Faculty Spotlight

Camila Torres-Castro

Ann Plato Fellow
Hispanic Studies
Language and Culture Studies

Camila is our 2022-2023 Ann Plato Postdoctoral Fellow in Language and Culture Studies.

To read about Camila and her time at Trinity click here!

Priscilla Meléndez

Professor
Hispanic Studies
Language and Culture Studies

Priscilla shares how her childhood experiences with poetry and plays shaped her teaching and research today.

In Priscilla’s latest publication she explores the way in which Mexican playwright Sabina Berman (1956) confronts the history of her country and brings to the theater its social and political crises by means of humor, gender, and history

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Rieko Wagoner

Principal Lecturer
Language and Culture Studies and International Studies
Emerita

After retiring from teaching 35 years, Rieko has embarked on yet another career – as a Japanese language translator.

Rieko’s latest translation was on the memoir by Patrisse Kahn-Cullors, one of the three women who started the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Kifah Hanna

Associate Professor
Arabic Language, literature and culture

Chosen to be the next
Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies

Kifah writes about her deep infatuation with the Arabic language and her fascination with its poetic expression.

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Adi Katz

Lecturer
Hebrew language, literature and culture

Adi writes about her love for the Israeli language and its culture. She also shares her fascination with its linguistic richness and influences and her joy of teaching Hebrew.

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Katsuya Izumi

Lecturer
Japanese language, literature, and culture

Katsuya provides us with a glimpse of  his journeys before coming to Trinity College. He briefly writes about his recent writing project and his most recent article,
“Multiplicities of Identities and Meanings behind Devouring Characters in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away”

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Carol Any

Associate Professor
Russian language, literature, and culture

Carol writes about her love of Russian and her newly published book.

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