Faculty
Meet the Modern Languages Faculty
Bruce Davis, Chair
Associate Professor of
FrenchPh.D., University of Virginia, 1983
"My current research focuses on issues of gentrification and urban planning in Paris.".jpg)
Caesar Akuetey
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
SpanishPh.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, Burkhardt Language Center
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1995
"My current research is in computer-assisted instruction, translation, and 20th-century Latin American narrative."
Robin RaganAssociate 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."
Claudia FernándezAssistant Professor of Modern Languages-
SpanishPh.D., University of Illinois-Chicago, 2005
"I investigate how adults learn the morphology and syntax (i.e., grammar) of a second language in the classroom."
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."
Sonja KlockeAssistant Professor 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"
Schahrazede LongouAssistant Professor of Modern Languages-
French, On-Site Director, Besançon Program
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2009
"My dissertation studies fictional narratives by women who have emerged in the Algerian context of the 1980s and 1990s and who struggle against the violence and patriarchy inherent in traditional Algerian society."
Antonio PradoAssistant Professor of
Spanish, On-Site Director, Barcelona Program
Ph.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)."
Julio NoriegaVisiting Associate 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."
Todd HeidtVisiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages-
GermanPh.D., German Studies, University of Cincinnati, 2010
"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."
Novia PagoneVisiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages-
SpanishPh.D. candidate, University of Chicago
"My current research focuses on the intersections of literature and journalism in contemporary Spain."Emeritus Faculty
Carol Chase
Professor Emerita of Modern Languages
W.G. Fiedorow
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
Margareta I. Baacke
Professor Emerita of Modern Languages
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