Professor of Arabic

Curriculum Vitale
Curriculum Vitae

Publications
In the Shadows of the Master: Al-Mutanabbi’s Legacy and the Quest for the Center in Fatimid and Andalusian Poetry. Berkshire: Berkshire Academic Press, 2012. 
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers.  Edited by Majd Al-Mallah and Coeli Fitzpatrick. Detroit, Gale Group, 2009.

Research

• classical Arabic poetry
• Arabic women authors in al-Andalus
• modern Arabic fiction

Associate Professor of German

Associate Professor of Chinese 

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese), 2016
Arizona State University-Tempe, School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC)
M.A., Chinese Literature, 2004
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature
B.A. Honors, in Chinese Language and Literature, 1998
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Research

• Pre-modern Chinese literature
• Tang-Song dynasty narrative literature, especially miscellany (biji)
• Identity building and social and familial networks among intellectuals in Southern Song transition period
• Readership and reception of miscellany in the Song dynasty

Professor of French

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph. D., French Medieval Literature (1992)
Michigan State University
M.A., French Literature (1987) 
Michigan State University
Maîtrise, English language/American Civilization (1983)
Université Charles V - Paris VII

Research

• Women Studies and Medieval Courtly Narratives
• Satirical Medieval Literature (the fabliaux)
• French Cinema and Culture 

Associate Professor of Spanish

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin
M.A.
Florida International University

Professor of French

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D., French (2004)
University of Iowa
M.A., French (1993)
University of Iowa 
B.A., English/French (1989)
Central College

Research

• Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century French literature and culture, the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment
• Metalexicography
• Game-based learning

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics (2019)
The University of Arizona
M.A., Secondary Language Education (May 2018)
UNED (Madrid, Spain)
M.A., Foreign Language Pedagogy (2014)
The University of Utah

Research

• Sociolinguistics
• Spanish in Contact
• Second And Heritage Language Acquisition
• Foreign Language Pedagogy

Associate Professor of Spanish

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D. in Spanish Language Acquisition (2001)
University of Iowa
M.A. in Spanish (1993)
University of Iowa 
B.A. in English (1990)
University of Granada (Spain)

Research

• Applied Linguistics
• Second Language Acquisition

Associate Professor of Spanish

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D., Hispanic Literatures
Vanderbilt University
M.A., Hispanic Literatures
Vanderbilt University

Research

• Contemporary literature and film in Mexico
• Youth cultures and representation in contemporary literature and visual culture in Mexico (60s-70s)
• U.S--Mexico relations and cultural exchanges

Assistant Professor of Spanish (Linguistics)

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics
Indiana University
B.A. 
The College of Wooster

Associate Professor of Spanish

Degrees
Ph.D., Spanish Literature (2015) 
Yale University
M.S., Library and Information Sciences (2009)
University of Illinois
B.A., Comparative and World Literature and Spanish with honors (2007)
University of Illinois

Publications

Monographs
Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature.
            University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.

Articles
“Con la garganta abierta: La retórica en la lucha por la Amazonía en Un viejo que leía novelas de amor.” Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXXXV, No. 266, January-March 2019, pp. 153-166. 

“Framing the Indies: The Renaissance Aesthetics of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557).” Colonial Latin American Review. Vol. 28, 2019, pp. 130-151.

 “‘Written in the Memory of the Living’: The Boundaries of History in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s Sumario and Historia general.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Vol. 53, No. 3, 2019, pp. 1015-1036.

“El agua y la inmortalidad poética en las églogas de Garcilaso de la Vega.” Hipogrifo. Vol. 8, No. 1, 2020, pp. 411-424.

Research

• New World natural histories
• Renaissance visual culture
• Early modern scientific culture

Associate Professor of Japanese

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D.
University of Michigan

Associate Professor of German

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics (2001)
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Research

• Interconnection of historical social interaction/change and language change in German
• Linguistics (any language): general linguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics

Professor of Chinese

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Department Chair
Professor of French

Degrees
Ph.D., French & Foreign Language Acquisition (2004)
The Pennsylvania State University
M.A., French Language & Literature (1996)
Bowling Green State University

 Research

• Multi/Digital Literacies in Foreign Language Learning
• Game-Based Learning for Foreign Languages
• Social Justice in Foreign Language Education 

Professor of Spanish

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D., Spanish Literature
University of Pennsylvania 
M.A., Spanish Literature
University of Pennsylvania 

Research

• 19^th-21^st century Spanish peninsular narrative fiction, especially that written by women
• fiction, film, poetry, memoirs, photography, graphic novels about the Spanish Civil War

Associate Professor of Japanese

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D., Japanese Literature
University of Michigan
M.A., Japanese Literature
University of Colorado
B.A., Japanese Language and Literature
B.A., Chinese Language and Literature
University of Colorado

Research

• Premodern Japanese poetry and poetic theory
• Premodern hybrid text/image works
• Traditional Japanese Theater
• Japanese humor
• Japanese folklore and the supernatural

Professor of Spanish

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D., Spanish American Literature (2009) 
University of Texas at Austin

M.S., Spanish (2005)
University of Illinois

B.A., Spanish, summa cum laude (2003)
Florida International University

Selected Publications
Monographs
La poética del trujillismo: Épica y romance en el discurso de “la Era”
Isla Negra Editores, 2016.

Edited Books
Metrópolis. Espacio urbano, identidad, modernidad y conflicto en la literatura de España y Latinoamérica, 1850-1920, edited by Lily Litvak and Médar Serrata, special issue of Siglo Diecinueve (Literatura Hispánica), vol. 20, 2014.

El sonido de la música en la narrativa dominicana: Ensayos sobre identidad, nación y performance
Instituto de Estudios Caribeños, 2012.

Articles
“‘The One and Only Bones of Columbus’: Relics, Archives, and Scenarios of Discovery” PMLA, vol. 137, no. 3 (2022), pp. 472-88.

“‘Al dulce yugo del trabajo uncidas’: La noción de trabajo en el pensamiento dominicano del siglo XIX.” Studi Ispanici, vol. 47, 2022, pp. 113-28.

“El recurso de la máscara: La conflictiva relación entre la masa y el individuo en Whitman, Sandburg, Mir y Mieses Burgos.” Studi Ispanici, vol. 64, 2019, pp. 203-14.

“Noticias de Cosmópolis: La ciudad de Santo Domingo entre las ruinas y la modernidad.” Metrópolis. Espacio urbano, identidad, modernidad y conflicto en la literatura de España y Latinoamérica, 1850-1920, edited by Lily Litvak and Médar Serrata, special issue of Siglo Diecinueve (Literatura Hispánica), vol. 20, 2014, pp. 267-86.

“Anti-Haitian Rhetoric and Monumentalizing of Violence in Joaquín Balaguer’s Guía emocional de la ciudad romántica.” Hispanic Review, vol. 81, no. 3, 2013, pp. 263-84.

Research

• Latin American intellectual history
• Caribbean literature and culture
• Cultural Studies
• Visual culture

Associate Professor of Spanish

Professor of Spanish

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph.D., Romance Linguistics
University of New Mexico
M.A., Spanish
University of Virginia

Professor of Spanish

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor of Spanish