Regina Galasso

Regina Galasso's research and teaching areas of interest include literary and cultural relations between U.S. and Hispanic writers and artists, literature of the city, visual arts, literary translation, and 20th- and 21st-century Spanish literature. She has published articles on Felipe Alfau, Eduardo Lago, and José Moreno Villa as well as translations of the work of Miguel Barnet, Rolando Sánchez Mejías, and Alicia Borinsky among others. Together with Carmen Boullosa, she is the editor of a special issue of Translation Review featuring scholarly articles and literary translations associated with Hispanic New York. She is working on a book manuscript about the unique role New York City has played within Hispanic literary production. She holds a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University and degrees in Spanish from Middlebury College (M.A.) and Rutgers University (B.A.). She was Assistant Professor at The City University of New York (BMCC) before joining the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UMass.

Stephanie Yi-Hsien Ho

Stephanie Yi-Hsien Ho has taught in the National Taiwan University International Chinese Language Program ( ICLP ), the Chinese Program of  National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Continuing Education Center, and UC Berkeley Business Chinese Summer Program.  In the summer of 2010, she was the lecturer of South America Chinese Teachers Training Work shop by Overseas Compatriot Commission of R.O.C (Taiwan) at Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru. She obtained her BA in Applied English at the Ming Chung University, Taiwan.  She also obtained a Certificate of teaching Chinese as a second language at the Taiwan Ministry of Education and a Certificate of training for Teachers of Chinese Languages and Culture to Speakers of Other Languages at the Beijing Language and Culture University and National Taiwan University.  An MA in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language is expected from the Taiwan Chinese Culture University Graduate Institute.  Her teaching interests include all levels of Chinese Teaching, News Chinese, modern novels, Chinese films, and business Chinese.  She is a Visiting Lecturer at UMass this year and will be teaching Elementary Chinese courses.

Nahla Khalil

Nahla Khalil is a Five College joint appointee in Arabic and teaches Arabic at UMass and Smith College. She obtained her MA and PhD degrees in Literature from Ain Shams University, Egypt. She  taught Arabic Language and Literature at Amherst College during 2008-2009.