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Faculty & Staff

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Robin Bauer-Taylor, MA Assistant Teaching Professor
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Ursula Beitter, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization:ÌýNineteenth-Century Literature,ÌýGerman Cinema,ÌýContemporary Germany,ÌýForeign Language Pedagogy
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Sara Castro Cantu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Sociolinguistics, Spanish in the U.S., heritage language maintenance and shift
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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
Andrea Colombat
André Colombat, Ph.D. Professor
Randy Donaldson
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
Ramon Espejo-Saavedra
Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, Ph.D. Professor
Areas of Specialization: Modern Spanish Fiction (19th-21st century)
Alyssa Falcone
Alyssa Falcone, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization:ÌýMedieval/Renaissance Italian Literature, the Literature of Migration, Italian-American Culture
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Elise Fields Program Assistant
Cynthia Fraga
Cynthia P. Fraga-Cañadas, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Linguistics, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Teacher Education
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Douglas Glynn, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
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Ana Gómez-Pérez, Ph.D. Professor
Areas of Specialization:Ìý20th Century Spanish Literature, Spanish Realism and Naturalism,ÌýWomen writers
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Margaret Austin Haggstrom, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization:ÌýEighteenth Century French Literature,ÌýForeign language pedagogy
Inas Hassan
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
Yolopattli Hernandez-Torres
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
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Jennifer Holt, MA Assistant Teaching Professor
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Shiya Hsu, MS.Ed. Affiliate Faculty
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Emily Iekel, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr. Margarita Jacome
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
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Kelly Keenan, Ph.D. Director of the Language Learning Center
Adaptation, 18th - 20th century French Literature, Gender Studies, Film
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Leslie Zarker Morgan, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization:ÌýMedieval and Renaissance Italian and French literature,ÌýForeign language pedagogy,ÌýHumor
Paul Oorts
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
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Silvia Raimondi, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Italian Language; Renaissance and Chivalric Literature; Contemporary Italian Literature; Women Studies; Film and Media Studies
Giuliana
Giuliana Risso-Robberto, MA Teaching Professor Emerita
Teaching Professor Emerita Italian
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Catherine Savell, MA Teaching Professor Emerita

Area of Specialization: French

Current CV

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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)
Yu Zhang
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
Andrea Thomas
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

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Sarah Tyler, MA Teaching Professor
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Mirella Vaglio Affiliate Faculty
Jinghua Wangling
Jinghua Wangling, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization:ÌýEarly and Medieval Chinese Literature,ÌýClassical Chinese Poetry,ÌýChinese Language
Thomas Ward
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
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Jena Whitaker, Ph.D. 51°µÍøing Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: 19thÌýcentury French poetry and translation theory

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