Faculty
Meet the Modern Languages Faculty
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Caesar Akuetey
Associate Professor of
FrenchPh.D., Universit
éde Franche Comt
é, 1989
"My research focuses on General Linguistics, notably on the construction of my mother tongue; the Ewe language (a language spoken in Ghana, Benin and Nigeria)"
Timothy J. FosterAssociate Professor of
Spanish, On-Site Director, Barcelona Program
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1994
"My dissertation studies the narrative utterances of authors unable to speak in their homeland due to sociopolitical repression"
Jerome MinerAssociate Professor of
Spanish, Director, Language Learning Center
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1995
"My current research is in computer-assisted instruction, translation, and 20th-century Latin American narrative."
Fernando Gomez
Assistant Professor of
SpanishABD, University of California, Santa Barbara,2007
"In my research I enjoy investigating the diverse ways authors have depicted the human experience over the centuries."
Robin RaganAssistant Professor of Modern Languages-
SpanishPh.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001
"I am particularly intrigued with the way 19th century medical discourse portrays illness as a natural state in women."
Julio NoriegaVisiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages-
SpanishPh.D., Latin American and Peninsular Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 1993
"My interests lie in Spanish-American Migrant Literature within the context of colonial-postcolonial, transatlantic and cultural studies theories in Latin America as well as Indigenous Cultures of America in modernization."
Sonja KlockeInstructor in Modern Languages-
GermanPh.D. candidate, Indiana University,2007
"This book will investigate diseased and fantastic characters in literary and filmic depictions of the GDR since the 1960s"Todd HeidtVisiting Instructor in Modern Languages-
GermanPh.D., German Studies, University of Cincinnati, 2009
"I am interested in the intersections of modernity, story-telling, media and realism. My dissertation focuses on film adaptations from Weimar Germany (1919-1933), paying particular attention to the manner in which these narratives draw attention to the act of story-telling as much as they communicate the story itself."
Antonio PradoVisiting Instructor of
SpanishPh.D. candidate, University of Illinois-Urbana,2006
"I am interested in cultural productions that testify gender and class positions of political struggle in times of State crisis. My forthcoming book deals with the newspapers and magazines produced by the anarcho-feminist movement during the turbulent and unstable years prior to the fascist coup d'état that led to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)."Lecturers
Gisela Benson, German
Teaching Intern
Katja Grosche
Emeritus Faculty
Margareta I. Baacke
Professor Emerita of Modern Languages
Elisabeth Barbou Baylor
Assistant Professor Emerita of Modern Languages
W.G. Fiedorow
Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages
E. Inman Fox
Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages, President Emeritus
Jay Paul Minn
Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages
Jorge Prats
Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages
Momcilo Rosic
Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages
Ross Vander Meulen
Professor Emeritus of German
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