People - Faculty

Name

Field of Interest

Beatrice Arduini

Associate Professor of Italian
Chair

barduini@uw.edu / (206) 616-9560

Office Hours: TTh 1:00-2:00 PM and by appointment

PDL C-249

Culture, Dante, Italian, Literature, Manuscript Culture, Medieval, Textual Studies

Maya Angela Eipe Smith

Professor of French
Associate Dean for Equity, Justice and Inclusion

mayaas@uw.edu

Office Hours: Schedule by visiting https://calendly.com/mayaas

PDL C-257

Applied Linguistics, Diaspora Studies, Francophone, French, Italian, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Second Language Acquisition

Susan Gaylard

Associate Professor of Italian

sgaylard@u.washington.edu / (206) 616-3940

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30, Wednesdays 11-12

PDL C-259

16th Century, 17th Century, Culture, Fashion, Italian, Literature, Medieval, Visual Culture

Lorenzo Giachetti

Associate Teaching Professor of French

giachetl@uw.edu

Office Hours: Winter '25: TTh 11:30-12:20

PDL C-246

20th Century, Applied Linguistics, Film/Cinema, French, Second Language Acquisition, Translation and Interpretation

Black and white portait of Irina Markina

Irina Markina-Baum

Assistant Teaching Professor of French & Italian
Language Program Director

imarkina@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1-3pm or by appointment

PDL C-262

19th Century, Art History, Comics, Language Pedagogy, Literature and Other Arts, Modernism, Mural art, Nation-building, Republicanism, Space, Visual Culture

Claudio Mazzola

Associate Teaching Professor in Italian

mazzola@u.washington.edu / (206) 616-5359

Office Hours: Mondays and Tuesdays 1:30-2:20pm or by appointment

PDL C-247

20th Century, 21st Century, Critical Theory, Culture, Film/Cinema, Italian, Literary Criticism, Literature

Hedwige Meyer

Teaching Professor of French

hedwige@uw.edu / (206) 616-3080

Office Hours: Monday 12:30-2:30 or by appointment

PDL C-248

Culture, French, Language Pedagogy, Literature, Second Language Acquisition, Task-Based Language Teaching

Lamia Mezzour-Hodson

Acting Assistant Professor of French

lmezzour@uw.edu

Office Hours: Monday 3:30-4:30, Wednesday 12:15-1:15 or by appointment

PDL C-260

20th Century, 21st Century, Francophone, French, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Language Pedagogy, Postcolonial, Social Justice

Matthew Skrzypczyk

Acting Assistant Professor of French

mskrzy@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 1:30-2:30pm, T 3:30-4:30pm and by appointment

PDL C-253

20th Century, 21st Century, Art History, Body, Caribbean, Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Literature and Other Arts, Queer Studies, Visual Arts

Geoffrey Turnovsky

Professor of French

gt2@uw.edu / (206) 616-1241

Office Hours: Mon 11am-1pm and by appointment

PDL C-261

17th Century, 18th Century, Book History, Culture, French, History, Literature, Media Studies, Print Culture, Textual Studies

Hélène Vilavella Collins

Teaching Professor of French

helenev@u.washington.edu / (206) 543-7935

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4pm via Zoom at https://washington.zoom.us/j/7994213543 or by appointment

PDL C-251

20th Century, Culture, Film/Cinema, French, Literature

Richard Watts

Associate Professor of French

rhwatts@u.washington.edu / (206) 685-1618

Office Hours: Wednesdays 10-12

PDL C-255

20th Century, 21st Century, Ecocriticism, Francophone, Literature, Postcolonial, Translation and Interpretation

Part-Time Faculty

People - Full Directory
Name	Title	Email/Phone	Office Hours
Moore, Sarah-Kate	Part-time Lecturer	skmoore5@uw.edu	PDL C-235 Mondays 11:30-1:30
Riverso-Levander, Nicla	Part-time Lecturer of Italian	riverso@uw.edu	PDL C-206 Tuesday and Thursday 1:30-2:20
Wagenseil, Claire	Part-time Lecturer of French	cjw0@uw.edu	PDL C-230 Thursdays 2:00-3:00pm and by appointment on Zoom

Emeriti Faculty

People - Full Directory
Name	Title	Email/Phone	Office Hours
Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel	Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and French	mbj@u.washington.edu (206) 543-9399	PDL B-530 by appointment
Delcourt, Denyse	Professor Emerita, French	jdd@uw.edu
Sbragia, Albert	Associate Professor Emeritus of Italian	sbragia@uw.edu
Yowell, Donna	Senior Lecturer Emerita	dyowell@u.washington.edu

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Full Directory
Name	Title	Email/Phone	Office Hours
Clausen, Meredith	Professor, Architectural History/Art History	mlc@u.washington.edu (206) 616-6751	ART 222 & GLD 448A by appointment
Handwerk, Gary	Professor and Chair of Department of English	handwerk@u.washington.edu (206) 543-2690	PDL A101 By appointment
Jonas, Raymond	Professor of History	jonas@uw.edu (206) 543-5749	SMI 210B By appointment
Lingo, Estelle	Associate Professor of Art History	elingo@u.washington.edu (206) 616-0663	ART 359 By appointment
Lingo, Stuart	Associate Professor of Art History	lingo@u.washington.edu (206) 616-4023	ART 367 By appointment

In Memoriam

People - Full Directory
Name	Title
Christofides, Constantine	Professor Emeritus, French
Collins, Douglas	Associate Professor Emeritus of French
Creore, A. E.	Professor Emeritus, French
Dale, Robert	Associate Professor Emeritus
Ellrich, Robert	Associate Professor Emeritus
Friedman, Lionel	Professor Emeritus
Friedrich, Pia	Professor Emerita, Italian
Leiner, Jacqueline	Professor Emerita
Nostrand, Howard	Professor Emeritus, French
Vance, Eugene	Professor Emeritus, French, Comparative Literature, and Comparative Religion
Wortley, W. Victor	Associate Professor Emeritus