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Faculty

Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (INCC)
Ana Maria Schwartz, Chair
Edward Larkey, Graduate Program Director

Professors
-Bell, Alan S., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; Modern Spanish literature, language teaching methodology.
-Field, Thomas T., Ph.D., Cornell University; Sociolinguistics, literacy, textual analysis, French studies.
-Moorjani, Angela,(Emerita) Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; Modern French literature and culture, intercultural pragmatics.
-John H. Sinnigen, Ph.D, The Johns Hopkins University; Modern Spanish and Latin- American narrative, ideologies and literature,
-political economy of culture.
Associate Professors
-Ka, Omar, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Phonology, sociolinguistics, African linguistics, and Wolof.
-Larkey, Edward, Ph.D., Humboldt-Universität; German popular culture, German ethnicity, political economy of culture.
-Poggio, Sara Z., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Sociology, Latin-American societies, Hispanics in USA.
-Provencher Denis, Ph.D., Penn State University,French Civilization and Cultural Studies, Language, Gender and Sexuality, Conversation and Discourse Analysis, Intercultural Communication.
-Schneider, Judith M., Ph.D., Duke University; Modern French and Latin American literature and culture.
-Schwartz, Ana María, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; Language teaching and curriculum development.
-Sloane, Robert A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; Golden Age Spanish literature, language teaching methodology.
-Stolle-McAllister, Ph.D., University of Minnesota; cultural studies, social movements, Latin American popular culture

Assistant Professors
-Fatih Zakaria, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo; Francophone Studies, French Enlightenment, Broader Modernity and Issues of Tradition, Philosophical Approaches to Literature, East West Relations, Arabic Studies.
-Oskoz Ana, Ph.D., University of Iowa; Technology in the foreign language classroom; second language acquisition; language teaching methodology.
-Adriana Medina, Ph.D., Intercultural Communication; Language teaching; modern Mexico.