Faculty & Staff

Ursula Beitter, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth-Century Literature, German Cinema, Contemporary Germany, Foreign Language Pedagogy

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

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

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: Medieval/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-F

Ana Gómez-Pérez, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: 20th Century Spanish Literature, Spanish Realism and Naturalism, Women writers
- 410-617-2775
- agp@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-D

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

Inas Hassan, Ph.D. Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: Advanced Arabic Curriculum, Classical Arabic linguistics and modern linguistics theories, Bilingualism, Applied linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics,
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: Colonial Spanish American Literatures and Cultures, Visual 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: Latin American narratives of violence and displacement, Colombian literature and culture, Latin American and Latino studies
- 410-617-2364
- mjacome@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-G

Kelly Keenan, M.A. 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: Medieval and Renaissance Italian and French literature, Foreign language pedagogy, Humor

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
- 410-617-2324
- phoorts@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-B
Giuliana Risso-Robberto, MA Teaching Professor Emerita
- 410-617-2090
- grissorobberto@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 467

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)
- 410-617-5607
- hcshaker@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-I

Yu Zhang Stearns, Ph.D. Department Chair, 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. 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: Early and Medieval Chinese Literature, Classical Chinese Poetry, Chinese Language
- 410-617-2795
- jwangling@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 448

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
- tward@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 460