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Language	Name	Contact	Research Interests	Website
Arabic	Thuria Mossa	child EH 106

Chinese	Dr. Li Yang	lyang1 EH 013	Second language (L2) pragmatics acquisition and computer-assisted pragmatics instruction, learners’ pragmatic and intercultural competence in study abroad settings, Chinese L2 learners’ development of writing skills.
Chinese	GTA/Instructor: Xinran Wang, xinran - EH 104

Classics (Latin & Greek)	Dr. Benjamin McCloskey	mccloskey EH 202	Intersection of philosophy and historiography in Socratic literature of the 4^th century BCE, impact of narratological approaches on our understanding of philosophy and authority in Xenophon’s corpus, construction of ethnic and gender identities in the literature of the Second Sophistic (1^st to 3^rd centuries CE).

French	Dr. Kathleen Antonioli	kantonioli EH 108	Modern French literature, literary history, the sociology of literature, theories of modernism, women's writing, feminist theory, Québec literature and theories of francophone literature.
	Dr. Robert Clark	rclark EH 014A	Director of International and Areas Studies
	Dr. Melinda Cro	macro EH 203	Early modern French and Italian literatures with an emphasis in romance languages pastoral literature; theater; theories of metaliteracy and intertextuality; aesthetics and the relationship between literature and the visual arts; theories of identity, sexuality, and alterity; teaching literature in the L2.	Site
	Dr. Lavinia Horner	lhorner EH 004	Research interests: liminal identities/narratives and political writing in Maghreb and in Central/Eastern Europe; exophonic writers; the intersection of science and French literature; pragmatics
	GTAs/Instructors: Kwasi Ketchore, kketcho -- EH 22B Emili Neubauer, eaneubs10 -- EH 105 Joseph Weakland, jweakland -- EH 23B

German	Dr. Ljudmila Bilkić	bilkic EH 22C	German film, refugee studies, critical geographies with an emphasis in post-imperial biopolitics of nation-states and migration
	Dr. Necia Chronister	nchroni EH 214	German literature since 1989, contemporary German women writers, German film, Gender Studies.
	Dr. Derek Hillard - Department Head	dhillard EH 208	Poetry
	Dr. Sara Luly	srluly EH 205	Late 18th and early 19th century literature and culture, with an emphasis on German Romanticism and Gender Studies; German Gothic literature and questions of masculinity in the works of German Romanticism.
	GTAs/Instructors: Natacha Mally, nmally -- EH 22B Christine Patry, chrissie12 -- EH 23C

Japanese	Kumiko Nakamura	kunamaku EH 106

Russian	Viktoriya Pottroff, ABD	vikyen EH 011C

Spanish	Dr Rebecca Bender	rmbender EH 107	19th–21st century Spanish literature, Golden Age Theater and prose, issues of gender, sexuality, and corporeality, often approaching these themes through feminist and/or queer theories.	Site
	Dr. Mary Copple	mcopple EH 006	Spanish linguistics in the areas of grammaticalization, language variation, language change; Second Language Acquisition and pedagogy.
	Angélique Courbou, ABD	angeli EH 011B	Advising in post-secondary education; long term impact of service learning and study abroad, conflict resolution and service learning/study abroad.
	Dr. María Teresa DePaoli	mmtzotz EH 229	Latin American Cultural Studies, Mexican Literature and Culture, Screenwriting Studies, and Latinas in the U.S.	Site Las guionistas
	Yasmín D. Gavigan	yasedi EH 011A
	Dr. Lucía Garavito	lugarav EH 007	Contemporary Spanish-American theater, in general, and on women writers and playwrights, in particular.
	Dr. Laura Kanost	lakanost EH 204	Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature; Women writers and gender issues; U.S. Children’s Literature in Spanish; Disability Studies; Translation ; Service-Learning.	Las guionistas
	Dr. Pablo Martínez-Diente	pablomd EH 005	Contemporary Spanish poetry, modernist and symbolist studies, the fin de siècle, film, and translation.
	Dr. Laura Valentín-Rivera	lvalentin EH 213	Spanish heritage language learners' literacy development and collaboration mediated by social tools (i.e., Google docs, Wikis, blogs)
	Suzie Wright, ABD	suzwright EH 003	Iberian Studies; 20th and 21st Century Spanish Literature and Film; 20th and 21st Century Portuguese Literature and Film; Spatial Theory; Urban Studies.
	GTAs/Instructors: Joseph Beim, jbeim -- EH 104 Daniela Castro Trejo, danielac -- EH 104 Alejandra Gonzalez, alejan5 -- EH 23C Hannah Harker, hmharker -- EH 22A Joseph Hoover, jlhoover -- EH 22A Kelsie Johnston, kelsiej -- EH 105 Victoria Loza, vicloza -- EH 105 Mariluz Naranjo Santacruz, mnaranjo -- EH 104A Daniel Roman Zuniga, ddroman -- EH 23B Kelsey Welliver, kelcwel -- EH 321

Emeritus Faculty Dr. Douglas Benson (bensonml) Dr. Robert Corum (corum) Dr. Michael Ossar Dr. Silvia Sauter (silviae) Dr. Bradley Shaw (bradshaw) Dr. George Tunstall

Kansas State University

Department of Modern Languages

Emeritus Faculty