World Languages and Culture Faculty and Staff

Research: (Ph.D. University of Alberta)
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(Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Chicago)
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Research: (Ph.D. Loyola University, Chicago) Greek Commentaries and Textbooks, Narratology, Historiography, Translation, Pedagogy 

Teaching: Ancient Greek (all levels); Latin (all levels); Classical Civilization Courses, including Great Greek and Roman Minds, Classical Mythology, Mythology and Film, Word Power  

(Ph.D. University of Minnesota)

Teaching: Seneca, Latin Drama and Epic, Ancient Science, Mythology

Research: (Ph.D. Ohio State University) 19th Century French Literature, French Cinema, Translation & Language Studies
Teaching: Beginning and Intermediate French, Conversation, Literature, and Culture

Research: (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz) African and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures. Francophone and Anglophone Cultures. 

Teaching: French language. Gender in Africa and the Global South.  Francophone and Anglophone African literatures, films, and cultures.  International Women’s and Gender Studies.

Research: (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley) Elias Canetti, post-unification German literature and film, global migrations in film 

Teaching: German language and literature, German civilization and politics, German film, International Studies, global migrations in film

Research: (Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, UCLA), Intercultural Communication and Education, 20th Century German Literature, Holocaust Studies and Jewish Studies, Transnational and Transcultural Studies, Migration Studies, Qualitative and Quantitative research, Service Learning abroad, Study Abroad. Current projects: Intercultural Empathy, Long-term effects of study abroad, Marginalized nobility of Europe from an ethnographic point of view 

Teaching: Intercultural Communication and Education classes, 20th Century Literature from an intercultural perspective, Holocaust from different perspectives and through different genres

BGSU Study Abroad Program Salzburg

Research: (Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University) 18th - 20th Century German Literature, Aesthetics and Philosophy; Nietzsche, Posthumanism, Critical Improvisation Studies, Fascism 

Teaching: Europe; Fascism; German Culture and Civilization; Contemporary Germany; Philosophies of Technology; Marx, Nietzsche, Freud  

Research: (Ph.D. University of California Los Angles, UCLA) Historical, economic and social factors influencing culture

Teaching: Italian, Romance Languages, Film Studies, Renaissance Studies

Bio and Publications

Research: (Ph.D. Oklahoma State University)
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Research: (Ph.D. University of Kansas) Russian and Slovene literary history, translation studies, Slavic-American emigre periodicals 

Teaching: Russian literature, Russian language, Central and Eastern European cultures and societies, translation

Research: (Ph.D. Bowling Green State University) Latina/x first generation immigrants, Latina/x Identity formation, Borderlands and Borders 

Teaching: Beginning and Intermediate Spanish, Composition, Culture and Civilization, Advanced Conversation

Research: (Ph.D. University of Arizona) Hispanic Sociolinguistics; Spanish as a Heritage Language; Spanish as a Second Language; Spanish in the U.S. 

Teaching: Conversation, composition, phonetics and phonology, Spanish in the U.S., Spanish Heritage Language Pedagogy, Hispanic sociolinguistics, Language and Identity 

Research: (Ph.D. Universidad de Oviedo, Spain) Spanish as a Second Language; Spanish as a Heritage Language; Technology in Second Language Acquisition
Teaching: Beginning and Intermediate Spanish

Research: (Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder) Cultural Studies; Iberian Peninsula; Catalan Studies; National Identities; Intellectual History; Infrastructures and Technology 

Teaching: Cultural Studies of Spain; Hispanic Literatures; Hispanic Civilizations

Research: (Ph.D. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies; Memory Studies; Afro-Caribbean Intellectual History; Central American Film 

Teaching: Latin American Literatures and Cultures; Transatlantic Studies of Literature and Film; Afro Latin America; Community engagement

(M.A. Texas Tech University)
Teaching: Beginning, Intermediate, and Conversational Spanish

Research: (Ph.D. University of Michigan) Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literature, Pop Culture and Film
Teaching: Latin American narrative, Caribbean cinema, and popular culture

Research: (Ph.D. University of Cincinnati) Contemporary Latin American and Spanish Fiction, Transatlantic Studies, Literary Theory
Teaching: Beginning and Intermediate Spanish

Research: (Ph.D. University of Chicago) Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Colonial Latin American Studies, Surveillance Studies, Spanish Second Language Acquisition
Teaching: Beginning and Intermediate Spanish