Faculty & Staff

Ursula Beitter, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization:ÌýNineteenth-Century Literature,ÌýGerman Cinema,ÌýContemporary Germany,ÌýForeign Language Pedagogy

Sara Castro Cantu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Sociolinguistics, Spanish in the U.S., heritage language maintenance and shift

Diane Chaffee-Sorace, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization:ÌýPoetry of Luis de Góngora y Argote,ÌýSpanish Golden Age Literature.ÌýVisual Art in Literature

Randall P. Donaldson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus
Areas of Specialization:ÌýGerman-American history, culture, and literature,ÌýGerman literature of the nineteenth century,ÌýTwentieth-century German poetry,ÌýEarly eighteenth-century literary culture and criticism in Germany

Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, Ph.D. Professor
Areas of Specialization: Modern Spanish Fiction (19th-21st century)
- 410-617-2610
- respejo@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 461

Alyssa Falcone, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization:ÌýMedieval/Renaissance Italian Literature, the Literature of Migration, Italian-American Culture
- amfalcone@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 455

Cynthia P. Fraga-Cañadas, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Linguistics, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Teacher Education
- 410-617-5787
- cpfraga@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-B

Ana Gómez-Pérez, Ph.D. Professor
Areas of Specialization:Ìý20th Century Spanish Literature, Spanish Realism and Naturalism,ÌýWomen writers
- 410-617-2775
- agp@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-D

Margaret Austin Haggstrom, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization:ÌýEighteenth Century French Literature,ÌýForeign language pedagogy

Inas Hassan, Ph.D. Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization:ÌýAdvanced Arabic Curriculum,ÌýClassical Arabic linguistics and modern linguistics theories,ÌýBilingualism,ÌýApplied linguistics,ÌýAnthropological Linguistics,Ìý
Teaching with Technology
Teaching with Technology
- 410-617-5668
- ihassan@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-J

Yolopattli Hernandez Torres, Ph.D. Associate Chair of Student Issues, Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization:ÌýColonial Spanish American Literatures and Cultures,ÌýVisual Culture in Spanish America
- 410-617-2463
- yihernandez@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 456

Margarita Jácome, Ph.D. Professor, Director of Latin American and Latino Studies Program
Areas of Specialization:ÌýLatin American narratives of violence and displacement,ÌýColombian literature and culture,ÌýLatin American and Latino studies
- 410-617-2364
- mjacome@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-G

Kelly Keenan, Ph.D. Director of the Language Learning Center
Adaptation, 18th - 20th century French Literature, Gender Studies, Film

Leslie Zarker Morgan, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization:ÌýMedieval and Renaissance Italian and French literature,ÌýForeign language pedagogy,ÌýHumor

Paul Oorts, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization:ÌýFrench, Italian, and Dutch languages,ÌýThe Trojan Legend in Comparative Perspective,ÌýEighteenth Century Western European Dance Music,ÌýItalian-American Mandolin Music

Silvia Raimondi, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Italian Language; Renaissance and Chivalric Literature; Contemporary Italian Literature; Women Studies; Film and Media Studies
- sraimondi@loyola.edu
- MH 459
Giuliana Risso-Robberto, MA Teaching Professor Emerita
Teaching Professor Emerita Italian
- 410-617-2090
- grissorobberto@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 467

Heidi Shaker, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization:Ìý20th century Francophone Literatures and Cultures,ÌýTrauma Studies,ÌýPostcolonial Studies,ÌýSecond Language Acquisition: French Language (all levels)
- 410-617-5607
- hcshaker@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-I

Yu Zhang Stearns, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Late imperial Chinese literature, Intersection of gender, text, and religion at the turn of the twentieth century
- 410-617-2507
- yzstearns@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 458

Andrea S. Thomas, Ph.D. Department Chair, Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: 19th - 21st Century French and Francophone Literature, Adaptation, Textual History and Criticism, French Theatre
- 410-617-2612
- asthomas@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 462

Jinghua Wangling, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization:ÌýEarly and Medieval Chinese Literature,ÌýClassical Chinese Poetry,ÌýChinese Language
- 410-617-2795
- jwangling@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 448

Thomas Ward, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus
Areas of Specialization:ÌýColonial and 19th-Century Latin American Literature and Culture,ÌýLatin American and Latino Studies,ÌýPeruvian Literature
Emeriti Faculty
Emeriti Faculty
- tward@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 460

Jena Whitaker, Ph.D. 51°µÍøing Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: 19thÌýcentury French poetry and translation theory
- jwhitaker1@loyola.edu
- MH 351-F


