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Usha Rungoo

usha_rungoo@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Research and teaching interests: Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean Literatures; material and embodied histories; the use of autoethnography, fiction and imagination in rewriting colonized identities, cartographies and histories; extractive...

Omar Salomão

omarsalomao@g.harvard.edu

Portuguese

Research Interests: Research interest develops in the space between writing (especially speculative fiction) and artistic practice, focusing on Brazil and Latin America's modern to contemporary periods. Other interests are modern and contemporary art...

Jeffrey Schnapp

jeffrey@metalab.harvard.edu

Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature; Graduate School of Design

Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Research Interests: Experimental humanities; The material history of literature; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio; 20th-century Italian architecture and design; The Fascist Decades; Futurism. Faculty director and founder: metaLAB (at) Harvard Faculty co...

Raheem Senegal

raheemsenegal@fas.harvard.edu

French

Research Interests: Black Atlantic, Creole literatures of the Caribbean, Créolité, Phenomenology, Post-positivist epistemologies, use of oral histories in the construction of identity.

Shubert Silveira

ssilveira@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Research focuses on Latin American literature, philology, and classical Latin and Greek literature. Interest lies in the intersections between Latin American literary traditions and classical influences, and how these interactions...

Mariano Siskind

siskind@fas.harvard.edu

Department Chair

Smith Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature

Spanish Section Leader

Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Literature; Travel Writing; Globalization and Cosmopolitanism; Marxism; Psychoanalysis Academic Degrees: B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; M.A., Ph.D., in Comparative...

Cristiane Soares

cristianesoares@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Preceptor in Portuguese

Academic Degrees: Ph.D. in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory, UMass- Dartmouth; M.A. in Applied Linguistics, UMass- Boston; B.A in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Roles: Coordinator of the...

Doris Sommer

dsommer@fas.harvard.edu

Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) and in African and African American Studies

Doris Sommer is the Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, also in Social Studies. She is founder of "Cultural Agents," an Initiative at Harvard and an NGO dedicated to reviving...

Diana Sorensen

sorensen@fas.harvard.edu

Emerita

James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

Academic Degrees: B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Studies; History and Memory Diana Sorensen is James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance...