People

Elvira G. Di Fabio

edifabio@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of Language Programs

As Senior Preceptor, I coordinate and administer the Italian language program here at Harvard. I teach 3 courses a year, usually at the advanced language/culture level, and sometimes teach a Freshman Seminar on Romance foodways. My interests include...

Francesco Erspamer

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Academic Degrees: Laurea in Lettere, Diploma di perfezionamento, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Research Interests: Renaissance culture; intellectual history; modern and contemporary Italian novel; literature and politics. Erspamer’s book reviews appear...

Sylvaine Guyot

guyot@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French)

Academic Degrees: École normale supérieure (Paris); Licence, Classics, Paris Sorbonne; Agrégation in Classics; Maîtrise, D.E.A., French Literature, Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle; Ph.D, French Literature and Performing Arts, Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Research...

Eduardo Ledesma

Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese; Affiliated Faculty, Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Eduardo Ledesma was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1972 and moved to Chicago in 1984. After a decade as a practicing Structural Engineer he became a scholar of literature, film and new media. PhD Romance Languages and Literatures. Harvard University. 2012.

Christie McDonald

cmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu

Smith Professor of French Language and Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emerita

Academic degrees: B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D., Yale University Research Interests: 18th- and 20th-Century French Literature; Literary theory and Cultural Studies; Feminism; Questions of Change in Thought; The Dialogue of Literature and Criticism...

Giuliana Minghelli

Undergraduate Advisor in Italian, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Academic Degrees: Studied at the University of Pisa; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Research Interests: Modernism; Film and Visual Studies; Questions of Landscape, Memory and National Identity; Italian Popular Culture Current Research Projects...

Leslie Morris

leslie_morris@harvard.edu

Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts

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Daniel Aguirre Oteiza

daguirre@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Academic Degrees: A. B., Universidad de Salamanca; Diploma of Higher Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Research Interests: Modern Spanish Peninsular Literature (18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st -centuries); Spanish Civil War...

Mylène Priam

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures

Academic Degrees: Ph.D.: University of Illinois, Urbana; Maîtrise, D.E.A.: Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France Research Interests: The French Caribbean; Francophone Maghreb, Machreq Africa; French Culture and Civilization; Contemporary Francophone...

Jeffrey Schnapp

jeffrey@metalab.harvard.edu

Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

Academic Degrees: B.A. Vassar College; Ph.D. Stanford University (Comparative Literature). Research Interests: knowledge design; archives, museums, and libraries; the material history of literature; paleography and codicology; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio...

Nicolau Sevcenko

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Academic Degrees: B.A., Ph.D.: University of São Paulo, Brazil Research Interests: Modern Brazilian Culture, particularly the Relationship between Society and Culture; 20th-Century Brazil; Modernity and Post-Modernity

Mariano Siskind

siskind@fas.harvard.edu

Chair of the Department, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

Academic Degrees: B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; M.A., Ph.D., in Comparative Literature, New York University Research Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literature; Travel Writing; Histories and Theories of...