Languages and Cultures Adjunct Faculty

FALL 2025

ADJUNCTS
name                       campus      language    location        phone ext.            email address           
BENEDUCE CLAUDIA LC IT LL924 6381 [email protected]            
MA (University of Trieste). Areas of Interest: Translation Studies in German, English, Italian          
BLANCO ELVIRA LC SP LL924 6381 [email protected]            
PhD (Columbia University). Areas of Interest: Politics of the common, popular religiosity, visual culture          
CARNELUTTI BEATRICE RH IT 557 2651 [email protected]            
CAYER JONATHAN LC FR LL924 6381 [email protected]            
PhD (Yale). Areas of Interest: French pedagogy, French in the Americas, professional French          
DIAZ-MARTINEZ SEBASTIAN RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
MPhil (CUNY). Areas of Interest: Transpacific cultural exchanges, Latin American visual culture,Japanese migration in Latin America          
DiNARDO LAURA RH IT 557 2651 [email protected]            
PhD (Columbia University). Areas of Interests: Dante, Medieval Italian Literature,
Medieval and Analytic Philosophy of Language
          
FRIEND ARIELLE LC GE LL924 6381 [email protected]            
GALLO IRMA RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
MFA (NYU) Areas of Interest: 20th and 21st Centuries Latin American and Mexican Literature.
Mexican migration in NYC. Capitalism and aging female bodies
          
GIRARDI ELISABETTA  RH IT 561 2656 [email protected]            
JD (University of Turin). Areas of Interest: Human Rights and Migration,
Italian Resistance Movement and the Italian Constitution
          
GRANADOS ANA MARIA RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
MA (Universidad de los Andes). Areas of Interest: cultural studies, media studies,
representations of insurgency 
          
HALPERIN HAGIT GORAL LC HE LL924 6381 [email protected] HE liaison          
MA-Jewish Art and Material Culture at The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)          
HE NING LC CH LL924 6381 [email protected]            
MA (Rutgers University). Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition and Assessment,
Language Use, Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language 
          
HERNANDEZ PACHON ELIANA  RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
PhD (Cornell University). Areas of Interest: Latin American literature and visual art.
Environmental humanities, Queer ecologies, Migration and activism, Spanish Language Pedagogy
          
HERNANDEZ TAPIA LIDIA RH SP 557 2651  [email protected]            
MPhil (CUNY). Areas of Interest: 20th Century Cuban literature and visual arts, media studies,
Latinx studies 
          
IRRIBAREN JAVIERA LC SP LL924 6381 [email protected]            
PhD (Columbia University). Areas of Interest: Contemporary Latin America, Media studies,
Indigeneity, Environmental humanities
          
JAROSINSKI ERIC  RH GE 557 2651 [email protected]            
PhD (University of Wisconsin)          
KAPOOR CECILIA  RH FR 554 4727 [email protected]            
PhD (Johns Hopkins University). Areas of Interest: Second language teaching and learning          
KIM EUNJI LC JP LL924 6381 [email protected] JP liaison          
MA (Columbia University). Areas of Interest: East Asian Language Pedagogy,
Assessments, and Discourse Analysis
          
LAI TINNY LC CH LL924 6381 [email protected]            
LEUNG CATHY LC FR LL924 6381 [email protected]            
PhD (Columbia University). Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th century French and as Francophone
studies, gender studies, women in French 
          
MENDOZA VIEL MICHEL RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
MPhil (CUNY). Areas of Interests: Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Religions,
Sci-Fi, Media Studies
          
MIELES MARIA X LC SP LL924 6381 [email protected]            
MINCHALA CECILIA RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
M. A. (University of Cuenca). Areas of Interest: Renaissance and Baroque Christian Poetry;
Spanish Grammar and Teaching Methodology for Foreign Learners
          
MOFFA LOUIS LC IT LL924 6381 [email protected]            
PhD (Columbia University). Areas of Interests: Dante, lyric poetry,
medieval Italian literature, cosmology, history of science
          
MOULAYES YASSER RH AR 557 2651 [email protected]            
MUNOZ-SOLANO NEFER  RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
PhD (Harvard University). Areas of Interest: Central American literatures and cultures;
environmental humanities; Latin American studies; mass media, journalism, and communications;
visual culture; popular culture
          
ORAMA-LÓPEZ CARMEN I. LC SP LL924 6381 [email protected]            
PhD (Universidad de Puerto Rico). Areas of Interest: Hispanic studies, linguistic          
RINKERT SYBILLE RH/LC GR LL924 6381 [email protected]            
RODRIGUEZ URIBE EDSON  RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
Mg. in Media and Communication studies. Areas of Interest:
Critical sociolinguistics and critical pedagogy of languages
          
SAKURAI YOKO LC JP LL924 6381 [email protected] JP liaison          
M.A. (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo). Areas of Interest: Action-Oriented Approach,
Task-Based Language Teaching, Modern Japanese haiku
          
SCHULTZ ANNIE LC FR LL924 6381 [email protected]            
MA (University of Louisville). Areas of Interest: eighteenth-century French literature          
SEHIL SCHEINDLIN SONIA LC FR LL924 6381 [email protected]            
SMYSLOVA ALLA LC RU LL924 6381 [email protected]            
PhD (Bryn Mawr). Areas of Interest: SLA, Heritage Learners, Skill Development          
TINIACO NATASHA LC SP LL924 6381 [email protected]            
MPhil (CUNY). Areas of Interests: Disability Studies, Health Humanities, Sound Studies, Poetics          
VELASQUEZ LORENA MARIA RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
PHD (CUNY). Areas of Interest: representations of violence and ruins,
Cultural Studies, contemporary Latin american literature, Venezuelan Studies
          
VILLARRAGA MORALES VALENTINA RH SP 557 2651 [email protected]            
VOLKMER KATHERINE  RH IT 557 2651 [email protected]            
MPhil (CUNY). Areas of Interest: Early Modern Women authors, prescriptive literature, petrarchism;
Italian language pedagogy
          
WINTER PATRICIA  RH FR 552 2651 [email protected]            
PHD (CUNY). Areas of Interest: Feminist Literature, Performance Art, Translation,
French Culinary Cultures