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Faculty & Staff

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Robin Bauer-Taylor, MA Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor
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Ursula Beitter, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth-Century Literature, German Cinema, Contemporary Germany, Foreign Language Pedagogy
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Diane Chaffee-Sorace, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization: Poetry of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spanish Golden Age Literature. Visual Art in Literature
Andrea Colombat
André Colombat, Ph.D. Professor
Randy Donaldson
Randall P. Donaldson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus
Areas of Specialization: German-American history, culture, and literature, German literature of the nineteenth century, Twentieth-century German poetry, Early 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: Medieval/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. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: 20th Century Spanish Literature, Spanish Realism and Naturalism, Women writers
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Margaret Austin Haggstrom, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization: Eighteenth Century French Literature, Foreign language pedagogy
Inas Hassan
Inas Hassan, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: Advanced Arabic Curriculum, Classical Arabic linguistics and modern linguistics theories, Bilingualism, Applied linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, 
Teaching with Technology
Yolopattli Hernandez-Torres
Yolopattli Hernandez Torres, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Colonial Spanish American Literatures and Cultures, Visual Culture in Spanish America
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Jennifer Holt, MA Assistant Teaching Professor
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Shiya Hsu, MA Affiliate Faculty
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Emily Iekel, MA Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr. Margarita Jacome
Margarita Jácome, Ph.D. Associate Chair of Student Issues, Professor, Director of Latin American and Latino Studies Program
Areas of Specialization: Latin American narratives of violence and displacement, Colombian literature and culture, Latin American and Latino studies
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Kelly Keenan, M.A. 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: Medieval and Renaissance Italian and French literature, Foreign language pedagogy, Humor
Dulcenia Munoz Gomez
Dulcinea Munoz Gomez, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: Spanish Literature 20th-21st Century
Paul Oorts
Paul Oorts, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: French, Italian, and Dutch languages, The Trojan Legend in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth Century Western European Dance Music, Italian-American Mandolin Music
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Giuliana Risso-Robberto Robberto, MA Teaching Professor
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Catherine Savell, MA Teaching Professor
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Heidi Shaker, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: 20th century Francophone Literatures and Cultures, Trauma Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Second 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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Sarah Vitale, MA Teaching Professor
Jinghua Wangling
Jinghua Wangling, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Early and Medieval Chinese Literature, Classical Chinese Poetry, Chinese Language
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus
Areas of Specialization: Colonial and 19th-Century Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American and Latino Studies, Peruvian Literature