Read about our Faculty members as they stand in our Faculty Spotlight!


April 2023

Camila Torres-Castro

Ann Plato Fellow
Hispanic Studies
Language and Culture Studies


Camila is our 2022-2023 Ann Plato Postdoctoral Fellow in Language and Culture Studies.

To read about Camila and her time at Trinity click here!

 


March 2023

Priscilla Meléndez

Professor
Hispanic Studies
Language and Culture Studies


Priscilla shares how her childhood experiences with poetry and plays shaped her teaching and research today.

In Priscilla’s latest publication she explores the way in which Mexican playwright Sabina Berman (1956) confronts the history of her country and brings to the theater its social and political crises by means of humor, gender, and history

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Rieko Wagoner

Principal Lecturer
Language and Culture Studies and International Studies
Emerita


After retiring from teaching 35 years, Rieko has embarked on yet another career – as a Japanese language translator.

Rieko’s latest translation was on the memoir by Patrisse Kahn-Cullors, one of the three women who started the Black Lives Matter movement.

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APRIL 2021

Kifah Hanna

Associate Professor
Arabic Language, literature and culture

Chosen to be the next
Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies


Kifah writes about her deep infatuation with the Arabic language and her fascination with its poetic expression.

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MARCH 2021

Adi Katz

Lecturer
Hebrew language, literature and culture


Adi writes about her love for the Israeli language and its culture. She also shares her fascination with its linguistic richness and influences and her joy of teaching Hebrew.

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FEBRUARY 2021

Katsuya Izumi

Lecturer
Japanese language, literature, and culture


Katsuya provides us with a glimpse of  his journeys before coming to Trinity College. He briefly writes about his recent writing project and his most recent article,
“Multiplicities of Identities and Meanings behind Devouring Characters in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away”

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JANUARY 2021

Carol Any

Associate Professor
Russian language, literature, and culture


Carol writes about her love of Russian and her newly published book.

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