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
Devianee Vasanjee, Department Business Administrator
Mallory Travis, Administrative Coordinator
- 613 AH
- Phone: 713.743.8350
- Mailing Address:
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
University of Houston
613 Agnes Arnold Hall
Houston, TX 77204-3006
Faculty by Specialty
Arabic
- El-Badawi, Emran (Director)
- Taha, Asmaa
Chinese
Classics/Greek/Latin
- Armstrong, Richard
- Behr, Francesca
- Dué Hackney, Casey (Director)
- Houlihan, James
- Wright, Dwight J.
French
German
India Studies
- Majumder, Sarasij (Director)
- Tiwari, Bhavya
Italian
Japanese
Jewish Studies
- Hernandez, Marie T. (director)
- Tamber-Rosenau, Cayrn
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
- Nguyen, Duy Lap
- Tiwari, Bhavya
- Zaretsky, Robert