Faculty

Mohan Ambikaipaker
Ph.D., University of Texas - Austin
Director and Associate Professor of the World Cultures and Literatures Program
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
mambikai@Central.UH.EDU

  

Richard Armstrong
Associate Professor
Phone: 713.743.3306
Email: richarda@central.uh.edu 


  

 

Francesca D’Alessandro Behr
Professor of Classics and Italian Studies
606 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-3043
Email: fbehr@central.uh.edu 
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Tanya Bandmann
Lecturer 
German Studies
Office: 609 Agnes Arnold Hall
Email: treifenrath@uh.edu 

 

 

Alessandro Carrera, Ph.D.
John and Rebecca Moores Professor
Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Director of Italian Studies
612 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-3069 
Email: acarrera@central.uh.edu 
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Jinaeng Choi
Ph.D., Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
jchoi33@uh.edu 
Office: AH 608
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Thong Dang
Lecturer
Location: 437 Agnes Arnold Hall
Email: tqdang@central.uh.edu

 

 

 

Casey Dué Hackney
Professor
Director, Program in Classical Studies
601 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-3240
Email: cldue@central.uh.edu 
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Monica Ercolani
Instructional Associate Professor
603 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-3070 
Email: mercolan@central.uh.edu 
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Claudine Anne Giacchetti
Professor of French
Director, French Program
602 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: 713.743.3042
Email: giacchet@central.uh.edu  
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Hildegard Glass, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of German Studies
609 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-8350
Email: hfglass@central.uh.edu 
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Viola V. Green
Instructional Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Office: AH 607
Phone:  713.743.8559
Email: vvgreen@central.uh.edu 

 

Thomas Hefter
Instructional Assistant Professor
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
thhefter@central.uh.edu 
Office: Agnes Arnold Hall, Room 448
Office Phone:  713-743-4752 

 

 

Marie Theresa Hernandez Ramirez
Professor
World Cultures and Literatures
610 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-3074
Email: mthdz@uh.edu  
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Julia Kleinheider
Instructional Associate Professor of German
617 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3501
Email: jdkleinh@central.uh.edu
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Raymond Gnanwo Hounfodji
607 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-8350
Email: rgnanwoh@Central.UH.EDU 

 

 

 

Fang Ji
Lecturer
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Office: Agnes Arnold Hall, Room 612
Email: fj4@central.uh.edu  

 

 

Melody Yunzi Li
Assistant Professor of Chinese
Office: Agnes Arnold Hall Room 659
Email: mli40@Central.UH.EDU 

 

 

 

Sarasij Majumder, Ph.D.
Sita and Bhaskara Rao Mutyala Endowed Professor of India Studies
Director of India Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Email: smajumd4@central.uh.edu 

 

 

Marshall McArthur
Instructional Assistant Professor
Chinese Studies
661 Agnes Arnold Hall
Email: cmmcarthur@central.uh.edu 

 



Duy Lap Nguyen
Associate Professor
World Cultures and Literatures
620 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: 713-743-2519  
Email: dnguye54@central.uh.edu 
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Huda Sayyid
Lecturer of Arabic
211 Agnes Arnold Hall
Email: hmsayyid@Central.UH.EDU 

 

 

Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
Assistant Professor
Jewish Studies
Email: cmtamber@central.uh.edu 
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Bhavya Tiwari
Associate Professor
435 Agnes Arnold Hall,
University of Houston,
Houston, TX 77204
Phone: (713)-743-1737
Email: btiwari@uh.edu 
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3408-1948

 

Wei Wang
Assistant Professor
6049 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-3070
Email: wwang58@central.uh.edu 

 

 

Xiaohong ‘Sharon’ Wen, Ph.D.
Professor, Applied Linguistics and Chinese Language Acquisition
Director, Chinese Studies
664 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: 713.743.3072  
Email: xswen@central.uh.edu 

 

Thangavel Vijayalakshmi
Visiting Professor of Tamil Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Ph.D. University of Kerala
Office: 612 Agnes Arnold Hall
Contact: tvijayal@central.uh.edu  

 

Amanda Vredenburgh
Ph.D., French and Francophone Studies, Indiana University
MA in French Literature, New York University
Assistant Professor of French
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
605 Agnes Arnold Hall
Email: ajvreden@central.uh.edu  
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Robert Zaretsky
Professor
Phone: (713) 743-9018 
Email: rzaretsky@uh.edu  
Office: AH 446

 

 

Jing Zhang
Instructional Associate Professor
Chinese Studies
661 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: (713) 743-0926
Email: jzhang2@central.uh.edu 
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