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Abasi, Ali R.
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- JMZ 1220C
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- 301.405.3315
Assistant Professor of Persian
Ali R. Abasi, completed his Ph.D. in second language education at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include second language writing and adult learning. His recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing, English for Specific Purposes, Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, Australian Journal of Adult Learning, Literacy & Numeracy Studies: An International Journal, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes.
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Acedo-Garcia, Ana
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- JMZ 4122
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- 301.405.0197
Spanish Lecturer
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Aguilar-Mora, Jorge
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- JMZ 2115C
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- 301.405.6446
Professor of Spanish
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Amodeo, Stefania
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- JMZ 4109
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- 301.405.4038
Italian Lecturer
Stefania Amodeo, Instructor of Italian, holds a laurea from the University of Genoa, Italy, in Lettere e Filosofia with a thesis in medieval history. She did graduate work in Belgium at the University of Louvain and at Harvard University from which she received an M.A. in Italian Literature. She has taught at Wellesley College and at Harvard University as a teaching fellow. Her main research interest is in language pedagogy and the use of computer technology in teaching foreign languages. She recently developed an Italian language course centered on the history and cultural importance of food in Italy.
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Anishchenkova, Valerie
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- JMZ 3205
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- 301.405.7620
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Valerie Anishchenkova received an MA with Honors from the State University of St Petersburg (Russia) in Oriental and African Studies, and MA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She taught Arabic language and literature/culture classes at the University of Michigan, Middlebury Summer School, and Tufts University. Her pedagogical experience includes Arabic language curricular development, as well as creating culture courses such as "Narrating War Zones: Cinematic and Literary Gulf and Chechen War Representations," "Sexuality and Gender in Arabic Literature and Film," "Fascinating Monsters: Representing Arabs in American Pop Culture vs. Americans in Arab Pop Culture." Her research area focuses on identity studies, modern Arabic literature and film, cultural discourses on war, and sexuality studies. She is currently working on her book project Selves That Matter: Autobiographical Identities in Arab Literature and Film.
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Araji, Bouchra
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- SUS 2101B
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- 301.405.2347
Arabic Lecturer
Bouchra Araji has taught Arabic at Berlitz International Inc in Rockville, using the direct method of total immersion in teaching a foreign language. She joined the Arabic program at UMD in Spring of 2008. Bouchra received her B.A. in Political Science from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon) in 1996 and her MBA from the University of Nantes (France) in 1998. Previously, she has worked with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Beirut, the Lebanese Ministry of Economy and Trade and the Beirut and Mount Lebanon Chamber of Commerce. In addition to Arabic and English, Bouchra also speaks French, German and some Bulgarian.
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Barilla, Anthony
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- JMZ 4122
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- 301.405.0197
Spanish Lecturer
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Beicken, Peter U
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- JMZ 3207
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- 301.405.4098
Professor of German
Professor Beicken teaches 19th/20th century Austrian and German literature focusing on Fin de Siècle, Expressionism, the Weimar Republic, Exile, and Post-war literature with special emphasis on authors such as Bachmann, Fleisser, Kafka, Keun, Seghers and C. Wolf. His Kafka studies include "Kafka. Eine kritische Einführung in die Forschung" (1974); 'Die Verwandlung'. A commentary (1983, 1998); "Franz Kafka. Leben und Werk" (1986, 1994). In film studies he has presented seminars on Literatur- und Filmanalyse, Kafka und Film, Gender and Space in Film. He approaches both media from cultural, semiotic, and psychoanalytic film studies perspectives including concepts of the body (Körperbilder). Awarded the Eduard-von-der-Heydt-Preis, Wuppertal 1984, for "Kindheit in W. Gedichte und Prosa" (1983) and the Elisabeth Frazer de Bussy Prose-Prize, 1998. Visiting professor at Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1987); Georgetown University (1989), Universität Giessen (1997), Univ. Wuppertal (1997). Editor, TRANS-LIT, Journal of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German (1998-2002) and president of the SCALG (2003-2005). Among recent publications are: "Ingeborg Bachmann." Munich 1988, 1992. "The Films of Wim Wenders. Cinema as Vision and Desire." Cambridge University Press 1993. (With Robert Kolker) "Franz Kafka. 'Der Process'. Interpretation." Munich 1995, 1999. "Ingeborg Bachmann: Literaturwissen." Stuttgart 2001. "Wie interpretiert man einen Film?" Stuttgart 2004.
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Benharrech, Sarah
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- JMZ 3106F
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- 301.405.1644
Assistant Professor of French
Sarah Benharrech, assistant professor, specializes in eighteenth-century French literature. She received a Ph.D in French literature from Princeton University in 2002 and has published articles in MLN, Eighteenth Century fiction and in various proceedings. Her research interest deals with the esthetic, epistemological and anthropological concepts underlying the elaboration of fictional characters in theater, novels and moralistic works. Sarah is currently working on a book about early Enlightenment moralistic genre, focusing on Marivaux’s plays and novels. She participated to the critical edition of Crébillon fils’s Oeuvres complètes as editor of the correspondence (Classiques Garnier, 2002). Presently she collaborates to the critical edition of the eighteenth-century periodical Les Mémoires Secrets de Bachaumont (Champion, forthcoming publication). Before coming to Maryland, she has taught at The University of Chicago, Tulane University, and the University of Toronto (Mississauga).
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Benito-Vessels, Carmen
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- JMZ 2215A
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- 301.405.6445
Professor of Spanish
A graduate of the Universities of Salamanca (1977), and California-Santa Barbara (1988), Dr. Benito-Vessels is the autor of two books Juan
Manuel: Escritura y recreación de la historia (University of Wisconsin,
Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1994) La palabra en el tiempo de las letras. Una historia heterodoxa (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007. She is also one of the editors of two volumes: The Picaresque. A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994) and Women at Work in Spain from The Middle Ages to Early Modern Times (New York: Peter Lang 1998). Benito-Vessels is also the co-author of Horizontes: Cultura y Literatura (Boston : Heinle and Heinle, 3rd edition 1997, and 4TH edition 2000). She has published articles and conducts research on the fields of Medieval historiography and poetry, the interaction of medieval literary genres and on Hispanic Philology. Courses and seminars: Medieval Spanish Literature, History of the Spanish Language. -
Brami, Joseph
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- JMZ 3106C
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- 301.405.4026
Professor of French
Joseph Brami, Professor of French, received his Ph. D in French Literature from New York University. Before joining the University of Maryland, he taught at New York University, Barnard College and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also taught summer courses at Columbia University in New York and in Paris, and at the Institute of American Universities in Avignon. His general field of research is modern French literature, with a specialty in 19th and 20th-century French literature. His main teaching areas are the novel, poetry and essays from the 17th to the 20th centuries. His publications include: Les Troubles de l'invention: Essai sur le doute poétique de Joë Bousquet/ (Summa, 1987); /Théophile Gautier: Mademoiselle de Maupin/ (Editions Nathan,1993); co-prefaced and co-annotated edition of 3 volumes of Marguerite Yourcenar's correspondence
1) Lettres à ses amis et quelques autres (Gallimard, 1995), 2) Une volonté sans fléchissement (Gallimard, 2007), 3) the third volume is scheduled for 2010. He has also prepared a two-volume series of critical works on Proust: Lecteurs de Proust au XXième siècle, to be published by Éditions Minard in 2010. He has also authored articles, chapters in books and book reviews published, among other outlets, in Balises, Comparatistica, Bulletin d’Informations proustiennes, Bulletin Marcel Proust, Dahlousie French Studies, Eighteenth Century Life, Europe, Igitur, Nouvelle revue française, Revue d’Histoire littéraire de la France, Sincronie, Studi Francesi, The French Review. -
Campangne, Hervé
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- JMZ 3102
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- 301.405.4032
Associate Professor of French
Hervé Thomas Campangne, Associate Professor of French, earned a Ph D. in Renaissance French Literature from Rutgers University. Previous to his appointment at UMD, he has taught at Louisiana State University, Bard College, and Rutgers. His teaching areas include French culture, literature and language with a specialization in Renaissance and Baroque culture and literature. His current research deals with travel narratives, rhetoric, eloquence and the theater in early modern France, as well as the short story in sixteenth century France. He is the author of Mythologie et rhétorique aux XVème et XVIème siècles en France (Champion, 1996)and has recently contributed chapters to the books Approaches To Teaching Marguerite de Navarre (MLA, 2005), Ronsard, figure de la variété (Droz, 2003), Diane à la Renaissance (Champion, 2003) and Poétiques de l'objet (Champion, 2002). He is currently preparing a book on the tragic in Early Modern France, and is also the author of numerous articles on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and culture which have appeared in the Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France, XVIIe siècle, Studi Francesi, Nouvelle Revue du XVIe siècle, Renaissance Quarterly, and BHR.
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Carlorosi, Silvia
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- JMZ 4104
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- 301.405.4043
Assistant Professor of Italian
Silvia Carlorosi received a Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere from the University of Urbino, Italy, an M.A. in Mass Communications at Miami University of Ohio (May 2001), and a Ph.D. in Italian at the University of Pennsylvania (August 2006). In 2006-2007 she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Middlebury College, where she taught courses in language, literature and culture. Her interests include 20th century Italian literature and film, cultural studies, literary theory and philosophy, and teaching pedagogy. She has published articles on Italian cinema, including: “Pier Paolo Pasolini’s La ricotta: The Power of Cinepoiesis” (Italica 86:2, 2009; 254-271), “Politicizzazione dell'Estetica o Estetizzazione della Politica? 1860 di Alessandro Blasetti” (Italian Culture, Vol. 18, 2, 2000. 87-104); and “Neo-Romanticismo in risposta al Postmodernismo? L’influenza leopardiana nella poetica cinematografica felliniana di La voce della luna” (Film e Letterature: Paesaggi Gedit Ed: Bologna, 2007). She is currently working on her manuscript: A Grammar of Cinepoiesis: Poetic Cameras of Italian Cinema, which analyzes the interaction between cinema and poetry. Departing from an analysis of Pasolini's idea of "cinema of poetry," her work considers how this poetic form differs from a cinema of prose, and evaluates the modes of a poetic camera, in theory and in the practice of various Italian filmmakers.
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Chao, Fang-Yi
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- JMZ 4105
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- 301.405.4039
Assistant Professor of Chinese
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Cherrouk, Meryem
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- SUSQ 2101B
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- 301.405.2367
Arabic Lecturer
Meryem Cherrouk was born in Casablanca, Morocco. She is a speaker of various dialects including Egyptian and Moroccan. She also speaks French and Spanish. Ms. Cherrouk received her B.A in Arts and Visual Technologies from George Mason University in Virginia. She has previously taught total immersion and semi private programs in Modern Standard Arabic and French at Berlitz International Inc in Washington D.C where she acquired total training of the Berlitz teaching method which presents language in context of real-life situations, with extra targeted practice of grammar and vocabulary. She has been teaching at the University of Maryland since 2006.
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Clough, Lauretta
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- JMZ 1105A
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- 301.405.4034
Acting Associate Director for Academic Affairs
Lauretta Clough earned an MA in Linguistics and a PhD in French from the University of Maryland, with a specialization in translation theory. Her published translations include Pierre's Bourdieu's The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power (Stanford, 1997). She has spoken and published on teaching, translating, literature, and the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and has completed a manuscript about values and culture in a French village provisionally entitled A Thousand Years Beyond Provence: Village Lessons from the French. Currently SLLC Acting Associate Director for Academic Affairs, she has taught French at UMD since 1990.
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Cypess, Sandra
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- JMZ 2215J
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- 301.405.6449
Professor of Spanish
Sandra Messinger Cypess is currently Professor of Latin American Literature and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland, whose faculty she joined in 1994 after having been at SUNY Binghamton University since 1976. Prof. Cypess received her B.A. at Brooklyn College, majoring in Spanish and French. Her MA was awarded from Cornell and her PhD from the University of Illinois. Her research deals primarily with women writers, the representation of Women in Latin American Literature, and Latin American theatre. Her theoretic focus centers on feminist theory and semiotics. Motivated by her doctoral work with Don Luis Leal at the University of Illinois, she has published extensively on writers from Mexico (Villaurrutia, Carballido, Garro, Castellanos, Berman). Her book, La Malinche in Mexican Literature: from History to Myth (U Texas Press 1991), was completed after being in Mexico under the auspices of an NEH summer fellowship, and is considered one of the major pieces of scholarship on that figure. Editor of three additional books on various topics, she is also co-editor with Mario Rojas of the Drama section of the Handbook of Latin American Studies. She was invited to write the chapter on Twentieth Century Latin American theatre for the Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. Prof. Cypess also appears in the documentary, "Indigenous Always: The Story of La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico, an award-winning documentary that was broadcast on national television through PBS.
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Deigan Brunori, Federica
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- JMZ 4109
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- 301.405.3433
Italian Lecturer
Federica Brunori Deigan, UMD instructor of Italian language, literature, and Commercial Italian, holds a "laurea" in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Rome, a professional diploma from the School for Interpreters of Rome, and a Ph. D. in Italian studies from the Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Italian language, literature, and culture at Hopkins and at the University of Pennsylvania. Recent grants and awards include a stipend for seminar work in Italian history from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Flaiano prize for Italian Studies for her book Alessandro Manzoni’s The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004).
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DeKeyser, Robert
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- JMZ 3104
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- 301.405.4030
Professor of Second Language Acquisition
Robert DeKeyser is originally from the Flemish part of Belgium. After his BA at the University of Leuven, his MA and PhD at Stanford University, and a short stint with the Belgian National Science Foundation, he taught in the Linguistics Department at the University of Pittsburgh for 17 years.
He has published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Language Testing, the Modern Language Journal, and the AILA Review, among others, and is the editor of Language Learning since the Spring of 2005.
Robert DeKeyser's research interests concern primarily cognitive aspects of second language acquisition, from implicit and explicit learning mechanisms, automatization processes, and age differences in learning, to more applied concerns such as aptitude-treatment interaction, error correction, and the effects of study abroad. Link to publications -
Demaría, Laura
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- JMZ 2215B
- Phone
- 301.314.2476
Associate Professor of Spanish
Laura Demaria received her undergraduate degree at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, and her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research explores the complex ways in which the nineteenth-century is re-inscribed in contemporary Southern Cone literature and concentrates primarily on Argentina. By reading contemporary texts in dialogue with those written in the nineteenth-century, she is particularly interested in exploring alternative counter-discourses that have been diachronically erased and forgotten from the official national archive. She has published articles on 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literatures in refereed journals, and is the author of the book Argentina's Ricardo Piglia diáloga con la generación del 37 en la discontinuidad (Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor, 1999). Currently, she is working on her second book, Mapping Argentina: Spatial (Hi)-stories between Buenos Aires and the provinces.
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Eades, Caroline M
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- JMZ 3106G
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- 301.405.4029
Associate Professor of French
Caroline Eades specializes in Film Studies and Contemporary French Culture. She received her PhD in Film Studies from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III and has taught at the University of Grenoble, France, the University of Southern California, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her main fields of research are European Cinema, Post-Colonial Studies, Film Feminist Theory, Film and Myth. Her book “Le Cnéma post-colonial français” appeared in 2006 (Paris: Collections 7eArt, Editions du Cerf). She is currently working on a book on Classical Reception in Film for Editions du Cerf. She has published numerous book-chapters and articles on French cinema, culture, and literature in American, Canadian, French, Greek, Brazilian, Swiss, Belgian, and Italian scholarly series and journals, including The French Review, Revue de Littérature Comparée, and CinémAction.
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Elgibali, Alaa
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- JMZ 3121
- Phone
- 301.405.4037
Professor of Arabic
Alaa Elgibali: Professor of Arabic and Linguistics and Director of the University of Maryland Undergraduate and Flagship Programs. Received an M.A. in TAFL from the American University in Cairo (AUC) and a doctorate in general linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught at SAIS of Johns Hopkins, UC-Berkeley, Kuwait University, Ain-Shams University, AUC, the American University of Beirut and the University of Maryland at College Park. Elgibali is the author of several seminal publications, including Arabic as a first language: A study in language acquisition and development in 2003. He has also edited a number of important volumes including Understanding Arabic (1996) and Investigating Arabic (2004) and is the associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Elgibali served as executive director of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), director of the TAFL program at AUC and acting director of the Arabic Language Institute and co-director of CASA. Current research agenda include K-12 Arabic, Advanced language proficiency, and the development of Standards for acquisition and testing.
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El-Hefnawy, Dina
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- SUSQ 2101E
- Phone
- 301.405.3015
Arabic Lecturer
Dina El-Hefnawy received her B.A in English Literature and Language from the English Department at the Faculty of Arts at Alexandria University in Egypt. She received a M.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the American University in Cairo. She immigrated to the US in 1985. From 1989 until 1999 Dina taught Arabic at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Dina has been teaching Arabic at the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at UMD since January 2004. Dina has been teaching English and Arabic in Egypt, UAE and the US over the last 20 years. She now focuses on teaching Arabic as a foreign language. She encourages her students to communicate with each other in Arabic both inside and outside of class for extra practice.
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Falvo, Giuseppe
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- JMZ 3103
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- 301.405.4031
Associate Professor of Italian
Giuseppe Falvo is Associate Professor of Italian. He received his Ph.D. in Italian from the Johns Hopkins University in 1986 with a specialization in the Italian Renaissance. He has published numerous articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Della Casa and a book on Baldesar Castiglione entitled The Economy of Human Relations. Castiglione's "Libro del Cortegiano" (Peter Lang, 1992). He recently contributed to the six volume Encyclopedia of the Renaissance published by Charles Scribner's Sons in association with the Renaissance Society of America. He is currently working on a volume on Stefano Guazzo and La Civil Conversazione and on a project dealing with the study of ceremony and ritual in Boccaccio's Decameron. He has been a participant at many conferences and colloquia, delivering papers on various aspects of Italian literature and culture, including the Italian cinema. He is recipient of several honors, including an award from the Folger Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Fleri, Maria S
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- JMZ 4109
- Phone
- 301.405.3433
Italian Lecturer
Maria S. Fleri, Instructor of Italian, holds an M.A. in Italian Literature from The Catholic University of America where she worked as a Teaching Assistant. She has been teaching at the University of Maryland since 1994. She is an experienced translator and interpreter and has worked as an Italian researcher for a law firm in Washington, D.C. Her main interest is in second language acquisition and pedagogy with a special interest in Sicilian dialects and folklore.
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Frederiksen, Elke
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- JMZ 3211
- Phone
- 301.405.4107
Professor of German
Professor Elke Frederiksen is an internationally known scholar who has lectured and published on issues of German and Austrian literature and culture in Europe, the United States, Canada, China and Japan. Her discovery of an unknown manuscript by the 19th century German-Jewish writer Heinrich Heine in Kraków, Poland, drew attention all over Europe. Her research and teaching interests focus on a variety of aspects in 19th and 20th century German and Austrian literature and culture (e.g. authors such as Bettina von Arnim, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Heinrich Heine, Franz Grillparzer, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Gabriele Reuter, Luise Rinser; genre studies, letters, travel literature) with emphasis on individual authors such as Bettina von Arnim and Heinrich Heine, on the intersections of women's social and literary history, as well as Cultural Studies including Post-Colonialism. Breaking away from traditional approaches to literature, she has incorporated concepts of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and nationality into both her research and teaching. She received the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award in 1986/87, and her book edition Women Writers of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (1989) received an "Outstanding Academic Book" award. Professor Frederiksen was also a Distinguished Visiting Professor (Friedrich Kittler Chair) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 1998. Her latest book publication Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past was published 2000 with SUNY Press.
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Frisch, Andrea
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- JMZ 3106F
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- 301.405.4028
Associate Professor of French
A specialist in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Andrea Frisch received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation on early modern travel literature and the novel. She subsequently did research in law and literature for The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France (University of North Carolina P, 2004). Her work has appeared in Representations, Romanic Review, Discourse, Esprit créateur and Modern Language Quarterly. Andrea has received fellowships from the Newberry Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities and, most recently, from the National Humanities Center, where she was a fellow in 2004-2005. She is currently writing a book about the impact of the civil wars of the sixteenth century on the literature and aesthetics of the seventeenth century in France.
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Gentile, Christina
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- JMZ 4102
- Phone
- 301.405.2004
Italian Lecturer
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Gonen, Einat
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- JMZ 4202
- Phone
- 301.405.1002
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew
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Gor, Kira
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- JMZ 2106E
- Phone
- 301.405.0185
Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition
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Harrison, Regina
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- JMZ 2203
- Phone
- 301.405.0497
Professor of Spanish & Comparative Literature
Regina Harrison's scholarship combines the disciplines of anthropology and literature, as reflected in her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her book Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture (University of Texas, 1989) received the first Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Prize from the Modern Language Association in 1991, and was also awarded prizes from the Latin American Studies Association and the New England Council of Latin American Studies. A Professor in Spanish and Comparative Literature and affiliate Professor in Anthropology, Harrison teaches Quechua, the language spoken by the Incas, as well as Latin American cultures and literatures. Her third book, Entre el tronar épico y el llanto elegíaco (Quito, Ecuador; 1997), analyzes the use of the Indian symbol in poetry as Ecuador "negotiates nation" in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her first video, Cashing in on Culture: Indigenous Communities and Tourism (2002), is a collaboration with indigenous Ecuadorians who comment on tourism, the economic benefits, and the downside of cultural assimilation. Mined to Death--a DVD she filmed and produced with Quechua-speaking miners from Potosí, Bolivia-- was awarded the Latin American Studies Association “Award of Merit in Film” in 2007. With fellowship funding from the Simon J. Guggenheim Foundation (1999-2000), Harrison analyzes confession manuals and sermons written in Spanish and Quechua to determine "semantic conversions." In 2004-05 she researched Quichua indigenous communities’ reaction to the ‘dollarization’ of Ecuadorian currency, funded by a Fulbright grant. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, and later lived with indigenous communities in the tropical forest and the Andes. Her research has been sponsored by S.S.R.C., A.C.L.S., Rockefeller, Fulbright, N.E.H., and the Mellon Foundation. She is also a Visiting Faculty member at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito, Ecuador) and in the Centro de Estudios Regionalistas Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas (Cusco, Peru). Link to Homepage
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Hassan, Inas
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- SUSQ 2101E
- Phone
- 301.405.2280
Arabic Lecturer
Inas Hassan, lecturer of Arabic, earned an MA (1997), and a PhD (2003) in Arabic language and Arabic linguistics from Alexandria University, Egypt. Previous to her appointment at UMD, She has taught Arabic language at Montgomery College, Dickinson College, central Pennsylvania Community College where she established new Arabic credit and non-credit program, TAFL (Teaching Arabic as a second language) institute, and Alexandria University. She has more than fifteen years of experience in teaching Arabic as a second language and as academic study with new and different techniques. Her learning and teaching in the foreign language classrooms have provided her with the motivation to start working in her proposed research; "Alphabet Arabic language". In this research, she is trying to facilitate the most difficult points of Arabic by relating it to the learner's native language, using narratives of classroom successes and failures as the bases for essential reflection on modern linguistics theory.
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Hitchcock, Donald
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- JMZ 4210
- Phone
- 301.405.0465
Associate Professor of Russian
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Igel, Regina
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- JMZ 3123
- Phone
- 301.405.6457
Professor of Portuguese
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Inoue, Makiko
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- JMZ 4218
- Phone
- 301.405.0405
Japanese Lecturer
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Jiang, Nan
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- JMZ 4117
- Phone
- 301.405.1378
Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition
Nan Jiang received his Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 1998. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Penn State University in 1998-1999, and taught at Auburn University and Georgia State University before joining the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UMD as an associate professor of SLA. His main research interest involves the study of cognitive/psycholinguistic processes and mechanisms involved in adult second language acquisition. Specific topics include bilingual language processing, lexical representation and development in L2, language transfer, the integration of linguistic knowledge in adult L2 learning, and the relationship between language and thought. His reseasrch is mostly lab-based and has appeared in journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Applied Linguistics, Modern Language Journal, Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Memory and Language.
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Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad
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- JMZ 1220B
- Phone
- 301.405.3147
Professor, Director, Roshan Center for Persian Studies
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Persian Studies (CPS) at the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC), University of Maryland. For nineteen years he was Professor of Persian language and literature and Iranian culture and civilization at the University of Washington. He has studied in Iran and the United States, receiving his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in 1979, and has taught English and comparative literature and translation studies, as well as classical and modern Persian literature at the University of Tehran, Rutgers University, Columbia University, and the University of Texas.
Professor Karimi-Hakkak is the author of eighteen books and over one hundred major scholarly articles. He has contributed articles on Iran and Persian literature to many reference works, including The Encyclopedia Britannica, The Encyclopaedia Iranica, and The Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. His works have been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Persian, and Japanese. He has won numerous awards and honors, and has served as President of the International Society for Iranian Studies and several other professional academic organizations.
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Kashima, Miki
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- JMZ 4218
- Phone
- 301.405.0405
Japanese Lecturer
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Kong, Mei
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- JMZ 4223
- Phone
- 301.405.0411
Chinese Lecturer
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Koser, Julie
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- JMZ 3225
- Phone
- 301.405.4106
Assistant Professor of German
Professor Julie Koser teaches 18th century German literature focusing on issues of gender and representation in the Goethezeit. Her research and teaching interests include the construction and dissolution of gender myths; the interplay between gender, national identity, and citizenship; gender and warfare; literary and visual depictions of women and violence; and the body as site of social and political rebellion. In her current manuscript project, titled Representations of Armed Women in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature, she employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore the intersection between representations of gender roles and political participation in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century German literature. More specifically, her work sheds new light on the means by which the German press and literary community constructed and disseminated images of armed women during a period of more than two decades encompassing the French Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic invasion of German territories in order to reinforce or to contest the gendered divisions between the public and the domestic spheres. She recently collaborated on a response titled “Foreign Language and Higher Education: A Pragmatic Approach to Change” to the 2007 report by the MLA’s Executive Council in Modern Language Journal. Her article on bodies as sites of political rebellion in Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea and Die Hermannsschlacht is forthcoming. In her next book project she will investigate the role of the German press in shaping public opinion toward women and revolution in late eighteenth-century Germany. Prof. Koser received a B.A. in International Studies and German from Trinity University (1999) and completed her Ph.D. in German with a Designated Emphasis on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley (2007).
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Krausen, Karen
- Office
- JMZ 2211
- Phone
- 301.405.6452
Spanish Lecturer
Karen Krausen, Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor for Spanish, has been at the University of Maryland as an undergraduate and graduate student as well as a faculty member. She has more than 25 years experience teaching college students in all levels of Spanish. She is currently teaching a course in reading and writing strategies. She finds working with undergraduate students interested in the Spanish language and cultures very fulfilling. She has been recognized at the University of Maryland with an award for Teaching Excellence and a Presidential Award for Service to the Schools.
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Lacorte, Manel
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- JMZ 2202
- Phone
- 301.405.8233
Associate Professor of Spanish
Manel Lacorte (B.A., University of Barcelona, M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland) is Associate Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics, Director of the Spanish Language Program, Coordinator of Instruction and Professional Development in the SLLC, and OPI Certified Tester. His research focuses on language classroom interaction, language use and identity, social and cultural issues in second language and heritage language teaching and learning, and language teacher education. He has published in journals such as Language Teaching Research, Foreign Language Annals, Spanish in Context, Heritage Language Journal, Hispania, and Cultura & Educación, among others. He has edited or co-edited the following books: Romance Languages and Linguistic Communities in the United States (Latin American Studies Center/UMD, 2002), Contacto y contextos lingüísticos:
El español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2005), Lingüística aplicada del español (Arco Libros, 2007), and Spanish in the United States and Other Contact
Contexts: Sociolinguistics, Ideology and Pedagogy (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2009). He is also co-editor (with Judy
Liskin-Gasparro) of the Prentice Hall Second Language Professional Series. At present, Manel Lacorte is writing an academic book on interaction and sociopolitical contexts in foreign language teaching and learning, and a textbook for beginning Spanish. -
Landa, Marianna
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- JMZ 4103
- Phone
- 301.405.4383
Assistant Professor of Russian
Marianna Landa, assistant professor, holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University (2001). She specializes in the literature, culture, and visual experience of Russian Modernism, also called the Silver Age of Russian literature (1880s-1920s). She is particularly interested in the Symbolist experiment in art and female authorship; focusing on religion, mysticism, mystifications, anonyms, pseudonyms, and literary jokes. Marianna has published articles on cultural studies and intellectual history of Russian Symbolism, and a critical biography, introducing the first complete collection of poetry of a forgotten Russian Symbolist poet Elizaveta Dmitrieva (Cherubina de Gabriak). She is currently working on a book: “The Greatest Woman Poet: Russian Modernist Gender Experiments, 1890-1916.” Since Marianna has literally grown up in the Hermitage museum where her mother was an art curator, she passionately loves art and museums.
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Lavine, Roberta
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- JMZ 2102
- Phone
- 301.405.6443
Associate Professor of Spanish
Roberta Z. Lavine received her PhD from the Catholic University of America in 1983. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Program and Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She has 25 years of teaching experience and has taught all levels of Spanish language, Business Spanish, Cross-cultural Communication, and methodology, among other courses. Her current research interests deal with learner variables in language learning, especially learning disabilities, Language for Specific Purposes, and technology. She has extensive experience in technology and the use of computers for instructional purposes, and currently teaches Business language and cross-cultural communication in a technology-enhanced environment. She has won the University of Maryland Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology as well as a Fellowship from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. She has published in all of the above mentioned areas and has lectured and given workshops all over the world.
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Lee, Jung Jung
- Office
- JMZ 4223
- Phone
- 301.405.0411
Chinese Lecturer
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Lekic, Maria D.
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- JMZ 2106A
- Phone
- 301.405.4099
Associate Professor of Russian
Dr. Maria Lekic completed her doctoral degree in 1983 in Russian language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania where she also taught for several years. She has authored or co-authored a number of multi-media textbooks used widely at universities and schools in the U.S. and is director of RussNet and CenAsiaNet, the principal resource-sharing networks for the Russian and Central Asian language fields. Dr. Lekic teaches courses in Russian language and literature in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She is currently finishing work on a multi-year investigation of the acquisition of Russian verbal morphology by American learners in immersion environments.
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Levy, Nili
- Office
- JMZ 4202
- Phone
- 301.405.1002
Hebrew lecturer
Nili Levy has been teaching Hebrew language at the University of Maryland since 1983. Before moving to the United States, Ms. Levy taught Hebrew language and literature for ten years in Israeli high schools. During this time, she also served as the head of a Hebrew Literature Department. Ms. Levy taught Hebrew at the Baltimore Hebrew University for four years. Since coming to UM, she has taught all levels of Hebrew. She also developed a course on Israeli cinema, served as Hebrew Coordinator and Advisor, and worked on a variety of departmental committees. In addition, she was the Hebrew Program Liaison to the language house for ten years. Ms. Levy served on the Hebrew Committee for the SAT II subject examinations administered by the Princeton College Board. Currently, Ms. Levy is the Hebrew Program Advisor.
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Liang, Huichun
- Office
- HOLZ 0131
- Phone
- 301.405.
Chinese Lecturer
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Liu, Jianmei
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- JMZ 4124
- Phone
- 301.405.7376
Associate Professor of Chinese
Professor Liu received her Ph.D of East Asian Studies from Columbia University in 1998. Her research interests include modern Chinese literature, film studies, popular culture, and gender studies. She has published three books: Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction(U.of Hawaii,2003); Goddess in the Carnival (Mingbao, 2004) and Understanding Life (coauthored with Liu Zaifu) (Tiandi,2000).
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Long, Michael H
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- JMZ 3124
- Phone
- 301.405.4036
Professor of Second Language Acquisition
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1980. Areas of interest: epistemological issues and theory change in SLA; age differences; maturational constraints and sensitive periods in SLA; SLA processes, e.g, stabilization/fossilization in interlanguage development, negative feedback (models and recasts) in second language acquisition; language aptitude; the advanced learner; second language research methods; foreign language needs analysis; task-based language teaching. Link to CV
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Martin, Cynthia
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- JMZ 2106B
- Phone
- 301.405.4244
Associate Professor of Russian
Dr. Martin joined the Russian Faculty at the University of Maryland in 1990. She currently teaches undergraduate courses in language, literature and culture, as well as graduate courses. She is currently the Undergraduate Program Director for Russian, and the Director of the Domestic Russian Flagship Program designed to help students reach Advanced levels of language proficiency. Currently, Dr. Martin is actively involved in a number of national assessment initiatives for academia, as well as private and government sectors.
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Mason, Michele
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- JMZ 4224
- Phone
- 301.405.3745
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Michele Mason is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures. Her training in modern Japanese literature has been informed by a cultural studies approach, with an abiding concern for historical understanding. Mason's research and teaching interests include modern Japanese literature and history, colonial and postcolonial studies, gender and feminist studies, and masculinity studies. She also continues her engaged study of the history of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear studies, and peace and nuclear abolition movements.
Mason is currently working on her manuscript, titled Peripheral Visions: Imagining Hokkaido and Instituting Imperial Japan. This work examines how "visions" of Japan's first modern colony, Hokkaido, played a crucial role in the construction of imperial ideology, the modern military, Japanese subjects and national identity. Through her readings of Meiji literary representations, government policies and pronouncements, and media and popular accounts, she argues that powerful rhetorical modes were deployed to construct Hokkaido, variously, as a natural part of the Japanese archipelago and a remote foreign land; a fount of untouched natural resources and an empty wasteland of snow and ice; a utopian escape and a desolate dead-end; a proving ground for national masculinity and a metaphor for modern angst. This project reconsiders Hokkaido's ambivalent colonial status, and highlights the significance of gender, and specifically masculinity, in shaping modern Japan.
Mason is also a co-producer, with Kathy Sloane, of a short documentary film entitled Hibakusha (survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki). In this fifteen-minute film, Keiji Tsuchiya uses 12 powerful watercolors that he painted in 2000 to tell the story of his experiences in Hiroshima as a 17-year-old soldier during the month immediately following the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. While the film addresses a horrific moment in history, it emphasizes how Mr. Tsuchiya has directed his life towards purpose and healing through his life-long commitments to advocating for atomic bomb survivors, opposing nuclear war, and preserving the Japanese horseshoe crab.
Mason received a B.A. in Linguistics and Japanese from the University of Oregon, Eugene (1989), an M.A. in modern Japanese literature from the University of California, Los Angeles (1995) and a Ph.D. in Modern Japanese Literature from the University of California, Irvine (2005). -
Merediz, Eyda
- Office
- JMZ 2215H
- Phone
- 301.405.6451
Associate Professor of Spanish
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Miura, Eiko
- Office
- JMZ 4211
- Phone
- 301.405.4248
Japanese Lecturer
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Mossman, Carol
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- JMZ 1105C
- Phone
- 301.405.6464
Director
Professor of FrenchCarol Mossman received a Ph.D. from Rice University in French Literature; before coming to this university she taught at the University of Texas at Austin. Her general field of research and teaching is 19th-century French literature. Within that framework she has a special interest in gender studies. She particularly enjoys teaching an interdisciplinary course which encompasses opera, cinema and narrative with respect to the figure of the femme fatale and the performance of violence. Currently her research bears on rereading and deconstructing the concept of "boheme." She has published two books: The Narrative Matrix: A Study of Stendhal's "Le Rouge e le Noir" ( French Forum Publishers, 1984) and Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
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Moyer, Alene
- Office
- JMZ 3210
- Phone
- 301.405.4101
Associate Professor of German
Alene Moyer received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in Germanic and Applied Linguistics. She taught for several years at Georgetown University before coming to the University of Maryland. Dr. Moyer has published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development, Issues in Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Annals and Modern Language Journal. Her first book appeared in 2004 with Multilingual Matters, entitled: Age, Accent and Experience in Second Language Acquistion. An Integrated Approach to Critical Period Inquiry. She is currently working on a second book on second language phonological acquisition. Her research interests include critical period theory, sociolinguistics, adult acquisition of phonology, social implications of accent, and advanced learner issues in SLA. Dr. Moyer directs the language program and supervises TAs in Germanic Studies.
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Naharro Calderón, José M
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- JMZ 2204
- Phone
- 301.405.6455
Associate Professor of Spanish
Dr. José María Naharro-Calderón (Ph.D. 1985 University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor that teaches Spanish contemporary literature, culture and film. He has been a Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Universidad de Alcalá where he also directed the Maryland Spring Program (1998-2005, 2007) as well as a Summer Program at the Instituto Internacional (Madrid) and San Roque (1989-2001) and the coordinator of La Cátedra del Exilio. His research covers both contemporary Spain and Latin America, specially exile literature and film where he is recognized for his seminal work. He has translated Salvo en el cumpleaños de la reina Victoria: Historia de las minas de Río Tinto (1985; reprint in press) and has edited a double issue of the journal Anthropos on Juan Ramón Jiménez and Zenobia Camprubí (1989), as well as the Selected Proceedings of El exilio de las Españas de 1939 en las Américas: ¿Adónde fue la canción? (1991), and “Los exilios de las Españas de 1939: Por sendas de la memoria” (1999), both conferences held at College Park. He has authored Entre el exilio y el interior: el "entresiglo" y Juan Ramón Jiménez (1994). He has also edited a volume of poetry of Chilean poet Raul Barrientos, Jazz (1997), a critical edition of Manuscrit corbeau and Manuscrito cuervo by Max Aub (1998-9) and an issue on "De Memorias" (2004) and Ochenta nuevos aforismos (1921-1928) (2006) by Juan Ramón Jiménez. He has just completed an international exhibit with Beatriz García Paz, Hacia el exilio (2007), a critical edition of El rapto de Europa (2008) Campo francés (in press 2009) by Max Aub and a book entitled "Sangrías españolas y terapias de Vichy: de los campos de concentración a las vueltas de exilio". He has published over fifty articles on Francisco Martínez de la Rosa, Pío Baroja and Benito Pérez Galdós, César Vallejo, Luis Cernuda, Francisco Villaespesa, Mercedes Escolano, Jorge Guillén, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Ana Rossetti, Camilo José Cela, Antonio Machado, Rafael Morales, Ana María Fagundo, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Max Aub, Paulino Masip, Leopoldo Lugones, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, María Luisa Elío, the X Generation, literature and Madrid, Spanish film, the literature of the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish Exile of 1939 and their memories. His articles have appeared among other journals in Hispanic Review, Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, Insula, Revista monográfica, Bulletin hispanique, España contemporánea, Letras peninsulares, Revista canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, etc … He has lectured at European, Latinamerican and US universities, as well as directed seven summer seminars on the Spanish Civil War (2002-2008) and delivered multiple papers at national and international conferences. Among his grants, there are one Semester and two Summer awards from the Graduate Research Board at Maryland, and several grants from the Md. Humanities Council, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States's Universities and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain. He has been a Modern Language Association Regional Delegate (1992-94) as well as the Twentieth Century Spanish Division Delegate (1998-2000). He is a board member of AEMIC and sits on the Editorial Board of the journals Migraciones y Exilios, Laberintos and El correo de Euclides.
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Orlando, Valérie
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- JMZ 3106B
- Phone
- 301.405.4207
Associate Professor of French
Valérie Orlando is Associate Professor of French & Francophone Literature. She received her PhD in French Studies in 1996 from Brown University. She is the author of three books: Francophone Voices of the ‘New Morocco’ in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Society in Transition (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2009), Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood Through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean (Lexington Books, 2003), and Nomadic Voices of Exile: Feminine Identity in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb, (Ohio University Press, 1999) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on Francophone literature from the African diaspora, African Cinema, and French literature and culture. She has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University (1999-2006), Purdue University (1997-1999) and Eastern Mediterranean University in the Northern Turkish Republic of Cyprus (1996-1997). For additional information click here
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Oster, Rosemarie
- Office
- JMZ 3224
- Phone
- 301.405.4096
Professor of Scandinavian Studies
Professor Oster's specialization is modern Scandinavian literature and culture. Her research focus is on contemporary Swedish women's literature with particular emphasis on the social and cultural context; publications also include articles on Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. On the graduate level she teaches courses on Germanic philology and Germanic mythology.
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Papazian, Elizabeth
- Office
- JMZ 4123
- Phone
- 301.405.4329
Associate Professor of Russian
Elizabeth Papazian is an Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Russian, where she teaches courses in Russian Language, Literature, and Film. She received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University in December 2000, and has taught at Vassar College. Her research interests include early Soviet Russian literature and culture, Soviet film, and Czech literature of the interwar period. Current projects include research on the Ukrainian filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko; the interwar and wartime writings of the Czech-Jewish author Karel Polacek; and changing models of authorship in Soviet Russian culture, 1921-1934.
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Penrose, Mehl
- Office
- JMZ 2210
- Phone
- 301.405.8902
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Mehl Penrose is a native of Independence, Missouri. He became interested in languages, literature and culture at an early age and began study of French and Spanish when he was around 12 years old. After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, graduating with a double major in Political Science and Spanish. He spent his junior year in Mexico City. After working in international marketing for one year after graduation, he knew that academe would be the best profession for himself. He attended Kansas University to obtain a master's degree in Spanish and Latin American literature. Next, he taught for two years at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts, a residential preparatory institute for advanced students. In 1995, Mehl commenced his doctoral program at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he focused on nineteenth-century Spanish literature and minored in contemporary Latin American literature and applied linguistics. He studied under Dr. Ruben Benitez and wrote his dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Jesus Torrecilla. Since 2000, he has taught at Miami University of Ohio and Prairie View A&M University, one of the Texas A&M University campuses. His research interests include periodical literature of the 18th and 19th centuries (Spain), reader response and reception theory, studies in sexuality and gender role-playing, costumbrismo, and German philosophical influences on Spanish Romanticism and Realism.
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Quintero Herencia, Juan Carlos
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- JMZ 2215 D
- Phone
- 301.405.6450
Professor of Spanish
Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia (BA. University of Puerto Rico, M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University), Professor of Latin American Literature. Professor Quintero-Herencia taught at the University of Puerto Rico's Department of Hispanic Studies, Rio Piedras Campus, from 1992 to 2001 and was appointed Andrew W. Mellon Research Associate at Brown University's Department of Hispanic Studies from 1998 to 2000. Quintero-Herencia has published Fulguración del espacio: Letras e imaginario institucional de la Revolución cubana (1960-1971) Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo, 2002 (Latin American Studies Association-Premio Iberoamericano 2004); La máquina de la salsa. Tránsitos del sabor. San Juan: Ediciones Vértigo, 2005. As a published poet Quintero-Herencia is the author of La caja negra. San Juan, Editorial Isla Negra, 1996; El hilo para el marisco/Cuaderno de los envíos. San Juan: Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2002 (Poetry Award Pen Club of Puerto Rico). He is currently working on a third book dedicated to the complex relations between poetry and the traditional cultural settings of politics in the Hispanic Caribbean. Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature, Contemporary Puerto Rican and Cuban Literatures, Literary Theory, Cultural Analysis, Poetry and Literary Politics.
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Ramsey, Robert
- Office
- JMZ 2106G
- Phone
- 301.405.4256
Professor of East Asian Studies
S.Robert Ramsey is professor of East Asian linguistics at the University of Maryland and immediate past chair of the Department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures. He has also taught at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. He has received teaching awards from the Korean Student Association and the Asian Student Union at the University of Maryland, and from the Center for Teaching Excellence at the same university. Ramsey does primary research on the historical development of Japanese and Korean and the historical relationships between the two languages. He is perhaps best known for his work on Korean dialects and the reconstruction of prehistoric stages of Korean. He has also written extensively on sociolinguistic topics. Author of three books and several dozen articles, he has also lectured widely on various linguistic topics in Japan, Korea, Europe, and the United States.
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Ramsey, Younghi
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- JMZ 2106G
- Phone
- 301.405.1056
Korean Lecturer
Kim Younghi has been an instructor in Korean at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1989. Kim is a graduate of Yonsei University in Korean language and literature and has also taught Korean language at Yonsei. Prior to joining the Maryland faculty, she had been an instructor of Korean language at Yale and Columbia. Since 1985, she has also taught Korean language at the Korean Information Center of the Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C. For the program at that institution, she has constructed and written curriculum guides for multiple levels of instruction. She is certified as an Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Tester in Korean for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the U.S. government’s Interagency Language Roundtable (ACTFL/ILR). She has taught Korean to professional adults at the Korean Embassy in Washington, DC, for more than a decade; she also co-developed the curriculum and teaching materials at that facility.
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Rodríguez, Ana Patricia
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- JMZ 2215E
- Phone
- 301.405.2020
Associate Professor of Spanish
Ana Patricia Rodríguez is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and U.S. Latina/o Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches courses in Latin American, Central American, and U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include Central American and U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures; Central American cultural production in the U.S.; transnational migration and cultural production; diaspora studies; violence and postwar/trauma studies; gender studies; U.S. Latina/o popular culture; community-based research; and Latina/o education (K-16). Professor Rodríguez has published numerous articles on the cultural production of Latinas/os in the United States and of Central Americans in the isthmus and in the wider Central American diaspora. Her forthcoming book is titled Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures (University of Texas Press, 2009).
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Ruzza, Carmen Elena
- Office
- JMZ 4122
- Phone
- 301.405.8902
Spanish Lecturer
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Ross, Steven
- Office
- JMZ 2103
- Phone
- 301.405.
Professor of Second Language Acquisition
Steven J. Ross (PhD in Second Language Acquisition from University of Hawai'i Manoa). Over the last two decades he has taught research methodology and language assessment courses at Temple University Japan, Kwansei Gakuin University, Columbia Teachers College, and in Australia at Macquarie University in Sydney. Areas of recent research include discourse analyses of oral proficiency interviews, the influence of metalinguistic knowledge on proficiency growth, the influence of peers on language learning motivation, and rater variation on task-based assessments. Prof. Ross has served on the editorial boards of the TESOL Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, and Language Testing. His research articles have appeared in the JALT Journal, System, RELC Journal, IRAL, Journal of Asia-Pacific Communication, TESOL Quarterly, Second Language Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Prospect, Language Learning, Language Testing, The International Journal of Testing, The Journal of Pragmatics, and Applied Linguistics, as well as in a number of edited books on second language acquisition, discourse analysis, and language testing.
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Sanchez de Pinillos, Hernán
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- JMZ 2215G
- Phone
- 301.405.3400
Associate Professor of Spanish
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Scullen, Mary Ellen
- Office
- JMZ 3125
- Phone
- 301.405.4033
Associate Professor of French
Mary Ellen Scullen, Associate Professor of French, received a joint Ph.D. in French and Theoretical Linguistics from Indiana University in 1993 and holds a Maîtrise de français langue étrangère from l'Université François Rabelais in Tours, France. Before joining the University of Maryland, she taught at the University of Louisville and at Chancellor College, University of Malawi in Southern Africa. Her research interests include French linguistics, second language acquisition and pedagogy, and theoretical phonology. She is currently working on a book, The Art and Practice of Circumlocution in Foreign and Second Language Acquisition with Sarah Jourdain of SUNY, Stony Brook, as well as a textbook, Chez Nous: Branché sur le monde francophone, 2nd edition, with Cathy Pons, Albert Valdman, and Sarah Jourdain. She is the author of French Prosodic Morphology: A Unified Account (IULC Publications, 1997) and a number of book chapters and articles, the most recent of which are "New Insights into French Reduplication" in Romance Phonology and Variation (2001), "Les dictionnaires français: un lieu privilégié du sexisme" in Cahiers de lexicologie (2001), "The Effect of Explicit Training on Successful Circumlocution" (co-authored with Sarah Jourdain) in Meaning and Form: Multiple Perspectives (2000), and "French Syllable Structure: Reconsidering the Onset" in Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages (1996). She is also TA Supervisor and Coordinator.
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Sosnowski, Saul
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- HOLZ 1122
- Phone
- 301.405.4772
Associate Provost for International Affairs
Director, Office of International Programs
Professor of SpanishSaúl Sosnowski (Buenos Aires, 1945), holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Maryland at College Park, he has chaired the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (1979-2000) and is Director of the Latin American Studies Center, which he founded in 1989. His current research focuses on democratization in the context of cultural and educational developments.
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Strauch, Gabriele
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- JMZ 1105B
- Phone
- 301.405.0734
Associate Director for Academic Affairs
Associate Professor of GermanProfessor Strauch's research and teaching interests include German medieval literature and culture; race, class, culture, and gender in medieval texts; medieval women writers; and medieval Crusade literature. In pursuit of these research areas, she considers the concept of otherness as it is reflected in the representation of literary figures outside the societal norms prevalent in German literary texts of the Middles Ages.
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Verdaguer, Pierre
- Office
- JMZ 3106E
- Phone
- 301.405.4102
Professor of French
Pierre Verdaguer, Professor of French, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia as well as a French Agrégation. Before coming to the University of Maryland he taught at Georgetown University. He specializes in twentieth-century fiction, French cultural studies, and the history of ideas. He is the author of L'univers de la cruauté, une lecture de Céline (Droz, 1988) and La séduction policière: Signes de croissance d'un genre réputé mineur (Summa, 1999). He is also the co-editor of Regards sur la France des années 80: Le roman (Anma Libri 1994) and the co-author of an introduction to literary analysis, Transition: Le plaisir des textes (Prentice Hall,1990 and 1995). He has published articles on novelists and thinkers (Henri Bosco, Céline, Denis de Rougemont); popular heroes (Astérix, Superman); stereotypes; and detective fiction. In 1999 he received the Millstone Prize for his article "Manipulating the Past: The Role of History in Recent French Detective Fiction" published in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History. His recent research has focused on French and Anglo-American popular fiction and film.
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Wang, Yuli
- Office
- JMZ 4223
- Phone
- 301.405.0411
Chinese Lecturer
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Yaginuma, Kazuo
- Office
- JMZ 4211
- Phone
- 301.405.0495
Japanese Lecturer
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Yamakita, Etsuko
- Office
- JMZ 4218
- Phone
- 301.405.4257
Japanese Lecturer
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Yotsukura, Lindsay
- Office
- JMZ 2106F
- Phone
- 301.405.0038
Lindsay Yotsukura received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from The Ohio State University in 1997. She specializes in Japanese linguistics, focusing on cross-cultural pragmatics and discourse analysis from a corpus-linguistic perspective. Recent publications include her book, Negotiating Moves: Problem Presentation and Resolution in Japanese Business Discourse (Elsevier, 2003), and numerous articles and chapters, including “Making inquiries: Toiawase strategies by Japanese L1 and L2 callers to Japanese educational institutions” (in Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives, Continuum, in press); “Beikoku ni okeru Nihongo kyôiku no genjô oyobi gakushûsha dôki ni tsuite (Japanese language education and student motivation in the United States)” (Bonjinsha, 2006); "Japanese Business Telephone Conversations as Bakhtinian Speech Genre: Applications for Second Language Acquisition" (Erlbaum, 2005); and “Learning Words, Learning Worlds” (Japanese Language and Literature 39:2, 2005). In 2006 she also completed a series of seven translations for the new bilingual edition of the Nihongo Kyoiku Jiten, to be published by Taishûkan. In addition to teaching courses at UM in Japanese language and linguistics, she serves as the Coordinator of the undergraduate Japanese program and as Director for the Japanese MA program in Second Language Acquisition and Application. For the 2006-07 year, she was awarded a Lilly Fellowship by the Center for Teaching Excellence, and she has been the recipient of several Instructional Improvement Grants, also awarded by CTE and the College of Arts and Humanities.
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Zakim, Eric
- Office
- JMZ 4225
- Phone
- 301.405.4250
Associate Professor of Hebrew
Eric Zakim received his Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. He has taught various aspects of modernist and post-modernist literature and cultural studies, focusing especially on Hebrew literature and Israeli culture. Before coming to the University of Maryland in the fall of 2002, Eric Zakim taught for several years at Duke University. His current research interests include Holocaust representation, critical theory in the study of music, and the discourses of nature in Zionist culture. His book, To Build and Be Built: Landscape, Literature, and the Construction of a Zionist Identity, will appear in late 2004, and he is now co-editing a volume of essays on Mediterranean studies.
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Zhou, Minglang
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- 2106C
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- 301.405.2855
Associate Professor of Chinese
Minglang Zhou earned his Ph. D. in linguistics from Michigan State University in 1993. His teaching and research interest includes the sociology of language, language and ethnicity, bilingual education, and teaching Chinese as a second language. He authored “Multilingualism in China: The politics of writing reform for minority languages 1949–2002” (Mouton de Gruyter, 2003) and edited four volumes on language policy, bilingual education, and language contact in China. He has also published two dozens of research articles and book chapters on these topics. He reviews manuscripts on these topics for ten international scholarly journals. He recently won a 2009 American Philosophical Society fellowship for his book project “Models of nation-state building and language education for ethnic minorities in China, 1949-2009.”
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Nemes, Graciela
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- JMZ 2215H
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- 301.405.6448
Professor Emerita of Spanish
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Pfister, Günther G.
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- JMZ 3225
Professor Emeritus of German
Professor Pfister's research focuses on second language acquisition, German culture, and Landeskunde. His investigation of the Affective Domain examines its relationship to culture as exemplified in the study of cultural contrasts. He incorporates the insights into cultural differences into the first and second year German language instruction. His research is also reflected in his training and supervising of teaching assistants to improve the cultural awareness of language instructors.
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Russell, Charles
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- JMZ 3106
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- 301.405.4025
Professor Emeritus of Italian
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Walker, Richard
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Professor Emeritus of German
Dr. Walker's current research and teaching focus on literary expressions of religious discontent and social change during the period from the late 15th through the 17th centuries. Emphasizing texts, contexts and continuity, a wide range of material is examined, including sermons and polemical treatises, various forms of satirical popular literature (Schwänke, Fastnachtspiele, Anekdoten), and examples of both religious and secular drama. Of special interest is the inter-relatedness of literary history and social history. Areas of Interest and Expertise include Medieval German Literature and Culture; Early Modern German Literature and Culture; Polemic of the Catholic Reform Period; Folklore and Folk Literature; Medieval Heroic and Courtly Epic.
