Faculty

Faculty

Chairperson: Barbara D. Riess
* denotes language Section Head

Chinese:
*Xiaoling Shi B.A., Hubei University; M.A., Wuhan University; Ph.D., The University of Arizona. Modern Chinese Literature, Contemporary Chinese-language Cinema, and Cultural Studies

French:
E. Eugene Hughes B.A., Wofford College; M.A., Ph.D. (expected May, 2012) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 16th-century literature, Early Modern travel literature and print culture.

Briana Lewis B.A., Furman University; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 19th-century literature, narrative and narrative forms, women in literature.

*Laura Reeck B.A., Saint Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University. Francophone literature, Beur literature, bilingualism.

Phillip Wolfe, B.A., Hamilton College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University. Theatre, intellectual history, literary correspondences.

German
Linda DeMeritt B.A., Michigan State University; M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., Michigan State University. Contemporary Austrian literature, contemporary German women authors, business German.

Peter Ensberg B.A., Universität Köln; M.A., Universität Trier; Ph.D., Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz. Aesthetic theory, 19th- and 20th-century literature.

Jaclyn Kurash B.A., Allegheny College; M.A. University of Maryland; ABD, The Ohio State University. 20-century German women writers, literature and film of the Weimar Republic.

*Jochen Richter Philosophicum, Kiel University; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University. 20th-century German literature; applied linguistics.

Latin & Classical Studies
*Judson Herrman B.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Harvard University. Classical Athenian literature, Greek and Roman oratory and rhetoric, Greek and Roman historians.

Robin Orttung B.A., Harvard; M.A., Boston University; ABD Boston University. Roman comedy, Roman republican literature, Greek and Latin epic.

Spanish
Veronica Dantán B.A., Pomona College; M.A., A.B.D., University of Wisconsin Madison. Border and global studies, latino/a literature and culture.

*Wilfredo Hernández B.A., Universidad Central de Venezuela; M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut. Modern Spanish-American poetry, fiction and essay; gender studies, Hispanic cinema.

Teresa Herrera-De la Muela B.A., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kentucky. Theatre of the 19th and 20th centuries, popular culture.

Barbara Riess B.A., M.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., Arizona State University. 20th-century Latin American culture, literature of the Cuban Revolution, Latin American women’s literature, translation studies, feminist and postmodern debates.

Nancy Smith B.A., M.A., Allegheny College. Contemporary culture of Spain and France, applied linguistics, bilingualism.

Faculty Emeriti
Courtenay Dodge B.A., Juniata College; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Modern French poetry; generative grammar.
Samuel K. Edwards B.A., Emory University; B.A., Oxford University; M.S., M.A., Princeton. Classical Studies.
James C. Hogan B.A., University of Oklahoma; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Classical Studies.
Louis A. Wagner B.S., University of Pittsburgh; M.A., Indiana University. Russian language and Eastern European studies.
Mary C. Wagner B.A., Louisiana State University; M.A., M.Phil., Columbia University. French language and Francophone studies.

Selected Publications and Achievements

  • “Writerly identities in Beur fiction and beyond” (published by Lexington Books)
  • “The Role of Conceptual Metaphor in Marguerite Duras’ Des Journées entières dans les arbres” (paper presented to the modern drama section of Northeast Modern Language Association)
  • Günter Kunert (editor, published by Reclam)
  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture (contributor, published by Routledge)
  • “La idiosincracia cubana y la escritura/escritora: la posicionalidad en los textos de Marilyn Bobes” (published in Celebración de la
  • Puppet: A Chicano Novela by Margarita Cota-Cárdenas (translator, published by the University of New Mexico Press)
  • “De l’échec à la réussite dans le Bildungsroman beur” (published in Migrations des identites et des textes entre l’Algerie et la France by Editions L’Harmattan)
  • “Das Verhältnis von Philosophie und Literatur am Beispiel der ‘Kantkrise’ Heinrich von Kleists” (published in Beiträge zur Kleist-Forschung)
  • Hyperides: Funeral Oration. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • “Telling the Revolutionary Tale: National Identity, Literary history, and María Elena Llana’s Liminal Cuba.” Latin American Literary Review
  • Der schöne Gott. Strukturen ästhetischen und theologischen Denkens. Königshausen & Neumann Verlag, 2007
  • “Algo se meuve en el alma: nostalgia y mitos transicionales de sobremesa en Verano azul” Historias de la pequeña pantalla: representaciones históricas en la televisión de la España democrática. Eds. Francisca López, Elena Cueto Asín, and David R. George. Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2009.
  • “Tallemant des Réaux et l’Esthétique de la Négligence” in Romance Notes, Vol. 47.1, Fall 2006.