Administrative Faculty
Anna Casas Aguilar
Anna Casas Aguilar
Associate Professor of Spanish | Graduate Advisor
emailanna.casas@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4023
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 721
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesI 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Anne Salamon
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
Farid Laroussi
Farid Laroussi
Professor of French | Associate Graduate Advisor
phone604 822 4679
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 815
Subject Area
French StudiesFarid 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
Subject Area
French Studies
Irem Ayan
Irem Ayan
She/Her/Hers
Assistant Professor of French | Program Chair, Certificate in French Translation
emailirem.ayan@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4006
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 711
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
Katharina Piechocki
Katharina Piechocki
Associate Professor of French | Associate Head of Italian Studies | Associate Head of Romance Studies
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 707
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
Raúl Álvarez Moreno
Raúl Álvarez Moreno
Associate Professor of Spanish | Associate Head of Spanish Studies
phone604 822 4039
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 823
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesAfter 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 819
Subject Area
French StudiesVincent Gélinas-Lemaire specializes in French literature from 1945 to the present, with a particular focus on the representation of space and catastrophe 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. ...Read more
Subject Area
French StudiesGraduate Faculty
Alessandra Santos
Alessandra Santos
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 620
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
Anna Casas Aguilar
Anna Casas Aguilar
Associate Professor of Spanish | Graduate Advisor
emailanna.casas@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4023
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 721
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesI 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Anne Salamon
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
Antje Ziethen
Antje Ziethen
Associate Professor of French
emailantje.ziethen@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 818
Subject Area
French StudiesAntje 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
Subject Area
French Studies
Carlo Testa
Carlo Testa
Professor of Italian
emailcarlo.testa@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4025
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 718
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
Daniela Boccassini
Daniela Boccassini
Professor of Italian
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 816
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
Elizabeth Lagresa-González
Elizabeth Lagresa-González
Assistant Professor of Spanish
phone604 822 5534
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 806
Dr. Elizabeth Lagresa-González is an Assistant Professor and Associate Head of Romance Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University and was a fellow at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tat...Read more
Farid Laroussi
Farid Laroussi
Professor of French | Associate Graduate Advisor
phone604 822 4679
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 815
Subject Area
French StudiesFarid 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
Subject Area
French Studies
Gaoheng Zhang
Gaoheng Zhang
Professor of Italian
emailgaoheng.zhang@ubc.ca
phone604 827 5264
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 822
章杲恆 Gaoheng Zhang I am a Professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. My scholarship analyzes cultural mobilities from within contemporary Italy’s and Western Europe’s global networks with Asia, America, and Africa. I apply multi-lingual, multi-perspectival, and mult...Read more
Irem Ayan
Irem Ayan
She/Her/Hers
Assistant Professor of French | Program Chair, Certificate in French Translation
emailirem.ayan@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4006
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 711
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
Isabella Huberman
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 820
Isabella Huberman is Assistant Professor of Quebec Literature in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her book Histoires souveraines: poétiques du personnel dans les littératures autochtones au Québec published in 2023 by Les Presses de l...Read more
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger
Associate Professor of French
emailjoel.cb@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4000
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 821
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
Jon Beasley-Murray
Jon Beasley-Murray
Associate Professor of Spanish
phone604 339 4213
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 817
Jon Beasley-Murray has a Ph.D. from Duke University.
Katharina Piechocki
Katharina Piechocki
Associate Professor of French | Associate Head of Italian Studies | Associate Head of Romance Studies
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 707
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
Kim Beauchesne
Kim Beauchesne
Associate Professor of Spanish
phone604 822 5594
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 717
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesDr. 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
María Soledad Fernández Utrera
María Soledad Fernández Utrera
Professor of Spanish
emailmariasol@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5308
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 802
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesMy scholarly interests concentrate primarily on the field of Peninsular Contemporary Literature and Culture. Focusing on the avant-garde movement, I emphasize relations between literature, performance, film, and art in their cultural and socio-political context. I have also worked on nineteent...Read more
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Marie-Eve Bouchard
emailme.bouchard@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 809
I am an Associate 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
Nancy Frelick
Nancy Frelick
Associate Professor of French
emailnancy.frelick@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 304
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
Patrick Moran
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
Ramón (Arturo) Victoriano-Martinez
Ramón (Arturo) Victoriano-Martinez
Assistant Professor of Spanish
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 719
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesRamón 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Raúl Álvarez Moreno
Raúl Álvarez Moreno
Associate Professor of Spanish | Associate Head of Spanish Studies
phone604 822 4039
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 823
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesAfter 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Tamara Mitchell
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 824
Tamara Mitchell is a scholar of 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures. Her research examines the relationship among aesthetics, politics, and the literary tradition under advanced capitalism, with a focus on Mexican and Central American narrative fiction. Her first monograph...Read more
Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 819
Subject Area
French StudiesVincent Gélinas-Lemaire specializes in French literature from 1945 to the present, with a particular focus on the representation of space and catastrophe 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. ...Read more
Subject Area
French StudiesProfessors of Teaching
Brianne Orr-Álvarez
Brianne Orr-Álvarez
Associate Professor of Teaching | Director of Language Initiatives and Programs
emailbrianne.orr@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4561
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 804
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesBrianne 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Caroline Lebrec
Caroline Lebrec
Assistant Professor of Teaching
phone604 827 4299
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 803
Subject Area
French StudiesIn her role of Educational Leadership, Caroline is dedicated to enhancing the teaching and learning experience of the undergraduate students by focusing on inclusive and experiential teaching practices in the courses she is teaching (FREN 101, FREN 101, FREN 201, FREN 202, FREN 301, FREN 302, FREN 3...Read more
Subject Area
French Studies
Isabelle Delage-Béland
Isabelle Delage-Béland
Assistant Professor of Teaching
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 710
Subject Area
French StudiesIsabelle Delage-Béland is Assistant Professor of Teaching (French) since July 2023. Before joining UBC in 2020, she has taught several language, grammar, literature, and writing courses in Quebec (at Université de Montréal and Université Laval) and in Ontario (at Brock University). Isabelle hold...Read more
Subject Area
French Studies
Luisa Canuto
Luisa Canuto
Professor of Teaching
emailluisa.canuto@ubc.ca
phone604 822 1572
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 825
Subject Area
Italian StudiesLanguage 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
Subject Area
Italian StudiesLecturer
Cécile Ollivier-Budisa
Cécile Ollivier-Budisa
Lecturer of French
emailcecile.ob@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 704
Subject Area
French StudiesSubject Area
French Studies
Iris Escuer Riera
Iris Escuer Riera
Lecturer of Spanish
phone604 822 1578
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 805
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesSubject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Juliet O'Brien
emailjuliet.obrien@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 703
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
Magali Blanc
Magali is a Lecturer (French), and has taught in various capacities at UBC since 2015 (Teaching Assistant, Sessional, Instructor), and at the University of Victoria prior to coming to Canada.
Magali's position in the FHIS Department is centered on fostering undergraduate student involvement and a...Read more
Subject Area
French Studies
Marco Schaumloeffel
Marco Schaumloeffel
Lecturer of Portuguese
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 708
Marco A. Schaumloeffel is full-time Affiliate Lecturer and teaches Portuguese, Lusophone Culture and Literature, and Beginner’s Spanish. Previously, he was lecturer in Brazilian Studies at The University of the West Indies, Barbados, and at the University of Ghana. He holds a BA in German and Port...Read more
María Adelaida Escobar Trujillo
María Adelaida Escobar Trujillo
Lecturer of Spanish
phone604 822 5797
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 826
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesMaría 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Nadia Naami
Nadia Naami
Lecturer of French
emailnadia.naami@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower – Room 706
Subject Area
French StudiesSubject Area
French Studies
Sarah Agou
Subject Area
French Studies
Soline Milet
Soline Milet
Lecturer of French
emailsolinemi@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4558
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 810
Subject Area
French StudiesSubject Area
French Studies
Stephanie Spacciante
Stephanie Spacciante
Lecturer of Spanish
phone604 822 5620
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 702
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesIn 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesSessional Instructors
Andrea Roca
Andrea Roca
Sessional Lecturer of Portuguese and Spanish
emailandrea.roca@ubc.ca
phone604 822 6427
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 827
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
Annick Pellegrin
Annick Pellegrin
Sessional Lecturer of French
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 827
Subject Area
French StudiesDr. 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
Subject Area
French Studies
Curtis Wasson
Curtis Wasson
Sessional Lecturer of Spanish
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesSubject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Jennifer Mackenzie
Jennifer Mackenzie
Sessional Lecturer of Italian
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 728
Subject Area
Italian StudiesSubject Area
Italian Studies
Joyce Lubert
Joyce Lubert
Sessional Lecturer of French
emailjoyce.lubert@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 705
Subject Area
French StudiesJoyce 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
Subject Area
French Studies
Marcos Moscoso-Garay
Marcos Moscoso-Garay
Sessional Lecturer of Spanish
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 728
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesI hold a PhD in Philosophy with a specialization in Hispanic Studies from the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. I have over 10 years of experience teaching Spanish and Latin American culture to undergraduate students of various nationalities and academic...Read more
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Mathilda Poulenay
Mathilda Poulenay
PhD Student in French | Sessional Lecturer of French
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 728
Subject Area
French StudiesSubject Area
French Studies
Mila Gabruck
Mila Gabruck
Sessional Lecturer of French
Subject Area
French StudiesSubject Area
French Studies
Mirta Roncagalli
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 728
Mirta holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia; a double master’s degree from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and the University of Huelva (Spain); and a bachelor’s degree from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She completed academic stays at the University of Zaragoza (S...Read more
Monica Liscio Gordon
Monica Liscio Gordon
Sessional Lecturer of Italian
emailmonica.liscio@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4867
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 828
Subject Area
Italian StudiesSubject Area
Italian Studies
Nicholas Bartlett
Nick was born and raised in southwestern Ontario on the traditional territories of the Anishnawbe, Haudenosaunee, Attawandaron, and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples, and has been living, working and studying in Vancouver on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqu...Read more
Subject Area
French Studies
Olga Albarran Caselles
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.
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Pamela Zamora Quesada
Pamela Zamora Quesada
PhD Student in Spanish | Sessional Lecturer of Spanish
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 728
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesPamela is a Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Studies at the University of British Columbia. She holds a MA in World Languages from West Virginia University and a BA in Spanish Philology from the University of Costa Rica. Her research examines how 20th and 21st Central American and Mexican fiction contest...Read more
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Pietro Pirani
Pietro Pirani
Sessional Lecturer of Romance Studies
Subject Area
Romance StudiesSubject Area
Romance Studies
Rodolfo Ortiz
Rodolfo Ortiz
Sessional Lecturer of Spanish
emailrortiz26@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 728
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic StudiesRodolfo 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
Subject Area
Spanish/Hispanic Studies
Somayeh Kamranian
Dr. Somayeh Kamranian is a sessional instructor with continuing status in French Language Arts in the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She has been teaching the French language since 2005. Her passion for the French language began in childhoo...Read more
Subject Area
French Studies
Zoe Nassehi
Zoe Nassehi
Sessional Lecturer of French
emailzoenas@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower - Room 705
Subject Area
French StudiesSubject Area
French Studies