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Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

Faculty

The School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures - SLLC is the recent creation of a large community of over 30 faculty engaged in a variety of research areas and programs.

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John Archibald

Professor Linguistics, SLLC

John Archibald is a Professor in the Linguistics section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: Clearihue D365

Area(s) of expertise:
L2/L3 phonology; second language acquisition; language learnability; multilingualism
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Marina (Maria) Bettaglio

Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies, SLLC

Marina Bettaglio is a Professor in the Hispanic and Italian Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria. 

Office: CLE B436 250-472-4475

Area(s) of expertise:
Contemporary Spanish and Italian Cultural Studies, Gender and Media Studies, Motherhood Studies, Food Studies
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Sonya Bird

Professor Linguistics, SLLC

Sonya Bird is a Professor in the Linguistics section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: CLE D359 250-721-7434

Area(s) of expertise:
Acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual phonetics; Sound structures of Salish languages; Pronunciation & language acquisition; Indigenous language revitalization
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Catherine Caws

Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

Catherine Caws is a Professor in the French and Francophone Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: Clearihue C239

Area(s) of expertise:
Technology-mediated language learning and teaching; data-driven learning and corpus linguistics (Second language); teaching and learning in higher education; lexicology and lexicography
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Hélène Cazes

Status: On leave

Professor French and Francophone Studies

Hélène Cazes is a Professor in the French and Francophone section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria. 

Area(s) of expertise:
Literatures and cultures (France), Editorial Mediations, Comics, Humanism, Gender and Medicine
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Silvia Colás Cardona

Teaching Professor; Chair Hispanic Studies, SLLC

Silvia Colás Cardona is a Teaching Professor and the Chair of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: CLE C247a 250-721-7362

Area(s) of expertise:
Spanish as a Second Language (ELE); Film Censorship Under Franco; Cuban Narrative of the Special Period
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Alexandra D’Arcy

Professor Linguistics, SLLC

Alexandra D'Arcy is a Professor in the Linguistics section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: MWB A109

Area(s) of expertise:
Sociolinguistics; Language Variation and Change; Diachronic Linguistics
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Mylène F. Dorcé

Assistant Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

Mylène F. Dorcé is an Assistant Professor in the French and Francophone Section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: Clearihue C232 (250) 721-8884

Area(s) of expertise:
Insular Francophone Literatures (Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean); Francophone African Literatures (Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa); Québécois Migrant Literature; First Person Narratives; Postcolonial, decolonial and transnational theories; Feminist Theories and Praxis; Women Writers
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Moustapha Fall

Associate Teaching Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

Moustapha Fall is an Associate Teaching Professor in the French and Francophone Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: CLE C259 250-721-6317

Area(s) of expertise:
First Language Acquisition (L1A) & Second Language Acquisition (L2A); Literacy Education in L1A & Literacy Education in L2A; Inclusive Teaching and Learning / Decolonized Pedagogies in Postcolonial Africa

Émile Fromet de Rosnay

Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

Emile Fromet de Rosnay is an Associate Professor in the French and Francophone Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: CLE C252 250-721-7366

Area(s) of expertise:
19th to 20th Century French and comparative literature, Romanticism, modernist poetics; post-Enlightenment and posthumanist philosophy; research-creation; anarchism

Joseph Grossi

Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies, SLLC

Office: CLE D330 250-721-7278

Area(s) of expertise:
Medieval Italian, English and Latin literatures; Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations; cultural geography
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Sara Harvey

Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

Sara Harvey is an Associate Professor in the French and Francophone section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: CLE C257

Area(s) of expertise:
Media Archaeology [theatre and press] (17th and 18th centuries), Dramatic criticism in the press (17th and 18th centuries), History, repertoire and theatrical life at the Comédie-Française (18th century), Theatrical archives, historiography and new technologies, Critical digital humanities, Ecodramaturgy of early modern performances (16th-18th centuries).

Li-Shih Huang

Professor Applied Linguistics, SLLC

Li-Shih Huang is a Professor in the Applied Linguistics section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: CLE D367 250-472-4665

Area(s) of expertise:
Applied linguistics
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Pierre-Luc Landry

Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

Pierre-Luc Landry is an Associate Professor in the French and Francophone Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: CLE C228 250-721-7374

Area(s) of expertise:
Cultural Studies, Critical Québec Studies, Contemporary Literatures and Cultures (France, Canada and the Francophone World), Indigenous Literature and Culture, Settler Colonial Studies, Creative Writing, Research-Creation, Queer Theories and LGBTQIA2S+ Cultures, Children's and Young Adult Literature, Contemporary Cultural, Social and Political Thought, Media Studies, Film Studies

Hua Lin

Associate Professor Linguistics, SLLC

Hua Lin is a Associate Professor in the Linguistics section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: CLE D347 250-721-6643

Area(s) of expertise:
phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, Chinese linguistics
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Catherine Léger

Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

Catherine Léger is an Associate Professor in the French and Francophone Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguitics and Cultures.

Office: Clearihue C250 (250)721-7369

Area(s) of expertise:
Syntax; semantics; pragmatics; contact linguistics; French in North America

Martha McGinnis

Associate Professor Linguistics, SLLC

Martha McGinnis is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: CLE D351 250-721-7422

Area(s) of expertise:
Syntax, morphology

Hossein Nassaji

Professor Linguistics, SLLC

Hossein Nassaji is a Professor in the Linguistics section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: CLE D355 250-721-7428

Area(s) of expertise:
Second Language Acquisition, Corrective Feedback, Form-Focused Instruction, Task-Based Teaching, Classroom Discourse, The Application of Sociocultural Theories to Second Language Research and Pedagogy

Elena Pnevmonidou

Associate Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies, SLLC

Office: CLE D265 250-721-7324

Area(s) of expertise:
Germanic Studies, Gender Studies, Romantic Aesthetic Theory
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Matthew Pollard

Associate Teaching Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies, SLLC

Matt Pollard is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Germanic Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: CLE D257

Area(s) of expertise:
Germanic Studies, Language Teaching, Film, Visual Arts

Olga Pressitch

Assistant Teaching Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies, SLLC

Office: CLE D245 250-721-7502

Area(s) of expertise:
Slavic Studies, Ukrainian Literature, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Film

Pablo Restrepo Gautier

Associate Professor Hispanic Studies, SLLC

Pablo Restrepo Gautier is an Associate Professor in the Hispanic Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: CLE C248

Area(s) of expertise:
Hispanic presence in the Pacific Northwest in the 18th century; colonial North Pacific navigation diaries and documentation; gender and narrative in 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century Spanish literature; early modern Spanish drama and emblems.
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Julia Rochtchina

Associate Teaching Professor Slavic Studies, SLLC

Julia Rochtchina is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Slavic Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: Clearihue D251

Area(s) of expertise:
Russian Language Pedagogy; Russian Culture and Literature; Bilingualism, Language of Diaspora
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Dan Russek

Professor Hispanic Studies, SLLC

Dan Russek is a Professor in the Hispanic section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: Clearihue B429 (250) 472-5455

Area(s) of expertise:
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature (Cuba, Mexico, Argentina), Literature and Visual Arts and Media, Literature and Philosophy, Aesthetics and Urban Studies, Creative Writing
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Charlotte Schallié

Professor Germanic Studies, SLLC

Charlotte Schallié is a Professor in the Germanic Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: CLE D263 250-721-7321

Area(s) of expertise:
Memory studies, visual culture studies & graphic narratives, teaching and learning about the Holocaust, genocide and human rights education, community-engaged participatory research, care ethics, and arts-based action research
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Ulf Schuetze

Professor Germanic Studies, SLLC

Ulf Schütze is a Professor of Second Language Acquisition within the Germanic Studies section of the School of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: Clearihue D253

Area(s) of expertise:
Second Language Acquisition; VR and AI Assisted Language Learning; Psycholinguistics; Language and Culture
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Megan Swift

Professor Slavic Studies, SLLC

Megan Swift is a Professor in the Slavic Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.

Office: Clearihue D249

Area(s) of expertise:
Russian literature, art and culture
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Helga Thorson

Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies, SLLC

Helga Thorson is a Professor in the Germanic Studies section of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Office: CLE D255 250-721-7320

Area(s) of expertise:
Holocaust studies; Late 19th- and early 20th-century German and Austrian literature and culture; History of gender and sexuality; Foreign language pedagogy; Scandinavian studies

Suzanne Urbanczyk

Associate Professor Linguistics, SLLC

Office: CLE D361

Area(s) of expertise:
Phonology, morphology, language revitalization
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Serhy Yekelchyk

Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies, SLLC

Office: CLE D247 250-721-7505

Area(s) of expertise:
Slavic Studies, Russian History, Stalinism, Ukrainian Culture, Film