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School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

Faculty

  • John Archibald

    Professor Linguistics, SLLC

    Office: Clearihue D345

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

  • Marina (Maria) Bettaglio

    Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies, SLLC

    Office: CLE B436 250-472-4475

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

  • Sonya Bird

    Professor Linguistics, SLLC

    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

  • Catherine Caws

    Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

    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

  • Hélène Cazes

    Status: On leave

    Professor French and Francophone Studies

    Office: CLE C254 250-721-7367

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

  • Silvia Colás Cardona

    Teaching Professor; Chair Hispanic Studies, SLLC

    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

  • Alexandra D’Arcy

    Professor Linguistics, SLLC

    Office: MWB A109

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Sociolinguistics; Language Variation and Change; Diachronic Linguistics

  • Mylène F. Dorcé

    Assistant Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

    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

  • Moustapha Fall

    Associate Teaching Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

    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

  • Emile Fromet de Rosnay

    Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

    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

  • 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

  • Sara Harvey

    Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

    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 Lingustics, SLLC

    Office: CLE D367 250-472-4665

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Applied linguistics

  • Sandra Kirkham

    Continuing Sessional Lecturer, ASL Coordinator Linguistics, SLLC

    Office: CLE D369 250-721-7421

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Cross-cultural Communications, Phonetics, Phonology, Writing Systems, Developmental Academic English

  • Pierre-Luc Landry

    Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

    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

    Office: CLE D347 250-721-6643

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

  • Catherine Léger

    Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies, SLLC

    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

    Office: CLE D351 250-721-7422

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Syntax, morphology

  • Hossein Nassaji

    Professor Linguistics, SLLC

    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

  • Matthew Pollard

    Associate Teaching Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies, SLLC

    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

    Office: CLE C248

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Spanish literature and culture, the Spanish in the North Pacific during the 18th-century

  • Julia Rochtchina

    Associate Teaching Professor Slavic Studies, SLLC

    Office: Clearihue D251

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

  • Dan Russek

    Professor Hispanic Studies, SLLC

    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

  • Charlotte Schallié

    Professor Germanic Studies, SLLC

    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

  • Ulf Schuetze

    Professor Germanic Studies, SLLC

    Office: Clearihue D253

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

  • Megan Swift

    Professor Slavic Studies, SLLC

    Office: Clearihue D249

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

  • Helga Thorson

    Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies, SLLC

    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

  • 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