Abdelkader Berrahmoun (Lecturer - M.A. University of Creteil, France) -- Abdelkader Berrahmoun is from Algeria (North Africa). He has been teaching Arabic and French for the last 11 years in the Greater Boston area. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Oran, Algeria, and a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Creteil (France). He teaches French at UMass Boston since Summer 2004, and is teaching Arabic since Summer 2009. He's teaching a course in French as well for Fall 2009.                                                  e-mail: A.Berrahmoun@umb.edu                                                                       Office: M-4-222                                                                                                    Fall 2009 office hours: TuTh 11:00am-12:00pm or by appointment

   Xu Guo Chan (Lecturer - M.A. Beijing Broadcast Institute) -- Professor Chan holds a B.A. in Chinese Literature from Hebei Normal University and M.A. of Television from Beijing Broadcast Institute. She has been teaching Chinese at the University of Massachusetts, Boston since 2002.                                                                                                                  e-mail: XuGuo.Chan@umb.edu                                                                        Office: M-4-227                                                                                                  Fall 2009 office hours: TuTh 1:00-2:00pm or by appointment                      

Alexander DesForges (Associate Professor - Ph.D. Princeton University) -- Professor Des Forges holds a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Princeton University. He has been teaching Chinese at the University of Massachusetts since 2001.                                                                                   e-mail: Alex.DesForges@umb.edu                                                                     Office: M-4-231                                                                                                   Fall 2009 office hours: MW 11:00am - 12:00pm or by appointment

Yu Wu (Lecturer - MA, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) -- Yu Wu received her BA from Shanxi University and MA from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Her area of specialization is second language acquisition and pedagogy, with a particular focus on students learning Chinese as a foreign language and Chinese pedagogy. She is currently working on her dissertation at Boston University.       
e-mail: Yu.Wu@umb.edu
Office: M-4-251                                                                                                 Fall 2009 office hours: MW 10:00-10:50am or by appointment    

 Dennis Gilbert (Lecturer - MA Boston College)--Dennis Gilbert holds a BA in French from Fairfield University and an MA in French from Boston College.  His research interests focus on Jean-Paul Sartre; Simone de Beauvoir; and the history, theory, and criticism of drama.  He has published several articles on those subjects and is currently writing his dissertation at Boston College on Sartre's esthetic of theater.  This is his first semester teaching French at UMass Boston.                                                        e-mail: Dennis.Gilbert@umb.edu                                                                     Office: M-4-214                                                                                                 Fall 2009 office hours: TuTh 2:00-3:00pm or by appointment   

Jacques Kitembo (Lecturer - M.A. University of Rouen, France) -- Jacques Kitembo is from the Democratic Republic  of Congo(Central Africa). A former journalist at the Review Press du Manager and the radio station KFM, he came in the USA in 2004 from Rwanda where he taught French at the French Cultural Center,  the President office, the embassy of Russia and the International University of Rwanda.  Jacques holds a Bachelor’s degree in French and African Linguistics from the Institute of Higher Education (Bukavu, D.R. of Congo), a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in French as a Foreign Language from the University of Rouen (France). He has been teaching French at UMass Boston since Fall 2008.                                                                                e-mail: Jacques.Kitembo@umb.edu                                                                Office: M-4-251                                                                                                  Fall 2009 office hours: F 9:00-10:00am, Th 12:20-1:20pm or by appointment

Philip O'Connell (Lecturer - M.A. Ohio University, Ohio) -- Philip O'Connell holds a B.A. in French from Oberlin College and an M.A. in French from Ohio University. He has been teaching French at UMASS Boston since 2002.                                      e-mail: Philip.Oconnell@umb.edu                                                                   Office: M-4-241                                                                                                 Fall 2009 office hours: by appointment

Pratima Prasad (Associate Professor - Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania) -- Professor Prasad received her Bachelors degree from the University of Bombay, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been teaching French at the University of Massachusetts since 2002.  Her research interests include colonialism, Romanticism, and nineteenth-century French and Francophone culture.  She is the author of Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination (Routledge, 2009), co-editor of Novel Stages: Drama and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (Delaware, 2007), and has published several articles on nineteenth-century French literature and culture.                                                                                                                e-mail: Pratima.Prasad@umb.edu                                                                    Office: M-4-232                                                                                                  Fall 2009 office hours: MWF 2:00-3:00pm or by appointment

Laura Souders (Lecturer - Ph.D. Brown University) – Laura Souders holds degrees in French and Russian.  She earned a B.A. and M.A. at the University of Caen, France, after graduating from Boston University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University.  She has several years of college teaching experience in the French and Russian languages, literatures, and related subjects, and has been teaching at UMass Boston since 2006.                                                                                  e-mail: Laura.Souders@umb.edu                                                                   Office: M-4-241                                                                                                 Fall 2009 office hours: MW 10:00-11:00am or by appointment

Jutta Handte (Lecturer - M.A.Lesley College, Cambridge MA) -- Jutta Handte holds a degree of Master of Arts in Expressive Art Therapy from Lesley College. She also received an M.A. in Education for German language, Fine Arts and Biology from the Paedagogische Hochschule Kiel, Germany. She has been teaching German at UMASS Boston since 2006.                                                                   e-mail: Jutta.Handte@umb.edu                                                                        Office: M-4-214                                                                                                 Fall 2009 office hours: M 9:55-10:55am or by appointment

  Kelly Polychroniou (Lecturer - MA University of Massachusetts, Boston) -- Kelly Polychroniou received a BA in German Language and Literature from the University of Athens, Greece and a MA in Applied Linguistics with a specialization in computer-assisted instruction from University of Massachusetts, Boston.                                                                      e-mail: Kyriaki.Polychroniou@umb.edu                         Office: M-4-214                                                         Fall 2009 office hours: Tu 11:30am - 12:30pm or by appointment

Fiora Bassanese (Professor - Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) -- Professor Bassanese received her B.A. in Italian and French from Rosary College, her M.A. in Italian and her Ph.D. in Italian with minor in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin. She has been teaching Italian at the University of Massachusetts since 1982. She is the author of two books – Gaspara Stampa (1982) and Understanding Luigi Pirandello (1997) – and dozens of  scholarly articles on 16th and 20th century women writers and contemporary Italian authors.                                                            e-mail: Fiora.Bassanese@umb.edu                                                                 Office: M-4-220                                                                                                 Fall 2009 office hours: MF 11:00am - 12:00pm, W 12:00-1:00pm or by appointment

Antonio Carrara (Professor - Ph.D. Boston College) -- Department Chair -- Professor Carrara received his B.A. in French and Spanish, M.A. in French and Ph.D. in Romance Philology from Boston College. He has been teaching Italian at University of Massachusetts, Boston since 1967.           e-mail: Antonio.Carrara@umb.edu                             Office: M-4-234                                                            Fall 2009 office hours: TuTh 11:30am - 12:30pm, MW 10:00-11:00am or by appointment

Marco Natoli (Lecturer - M.A. Brown University, RI) -- Marco Natoli holds an M.A. from the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University and is working towards his Ph.D. in the same department. He has been a teaching assistant, instructor and guest lecturer in various colleges since 1999. His teaching and research interests include Italian Language and Culture, History of Cinema, 20th Century Italian Literature, and Film Theory. He taught Elementary Italian I and II during the Summer sessions of 2009 and will be teaching in Spring 2010.

Ubaldo Panitti (Visiting Lecturer - Ph.D. University of Perugia) -- Professor Panitti received his Ph.D. in Foreign Languages at the University of Perugia (Italy) and a M.A. in English Literature at the University of Urbino (Italy). He has taught Italian in Eritrea and has assessed foreign students of Italian in the CELI examinations in Greece. He has been teaching Italian at the University of Massachusetts, Boston since 2008. His professional areas of interest include second language acquisition and language teaching methodology. He is also in charge of the cultural affairs at the Consulate General of Italy in Boston.                    e-mail: Ubaldo.Panitti@umb.edu                                                                        Office: M-4-230                                                                                                  Fall 2009 office hours: MWF 11:00-11:50am or by appointment

Hiromi Baba (Lecturer - MA, Ed.M Columbia University, NY) -- Hiromi Baba holds a B.S in piano from Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY; M.A and Ed.M in music from Columbia University, NY. Her graduate studies focused on how music and art facilitate the learning of language. Her teaching and research interests include the Japanese language and culture, music in a cultural context, and gender in education in Asia. She has been teaching Japanese in the Boston area since 2006. This is her first semester teaching at UMass Boston.                                                                     e-mail: Hiromi.Baba@umb.edu                                                                       Office: M-4-214                                                                                                 Fall 2009 office hours: by appointment

Sari Kawana (Assistant Professor - Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) -- Professor Kawana received B.Sc from Georgetown University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of interest include modern Japanese literature, cultural history, history of the book, and popular culture. She is the author of Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and articles on Japanese prewar culture.                                                       e-mail: Sari.Kawana@umb.edu                                                                        Office: M-4-229

Makoto Takenaka

e-mail: Makoto.Takenaka@umb.edu

Office: M-4-225

Fall 2009 office hours: MW 10:00-11:00am or by appointment

Diana Burgin (Professor - Ph.D. Harvard University) -- Professor Burgin received her   B.A. in Russian from Swarthmore College, her M.A. & Ph.D. from Harvard University's Slavic Languages and Literatures Department. She has been teaching Russian at University of Massachusetts, Boston since 1975.                          e-mail: Diana.Burgin@umb.edu                                Office: M-4-224                                                                                                 Fall 2009 office hours: TuTh 8:15-9:30am or by appointment