Faculty

Saint Louis University’s Department of Language, Literatures and Cultures is led by prominent SLU scholars who study the works, peoples and cultures of the world.

André Zampaulo, Ph.D., department chair

Linguistics

• Sheri Anderson-Gutiérrez, Ph.D., Spanish
• Ander Beristain, Ph.D., Spanish, Basque
• Christina García, Ph.D., Spanish
• Dan Nickolai, Ph.D., French
• André Zampaulo, Ph.D., Spanish, Portuguese

Literatures and Cultures

• Olga Arbeláez, Ph.D., Spanish
• Sarah Bauer, Spanish
• Elizabeth Blake, Ph.D., Russian
• Yun A. Lee, Ph.D., Chinese
• Julia Lieberman, Ph.D., Spanish
• Germán Lorenzo-Ayala, Spanish 
• Evelyn Meyer, Ph.D., German
• Ana Montero, Ph.D., Spanish
• Pascale Perraudin, Ph.D., French
• Annie Smart, Ph.D., French
• Amy Wright, Ph.D., Spanish

Adjunct Faculty

• Yongzhen Shu Curtin, Ph.D., Chinese
• Maria Grignola, Spanish
• Kristina Knudsen-Galindo, Ph.D., Spanish
• Violeta Martinez Morones, Spanish

Emeriti and Retired Faculty

• Maria Elsy Cardona, Ph.D., emerita, Spanish
• Gregory Divers, Ph.D., emeritus, German
• Paul Garcia, Ph.D., emeritus, Spanish
• L. Cassandra Hamrick, Ph.D., French
• Kathleen Llewellyn, Ph.D., emerita, French
• Óscar López, Ph.D., emeritus, Spanish
• David Murphy, Ph.D., emeritus, Russian
• Jean-Louis Pautrot, Ph.D., emeritus, French
• Claude N. Pavur, S.J., emeritus, classics, ancient Greek and Latin
• Nil Santiáñez, Ph.D., emeritus, Spanish