Faculty
Amy Singleton Adams
Department Chair, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor, Russian Studies
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Fields: Russian Language, Literature, and Culture
Email: aadams@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 454 Phone: 508-793-2543
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Arabic
Ibrahim Abdessalam
Program Coordinator, Arabic Studies
Lecturer of Arabic
M. A. American University, Cairo, Egypt
Fields: Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Corpus Linguistics, Translation
Email: iabdessa@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 429 Phone: 508-793-3042
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Chinese
Ji Hao
Coordinator of Chinese Studies
Associate Professor, Chinese Studies
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Fields: Premodern Chinese Literature
Email: jhao@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 427 Phone: 508-793-2608
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Yongli Li
On Leave 2024-2025
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Fields: Chinese Film and Media Studies
Email: yonglili@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 426
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Yu-Jung Lin
Assistant Professor, Chinese Studies
Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
Fields: Phonology and phonetics (syllable structure, tones, rhythm), Psycholinguistics (the influence of orthography on sound processing), Second language acquisition
(tense and lax vowel distinction by L1 and L2 learners, diphthong production and perception by L1 and L2 learners)
Email: yjlin@holycross.edu
Office: Stein Hall 427
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Deaf Studies and Sign Languages
Stephanie Clark
Program Coordinator, Deaf Studies and Sign Languages
Lecturer, Deaf Studies and Sign Languages
M.Ed., University of Massachusetts
Email: sclark@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 444
Ying Li
Lecturer, Deaf Studies and Sign Languages
Email: yli@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 444
Aidan Mack
Visiting Instructor, Deaf Studies and Sign Languages
Email: amack@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 445
Minh Vo
Teaching Assistant, Deaf Studies and Sign Languages
Email: mvo@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 460
French & Francophone Studies
Emma Burston
Assistant Professor, French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University / Université Paris 8
Fields: Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Visual Culture, Environmental Humanities, Contemporary French Literature and Culture, Language
Email: eburston@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 415 Phone: (508) 793-2457
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Mary Ann Coppolino
Visiting Lecturer, French & Francophone Studies
Email: mcoppoli@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 426
Jean Ouédraogo
Eleanor Howard O’Leary Chair in French & Francophone Studies
Ph.D., University of Georgia-Athens
Fields: African and Caribbean Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Email: ojean@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 443 Phone: 508-793-2795
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Adele Parker
Lecturer, French & Francophone Studies
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields: French Literature and Culture, Language
Email: aparker@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 426 Phone: 508-793-2457
Thibaut Schilt
Professor, French & Francophone Studies
Program Coordinator, French & Francophone Studies
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Fields: French Cinema, Contemporary French Literature and Culture, Gender Studies
Email: tschilt@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 413 Phone: 508-793-2609
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German
Sylvia M. Schmitz-Burgard
Associate Professor, German Studies
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Fields: 20th-, 19th-, and 18th-Century German Literature and Culture, Austrian Cultural History, 18th-Century European Novel, Women Writers, Law and Literature, Contemporary Literary Theory
Email: sschmitz@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 461 Phone: 508-793-3305
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Heidi Grek
Visiting Assistant Professor, German Studies
Email: hgrek@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 453
Italian
Susan Amatangelo
Professor, Italian Studies
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Modern Italian Literature, Giovanni Verga, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Email: samatang@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 404 Phone: 508-793-3347
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Giulia Andreoni
Visiting Assistant Professor, Italian Studies
Email: gandreon@holycross.edu
Office: 453
Giusy Di Filippo
Assistant Professor, Italian Studies
Email: gdifilip@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 430 Phone: 508-793-3438
Giovanni Spani
Program Coordinator, Italian Studies
Coordinator, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Associate Professor, Italian Studies
Pedagogical Coordinator
Ph.D., Indiana University
Fields: Medieval & Renaissance Italian Literature
Email: gspani@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 452 Phone: 508-793-3834
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Russian
Olga S. Partan
Associate Professor, Russian Studies
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields: Russian Language, Literature, and Culture
Email: opartan@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 457 Phone: 508-793-3832
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Victoria Richter
Visiting Assistant Professor, Russian Studies
Email vrichter@holycross.edu
Office Stein 445
Diana Dukhanova
Visiting Assistant Professor, Russian Studies
Email: ddukhano@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 453 PO Box: 46A
Staff
Carolyn Leeman
Coordinator
Email: cleeman@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 401 Phone: (508) 793-2447
Faculty Emeriti
Charlie Baker
Associate Professor Emeritus
Baozhang He
Associate Professor Emeritus
Claudia N. Ross
Professor, Emerita
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Linguistics (lexical and semantic structure), Chinese language pedagogy
Email: cross@holycross.edu