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Administrative

Jia Fei

Interim Department Chair

Email: jia_fei@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-7618
Office: AQ 5119.2

MARIA HAMILTON

MANAGER & ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Email: wll_mgr@sfu.ca
Phone: 604-782-7576
Office: AQ 5115

ARDALAN REZAMAND

COORDINATOR, OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Email: ar_rezamand@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-3796
Office: AQ 5117

Vlad Vintila

Undergraduate Chair

Email: vvintila@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-
Office: AQ 5111

Rita Boustani

Program Assistant & Chair's Secretary

Email: wll_admin@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-8704
Office: AQ 5116

Faculty

Joel Akinwumi

Assistant Professor
Email: jakinwum@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5112

Expertise: African World Literatures (read more)

 

Lecturer 
Email: mdeggan@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5119

Expertise: interdisciplinary and ecocritical approaches to the themes and aesthetics of World Literature, with emphasis on the poetics of cross-cultural encounter (read more)

Chie Furukawa

Lecturer 
Email: chie_furukawa@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5124

Expertise: Japanese language and culture (read more)

Isabel Mayo-Harp

Lecturer 
Email: mayoharp@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5128

Expertise: Spanish language and culture (read more)

Melek Ortabasi

Associate Professor
Email: melek_ortabasi@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5125

Expertise: Modern Japanese and German literatures (read more)

Naoko Takei

Senior Lecturer
Email: ntakei@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5119.1

Expertise: Japanese language and culture (read more)

Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani

Associate Professor
Email: azadeh_yamini-hamedani@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5121

Expertise: The movement of literature between Iran and Germany, which exposes world literature as a form of cultural resistance (read more)

María Ignacia Barraza

Assistant Professor
Email: mbarraza@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5113

Expertise: Spanish literary generations of 1898 and 1927, 19th and 20th century Latin American poetry and prose, as well as film and the visual arts (read more)

Senior Lecturer & Interim Department Chair
Email: jia_fei@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5119.2

Expertise: Chinese language courses at the beginner level, intermediate level and with a special focus on conversational and Business Mandarin (read more)

Claudia Hein

Senior Lecturer 
Email: cmhein@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5126

Expertise: German language and culture (read more)

Billie Ng

Senior Lecturer 
Email: billie@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5122

Expertise: Chinese language and literature (read more)

Ken Seigneurie

Professor
Email: kseigneu@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5120

Expertise: Arabic, French, English literatures of the Levant (read more)
Curriculum Vitae

Vlad Vintila

Lecturer
Email: vvintila@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5111

Expertise: Italian language and culture (read more)

CYNTHIA XIE

Senior Lecturer
Email: cxie@sfu.ca
Office: TASC 9211

Expertise: Intensive Mandarin Chinese courses and Heritage Mandarin Chinese courses (read more)

Term faculty

Camila Dilli

Visiting Faculty and Guimarães Rosa Reader
Email: Camila_Dilli@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5124

Expertise: Brazilian Portuguese and culture (read more)

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Term Assistant Professor
Email: goluic@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 5125

Expertise: World Literature with a focus on biopolitics, political theology and Mediterranean studies (read more)

Associate Members

Eirini Kotsovili

Lecturer
Email: dkotsovi@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 6199

Expertise: Greek language and culture (read more)