Department Chair: Antonio Sobejano-Morán
Director of Graduate Studies: Salvador Fajardo
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Binghamton University is pleased to introduce the distinguished members of its faculty. You will find them in their offices during office hours, available by appointment, willing to take a phone call, eager to assist students in the learning process and help identify problems with their individual courses. Some are relative newcomers to Binghamton, others have made the university "home" for many years.
All our professors have earned doctorates in their fields and continue research activities as a part of their daily lives. They participate in academic advising; serve on various campus committees and governing bodies; participate as faculty advisors for foreign language honor societies; present innovations to their language division by way of grants and/or new courses and ways of presenting classroom activities and assignments. The campus is wired for e-mail and internet thus affording the professional and the learner with the newer methods of communication and acquisition of current events information.
As the need arises, community members and self-funded graduate students are recruited and hired to teach language and literature courses. Master of Arts graduate Teaching Assistants round out the teaching faculty, teaching one lower division language course per semester. Graduate students serve around the globe utilizing the skills and knowledge they acquired while here at Binghamton.
Graduate students serve around the globe utilizing the skills and knowledge they acquired while here at Binghamton.
Faculty of French
Carrol F. Coates ccoates@binghamton.edu
Dora Polachek dpolachk@binghamton.edu
Sandro Sticca ssticca@binghamton.edu
Faculty of Italian
Olivia Holmes oholmes@binghamton.edu
Mario Moroni mmoroni@binghamton.edu
Dana Stewart stewart@binghamton.edu
Faculty of Spanish
Vanessa Cañete-Jurado vanessa@binghamton.edu
Salvador Fajardo fajardo@binghamton.edu
James Hassell jhassell@binghamton.edu
Thomas O'Connor toconnor@binghamton.edu
Ana Ros aros@binghamton.edu
Antonio Sobejano-Morán sobe@binghamton.edu
Diego Trelles-Paz dtrelles@binghamton.edu
Specializes for his research in poetic structuration of metrical discourse (17th and 19th-century French literature); semiotics of theater (Québec theater); francophone literature, with concentration on Haitian literature, culture, history; grammatical and stylistic analysis. He is editor of the series CARAF Books (University Press of Virginia): translations from francophone literature of North Africa, West Africa, and the Caribbean; Associate Editor, Callaloo, A Journal of African-American, Caribbean, and African Arts & Letters, and editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies.
The courses he teaches include 19th Century French poetry; La Fontaine's Fables; Haitian and Caribbean literature; advanced grammar and stylistic analysis (with theoretical base in linguistics and pragmatics). Professor Coates did his undergraduate and masters at the University Oklahoma; his doctorate at Yale.
Received her B.A. from Barnard College, her M.A. from New York University, and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her area of specialization is French Renaissance literature. She has published extensively on Marguerite de Navarre and Montaigne and her other research interests include French Renaissance theater and issues relating to gender and power in the early modern period.
Her teaching specialties include the French comic tradition, the novella, seventeenth century theater, and representations of the "self" in the early modern period. She is the faculty advisor for a weekly informal French Table in one of the dining halls.
Special interests are in Romance Philology, medieval literature (Latin, French and Italian), medieval drama and lyric, The Renaissance, modern French and Italian literature and Comparative Literature. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author, among others, of The Latin Passion Play (1970), The Planctus Mariae in the Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages(1989), Il Convento di S. Maria del Paradiso (1989), Studio Iconografico-Storico (1986), La poetica del tempo sacramentale (1966).
He has edited several volumes, among which are,Medieval Drama (1972), Arte ed esistenza in Gennaro Manna(1993), Studies in Hagiography (1996); and is editor-in-chief of Mediaevalia. Professor Sticca completed his term as Director of Graduate Studies at the beginning of the Spring 1998 semester.
Teaching specialties are Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Humanism and medieval science and magic.
Her areas of interest in research are: Dante, early Italian lyric poetry, medieval French love literature and the history of science. She is active in the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) and is Associate Editor for Mediaevalia. Professor Stewart's graduate work, maters and doctorate, was done at Stanford University.
Principal fields of scholarly interest are Cervantes and Spanish poetry, mainly 20th Century Spanish peninsular. Professor Fajardo did his doctorate at the University of Chicago.
He is the author of books on the poet Luis Cernuda and Rafael Alberti, editor of various collections of essays on 20th century Spanish poetry and co-editor of a recently published collection on Don Quijote.
Specializes in Spanish literature of the Golden Age, particularly Calderonian theater; myth studies; and the relationship of theatrical discourse to social practice. He is editor of Spanish Classical Texts (Pegasus Press) and co-editor of Spanish Golden Age Theater (Bilingual Press).
In addition to many articles in scholarly journals, he has written Myth and Mythology in the Theater of Calderon (1988) and edited El encanto es la hermosura/ La segunda Celestina(1994). His teaching interests include courses in Spanish literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, including the Comedia, Don Quixote, the poetry of Góngora, and Spanish-American literature of the Colonial Period. Professor O'Connor's undergraduate work was completed at Iona College and his masters and doctorate at the State University of New York at Albany.
Research concentrations are mainly on 20th Century Spanish literature with emphasis on Metafiction. He also works on 20th Century Spanish theater and more recently developed a course that fuses together Narrative and film. Although his teaching usually includes 20th Century Spanish literature, he also teaches two additional courses each term, such as, 18th and 19th Century Spanish literature, and picaresque novel.
Professor Sobejano-Morán received his baccalaureate degree from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; his masters and doctorate from Michigan State University
