Faculty

 Adrián Pérez-Boluda

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Department Chair and Spanish Advisor

        Ext: 3467
        Email: adrian.perez-boluda@csun.edu

   Svetlana Tyutina

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Graduate Program Director and Spanish Advisor

        Ext. 3454
        Email: svetlana.tyutina@csun.edu 

   Drake Langford

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      Japanese Advisor

     Ext: 3460
     Email: drake.langford@csun.edu

Vahram Shemmassian

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      Armenian Advisor

     Ext: 3456
     Email: vahram.shemmassian@csun.edu

 Jeffrey Reeder

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         Spanish Advisor

        Ext: 3467
        Email: jeffrey.reeder@csun.edu

   Junliang Huang

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       Chinese Advisor

        Ext: 3459 
        Email: junliang.huang@csun.edu 

  Axel Montepeque

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        Spanish Advisor

       Ext: 3586
       Email: axel.montepeque@csun.edu

      Tim Watson

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        Classics Advisor

     Ext: 2092
     Email: tim.watson@csun.edu

Daniela Salcedo Arnaiz

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       Spanish Advisor

      Ext: 3458
      Email: daniela.salcedo@csun.edu

     Patrizia Miller

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Professor Emeritus and Director of Special Projects-Italian Studies Program

    Ext: 3581
    Email: pmiller@csun.edu

   Gabriela Aprato

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       Spanish Lecturer

        Email: gabriela.aprato@csun.edu

 Hasmig Baran

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      Armenian Lecturer

         Email: hasmig.baran@csun.edu

Adriana Benvenuto

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       Spanish Lecturer

     Email: adriana.benvenuto@csun.edu 

     Sumaya Bezrati

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        Arabic Lecturer

         Email: sumaya.bezrati@csun.edu 

 

    Homa Esfarjani

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        Persian Lecturer

         Email: homa.esfarjani@csun.edu

      Beverly Graf

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       Classics Lecturer

          Email: beverly.graf@csun.edu

Fernando Hernandez

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       Spanish Lecturer

     Email: fernando.hernandez@csun.edu

Larisa Krivchikova-Karkafi

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       Russian Lecturer

         Email: larisa.karkafi@csun.edu

          Nina Kato

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       Japanese Lecturer

           Email: nina.kato@csun.edu

  Jacqueline Loza

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       Spanish Lecturer

        Email: jacqueline.loza@csun.edu

    Ethan Margolis

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       Spanish Lecturer

        Email: ethan.margolis@csun.edu

  Dina Mokhnatkin

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       Russian Lecturer

       Email: dina.mokhnatkin@csun.edu

    Racheli Morris

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       Hebrew Lecturer

        Email: racheli.morris@csun.edu

      Elliott Piros

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       Classics Lecturer

           Email: elliott.piros@csun.edu

    Ludmila Posner

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        French Lecturer

        Email: ludmila.posner@csun.edu

 Maggie Pourabedi

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       French Lecturer

     Email: mahsa.pourabedi@csun.edu

Ernesto Rojas-Torres

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       Spanish Lecturer

            Email: ernesto@csun.edu

Corinne Sitbon Slosburg

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       French Lecturer

      Email: corinne.slosburg@csun.edu

   Kanzo Takemori

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      Japanese Lecturer

       Email: kanzo.takemori@csun.edu

    Manuel Villalba

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       Spanish Lecturer

       Email: manuel.villalba@csun.edu 

  Alessia Weisberg

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         Italian Lecturer

       Email: alessia.weisberg@csun.edu

    Sung Ja Yoon

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         Korean Lecturer

             Email: sung.yoon@csun.edu