Thomas Mazanec
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
mazanec@ucsb.edu
Giancarlo Tursi
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
gtursi@ucsb.edu
Suzanne Jill Levine
Spanish and Portuguese; Comparative Literature
Aline Ferreira Marshall Spanish & Portuguese
Cathy Thomas English
Dominique Jullien (Translation Studies Advisor) French & Italian
Elide Valarini Oliver Spanish & Portuguese
Eric Prieto Comparative Literature
Naoki Yamamoto Media and Film Studies
Sowon Park English
Sara Lindheim Classics
Susan Hwang East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
Sara Pankenier Weld Germanic & Slavic Studies
Sven Spieker Germanic & Slavic Studies
Viola Miglio Spanish & Portuguese
Yunte Huang English
Languages: Spanish and Portuguese
Specialization: Translation and Cognition; Translation Process Research; Directionality in Translation; Bilingualism
Susan Hwang specializes in Korean literature and cultural studies, focusing on cultures of protest in modern Korea, intellectual history of East Asia, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, theories of world literature, and translation.
Languages and specializations for translation include: translating from/into English/Spanish/Italian/Icelandic, and from German. Technical translation (Healthcare / Medical Translation; legal; Official Certificates, etc).
Languages: Korean, English, Hanmun
Specialization for Translation Studies: Scriptworlds, World Literature, East Asian modernism, European Modernism, Neurocognitive criticism, Women’s writing, Suffrage fiction, Political fiction.
Eric Prieto is a professor of French, Francophone, and comparative literature. His areas of interest include music and literature, postcolonial studies, spatial studies, and urban literature.
Prof. Spieker research focuses on transnational modern and contemporary art, with a focus on Eastern Europe, Soviet and post-Soviet space, and Central Asia.
Dr.Thomas studies Afrodiasporic Literature across genres, especially speculative fiction, Caribbean literature & culture, comic books, and science & technology studies. Her work agitates against androcentric modernity and antiblack humanism.
Prof. Tursi's interests center on the question of minoritized languages as well as on questions of multilingualism more broadly. Bilingual in Italian and English, he also speaks fluent French and has advanced knowledge of Spanish. He also speaks the dialect of his native hometown in Italy, Martina Franca. His doctoral dissertation, entitled “Dialectal Dante: The Politics of Translation in Risorgimento Italy,” looked at the phenomenon of dialectal translations of Dante’s Divine Comedy in nineteenth-century, unification-era Italy. He aims to turn his dissertation into a book in the coming years. Recently, his interest in minoritized languages has led him to take up study of the indigenous Mayan language Kaqchikel, spoken by roughly 400,000 people in Guatemala.
