Meet the People at The Leslie Center

Rebecca Elizabeth Biron

• Director of Leslie Center for the Humanities
• Professor, Spanish and Portuguese. Joint Title in Comparative Literature

Laura Edmondson

• The Helman Family Distinguished Professor
• Professor of Theater

Nicola Camerlenghi

• Associate Professor of Architectural History

Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro

• Associate Professor of Spanish

Ayo A. Coly

• Class of 1925 Professorship
• Professor, Comparative Literature & African and African American Studies

Jennifer J. Natale

• Head of Research and Learning for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Peter M. Orner

• Dartmouth Professorship in English and Creative Writing
• Chair, Department of English and Creative Writing

Devin Singh

• Associate Professor of Religion

Andrea Tarnowski

• Chair, Department of French and Italian
• Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Charlotte Bacon

• Assistant Vice Provost for Research Development and Alliances
• Humanities Grant Support

Veronika Fuechtner

• Chair of Comparative Literature
• Associate Professor of German Studies

Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones

• Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature

Tania Libertad Balderas

• Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
• Lecturer, Department of English and Creative Writing

Winnie W. C. Lai

• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2026)
• Research Associate B

Jeannette Oholi

Henrique Yagui Takahashi

• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
• Research Associate

Mary Fletcher

• Program Administrator
• Humanities Sequence Administrator