Inas Hassan

Ph.D., M.A., Alexandria University, Egypt
Maryland Hall 351J
x5669
ihassan@loyola.edu

Jinghua Wangling

Head, Asian Languages Section
Ph.D. Harvard University
Maryland Hall 448
x2795
jwangling@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Pre-modern Chinese Poetry; Early Chinese Literature and History; Early and Medieval Chinese Art History

Yu Zhang Stearns 张禹

Ph.D., The University of Oregon
M.A., Shaanxi Normal University
Maryland Hall 458
x2507
yzstearns@loyola.edu
Areas of Interest: Chinese Literature in the 19th & 20th; Christianity in Late Imperial China; Gender Theories

Xin Xu

Ph.D. candidate, University of Connecticut
M.A. Seton Hall University
Maryland Hall 455
xxu@loyola.edu

Heidi Shaker

Head, French Section
M.A., The Ohio State University
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Maryland Hall 351I
x5607
Area of Study: 20th Century French & Francophone Literatures & Cultures, Trauma Studies

Paul Oorts

M.A., Ph.D. Penn State University
Maryland Hall 351B
x2324
phoorts@loyola.edu

Catherine Savell

M.A., Middlebury College
Maryland Hall 351C
x2927
csavell@loyola.edu

Andrea Thomas

Chair
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Maryland Hall 351H
x2612
asthomas@loyola.edu
Area of study: 19th-21st Century French and Francophone Literature

Esther Van Dyke

M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago
Ph.D., University of Chicago 
Maryland Hall 351K
evandyke@loyola.edu
Area of Study, 17th century aesthetics and classical French theater

André Colombat

On sabbatical 2022-2023
M.A. Université Lyon II
Ph.D. Washington University
acolombat@loyola.edu
Area of Study: The Holocaust French in film; Contemporary French philosophy (Deleuze) and cultural debates
The idea of “home” abroad; Slavery in context of a French owned plantation in Maryland.

Jennifer Holt

B.A., American University
M.A., University College of Cork, Cork, Ireland
Maryland Hall 459
x2513
jlholt@loyola.edu

Paul Oorts

M.A., Ph.D. Penn State University
Maryland Hall 351B
x2324
phoorts@loyola.edu

Giuliana Risso Robberto

M.A. (Equivalent) in Education, Università di Torino
Maryland Hall 467
x2090
grissorobberto@loyola.edu

Alyssa Falcone

M.A., Boston College
Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University
Maryland Hall 351L
amfalcone@loyola.edu

Ramón Espejo-Saavedra

M.A., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Maryland Hall 461
x2610
respejo@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Modern Spanish Peninsular Literature; History and Literature

Cynthia P. Fraga-Cañadas

Ph.D. The Ohio State University
M.A. University of Dayton, Ohio.
Maryland Hall 351-F
x5787
cpfraga@loyola.edu
Areas of Study: Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics, Teacher Education, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Heritage Language Learning.

Douglas Glynn

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
B.A., M.A., UMBC
Maryland Hall 351E
x5516
dglynn@loyola.edu
Areas of Study: Irishness in Caribbean and Latin American Cultures

Ana Gómez-Pérez

M.A. University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Maryland Hall 351D
x2775
agp@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish Peninsular Literature

Yolopattli Hernandez Torres

M.A., Ph.D.  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Maryland Hall 456
x2463
yihernandez@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Colonial Spanish American Literatures and Cultures, Visual Culture in Spanish America

Emily Iekel

Ph.D. candidate, Binghamton University
M.A. Thomas More University College/KU Leuven, Antwerp, Belgium
Maryland Hall 457
x2924
ekiekel@loyola.edu

Margarita Jacome

Associate Chair of Student Issues
Head, Spanish Section
Ph.D. The University of Iowa
M.A. Universidad Javeriana
Maryland Hall 351G
x2364
mjacome@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Latin American Literature and Cultures, emphasis on 20th and 21st Centuries

Tasha Lewis

Ph.D. University of California, Davis
M.A. California State University, Long Beach
Maryland Hall 460
x5603
tnlewis@loyola.edu
Areas of Study: Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics, Speech and Gesture, Foreign Language Pedagogy

Stacey Mitchell

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
M.A., Pennsylvania State University
M.A., Middlebury College
Maryland Hall 464
x2520
smitchell3@loyola.edu
Areas of Study: Spanish literature and art in the Cultural Production of 19th- and 20th-Century Spain

Sarah Tyler

M.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Maryland Hall 463
x2105
sgtyler@loyola.edu

Sarah Vitale

Spanish Core Coordinator
M.A. Louisiana State University A & M
Maryland Hall 465
x2974
sjvitale@loyola.edu

Thomas Ward

Director, Latin American and Latino Studies
M.A., Ph.D. The University of Connecticut
Maryland Hall 462
x2370
tward@loyola.edu
Areas of study: Colonial and 19th-Century Latin American Literature

Ursula Beitter (German)
Professor Emerita
M.A., Ph.D., New York University
ubeitter@loyola.edu 
Areas of study: Nineteenth-century literature, German cinema, contemporary Germany, and foreign language pedagogy

Diane Chaffee-Sorace (Spanish)
Professor Emerita
M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
dchaffee@loyola.edu 
Areas of study: Golden age literature, Spanish poetry

Randall P. Donaldson (German)
Associate Professor Emeritus
M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
rdonaldson@loyola.edu 
Areas of study: German-American immigration and history, German-American literary relations, and aesthetics

Margaret Haggstrom (French)
Associate Professor Emerita
M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., The University of Minnesota
Areas of Study: Pedogogy, French Language and Culture

Leslie Zarker Morgan (Italian and French)
Professor Emerita
M.A., Middlebury College
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
lmorgan@loyola.edu 
Areas of study: Medieval Italian language and literature, old French language and literature