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I received a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American literature (Filología Hispánica) and a D.E.A. (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) in Romance Literatures from the University of Barcelona. In 2013, I completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. Before join...Read more

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Brianne Orr-Álvarez

Brianne Orr-Alvarez

Associate Professor of Teaching | Associate Head of Spanish Studies | Director, FHIS Learning Centre

brianne.orr@ubc.ca

604 822 4561

Buchanan Tower - Room 804

Brianne Orr-Alvarez

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Brianne is an Associate Professor of Teaching (Spanish), and has taught in various capacities at UBC since 2010 (Assistant Professor (without Review), Lecturer, Arts One Instructor), and at universities in the United States prior to coming to Canada. Brianne’s role in the FHIS Department focuse...Read more

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Caroline Lebrec

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Language Program Director of French

caroline.lebrec@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 803

Caroline Lebrec

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In her role as French Language Program Director, Caroline’s contribution to the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) is to lead the French language Program, to coordinate FREN101 and FREN102 (Beginners’ French I and II), to develop and offer the French Go Global Seminar (La ...Read more

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daniela.boccassini@ubc.ca

Daniela Boccassini

Professor of Italian | Associate Head of Italian Studies

604 822 4006

Buchanan Tower - Room 816

Daniela Boccassini

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I teach and write in the areas of Italian and Romance Studies, with a focus on the Medieval and Renaissance periods. I have always been fascinated by the ways in which the act of transcribing (both with words and in images) ends up preserving the memory of complex cultural processes, involving vario...Read more

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Elizabeth Lagresa-González

Elizabeth Lagresa-Gonzalez

Assistant Professor of Spanish | Associate Head of Romance Studies

elizabeth.lagresa@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 806

Elizabeth Lagresa-Gonzalez

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Dr. Elizabeth S. Lagresa-González obtained her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. Her area of specialization is early modern Hispanic literature and culture, which she addresses at the intersection of gender, visual and material studies. In addition to peer-reviewed...Read more

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Farid Laroussi

Professor of French | Associate Head of French Studies

farid.laroussi@ubc.ca

604 822 4679

Buchanan Tower - Room 815

Farid Laroussi

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Farid Laroussi first studied the Maghreb world with particular attention to text, memory and history. His publications on francophone studies are on questions pertaining to the challenge of cultural representation, especially around identity and identification. Scholarly interests intersect with pos...Read more

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Joël Castonguay-Bélanger

Joel Castonguay-Belanger

Department Head | Associate Professor of French

joel.cb@ubc.ca

604 822 4000

Buchanan Tower - Room 715 D

Joel Castonguay-Belanger

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Joël Castonguay-Bélanger holds an MA from McGill University and a joint PhD from Université de Montréal and Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. In 2009, following a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, he joined the University of British Columbia as assistant professor of French Literature...Read more

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Luisa Canuto

Associate Professor of Teaching | Language Program Director of Italian

luisa.canuto@ubc.ca

604 822 1572

Buchanan Tower - Room 825

Luisa Canuto

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Language Program Director, Italian Luisa Canuto has been teaching language courses for UBC French, Hispanic and Italian Studies since 1994. In that same year, Luisa founded and then coordinated the Italian Program for UBC Continuing Studies, trained all the instructors, developed the curriculum f...Read more

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Patrick Moran

Associate Professor of French | Graduate Advisor

patrick.moran@ubc.ca

604 827 5464

Buchanan Tower - Room 807

Patrick Moran

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Patrick Moran is a specialist of medieval French literature. He has been at UBC since 2018, after teaching at various French and Canadian universities (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Université Lyon 2, Université Montpellier 3, McMaster University, University of Ottawa, Université Laval). He holds a...Read more

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stephanie.spacciante@ubc.ca

Stephanie Spacciante

Lecturer of Spanish | Language Program Director of Spanish

604 822 5620

Buchanan Tower - Room 702

Stephanie Spacciante

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In addition to teaching Spanish, Stephanie Spacciante serves as the 201/202 Course Coordinator as well as being an active member on various FHIS committees. Stephanie is also the Summer Study Abroad Director for the Go Global Seminar Programs in South America. She specializes in designing, impl...Read more

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alain-michel.rocheleau@ubc.ca

Graduate Faculty

Alain-Michel Rocheleau

Alain-Michel Rocheleau

Assistant Professor of French

604 822 4036

Buchanan Tower - Room 820

Alain-Michel Rocheleau

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Alain-Michel Rocheleau joined the University of British Columbia in 1992. He has been an associate editor of Canadian Literaturefrom 1996 to 2003, and he is currently a member of the editorial board of L'Annuaire théâtral since 2003. His research focuses primarily on contemporary French and Québ...Read more

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Alessandra Santos

Alessandra Santos

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

alessandra.santos@ubc.ca

604 822 2346

Buchanan Tower - Room 824

Alessandra Santos

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Chair of the Latin American Studies Program Alessandra Santos is Associate Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures. Her interdisciplinary research examines modern and contemporary literary and cultural production. She is interested in utopias, technology, media, gender, race, and soc...Read more

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Anna Casas Aguilar

Assistant Professor of Spanish | Associate Graduate Advisor

anna.casas@ubc.ca

604 822 4023

Buchanan Tower - Room 721

Anna Casas Aguilar

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Anne Salamon

Anne Salamon

Associate Professor of French

anne.salamon@ubc.ca

604 827 5464

Buchanan Tower - Room 701

Anne Salamon

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Anne Salamon is Associate Professor of French (Romance Philology). She started at UBC in 2020, after eight years as Assistant and then Associate Professor at Université Laval, in the Département de Littérature, Théâtre et Cinéma. She holds a PhD from the Université Paris-Sorbonne and is an al...Read more

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Antje Ziethen

Antje Ziethen

Assistant Professor of French

antje.ziethen@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 818

Antje Ziethen

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Antje Ziethen specializes in African literatures and francophone literatures, with a particular focus on (urban) space, migration, and gender. She is the author of Géo/Graphies postcoloniales. La Poétique de l’espace dans le roman mauricien et sénégalais (WVT, 2013) and the co-editor of Beyond...Read more

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Carlo Testa

Carlo Testa

Professor of Italian

carlo.testa@ubc.ca

604 822 4025

Buchanan Tower - Room 718

Carlo Testa

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Carlo Testa received his Laurea in Lettere from the University of Milan in 1978 and did his graduate work in German, French and Comparative Literature in California (UC Davis and Berkeley) in the 1980s. At UBC since 1992, he currently teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century Italy (literature, c...Read more

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daniela.boccassini@ubc.ca

Daniela Boccassini

Professor of Italian | Associate Head of Italian Studies

604 822 4006

Buchanan Tower - Room 816

Daniela Boccassini

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Elizabeth Lagresa-González

Elizabeth Lagresa-Gonzalez

Assistant Professor of Spanish | Associate Head of Romance Studies

elizabeth.lagresa@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 806

Elizabeth Lagresa-Gonzalez

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Farid Laroussi

Professor of French | Associate Head of French Studies

farid.laroussi@ubc.ca

604 822 4679

Buchanan Tower - Room 815

Farid Laroussi

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Gaoheng Zhang

Gaoheng Zhang

Associate Professor of Italian

gaoheng.zhang@ubc.ca

604 827 5264

Buchanan Tower - Room 822

Gaoheng Zhang

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章杲恆 Gaoheng Zhang is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is a humanities scholar of migration, mobilities, multiculturalism, media, rhetoric, ethics, and masculinity. His recent research seeks to provide a road map for analyzing cultural mobilities ...Read more

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Irem Ayan

Irem Ayan

Assistant Professor of French

irem.ayan@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 711

Irem Ayan

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I hold an MA in Conference Interpreting from Institut libre Marie Haps in Brussels, and a PhD in Translation Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Before joining the University of British Columbia, I taught a variety of original courses in translation theory and practice at Bi...Read more

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Joël Castonguay-Bélanger

Joel Castonguay-Belanger

Department Head | Associate Professor of French

joel.cb@ubc.ca

604 822 4000

Buchanan Tower - Room 715 D

Joel Castonguay-Belanger

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jon.beasley-murray@ubc.ca

Jon Beasley-Murray

Jon Beasley-Murray

Associate Professor of Spanish

604 339 4213

Buchanan Tower - Room 817

Jon Beasley-Murray

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Jon Beasley-Murray has a Ph.D. from Duke University.

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katharina.piechocki@ubc.ca

Katharina Piechocki

Katharina Piechocki

Assistant Professor of French

Buchanan Tower - Room 707

Katharina Piechocki

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I joined the faculty at UBC, where I specialize in seventeenth-century French literature, in July 2021, after teaching in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University for eight years. My research focuses on early modern French and Romance literature, in particular theatre, opera, c...Read more

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Kim Beauchesne

Kim Beauchesne

Associate Professor of Spanish

kim.beauchesne@ubc.ca

604 822 5594

Buchanan Tower - Room 717

Kim Beauchesne

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Dr. Kim Beauchesne specializes in Latin American colonial literature and postcolonial theory, with a particular emphasis on comparative colonialism, and was the co-organizer of the UBC Postcolonial Research Cluster. Other research and teaching interests include the relationship between human rights...Read more

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María Soledad Fernández Utrera

Maria Soledad Fernandez Utrera

Professor of Spanish

mariasol@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 5308

Buchanan Tower - Room 802

Maria Soledad Fernandez Utrera

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On study leave from September 1st, 2022 until August 31st, 2023.

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Marie-Eve Bouchard

Marie-Eve Bouchard

Assistant Professor of French

me.bouchard@ubc.ca

6729992396

Buchanan Tower - Room 809

Marie-Eve Bouchard

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at UBC. I hold a PhD degree in linguistics from New York University, where I specialized in both sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. I am an anthropologically oriented sociolinguist, and I tend to enjo...Read more

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Nancy Frelick

Nancy Frelick

Associate Professor of French

nancy.frelick@ubc.ca

604 822 4031

Buchanan Tower - Room 818

Nancy Frelick

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Nancy Frelick is associate professor of French Renaissance Literature at the University of British Columbia, where she has been teaching since 1990. She is the author of the book Délie as Other: Toward a Poetics of Desire in Scève’s Délie (French Forum, 1994) as well as articles on French R...Read more

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Patrick Moran

Associate Professor of French | Graduate Advisor

patrick.moran@ubc.ca

604 827 5464

Buchanan Tower - Room 807

Patrick Moran

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Ramón (Arturo) Victoriano-Martinez

Ramon (Arturo) Victoriano-Martinez

Assistant Professor of Spanish

arturo.victoriano@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 719

Ramon (Arturo) Victoriano-Martinez

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Ramón Antonio Victoriano-Martinez (Arturo) was born in the Dominican Republic (1969), where he graduated with a B.A. in law at the Universidad Católica Santo Domingo (Class of 1994). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in the area of Hispanic and Latin American Literatures in 2010....Read more

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raul.alvarez-moreno@ubc.ca

Raúl Álvarez Moreno

Raul Alvarez Moreno

Associate Professor of Spanish

604 822 4039

Buchanan Tower - Room 823

Raul Alvarez Moreno

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After studying and teaching in Spain and the USA, I joined the University of British Columbia in 2009, where I teach Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, culture, and language (i.e. History of the Spanish Language, Business Spanish…) in the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Stud...Read more

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Tamara Mitchell

Tamara Mitchell

Assistant Professor of Spanish

tamara.mitchell@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 824

Tamara Mitchell

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Tamara Mitchell is a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures. Her work examines the relationship among aesthetics, politics, and the literary tradition in the current epoch of neoliberal globalization, with a focus on Mexican and Central American narrative fiction. ...Read more

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vincent.gelinas-lemaire@ubc.ca

Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire

Vincent Gelinas-Lemaire

Associate Professor of French

Buchanan Tower - Room 708

Vincent Gelinas-Lemaire

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Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire specializes in French literature from 1945 to the present, with a particular focus on the representation of space in narratives. After studies in architecture, he has obtained an M.A. in French literature from the Université de Montréal, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. in R...Read more

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Professors of Teaching

Brianne Orr-Álvarez

Brianne Orr-Alvarez

Associate Professor of Teaching | Associate Head of Spanish Studies | Director, FHIS Learning Centre

brianne.orr@ubc.ca

604 822 4561

Buchanan Tower - Room 804

Brianne Orr-Alvarez

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Caroline Lebrec

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Language Program Director of French

caroline.lebrec@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 803

Caroline Lebrec

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Luisa Canuto

Associate Professor of Teaching | Language Program Director of Italian

luisa.canuto@ubc.ca

604 822 1572

Buchanan Tower - Room 825

Luisa Canuto

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Lecturer

Cécile Ollivier-Budisa

Cecile Ollivier-Budisa

Lecturer of French

cecile.ob@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 704

Cecile Ollivier-Budisa

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Chiara Falangola

Chiara Falangola

Lecturer of Italian

chiara.falangola@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 808

Chiara Falangola

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Office hours: Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00pm Chiara Falangola has been Lecturer of Italian at UBC since July 2021. She was previously Assistant and then Associate Professor of French and Italian at Rhode Island College, USA (2014-2021), and Instructor of French at the University of Ne...Read more

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Iris Escuer Riera

Iris Escuer Riera

Lecturer of Spanish

iris.escuer-riera@ubc.ca

604 822 1578

Buchanan Tower - Room 805

Iris Escuer Riera

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isabelle.delagebeland@ubc.ca

Isabelle Delage-Béland

Isabelle Delage-Beland

Lecturer of French

Buchanan Tower - Room 710

Isabelle Delage-Beland

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Isabelle Delage-Béland is Lecturer of French. Before joining UBC in 2020, she taught several language, grammar, literature, and writing courses in Quebec (at Université de Montréal and Université Laval) and in Ontario (at Brock University). In the Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Stu...Read more

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Juliet O'Brien

Juliet O'Brien

Lecturer of French

juliet.obrien@ubc.ca

604 822 4009

Buchanan Tower - Room 703

Juliet O'Brien

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Dr O’Brien is of mixed origin; she grew up in Belgium, bilingual (trilingual when very small), and her background has shaped a broader concern with hybridity, migrancy, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance. She has been at UBC since 2009. Before then, she taught at Princeton University, Trinity College...Read more

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Magali Blanc

Magali Blanc

Lecturer of French

magali.blanc@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 811

Magali Blanc

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maria.escobar.trujillo@ubc.ca

María Adelaida Escobar Trujillo

Maria Adelaida Escobar Trujillo

Lecturer of Spanish

604 822 5797

Buchanan Tower - Room 826

Maria Adelaida Escobar Trujillo

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María Adelaida Escobar is originally from Colombia where she initially studied Philosophy and Literature to then pursue her studies in English and Hispanic Literature and Cultures. Her main interests are transcultural interactions, identity and gender dialogues in and between the cultures of Spain ...Read more

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Maria Carbonetti

Maria Carbonetti

Lecturer of Spanish

maria.carbonetti@ubc.ca

604 822 6809

Buchanan Tower - Room 801

Maria Carbonetti

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I received a Licenciatura en Letras, from Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina with an specialization in Linguistics. In 2004, I finished my Ph.D in the French, Hispanic and Italian Studies Department , UBC in Hispanic Studies. My thesis, “Distinción y Periferia en el Discurso de la Prensa Ilu...Read more

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Soline Milet

Lecturer of French

solinemi@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 4558

Buchanan Tower - Room 810

Soline Milet

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stephanie.spacciante@ubc.ca

Stephanie Spacciante

Lecturer of Spanish | Language Program Director of Spanish

604 822 5620

Buchanan Tower - Room 702

Stephanie Spacciante

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Sylvia Bascou-Vallarino

Sylvia Bascou-Vallarino

Lecturer of French

sylvia.vallarino@ubc.ca

604 822 4498

Buchanan Tower - Room 706

Sylvia Bascou-Vallarino

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Visiting Faculty

Elena Zampieri

Elena Zampieri

Visiting Lecturer of Italian

elena.zampieri@ubc.ca

604 822 4027

Buchanan Tower - Room 720

Elena Zampieri

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Starting with 2017/2018 Winter Term II Elena Zampieri is the Visiting Lecturer of Italian appointed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After graduating in Foreign Languages and Literatures in Venice, Elena began her job as a State English Language teacher at Primary, Middle and Secon...Read more

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Sessional Instructors

Andrea Roca

Andrea Roca

Sessional Lecturer of Portuguese and Spanish

andrea.roca@ubc.ca

604 822 6427

Buchanan Tower - Room 827

Andrea Roca

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Andrea Roca is an anthropologist who obtained her bachelor degree at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and her Master and Doctorate degrees at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She taught at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Since 2006 she is a member of the Labora...Read more

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Annick Pellegrin

Sessional Lecturer of French

annick.pellegrin@ubc.ca

Annick Pellegrin

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Dr. Annick Pellegrin received a dual PhD in French Studies and in Spanish and Latin American Studies from The University of Sydney in 2014. Prior to this, she completed a Bachelor of Arts Languages degree with four majors (French, Spanish, Italian and Linguistics) and joint honours in Spanish and La...Read more

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Anthony Pearce

PhD Student in Spanish | Sessional Lecturer of Spanish

Anthony Pearce

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Arianna Dagnino

Arianna Dagnino

Sessional Lecturer of Italian

arianna.dagnino@ubc.ca

604 822 5797

Buchanan Tower - Room 728

Arianna Dagnino

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Arianna Dagnino holds an M.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from l’Università degli Studi di Genova and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of South Australia. She is a literary translator and creative writer. She authored the book Transcultural Writers and Novels in...Read more

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Catherine Black

Sessional Lecturer of French

Catherine Black

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Giorgio Jacova

Sessional Lecturer of Italian

giorgio.jacova@ubc.ca

604 822 5598

Buchanan Tower - Room 828

Giorgio Jacova

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John Culbert

John Culbert

Sessional Lecturer of French

john.culbert@ubc.ca

604 822 4465

Buchanan Tower

John Culbert

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Joyce Lubert

Joyce Lubert

Sessional Lecturer of French

joyce.lubert@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 705

Joyce Lubert

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Joyce Lubert obtained a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Translation, as well as a Certificate in Educational Psychology from the Université de Montréal. She was a member of the Société des Traducteurs du Québec and has worked as a professional translator and consecutive...Read more

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mirta.roncagalli@alumni.ubc.ca

Mirta Roncagalli

Mirta Roncagalli

PhD Student in Spanish | Sessional Lecturer of Spanish

Mirta Roncagalli

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Mirta Roncagalli is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies at UBC, where she also serves as Graduate Ambassador and Departmental Graduate Representative. Mirta’s research explores the connections between politics and ethics, specifically within the 21st-century Spanish essay. Through the...Read more

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Monica Liscio Gordon

Monica Liscio Gordon

Sessional Lecturer of Italian

monica.liscio@ubc.ca

604 822 4867

Buchanan Tower - Room 827

Monica Liscio Gordon

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Olga Albarran Caselles

Olga Albarran Caselles

Sessional Lecturer of Spanish

olga.albarran@ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 728

Olga Albarran Caselles

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I arrived to UBC in 2010 and since then I’ve enjoyed teaching Spanish to a variety of students from all over the world. My research focuses on the cultural representations of mothers and motherhood, exploring the intersection between reproduction, feminism and literary theory.

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patricio.robles@alumni.ubc.ca

Patricio Robles

Patricio Robles

PhD Student in Spanish | Sessional Lecturer of Spanish

Buchanan Tower - Room 728

Patricio Robles

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Patricio is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Studies, researching texts about America's Southern Cone nature (Patagonia and Pampas). Focusing on the intersection of Affective theory and Ecocritical analysis, Patricio investigates how nature and culture have been perceived in post-Independence...Read more

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Rodolfo Ortiz

Rodolfo Ortiz

Sessional Lecturer of Spanish

rortiz26@mail.ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower

Rodolfo Ortiz

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Rodolfo Ortiz has a Ph.D. from the UBC Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies. In 2015, he obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Hispanic Language and Literatures. Also, he received a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature at the Universid...Read more

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Somayeh Kamranian

Somayeh Kamranian

Sessional Lecturer of French

somayeh.kamranian@ubc.ca

604 822 5534

Buchanan Tower - Room 828

Somayeh Kamranian

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Dr. Somayeh Kamranian is a sessional instructor of the French language arts in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at British Columbia University. As well, she has had substantial experience in teaching French language arts to non-native speakers ever since the year 2005. Dr. K...Read more

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Zoe Nassehi

Zoe Nassehi

Sessional Lecturer of French

zoenas@mail.ubc.ca

Buchanan Tower - Room 705

Zoe Nassehi

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