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Administrative
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Isabel Mayo-Harp Undergraduate Chair
Senior LecturerExpertise:
Spanish language and culture mayoharp@sfu.ca AQ 5127 -
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Melek Ortabasi Department Chair
Associate ProfessorExpertise:
Modern Japanese and German literatures 1 778 782-8660 melek_ortabasi@sfu.ca AQ 5125 -
Rita Boustani Program Assistant
Chair's SecretaryExpertise:
(778) 782-8704 wll_admin@sfu.ca AQ 5116
Faculty
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Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani Associate Professor
Expertise:
The movement of literature between Iran and Germany, which exposes world literature as a form of cultural resistance (778) 782-8761 azadeh_yamini-hamedani@sfu.ca AQ 5121 -
Billie Ng University Lecturer
Expertise:
Chinese language and literature 778-782-4863 billie@sfu.ca AQ 5122 -
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Claudia Hein Senior Lecturer
Expertise:
German language and culture 778-782-8526 cmhein@sfu.ca AQ 5126 -
Cynthia Xie Senior Lecturer
Expertise:
Intensive Mandarin Chinese courses and Heritage Mandarin Chinese courses cxie@sfu.ca TASC I 9211 -
Isabel Mayo-Harp Undergraduate Chair
Senior LecturerExpertise:
Spanish language and culture mayoharp@sfu.ca AQ 5127 -
Jia Fei Senior Lecturer
Undergraduate ChairExpertise:
Chinese language courses at the beginner level, intermediate level and with a special focus on conversational and Business Mandarin (778) 782-7618 jia_fei@sfu.ca AQ 5119.2 -
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Kenneth Seigneurie Professor
Expertise:
Arabic, French, English literatures of the Levant (778) 782-8846 kseigneu@sfu.ca AQ 5120 -
Maral Aguilera-Moradipour Assistant Professor
Expertise:
Critical refugee studies; cultural studies; digital humanities; diasporic literature and theory; Indigenous literature and thought; and critical race and gender studies maguiler@sfu.ca AQ 5114 -
Mark Deggan Assistant Professor
Expertise:
Interdisciplinary and ecocritical approaches to the themes and aesthetics of World Literature, with emphasis on the poetics of cross-cultural encounter (778) 782-9595 mark_deggan@sfu.ca AQ 5119 -
Maria Ignacia Barraza Assistant Professor
Expertise:
Spanish literary generations of 1898 and 1927, 19th and 20th century Latin American poetry and prose, as well as film and the visual arts mbarraza@sfu.ca AQ 5113 -
Melek Ortabasi Department Chair
Associate ProfessorExpertise:
Modern Japanese and German literatures 1 778 782-8660 melek_ortabasi@sfu.ca AQ 5125 -
Naoko Takei Senior Lecturer
Expertise:
Japanese language and culture (778) 782-5141 ntakei@sfu.ca AQ 5119.1 -
