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Multilingual-SFU 2023
Administrative
ARDALAN REZAMAND
COORDINATOR, OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Email: ar_rezamand@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-3796
Office: AQ 5117
Rita Boustani
Program Assistant & Chair's Secretary
Email: wll_admin@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-8704
Office: AQ 5116
Faculty
Joel Akinwumi
Assistant Professor
Email: jakinwum@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5112
Expertise: African World Literatures (read more)
Mark Deggan
Lecturer
Email: mark_deggan@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5119
Expertise: interdisciplinary and ecocritical approaches to the themes and aesthetics of World Literature, with emphasis on the poetics of cross-cultural encounter (read more)
Chie Furukawa
Lecturer
Email: chie_furukawa@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5124
Expertise: Japanese language and culture (read more)
Isabel Mayo-Harp
Lecturer
Email: mayoharp@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5128
Expertise: Spanish language and culture (read more)
Melek Ortabasi
Associate Professor
Email: melek_ortabasi@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5125
Expertise: Modern Japanese and German literatures (read more)
Naoko Takei
Senior Lecturer
Email: ntakei@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5119.1
Expertise: Japanese language and culture (read more)
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
Associate Professor
Email: azadeh_yamini-hamedani@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5121
Expertise: The movement of literature between Iran and Germany, which exposes world literature as a form of cultural resistance (read more)
María Ignacia Barraza
Assistant Professor
Email: mbarraza@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5113
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 (read more)
Jia Fei
Senior Lecturer & Interim Department Chair
Email: jia_fei@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5119.2
Expertise: Chinese language courses at the beginner level, intermediate level and with a special focus on conversational and Business Mandarin (read more)
Claudia Hein
Senior Lecturer
Email: cmhein@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5126
Expertise: German language and culture (read more)
Billie Ng
Senior Lecturer
Email: billie@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5122
Expertise: Chinese language and literature (read more)
Ken Seigneurie
Professor
Email: kseigneu@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5120
Expertise: Arabic, French, English literatures of the Levant (read more)
Curriculum Vitae
Vlad Vintila
Lecturer
Email: vvintila@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5111
Expertise: Italian language and culture (read more)
CYNTHIA XIE
Senior Lecturer
Email: cxie@sfu.ca
Office: TASC 9211
Expertise: Intensive Mandarin Chinese courses and Heritage Mandarin Chinese courses (read more)
Term faculty
Camila Dilli
Visiting Faculty and Guimarães Rosa Reader
Email: Camila_Dilli@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5124
Expertise: Brazilian Portuguese and culture (read more)
Gianluca Oluić
Term Assistant Professor
Email: goluic@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5125
Expertise: World Literature with a focus on biopolitics, political theology and Mediterranean studies (read more)
Associate Members
Eirini Kotsovili
Lecturer
Email: dkotsovi@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 6199
Expertise: Greek language and culture (read more)