People

Annabel Kim

annabel_kim@fas.harvard.edu

On Leave Academic Year 2026-27

C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France

French Section Leader

Research Interests: 20th- and 21st-century French Literature; Feminism; Contemporary Novel; Literature and Politics. I received a B.A. in French and Art History from Williams College in 2007 and a Ph.D in French from Yale University in 2014. I am...

Daniel Aguirre Oteiza

daguirre@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish)

Interim Director of Graduate Studies

Spanish Section Leader

Academic Degrees: A. B., Universidad de Salamanca; Diploma of Higher Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Research Interests: Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries); Spanish, Latin...

Juan Arias

juanarias@g.harvard.edu

Preceptor (Spanish)

Dr. Juan Manuel Arias is an interim Preceptor in Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where he completed his PhD in 2024. His literary research focuses on medieval and early modern literature, with a...

Jorge Arteta

jarteta@fas.harvard.edu

Teaching Assistant (Spanish)

Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Pedagogy, Heritage Speakers, Literature, History, Issues of Translation and Interpretation Hobbies: Volunteer work, gardening, swimming, walking, sailing, scuba diving Jorge completed his B.A. at Tufts...

Laure Astourian

lastourian@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholar in Romance Languages and Literatures

Violeta Banica

vbanica@fas.harvard.edu

Teaching Assistant (French)

Dissertation Topic: The City and the Nazi Concentration Camps: Reading (In)Human Spaces In my dissertation, I investigate parallels, whether fictitious, perceived or remembered, between the Nazi system of concentration camps and human built environment as...

Matthew Barfield

mbarfield@fas.harvard.edu

Teaching Assistant (French)

Janet Beizer

beizer@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French)

C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France

Academic Degrees: B.A. in French, summa cum laude, Cornell University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph. D. in French with Secondary Field in Comparative Literature, Yale University. Non-Degree Studies: École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and Université de Grenoble. Janet...

Josiah Blackmore

jblackmore@fas.harvard.edu

Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal

Portuguese Section Leader

Portuguese Undergraduate Advisor

Academic Degrees: B.A., M.A., Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., Harvard Univ. ITT International Fellow (Univ. de Lisboa) Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese Literature and Culture; Camões; the Maritime Humanities; Lusophone Imperial/Colonial...