College of Arts & Sciences Department of Foreign Sciences and Literatures
UNDERGRADUATES LANGUAGES FACULTY STUDY ABROAD FINANCIAL AID GRADUATE STUDIES
FACULTY

 

 

 

Chair: Dr. Belén S. Castañeda

Support Staff:

Ms. Robin Brunette, Administrative Assistant

Ms. Katie Tarara, Administrative Assistant

Foreign Language Email

L-R back row: Dr. John Pustejovsky, Dr. Stephen Beall, Dr. Robert Jamison, Dr. Scott Dale and Dr. Todd Hernandez.  Second row from top: Dr. Eduardo Fichera, Dr. Steven Taylor, Dr. Jason Meyler, and Dr. Belen Castaneda.  Middle row: Dr. Jean-Pierre Lafouge, Dr. German Carrillo, Dr. Patricia Marquardt, Dr. Sarah Gendron, and Dr. Dorothee Mertz-Weigel.  Front row: Dr. Barry Velleman, Dr. Eufemia Sanchez de la Calle, Dr. Jeanette Kraemer, Dr. Anne Pasero, Dr. Armando Gonzalez-Perez and Dr. Julia Paulk. (Not pictured: Dr. Sarah Davies-Cordova, Dr. Alan Lacy, Dr. Robert Joda, S.J., Dr. Raquel Aguilu de Murphy; Dr. Eugenia Afinoguenova)

 

FRENCH

Dr. Sarah Davies Cordova

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1993; University of California-Los Angeles

19th-Century Dance and Literature

Slavery, Colonialism, and Imperialism

Cultural Studies and Women's Studies in French and Francophone Cultures

Paris Dances, Textual Choreographies in the XIXth Century Novel

Dr. Sarah Davies Cordova will be speaking on her experiences in post-genocide Rwanda, Thursday, December 4th, AMU 163, From Noon till 1:00pm

Dr. Sarah Gendron

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2001; University of Wisconsin-Madison

20th Century Literature and Literary Theory

18th Century Literature and Philosophy
Poststructuralist Theory, Women's Studies

Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge in the Works od Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze, in Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, No. 19

Dr. Jeanette Kraemer

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1974; University of Minnesota

Second Language Education

Curriculum: French Quebecois and Acadien Culture and Literature

French Language Film Contemporary French Drama

Dr. Jean-Pierre Lafouge

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1986; Indiana University

17th-Century French Literature

19th-Century French Literature

Orientalism

"Étude sur l'orientalisme d'Eugène Fromentin dans ses récits algériens".

Dr. Steven Millen Taylor


Professor
Ph.D. 1976; Wayne State University

Medieval French Language and Literature

French for Business

African Francophone Cinema

The Trial of Womankind
A Rhyming Translation of Book IV of the Fifteenth-Century Le Champion des Dames
Martin Le Franc Edited and translated by Steven Millen Taylor

 

Dr. Jennifer Vanderheyden

Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 1999

University of Washington

XVIIIth century French Literature, Diderot,

Theory of Theatrical and Artistic Representation

The function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot's Works Peter Lang Publishing 2004

 

 

GERMAN

Associate Professor

Ph. D. 1969; University of Washington

19th and Early 20th-Century German Literature

Dr. Robert Joda, S.J.


Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1968; Northwestern University

Northern Humanism in Germany,

1400-1550

Dr. Alan F. Lacy

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Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1973; Cornell University

Early Germanic and Indo-European culture, religion and language

Computer use in linguistic Research and language teaching

Dr. John Pustejovsky

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1983; University of Texas at Austin

Modern German Short Story

18th Century German Literature

German Pietism

GREEK & LATIN, ITALIAN, JAPANESE & CHINESE
Dr. Stephen Beall

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1988; University of California, Berkeley

Late Latin and Greek Prose

Theory and Practice of Translation

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1977; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Homeric Studies

Archaic Greek Poetry

Classical Mythology

Greek and Roman Religion

Adjunct Instructor
M.A. 1985; Waseda University, Japan 2003; UW-Milwaukee

Teaching Methods of Japanese

Japanese Culture and Civilization

Japanese Literature in English Translation

Linguistics

 

Ms. Jing Zhai

Adjunct Instructor

Master, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2008

Chinese teaching pedagogy
Chinese civilization
Chinese literature in translation
Linguistics

 

Ms. Giordana Kaftan

 

Adjunct Instructor in Italian

M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1997;

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ms. Claudia Pessarelli

Adjunct Instructor in Italian

University of Turin

SPANISH
Dr. Eugenia Afinoguénova

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1999; Georgetown University

20th-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Cultural Studies

European Intellectual History

Film Studies

Literature and Visual Arts

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1984; University of Wisconsin-Madison

20th Century Latin American Drama

20th Century Latin American Short Story

Dr. Pilar Bellver

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 1997;

University of Pittsburgh

Hispanic Languages and Literatures; Certificate in Cultural Studies 20th Century Latin American Literature;

First person narratives by US Latina writers;

Contemporary Mexican border narrative

Dr. Germán Carrillo

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1969; University of Illinois, Urbana

20th-Century Literature in general (Peninsular and Latin American)

Specific Studies on some of the writers of "the boom" and "post-boom": the 80's and the 90's

Gabriel García Márquez as special topic

Colonial Latin American Literature

Poetry and Short Story

REALISMO E IRREALIDAD EN LA NARRATIVA HISPANOAMERICANA
Sigma Delta Pi

Associate Professor, Chair
Ph.D. 1987; University of Wisconsin-Madison

20th Century - Spanish American Narrative

Mario Vargas Llosa

Spanish and Spanish American Civilization

Generalist

Dr. Dinorah

Cortes-Velez

Assistant Professor Ph.D. 2006; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Colonial Latin American Literature

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

New Spain Baroque of Indies and Spanish Renaissance and Baroque

Female Writing

Dr. Scott Dale

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Associate Professor


Ph.D. 1997; University of Pennsylvania

18th and 19th-Century Literature of Spain

Epistolary and Travel Literature

Modern Peninsular Novel

Books:

La Pensadora gaditana (2005)


Novela innovadora en las "Cartas marruecas" de Cadalso (1998)

Dr. Armando González-Pérez

Professor
Ph.D. 1970; Michigan State University

Medieval & Renaissance Spanish Literature
Spanish & Spanish American Poetry

Afro-Hispanic Literature
Caribbean Literature
Latino Literature
Language and Culture
Language for the Professions

PRESENCIA NEGRA: TEATRO CUBANO DE LA DIÁSPORA (ANTOLOGÍA CRÍTICA)
Madrid: Betania, 1999

Caribe

 

Dr. Todd Hernández

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2004;
University of Kansas

Foreign Language Education

Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Methodology

Classroom-based Second Language Acquisition
Language Assessment

Dr. Jason Meyler

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 2006; State University of New York - Stony Brook

US Latino Literature

Latin American Modernismo

Music and Film emphasizing a pan-American perspective

Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry with an Andean concentration

Twenty-First and Twentieth Century Latin American, Latino and Chicano Theatre

Dr. Anne Pasero

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1979; University of Southern California

Golden Age Spanish Literature

20th-Century Spanish Literature

Hispanic Poetry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Julia

Paulk

Assistant Professor Ph.D. 2003; Indiana University - Bloomington

19th Century Spanish American Narrative

Inter-American Studies

Antislavery Literature of the Americas

Dr. Eufemia Sánchez de la Calle

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1990; Michigan State University

20th-Century Narrative of Spain

"Spanish cinema and cultural studies"
                     "Women and Literature in Spain"

Dr. Barry Velleman

Professor
Ph.D. 1974; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Descriptive Spanish Linguistics (Morphology and Syntax)

Development of Hispanic Grammatical Tradition and Intellectual History

Pedagogy
   

Adjunct Instructors

Ms. Janet Banhidi

M.A. in Spanish, 2003: Marquette University

Ms. Omega Burckhardt

M.A. in Hispanic Literature, 1999: University of Kansas

A.B.D. in Hispanic Literature, 2003: University of Kansas

Ms. Consuelo Carrillo

M.A. in Spanish, 1985; Marquette University

Ms. Colleen M. Coffey

M.A. in Spanish, 1996; Marquette University

Ms. Ana Escudero

M.A. in Spanish, 1996; Marquette University

Ms. Barbara Johnson

M.A.T. in Spanish, 1971; University of New Mexico

Ms. Giordana Kaftan

M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1997;

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ms. Jessica Martin     

M.A. in Spanish; 2006; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ms. Kate Milco     

A.M. in Classics, 2006; University of Chicago

Ms. Claudia Pessarelli

Ms. Amalia Petrusha

M.A. in Spanish, 2002; Marquette University

Teaching Assistants

Mr. Jason Bolton

Ms. Alexis Cazco

Ms. Katharine Burns

Ms. Cali Henrickson

Mr. Phillip Losey

Ms. Katherine Powers

Mr. Alejandro Romero

Mr. Andrew Wrobel

Ms. Catherine Zirngibl

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