Faculty
Chair: Emran El-Badawi

- Office: 609 AH
- Phone: 713.743.3044
- Email: eelbadaw@central.uh.edu
Graduate Director: Alessandro Carrera
(World Cultures and Literatures)

- Office: 612 AH
- Phone: 713.743.3069
- Email: acarrera@central.uh.edu
Departmental Office and Staff
Faculty by Specialty
Arabic
- El-Badawi, Emran (Director)
- Hefter, Thomas
- Sayyid, Huda
- Taha, Asmaa
Chinese
Classics/Greek/Latin
- Armstrong, Richard
- Behr, Francesca
- Dué Hackney, Casey (Director)
- Houlihan, James
- Wright, Dwight J.
French
German
India Studies
Italian
Japanese
Jewish Studies
Korean
Russian
- In the 2021–22 academic year, the modern and classical languages department will not offer Russian language classes. Courses on Russian history are offered in the history department. We hope to be able to offer Russian language courses in 2022–23.
Vietnamese
World Cultures & Literatures
- Carrera, Alessandro (Graduate Director)
- Hernández, Marie-Theresa (Undergraduate Director)
- Adkins, Alexander
- Centeno, Daniel
- Choi, Jinaeng
- Nguyen, Duy Lap
- Tiwari, Bhavya
- Zaretsky, Robert