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Robert Rushing

Professor Rushing teaches, researches and publishes on 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature, culture, film and music, including contemporary Italian fiction, film and television; critical and interpretive theory (especially gender and sexuality,…

Maria Falbo

Maria Falbo is an Italian lecturer at UCLA. She has worked as an adjunct Professor of foreign languages and Italian language, including LLP/Erasmus Program (European Union students), at Università degli…

Églantine Colon

Églantine Colon joined ELTS after holding positions at Duke University, UC Berkeley, and CalArts. At UCLA, they teach French language and French and Francophone literature, film, culture, and theory. Églantine…

Vetri Nathan

Affiliated Faculty, Food Studies Minor Professor Nathan’s scholarly interests include the study of the cultural foundations of environmental and cultural wellbeing, analyses of multispecies solidarity and kinship, and the exploration…

Erin Cooney

Erin Cooney is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and has a background in philosophy, French studies, graphic design, and media arts. Professor…

Nina Bjekovic

Nina Bjekovic holds a Ph.D. in Italian from UCLA, where she also received her MA in Italian. She serves as the Director of Language Programs at UCLA’s Department of European…

Patricia Wiley

Patricia Wiley is a Ph.D. Student in the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages whose research interests include German/English Language Contact and Language, Ideology, Pragmatics, and Translation Studies. Patricia speaks German, English,…

Kimberly La Palm

Kimberly spent the 2014-2015 academic year doing dissertation research in Stockholm and Copenhagen, having been awarded the Birgit Baldwin Fellowship by the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. She…