Dal Pont
giraffa75@gmail.com
Italy
University of Venice, B.A. in Italian Literature and M.A. in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language
Area of concentration: Renaissance Literature, Foreign Language Acquisition
Languages: Italian, French

Rosemary Demos
rosemary.demos@gmail.com
BA: Humanities/Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University;
MA: Comparative Literature, BYU
Areas of Concentration: 19th and 20th century, historical narrative, music
Languages: English, Italian, French

Michael Demson
mdemson@earthlink.net
Toronto, Canada
Reed College, Portland, B.A. in English
Area of concentration: Rousseau & Shelley: Temporal Considerations, Romanticism, Hellenism, Theory

Angelo R. Dicuonzo
adicuonzo@gc.cuny.edu
Italy
Universita' di Bologna Area of concentration: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Theory of Literature.

Isolina Douglas
idouglas@gc.cuny.edu
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Area of concentration: 20th century Italian and American literature. Modernism and Postmodernism. Italian, French, and America avant-gardes. Interactions between politics and literature.

Paul DuCett
USA
Middlebury College, Vermont
Area of concentration: Augustan era love poetry, questions of neo-classicisms, Pushkin, 19th century realist novels, particularly Russian.

Albert Fayngold
afayngold@yahoo.com
Kiev, Ukraine
National Academy of Arts and Architecture, two-year-certificate
Prague, Czech republic, EFL teaching certificate
New York, B.A. in English Literature, C.W. Post; M.A. in Comparative Literature CUNY Graduate Center
Area of concentration: British and American realist novel; 19th and 20th century Russian/ Slavic literature; exilic memoir; aesthetics, ekphrasis; literature and art; literature and science
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, French

Lev Feigin
lfeigin@gc.cuny.edu
St. Petersburg, Russia
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, B.A. in English
Area of concentration: Modernism, Biculturality, Culture Studies.
Languages: Russian, Italian

Nicole Fennimore
nfennimore@gc.cuny.edu
Brooklyn, NY
NYU, BA in Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Area of concentration: Medieval Studies, lyric poetry
Languages: French, Latin

Anna Finkelstern
afinkelstern@gmail.com
Israel/Russia
Tel Aviv University, B.A. in French and English literature
Area of concentration: 19th – 20th century French and English literatures, 18th – 19th century Russian literature, Romanticism and Realism, Philosophy of Language, Cultural Studies, Theories of Communication, Mythology, Immigration Narratives and Portrayals, Memory and Memoir.
Languages: Russian, Hebrew, French

Nathalie Fouyer
nathalie@nyct.net
MA hunter college
Langauges: french, english, spanish, some russian

Giorgio Galbussera
ggalbussera@gc.cuny.edu
Italy
Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Area of concentration: American Literature, German Literature, Modernism, Postmodernism, Poetry.

Aimee Gardner
leitfaden@yahoo.com
USA
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, M.A. in Comparative Literature
Area of concentration: German Regional Theater, Weimar, Post-War Literature.

Nataliya Gavrilova
gavrnata@gmail.com
Russia
"Kandidatskaya" Degree in Russian Literature, Tomsk State University
Diploma in Phylology, Tomsk State University
Area of concentration: interactions in 20th century Russian and Anglo-American, literature, especially poetry; Joseph Brodsky's poetry; modernism and postmodernism; translation studies.
Languages: English, Russian, French

Claudia Geller
cg491214@hotmail.com
B.A. Spanish, English minor, College of S.I.
Area of concentration: "Golden Age" of Hebrew literature in Medieval Spain; Ladino; Yiddish literature; Latin American literature by Jewish writers; translation studies.
Languages: Spanish, Hebrew

Marisa Giorgi
mzg10_99@yahoo.com
B.A. in Italian Language and Culture, Art History minor, University of Pittsburgh; M.A. in Italian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Area of concentration: Fascism, representations and narrations of World War II and the fascist culture from a post-war/post-fascist perspective and the representation of historical events within the 20th century narrative.
Languages: Italian

Joanna A. Giuttari
USA
Columbia University
Area of concentration: The influence/traces of the Classics in the Modern
Languages: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Ancient Greek.

Adam Goldwyn
agoldwyn@gc.cuny.edu
USA
Pomona College: BA, Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean History University College London: MA, Ancient History
Area of concentration: Historiography in the ancient and medieval world. Literary elements and merits of historical texts, with focus on the role of narrative and the practice of narratology as a critical discipline. The way historical texts serve as foundational pieces around which communities organize their society and literature, the Bible, the Homeric corpus of The Iliad and The Odyssey, and Arthurian myth
Languages: Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Medieval and Modern French

Yulia Greyman
ygreyman@gmail.com
B.A. in Film Studies, CUNY Honors College at Hunter
Areas of concentration: 19th and 20th century Russian and English literature, Translation Studies, Film Studies
Languages: Russian, English, French (in progress).

Mariapaola Gritti
mariapaolagritti@gmail.com
M.A. in European Humanities, University of St Andrews (Scotland) – University of Perpignan (France) – University of Bergamo (Italy) Laurea in Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Verona (Italy)
Area of concentration: narrative theory; speech act theory; poetics, aesthetics, epistemology; complex systems theories; Modernism.
Languages: Italian, English, German, F rench (reading-knowledge)

Monica Hanna
mhanna1@gmail.com
Los Angeles, CA
University of California, Berkeley, B.A. English
Area of concentration: Historical Literature, Historiography, National Identities, Race, Globalization, the Novel; Italian, U.S., and Latin American Literatures. Languages: Spanish, Italian

Julia Heim
juliaheim.ny@gmail.com
M.A., Middlebury College - Italian Studies
Area of concentration: Political, Social, and Gender Dissent through film, Divismo, Neorealismo, Mafia studies.
Languages: Italian

Selin Kalostyan
skalostyan@gc.cuny.edu
Istanbul, Turkey
M.A., Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY
B.A., American Culture and Literature, Istanbul University
Area of concentration: 20th century English and French Literature; Gender and Postcolonial studies; Autobiography and Memory
Languages: English, Turkish, Armenian, French

Agata Kasprzyk
akasprzyk@gc.cuny.edu
M.A. in German Philology, University of Silesia (Poland)
Areas of specialization: German postmodernism; 20th century German, Swiss and Austrian literature; 19th and 20th century philosophy; German–American and Polish-German cultural relations; history of Europe; translation theory.
Languages: German, English, Polish

Tim Keane
Area of concentration: Existential Literature, Prose Poetics, Modern French & American Literatures, Poetry & Translation
Languages: Latin, French, Spanish

Adele Kudish
ak626@nyu.edu
Comparative Literature B.A (Cum Laude), New York University Area of concentration: Early Modern French, English, and Italian prose and its influence on 19th and early 20th Century European novels
Languages: French, Italian, Romanian

Charlotte Lucy Latham
seecll@gmail.com
B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM
Areas of interest Proust, Renaissance art, aesthetics and the philosophy of desire; strong interest in the relationship between visual art and literature.
Languages: English, French

Christopher Leydon
cleydon@earthlink.net
USA
St. John's College, Annapolis, B.A. in Liberal Arts
Area of concentration: Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature, Hagiography, Vernacular Poetics, Connections to Classical Myth

Andrew Libby
M.A. Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY; B.A. in English and German, University of Texas
Languages: German, French; reading knowledge of Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, and Dutch

Mikhail Lipyanskiy
New York, NY
CUNY Graduate Center, Ph.D. Student in Comparative Literature
Languages: Native fluency in English and Russian. Written knowledge of Ukrainian and Old Slavonic and Hebrew.

Nives Matesic
nives9@hotmail.com
BA: major in Spanish, minor in Italian, Hunter College
MA: major in Spanish, minor in Education, Hunter College
Areas of interest: Modern and present-day literature, film and music.
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, basic French and Croatian

Evelina Mendelevich
emendelevich@gmail.com
English B.A (Suma Cum Laude), Hunter College, CUNY
Area of interest: Russian, British, and French nineteenth-century novel. Psychological fiction. Women writers.
Languages: Russian (native), Belarusian (near-native), French (proficient), Hebrew (fair), Latin (fair).

Krystyna Michael
USA
University of Toronto, BA
Areas of concentration: 19th Century Literature, Modernism
Languages: German, French, Polish

Lucy McNair
lucymcnair@verizon.net
B.A. in GermanStudies from the University of Massachusetts, M.A. in Translation
Studies from the University of Paris VIII
Area of concentration: North African literature, translation studies, trauma and memoir
Languages: French

Yvonne Mattevi
ymattevi@gc.cuny.edu
Trento, Italy.
SUNY. Stony Brook University, DA in Foreign Language Instruction.
YSU (OH). MA in English + TESOL Certificate.
Area of concentration: Italian-American literature, linguistics, cultural studies, theatre, and pedagogy.
Languages: Italian

Olga Muratova
murkissa@optonline.net
Gaduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Languages: Native speaker of Russian. Written knowledge of French, Latin and Ukrainian.

Drew Moore
dmoorenyc@rcn.com
USA
M.A., Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
B.A., Greek and Latin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
B.S., Theatre, Northwestern University
Area of concentration: Classical philosophy, mythology, literature
Languages: Greek, Latin, Spanish

Alexander Moudrov
moudrov@gmail.com
B.A., English and Philosophy, Hunter College
M.Phil., Comparative Literature, Graduate Center
Area of concentration: Scandalous and Sensationalist Literature & Journalism; Early American Culture; Russia and the West; Augustan Rome
Languages: English, Russian, French, Latin

Yael Nezer
YNezer@gc.cuny.edu
Binyamina, Israel
M.A., Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Haifa University
B.A., Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Haifa University
Area of concentration: Latin Literature, Hebrew literature, Renaissance Italian literature, History of Literary Criticism, Intertextuality and Mythology.
Languages:Hebrew, English, Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian (in progress)

James Nikopoulos
jnikopoulos@gc.cuny.edu
Area of concentration:19th and 20th Century literature. Modernism
Languages: Italian, Greek

Douglas Parker
dougscottparker@yahoo.com
Dowling College BA
Fordham University MST
Areas of concentration: History of the Novel; 19th Century European & American Lit; Modernism; Film & Theater; Classics.
Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish.

John Pendergast
john.pendergast@usma.edu
New York, NY
BA, Music, Birmingham-Southern College
MA, Russian Language and Literature, University of Arizona
Area of Concentration: 19th c. Russian and German Literature, Music and Letters, especially opera and art song
Languages: Russian, German, Latin

John Pilsner
jpilsner@gc.cuny.edu
USA
University of Toronto, M.A.
Area of concentration: Philosophers and Fools in Renaissance Literature, Renaissance Philosophy, Theology, Art History, Allegory, Exegesis, Plato and Neo-Platonism.

Giulia Po
gpo@gc.cuny.edu
Italy
Laurea in English Language and Literature, University of Bologna
Area of concentration: Italian Literature,19th and 20th Century Italian Narrative, Women’s Studies and Autobiographies, and Foreign Language Education.
Languages: Italian

Jacopo Rampini
Rampinijacopo@gmail.com
Sorbonne Paris 1, B.A. in Philosophy and Literature
Area of concentration: 19th century French Literature
Languages: Italian, French, English

Patrick Reilly
Preilly22@aol.com
Fordham University, New York, B.A.
Area of concentration: Greek Literature, Eighteenth Century French and English Literature, Theatre, The Symbolists, The Dialogue, Satire, Modernism, Drama, Dance, Music.
Dissertation title: The Aesthetics of Destiny in Plague Literature

Adam Resnick
adam.resnick@gmail.com
New York, NY
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Area of concentration: Psychoanalytic Theory, Marxist Theory, Mythology, Epics
Languages: English,Spanish,Latin

Mark Rinaldi
mrinaldi@gc.cuny.edu
USA
B.A. in English and Italian, M.A. in Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut Area of concentration: Italian dialect literature, Italian-American Studies, and confrontation/rapport between Italy and Italian-Americans.
Languages: Italian

Flavio Rizzo
flavio.rizzo@gmail.com
Rome, Italy
Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre
Laurea in Literature and Philosophy, Rome University
Area of concentration: Cinema Studies, 20th Century American Writing, Italian Literature, Italian American Studies and Asian Studies.
Languages: Italian, French, Spanish

Andrea Rosso
andrea_efthymiou@yahoo.com
USA
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.
Area of concentration: 20th Century American and Italian Literature.

Abraham Rubin
abrubin@gmail.com
Israel
MA Tel Aviv University
BA Haifa University
Area of concentration: Modernism, critical theory, psychoanalysis, trauma studies,Jewish-American literature
Languages: Hebrew, English, German

Luisanna Sardu Castangia
LSardu_Castangia@gc.cuny.edu
B.A. in European Languages and Literature, Universitá di Sassari, Italy
Area of Concentration: German studies, Linguistics
M.A of Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Florida
Area of Concentration: Languages, Linguistics, Comparative Literature Spanish studies, Renaissance studies
Languages: Italian, Spanish, English, German

Lisa Sarti
lisasarti@libero.it
Italy
Laurea Degree, University of Florence
Area of concentration: English literature, foreign languages
Languages: Italian, English, German, Spanish, Latin.

David C. Sharp
misterdavidsharp@gmail.com
Los Angeles, CA
UCLA, B.A. in English
CUNY Graduate Center, M.A. and MPhil in Comparative Literature
Area of concentration: Italian, Spanish, detective fiction.
Languages: Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, basic German

Sophia Shats
SophiaShats@yahoo.com
Stony Brook University, B.A. in Comparative Literature, Minor in Philosophy
Area of concentration: Magical Realism, Narrative, Metaphors
Languages: Spanish, Italian

Jane Shmidt
Jane_Shmidt@yahoo.com
USA
Hunter College, B.A. in English Literature
Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY
Area of concentration:18th and 19th Century Russian Literature, 19th and 20th century British Literature, Classical and Modern Drama, Short Story, Latin American Literature, Bilingual Writers, Memoir
Languages: Russian, Spanish

Bhakti Shringarpure
bhakti.shringarpure@gmail.com
Bombay, India
Bard College, BA in Literature (2000)
Area of concentration:Postcolonial Literatures and Theory, Conflict Studies, Cinema, Architecture, Space, Urbanism and Popular Culture

Michael Skafidas
MichaelNPQ@aol.com
The Graduate Center, City of New York, NY,
Languages: Native language Greek. Near-native fluency in English. Working knowledge of French, German, and Classical Greek.

Rebekah Smith
B.A. Literature, New School University - Eugene Lang College
Area of concentration: Russian, French and American 19th and early 20th century literatures. Romanticism, mythologies, absurd literature, the novel.
Languages: French, Russian

Isabel Sobral Campos
B.A. in English, Brooklyn College
M.A: in Theatre, Hunter College
Area of interest: Revolution and the novel
Languages:Portuguese, Spanish and Latin.

Elena Staffoni
EStaffoni@gc.cuny.edu
Laurea at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
Area of concentration:19th & 20th Century Literature, Decadence, Psychoanalysis, Film Studies.
Languages:Italian, French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek

Linda Stein
LOSS2006@columbia.edu
Graduate Center, CUNY
Area of concentration: the medieval literatures of Spain, France and England
Languages: Spanish, French

Catherine Sudol
csudol@rcn.com
Area of concentration:20th Century Urban Literature, the Flaneur, the Picaresque, Irish Literature, Effects of the Reformation & Counter-Reformation on European Literature.
Languages: Spanish & French

Lisa Tagliaferri
LTagliaferri@gc.cuny.edu
M.A. in Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton University
B.A. in Italian and Art, Macaulay Honors College at CUNY Hunter College
Areas of interest: Dante studies; medieval literature; paleography and illuminated manuscripts; folklore, fairy tales and the oral tradition; translation theory.
Languages: Italian, French, Latin, basic German

Rym Terbeche
rymterbeche@gmail.com
B.A in English. University of Algiers, Algeria.
Graduate coursework in International Journalism, Universite Laval, Canada.
M.A in Women's studies, Graduate Center
Areas of concentration: 20th century French Literature, Post-colonial & Francophone Literature, Exile narratives, Translation Studies, Multiculturalism.
Languages: French, Arabic, Italian, Latin (in progress).

Gina Maria Tomasulo
JeanRhys_4@hotmail.com
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, New York Area of concentration: Women's Studies, the Novel in France and Italy, African-American literature, Contemporary Autobiographical Writings, Postcolonial Studies, Narratology, Psychoanalysis.
Languages: Italian, French

Vivianna Torrero
vivator@aol.com
Torino, Italy Hunter College, B.A. in Italian Literature, Minor in Music
Area of concentration: 19th & 20th Century Italian Literature, Music, Film.

Laura Travagin
ltravagin@gc.cuny.edu
Como, Italy
Hunter College, New York ,B.A.
Area of concentration: Post Colonialism and Francophonie, Film Studies, Modernism, Post Modernism, Cultural Studies, Modern Art.

Christopher Trogan
ctrogan@aol.com
New York City
B.A., M.A. Columbia University.
Area of concentration: Research Interests: 19th & 20th Century German Literature, Philosophical Approaches to Literature, Film History & Theory, Nonfiction Prose Studies.
Languages: German

Kristina Varade
krv203@nyu.edu
The City University of New York.
Area of concentration: Travel literature; national identity; Anglo-Irish and Italian relationships.
Languages: Italian; French

Zoltan Varga
vargaz17@yahoo.com
MPhil, Gender Studies; Central European University–The Open University in London
MA, English, Ancient Greek; University of Szeged, Hungary
Area of concentration: Modernism, literary theory, semiotics, gender, ancient Greek literature, Greek mythology
Languages: ancient Greek, English, Hungarian, German


Laura Visco
laurafeola@yahoo.com
University of Rome "La Sapienza," B.A. Modern Languages and Literature
Area of Concentration: 19th and 20th century Italian and German Literature
Languages: Italian, German and French.

Chun-ling Wei
chunling.wei@gmail.com
Taipei, Taiwan
Fu-Jen Catholic University in Taipei, B.A. M.A. in English Literature
Area of concentration: English Literature, Renaissance Studies, Modern Drama, Literary Theory, Chinese Films

Anna Williams
awilliams101780@aol.com
USA
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, B.A. in Literature
MA in Comp Lit from The Graduate Center
Area of concentration: Latin American and Caribbean Literature after 1960, Border Literature and Theory, Cervantes, 17th Century Spanish American Colonial Poetry by Women, and Psychoanalysis and Literature.

Lori Yamato
loriyamato@verizon.net
USA
New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
BA from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, MA in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center (CUNY).
Area of concentration: philosophy and literature; Enlightenment and Romanticism; opera and song cycle; tragedy; Orpheuses and Anti-Orpheuses; emblems, fables, and parables.
Languages: Danish, German, Italian, Latin

Matvei Yankelevich
yan@pobox.com
Moscow, USSR
Wesleyan University, Connecticut, B.A. in Russian Literature
Graduate work at Yale University in Slavic Literature
Area of concentration: Literary Theory, Metaphor, Surrealism, 20th Century Poetry, Translation, Visual Culture & Theater, Theories of Avant-Garde.

Paige Young
youpaige@gmail.com
B.A. in Comparative Literature from The City College of New York (Summa Cum Laude & Jacob K. Javits Fellow)
Areas of interest: range from early Romantic works, specifically German and French writers, and mythology in the Romantic text to Deconstruction, translation issues, and the intention of the text.
Languages: French, reading knowledge of Latin and German.

Nicole Zeftel
Nicole.Zeftel@gmail.com
M.A., English, University at Buffalo
B.A., Art History and Literary Studies, University of Toronto
Area of Concentration: Humor and folly, subjectivity and personal inwardness in Modernist and Renaissance literature; drama; psychoanalysis; 20th century American literature
Languages: French

Alexandra Zobel
alexandra_zobel@hotmail.com
USA
Hunter College, New York, M.A. in Spanish
Area of concentration: Latin American Literature, Arabic Literature, Violence: its effects on and portrayals in literature, Literature as a vehicle for social protest and change.
Languages: Spanish, French, Italian, intermediate knowledge of Arabic