Advisors
Program advisors for the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC) have the ability to advise students about majors, minors, transfer credit, and cluster exceptions within MLC. Advisors are also are authorized to sign off on forms to declare majors and minors, and to approve transfer credit toward a major or minor.
If you are looking to receive transfer credit for the first two years of study for a language, you need approval from an advisor of that language. All other transfer courses can be approved by anyone listed below or on the authorized signature list.
Undergraduate advisors are organized by the following areas:
- Chinese
- Comparative literature
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin American studies
- Portuguese
- Russian and Russian studies
- Spanish
- General inquires
Chinese
Elizabeth Weber
Lattimore 402
(585) 275-4251
e.e.weber@rochester.edu
Ping Pian
Lattimore 404
(585) 275-4251
ping.pian@rochester.edu
Comparative Literature
Robert Doran
Program Head and Undergraduate Advisor
Lattimore 414
(585) 275-4251
robert.doran@rochester.edu
French
Robert Doran
Undergraduate Advisor
Lattimore 414
(585) 275-4251
robert.doran@rochester.edu
German
Lisa Cerami
Associate Professor of Instruction in German
Lattimore 426
(585) 275-4251
lcerami3@ur.rochester.edu
Italian
Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio
Lattimore 405
(585) 275-4251
donatella.stocchi-perucchio@rochester.edu
Japanese
Lin Meng Walsh
Undergraduate Advisor
Lattimore 425
(585) 275-4251
twalsh14@ur.rochester.edu
Latin American Studies
Molly Ball
Undergraduate Advisor
Rush Rhees Library 449
(585) 276-7184
mollycball@rochester.edu
Portuguese
Teresa Valdez
Douglass 305E
(585) 275-5156,
tvaldez@ur.rochester.edu
Russian and Russian Studies
John Givens
Lattimore 408A
(585) 276-5856
john.givens@rochester.edu
Spanish
Raquel Alfaro
Minors (Last names N-Z)
ralfaro@ur.rochester.edu
Vialcary Crisótomo Tejada
Program Head
Majors, Take 5, study abroad, transfer credit (Last names A-M)
Lattimore 412
(585)275-4251
vcrisost@rochester.edu
Kirt Komocki
Language placement and minors (Last names A-M)
kkomocki@ur.rochester.edu
Luisa-María Rojas-Rimachi
Clusters/cluster exceptions
lrojasri@ur.rochester.edu
Ryan Prendergast
Study abroad and transfer credit (Last names N-Z)
ryan.prendergast@rochester.edu
General Inquires
Ryan Prendergast
Department Chair
Lattimore 408A
(585) 276-5856
ryan.prendergast@rochester.edu
Carlotta Gambato
Department Manager
Lattimore 408
(585) 275-4253
c.gambato@rochester.edu
Audrey Brett
Program Assistant
Lattimore 403
(585) 275-4251
audrey.brett@rochester.edu