Faculty & Staff
Department Chair
Alexander Desforges
Title: Department Chairman
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Alex.Desforges@umb.edu
Faculty
Sonja Andersen
Title: Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Sonja.Andersen@umb.edu
Hiromi Baba
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Hiromi.Baba@umb.edu
Expertise: Japanese music and language, Learning language and culture through musicMarie Monique Brun
Title: Associate Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Marie.Brun@umb.edu
Xu Chan
Title: Senior Lecturer II
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Xuguo.Chan@umb.edu
Claudia Esposito
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Claudia.Esposito@umb.edu
Expertise: Francophone literature and cinema of the Maghreb, Postcolonialism, and the...
Thierry Gustave
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Thierry.Gustave@umb.edu
Expertise: Francophone literature, Caribbean identity, integrated technology, games, music, and films
Jacques Kitembo
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Jacques.Kitembo@umb.edu
Expertise: Language acquisition
Katharina Loew
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Katharina.Loew@umb.edu
Expertise: Film technology and special effects; international early and silent cinema;...
Huiying Ma
Title: Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Huiying.Ma@umb.edu
Expertise: Modern and conversational Chinese, including all aspects of language, such...
Shannon McHugh
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Shannon.McHugh@umb.edu
Expertise: Italian and French Renaissance literature; gender studies (women's writing, masculinity...
Yulia Mevissen
Title: Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Yulia.Mevissen@umb.edu
Expertise: 17th and 18th century poetics and history of knowledge; genre...
Abdelkrim Mouhib
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Abdelkrim.Mouhib@umb.edu
Expertise: Foreign Language Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Development, Cross-cultural Prespectives...
Marco Natoli
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Marco.Natoli@umb.edu
Expertise: Italian language and culture, history of cinema, twentieth-century Italian literature...
Phuong Nguyen
Title: Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Phuong.Nguyen@umb.edu
Expertise: Linguistics, literature, American studies, and higher education administration
Pratima Prasad
Title: Interim Dean and Professor A
Department: College of Liberal Arts
Email: Pratima.Prasad@umb.edu
Expertise: Colonialism, Romanticism, and nineteenth-century French and Francophone culture
Alicia Rodriguez
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Alicia.Rodriguez@umb.edu
Expertise: 20th-21st century Caribbean Literature. Digital Humanities and Pedadody. Women, Gender...
Rania Said
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Rania.Said@umb.edu
Troy Tower
Title: Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Troy.Tower@umb.edu
Expertise: Medieval and Renaissance Italian poetry
Miyuki Yamamoto
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Miyuki.Yamamoto@umb.edu
Yoko Yasuhara
Title: Lecturer
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Email: Yoko.Yasuhara@umb.edu
Emerita Faculty
Fiora Bassanese, Professor Emerita of Italian, College of Liberal Arts
fiora.bassanese@umb.edu
Expertise: Italian, French, and comparative literature