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2025-2026 University Catalog 
    
2025-2026 University Catalog

School of Languages and Cultures (Graduate)


Website: https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/slc/graduate/

Department/School Head

Jennifer M. William

Faculty by Rank

Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Emeritus Faculty
Beate Allert
Elena Coda 
Alejandro Cuza-Blanco
Keith Dickson
Paul B. Dixon
Atsushi Fukada
Kazumi Hatasa
Wei Hong
Nicholas K. Rauh
Iñigo Sanchez-Llama
John Sundquist
Jennifer M. William
Robert Channon
Lori A. Czerwionka
Olga Dmitrieva
Daniel Hsieh
Ahmed Idrissi Alami
Yonsoo Kim
Cara Kinnally
Paula Leverage
Colleen Neary-Sundquist
Song No
Daniel J. Olson
Marcia Stephenson
Dawn F. Stinchcomb
Jessica Sturm
Jeffrey Turco
Nadège Veldwachter
Mariko Moroishi Wei
Pedro Bassoe
Charles Campbell
Daniel Conner
Olga Lyanda-Geller 
Erin Moodie
Gabriel Rios Rojas 
Hongjian Wang Route
Li Wei 
Paul Benhamou
Zinaida Breschinsky
Thomas Broden  
Becky Brown
William Buffington
Fritz Cohen
Maria Cooks
Robert S. Freeman
Alan Garfinkel
Robert Hammond
Patricia Hart 
William Hatfield
Madeleine M. Henry
Christiane Keck
Benjamin Lawton 
Howard Mancing 
Floyd Merrell
Herbert Rowland
Eiji Sekine
Erdmute W. White
Joseph Wipf
Allen G. Wood

Academic Programs

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs
The School of Languages and Cultures offers graduate study leading to the M.A. degree in French, German, Japanese, Spanish and Comparative Literature and the Ph.D. degree in French, German, Spanish and Comparative Literature. In addition, the School of Languages and Cultures participates in the curriculum for the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees granted by the Program in Linguistics/Foreign Language Acquisition housed in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Programs

    DoctoralMaster’s

    Courses

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