Faculty & Staff

ADMINISTRATION

Department Chair
Angel T. Tuninetti
(Latin American literature and culture)

Associate Chair
Susan Braidi
(Applied linguistics, Second language acquisition, Syntax)

FACULTY

Maria Jesus Amores
(Spanish, Applied linguistics, Foreign language pedagogy)

Cynthia Chalupa
(Contemporary German literature and culture)

Lisa DiBartolomeo
(Russian & Polish language & literature, Eastern European cinema)

Sandra Dixon
(Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian literature)

Michael Ennis
(Latin American literature and culture)

Ahmed Fakhri
(Linguistics and TESOL)

Daniel F. Ferreras
(Romance languages and literature)

Pablo Garcia
(Spanish, Latin American literature and culture, especially the colonial period)

Pablo Gonzalez
(Latin American literature and culture)

Deborah Janson
(German)

Xiangying Jiang
(TESOL)

Michael Lastinger
(French culture and civilization, 19th-century culture)

Valerie Lastinger
(French women writers, French civilization)

Huey Hannah Lin
(Chinese Studies)

Shaodan Luo
(Classical Chinese, Pre-modern Chinese literature, Librarianship in Chinese collection)

Tania de Miguel Magro
(Spanish language and literature)

Kathleen McNerney
(Literature, Women Writers, Hispanic)

Twyla Meding
(French language, 17th-century French literature)

Jennifer E. Orlikoff
(French language, French literature of the 16th, 18th & 19th centuries, Feminist Criticism, Methodology second language acquisition)

Johan Seynnaeve
(General linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Phonology)

Janice S. Spleth
(French and Francophone Studies)

Sandra Stjepanovic
(Linguistics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics)

Annastella Vester
(Contemporary Italian language & literature)

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

INSTRUCTORS

Tracy N. Dingess
(TESOL, CALL)

Stacy Fint
(TESOL, Curriculum)

Beatrice Malvisi
(Italian)

Teresa Neves
(English as a second language)

Asako No
(Japanese language & culture)

Joselin Tovar
(Spanish language and literature)

STAFF

Carolyn Pena-Ariet
Administrative Associate

Penny Thompson
Administrative Secretary

Robyn Wade
Administrative Secretary