Faculty & Staff

ADMINISTRATION

Angel T. Tuninetti
Department Chair / Associate Professor
Ph.D. Washington University
Specialization: Latin American literature and culture
Email: angel.tuninetti@mail.wvu.edu
Web site:

Susan Braidi
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Delaware
Specialization: Applied linguistics, Second language acquisition, and Syntax
Email: sbraidi@wvu.edu
Web site: www.as.wvu.edu/%7esbraidi

FACULTY

Maria Amores
Maria Jesus Amores
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Specialization: Spanish, Applied linguistics, Foreign Language Pedagogy
Email: mamores@as.wvu.edu
Personal Web site: www.as.wvu.edu/forlang/amores

Cynthia Chalupa
(Contemporary German Literature and Culture)

Lisa DiBartolomeo
Teaching Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Specialization: Russian and Polish languages and literatures, Slavic folklore, science fiction, film, Eastern European cinema, Holocaust literature and cinema
Email: Lisa.DiBartolomeo@mail.wvu.edu

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Sandra Dixon
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Brown University
Specialization: Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian literature.
Email: sdixon@wvu.edu

Michael Ennis
(Latin American literature and culture)

Ahmed Fakhri
(Linguistics and TESOL)

Daniel F. Ferreras
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Michigan State University
Specialization: Romance languages and literature
Email: dferrera@wvu.edu

Pablo García
(Spanish, Latin American Literature and Culture, especially the colonial period)

Pablo Gonzalez
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D.University of Madrid
Specialization: Latin American literature and culture
Email: Pablo.Gonzalez@mail.wvu.edu

Deborah Janson
(German)

Xiangying Jiang
(TESOL)


Michael Lastinger
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Specialization: French Culture and Civilization, 19th-Century Culture
Email: Michael.Lastinger@mail.wvu.edu
Web site: www.as.wvu.edu/mlastinger

Valerie Lastinger
Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Specialization: 18th-century French literature,
French women writers, French civilization.
Email: vlasting@wvu.edu
Web site: www.as.wvu.edu/vlastinger

Huey Hannah Lin
(Chinese Studies)

ShaodanLuo
Dr. Shaodan Luo
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Specialization: Classical Chinese; Pre-modern Chinese Literature; Librarianship in Chinese Collection
Email: Shaodan.Luo@mail.wvu.edu

TaniaMagro
Tania de Miguel Magro
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook
Email: Tania.deMiguelMagro@mail.wvu.edu
Website: http://community.wvu.edu/~td020/Home.html

Kathleen McNerney
(Literature, Women Writers, Hispanic)

Twyla Meding
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Specialization: French, 17th-century French literature
Email: tmeding2@wvu.edu

Jennifer Orlikoff
Jennifer E. Orlikoff
Teaching Assistant Professor
Ph. D. Rutgers University
Specialization: French Language and Literature, French Literature of the 16th, 18th and 19th centuries, Feminist Criticism, Methodology Second Language Acquisition
Email: Jennifer.Orlikoff@mail.wvu.edu

Johan Seynnaeve
Johan Seynnaeve
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University
Specialization: General linguistics, sociolinguistics,
phonology
Email: jseynnae@wvu.edu

Janice S. Spleth
(French and Francophone Studies)

Sandra Stjepanovic
Assistant Professor
Ph. D. University of Connecticut
Specialization: Linguistics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics.
Email: sastjepanovic@mail.wvu.edu

Annastella Vester
(Contemporary Italian Language & Literature)

Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo
(Spanish, Hispanic Linguistics, Syntax)

INSTRUCTORS

Tracy N. Dingess
(TESOL, CALL)

Stacy Fint
IEP Director
M.A. West Virginia University
Email: sfint@att.net

Beatrice Malvisi
(Italian)

Teresa Neves
Instructor
Ed.D. West Virginia University
Specialization: English as a Second Language
Email: mneves@mix.wvu.edu

Asako No
(Japanese Language & Culture)

Joselin Tovar
Part-time Lecturer
M.A. West Virginia University
Specialization: Spanish Language and Literature
Email: jtovar@wvu.edu

STAFF

Carolyn Pena-Ariet
Administrative Associate
Email: Carolyn.Pena-Ariet@mail.wvu.edu

Penny Thompson
Administrative Secretary
Email: Mary.Thompson@mail.wvu.edu

Robyn Wade
Administrative Secretary
Email: robyn.wade@mail.wvu.edu