Department of World Languages & Cultures

Associate Professor - French

University Teacher Education Program (UTEP)

Dr. Allen’s research interests are teacher cognition, world language teacher development, culture in world language instruction, and standards-based world language learning.

Associate Professor - German

19th and 20th century German cultural history, language, and literature; scientific culture (biology); musical culture (opera); social theory (Frankfurt School); technology.

Lecturer - Spanish

Lecturer - French

Professor, WLC Department Chair - Spanish

Medieval Iberian languages, literatures and cultures, focusing primarily on 14th century Aragonese and Catalan prose writing.

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Spanish

Pragamatics, Sociolinguistics, Intercultural competence.

Lecturer - German

German literature in the Age of Goethe. Intersections between economics, literature, and philosophy. The genealogy of media technology. Psychoanalysis. Film. Modern Austrian literature .

Assistant Professor - Spanish

Study Abroad

Cultural interaction in the Atlantic world and transatlantic studies such as the Picaresque novel and women authors of Spain and the New World.

Lecturer - Spanish

Grad. Research Assistant

Wimba Voice Tools Project

Associate Professor

Director, Western European Studies Program

Languages and cultures for Professions

Study Abroad

Early modern Spanish and Latin American literature and culture.

Lecturer - French

Assistant Professor - Portuguese - Spanish

Early Latin American science fiction, principally that of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico; the serialized Argentine science fiction of the 1950s (fanzines and comics); and the Latin American fantastic.

Professor - Classical Studies

Women's history in ancient Greece, history of literary criticism, Greek comedy.

Receptionist and Department Secretary

Instructor - French

Assistant Professor - Spanish

Study Abroad

Contemporary Spanish narraative and film, focusing primarily on marginalization in he post-Franco novel.

Professor

Director, Latin American Studies Program.

Latin American women's narrative, second language acquisition and translation studies.

Fulbright Teaching Assistant - Chinese

Associate Professor - French

Early Modern French literature and civilization. Autobiography and the life-writing genres. Pascal and Jansenist historiography and spirituality.

Lecturer - German

Teaching techniques and motivation in the foreign language classroom.

Professor - Spanish

Discourse of nineteenth-century Philippine nationalsim.

Assistant Professor - Russian

REEES

Contemporary Russian cultural discourse with an emphasis on Russian film and popular performance. I am particulary interested in Russian stand-up comedy from its early days to the post-perestroika era.

Lecturer - Classical Studies

Roman social history, archeology and art history, women in Greece and Rome, Pompeii, numismatics, inscriptions.

Fulbright Teaching Assistant - Arabic

Associate Professor - Classical Studies

Associate Professor - Chinese

Chinese aesthetic theory, contemporary Chinese popular culture and cinema.

Secretary for Budget and Personnel

Assistant Professor - Spanish

Language Assessment, Second Language Acquisition, technology-enhanced language learning, second language teaching; Other interests: bilingualism, sociolinguistics, Spanish phonology, and translation.

Assistant Professor - Spanish

Twentieth century Lation American literature and culture, focusing on society, national identity, social justice, cultural politics, performance and film.

Grad. Research Assistant - Classical Studies

Professor - German

Languages and cultures for Professions

Print culture and media in German and USA

WLC Academic Advisor - German

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Spanish

Lecturer - Spanish

Latin American Literature and Culture, Post-Colonial, Cultural and Trans-Atlantic Studies, African Diaspora in Latin America, Literature of Spanish-speaking Africa, Mexican Literature, Cultural Diplomacy, Ethnicity, Race. Focus: 20th and 21st centuries.

LSRC Director

LSRC

Instructional Design and Development, project-based learning, technology integration into World Language Teacher Education (WLTE).

Associate Professor - Spanish

University Teacher Education Program (UTEP)

Teacher education program.

Lecturer - Classical Studies

LSRC Assistant Director

LSRC

Short Courses

Fulbright Teaching Assistant - Russian

Assistant Professor - Chinese

My research interestes include Chinese language pedagogy, East Asian languages and cultures, East Asian folklore, oral traditions, performance traditions, regional culture, professional culture, behavioral culture, interpersonal relationships, foreign language teacher training.

Lecturer - Chinese

Lecturer - Arabic - French

Twentieth century French literature and culture with emphasis on the works of Marcek Proust.

Assistant Professor - German

Twentieth and twenty-first century German and Austrian literature, contemporary film and culture studies with an emphasis on materiality and the aesthetics of horror, cyberculture

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Spanish

Visiting Faculty - Russian

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Classical Studies

Lecturer - Portuguese - Spanish

20th century Latin American historical fiction.

Assistant Professor - French

Contemporary French-language Women's Filmmaking and Lifewriting of France, Algeria, and Tunisia; French Cinema; 20th/21st-Century French & North African Literatures; Domesticity; Cultural Studies; Material Culture Studies; Gender Studies.

Lecturer - Spanish