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

Assistant Professor - Spanish

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Spanish

Professor, Associate Dean - Spanish

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

Lecturer - Chinese

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Spanish

Pragamatics, Sociolinguistics, Intercultural competence.

Fulbright Teaching Assistant - Chinese

Assistant Professor - French

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.

Associate Professor

Director, Western European Studies Program

Languages and cultures for Professions

Study Abroad

Early modern Spanish and Latin American literature and culture.

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Spanish

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Spanish

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.

Program Coordinator

Languages and cultures for Professions

Professor - Classical Studies

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

Fulbright Teaching Assistant - Arabic

Instructor - French

Assistant Professor - Spanish

Study Abroad

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

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Spanish

Professor

Director, Latin American Studies Program.

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

Assistant Professor - Chinese

Lecturer - German

Terrorism in contemporary German fiction, media theory, experimental writing, and radical culture in art.

Associate Professor - French

Research Interests

17th-Century French studies. Autobiography and the life-writing genres. Pascal and Jansenist historiography and spirituality.

Lecturer - German

The impact of various teaching techniques and course content on student motivation.

Professor - Spanish

Discourse of nineteenth-century Philippine nationalsim.

Associate 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.

Grad. 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.

Professor, WLC Department Chair - German

Languages and cultures for Professions

Print culture and media in German and USA

WLC Academic Advisor - German

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Spanish

Assistant Professor - Spanish

Equatorial Guinean Literature, Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture, Cultural Studies on the African Diaspora U.S.A.-Mexico, Mexican literature.

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.

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Russian

Lecturer - Chinese

Lecturer - Arabic - French

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

LSRC & WLC Computer Systems

Assistant Professor - German

20th and 21st century German and Austrian cultural history, film, and literature; technology (cyberculture, history of medico-scientific discourses, pedagogical uses); gender studies; thanatology.

Grad. Teaching Assistant - Classical Studies

Lecturer - Portuguese - Spanish

20th century Latin American historical fiction.

Assistant Professor - French

Research Interests

French & Francophone Cinemas; Women’s Filmmaking & Lifewriting in France, Algeria, and Tunisia; Feminist/Transnational Film & Literary Theory; Gender Studies; Spectatorship; Cultural Studies.

Teaching Interests

French & Francophone Cinemas; French & Francophone 20th/21st-Century Literatures; French Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; French for Special Purposes; All levels of French Language.

Lecturer - Spanish