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Full-Time

 

Richard Stroik
Department Chair

Associate Professor, French

New York University, Ph.D.

20th Century French Poetry; Camus

rstroik@sandiego.edu
619.260.4064 / Founders 138

 

 

Michael Agnew
Assistant Professor, Spanish

University of Pennsylvania (PhD)

Early Modern and Pre-Modern Hispanic Culture (pre-1700); historiography, absolutism and literary representations of Empire

619.260.7834 / Founders 149


 

 

Susan Briziarelli
Associate Professor, Italian

Yale University, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Contemporary Italian Literature, Film, Translation

susan3@sandiego.edu
619.260.4066

Dr. Briziarelli is on leave until September 2009.

 

 

Kimberly A. Eherenman
Professor, Spanish

University of Nevada at Las Vegas, M.A.
University of California at Irvine, Ph.D.

Mexican Literature and Culture; Latin American Poetry; pre-Colombian and Colonial Literature

kime@sandiego.edu
619.260.4068 / Founders 136-B

 

 

Kevin Guerrieri
Associate Professor, Spanish
Coordinator, Spanish 201

University of California at Riverside, Ph.D.

Latin American Literature and Culture; Colombia; Scholarship of Engagement

kevin2@sandiego.edu
619.260.7827 / Founders 147

 

 

Dr. Brigitte Heimers
Coordinator, German Area
Professor, German

San Diego State University, M.A.
University of California at Riverside
, Ph.D.

20th Century Literature in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

heimers@sandiego.edu
619.260.4065 / Founders 148

 

 

Carl Jubran
Associate Professor, Spanish
Executive Director, Guadalajara Summer Program

University of California at San Diego, M.A., Ph.D.

Peninsular Literature, Spanish Orientalism and Hispano-Arabism, 19th-20th Century, Latin American Poetry, Modernismo and Gender Studies

cjubran@sandiego.edu
619.260.5983 / Serra 315

 

   

Dr. Beatriz Lado
Language Coordinator
Assistant Professor

Universidad de Valencia, Licenciatura; Northwestern State University, M.A.; Louisiana State University, M.A.; Georgetown University, M.S., Ph D.

Second-Language Acquisition; Spanish Linguistics and Spanish Applied Linguistics

blado@sandiego.edu
619.260.xxxx / Founders 139A

 

 

Michèle Magnin
Professor, French

University of California at San Diego, Ph.D.

Technology for the Language Classroom; French Culture and Civilization; French Women Writers; Translation

mmagnin@sandiego.edu
619.260.4063 / Founders 144

 

 

John L. Marambio
Professor, Spanish

Texas Tech University, Ph.D.

Latin American Literature and Cinema

marambio@sandiego.edu
619.260.4071 / Founders 145

 

   

Alejandro Meter
Coordinator, Spanish Area
Associate Professor, Spanish

University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D.

20th Century Latin America; Literature and Politics of the Southern Cone; Latin American Jewish Studies

ameter@sandiego.edu
619.260.7417 / Founders 146

 

     

Dr. Amanda Lee Petersen
Assistant Professor, Spanish

Wichita State University, M.A.; University of Colorado, Ph.D.

Contemporary Latin American female authors, with an emphasis on Mexican narrative; Central American authors

petersen@sandiego.edu
619.260.xxxx / Founders 132

 

   

Sandra Robertson
Professor, Spanish

University of California at San Diego, M.A., Ph.D.

Spanish Literature and Culture of the 19th and 20th Centuries; Spanish Cinema

sandra@sandiego.edu
619.260.4222 / Founders 123-A

 

 

 

María Cecilia Ruiz
Associate Professor, Spanish

University of California at San Diego, Ph.D.

14th Century Prose: Fiction and Chronicle

mruiz@sandiego.edu
619.260.4072 / Founders 136-A

 

 

 

 

Leonora Simonovis
Assistant Professor, Spanish

Washington University, Ph.D.

Contemporary Latin American Literature; Literature and Music of the Hispanic Caribbean

simonovis@sandiego.edu
619.260.4139 / Founders 123-C

 

       
   

Jacques M. Wendel
Professor, French

University of Notre Dame, M.A.
University of Ohio, Ph.D.

17th-18th Century French Literature

jwendel@sandiego.edu
619.260.4062

Dr. Wendel is on leave until January 2009.

 

 
     

Adjunct

 

E. Bolívar
Instructor, Spanish

San Diego State University M.A.

Latin American Literature

ebolivar@sandiego.edu
619.260.4045 / Camino 28

 

 

Kate Defrise
Lecturer, French

Université de l'Etat à Mons, M. A.

kdefrise@sandiego.edu
619.260.xxxx / Camino 28

 

 

John W. Fendrick
Coordinator, Classical Languages Area
Instructor, Greek and Latin

University of Southern California M.A., Ph.D.

Classics (Greek and Latin), Spanish and German

fendrick@sandiego.edu
no phone / Aromas

 

 

Maria Gee
Lecturer, Chinese

Harbin Teacher University, China, M.A.

Mandarin Chinese Language and Literature

mgee@sandiego.edu
619.260.7872 / Camino 28

 

 

Sophie Halvin
Instructor, French

Université Paris-Sorbonne, M.A.
Agrégation du Gouvernement de France

Linguistics

shalvin@sandiego.edu
619.260.5949 / Camino 28

 

 

Beatrice de Lorenzi Hepp
Lecturer, Italian

Università degli Studie di Milano, Laurea di Dottore

Italian History

bhepp@sandiego.edu
619.260.5949 / Camino 28

 

 

Randa Jad-Moussa
Lecturer, Arabic

McGill University, M.Ed.

Second Language Acquisition; Cognitive Models of Hypermedia Production

rmoussa@sandiego.edu
619.260.2336 / Founders 138-B

 

   

Maria Kotsaftis
Lecturer, Italian

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, M. A.; Purdue University, Ph.D.

Comparative literature

maria6@sandiego.edu
619.260.xxxx / Camino 28

 

 

José Mendoza
Instructor, Spanish

University of California at San Diego, M.A.

Indigenist Literature of Mexico

jmendoza@sandiego.edu
619.260.5962 / Camino 28

 

 

 

Silvia Arnone Metzger
Lecturer, Italian

Università degli Studi di Genoa, Laurea di Dottore
Abilitazione all'Insegnamento dalla Ministero della Pubblica Instuzione

Pedagogy

smetzger@sandiego.edu
619.260.2336 / Camino 28

 

 

Rubén R. Murillo
Lecturer, Spanish

University of California at San Diego, Ph.D.

U.S. Latino Literature in Spanish, Latin American Literature, Aesthetics of Resistance, Post-structuralism, Globalization

rmurillo@sandiego.edu
619.260.xxxx / Founders xxx

 

 

Martha T. Oregel
Instructor, Spanish

San Diego State University, M.A.

Latin American Literature

marthat@sandiego.edu
619.260.2398 / Camino 28

 

 

Yadira Ortega-Ocádiz
Instructor, Spanish

San Diego State University, M.A.

Latin American Literature

yadirao@sandiego.edu
619.260.5949 / Camino 28

 

 

 

Emanuela Patroncini Boswell
Acting Coordinator, Italian Area
Instructor, Italian

Università di Bologna, Dottorato

Second Language Acquisition

eboswell@sandiego.edu
619.260.xxxx / Founders 138-A

 

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Micaela Ramos
Lecturer, Spanish

San Diego State University, M.A.

Spanish Linguistics

ramosm@sandiego.edu
619.260.2336 / Camino 28

 

 

Santiago Rubio-Fernaz
Lecturer, Latin
Director of Placement

University of California at San Diego, Ph.D.

Classics (Greek and Latin)

santiago@sandiego.edu
619.260.2776 / Founders 138-A

 

 

Shirley Saad
Instructor, French

San Diego State University, M.A.

 

ssaad@sandiego.edu
619.260.4045 / Camino 28

 

 

Graziella Spinelli
Instructor, Italian

Università di Bologna, Dottorato

Second Language Acquisition

gs2@sandiego.edu
619.260.7668 / Camino 28

 

 

 

Christiane Staninger
Instructor, German

University of California at San Diego, M.A., Ph.D.

Language Acquisition

cstan@sandiego.edu
619.260.7668 / Founders 138-B

 

 

 

Hiroko Takagi
Coordinator, Japanese Area
Instructor, Japanese

San Diego State University, M.A.

Linguistics

takagi@sandiego.edu
619.260.5907 / Founders 138-B

 

 

Akira Takahashi
Lecturer, Japanese

San Diego State University, M.A.

Bi-lingual Education in the U.S. and Japan

akirat@sandiego.edu
619. 260.7965 / Camino 28

 

 

Stacy Tworoger
Lecturer, Italian

Middlebury College , M.A.

stworoger@sandiego.edu
619.260.4045 / Camino 28

 

 

Eugenia Velázquez
Lecturer, Spanish

University of San Diego, M.Ed.

Spanish Literature

eugeniav@sandiego.edu
619.260.2398 / Camino 28

 

 

Alex Villalobos
Lecturer, Spanish

Middlebury College, M.A.

alexv@sandiego.edu
619.260.5982 / Camino 28

 

 

Simi Windward
Instructor, Spanish

University of Florida, M.A.

simiw@sandiego.edu
619.260.7668 / Camino 28

 

 

Barbara J. Wrasidlo
Lecturer, German

University of California at San Diego, Ph.D.

German and Russian Literature

bwrasidlo@sandiego.edu
619-260-7872 / Camino 28

 

 

P. Víctor Zambrano
Instructor, Spanish

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, M.A.; Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa, M.A.;
SDSU, Graduate School of Public Health, M.P.H.; Universidad Iberoamericana, ABD

Spanish for Professionals

zambrano@sandiego.edu
619.260.2398 / Camino 28