Howard Marblestone
Professor
A.B. (Cornell University), M.A. & Ph.D. (Brandeis University) 

Teaching areas: Greek, Latin, and Hebrew language and literature, classical mythology, Ancient History: Greece, Rome, and Israel, and the First Year Seminar, 'Of Males and Men: Myths of Masculinity'.

Research interests: Classical and Northwest Semitic philology, late Greek literature, and the influence of the Classics upon the cultural formation of modern Israel. He has published articles in Hebrew on these and other subjects.

Olga Anna Dull
Professor
M.A. (University of Clug-Napoca, Romania), Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
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Teaching areas: French language, medieval and Renaissance French literature and civilization, fin-de-siècle literature and civilization.

Research interests: Late medieval and early Renaissance French literature, fin-de-siècle French literature and contemporary theories.

 

Roxanne Lalande
Professor
B.A., M.A., Ed.S., Ph.D. (University of Iowa)
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Teaching areas: Seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature, French theater, and business French.

Research interests: Corneille's drama, seventeenth-century women authors, comic theory, feminist dynamics in theater.

George Rosa
Professor
B.A. (University of CA at Los Angeles),
D.Phil. (Oxford University)
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Teaching areas: French language, literature, and civilization; nineteenth-century French literature; interdisciplinary courses; the First-Year Seminar, "The Revolutionary Vision: Europe, 1642-1991"; the Interim Session course, "Exploring South America: Brazil, the River Plate, and the Andes."

Research interests: Stendhal, nineteenth-century French literature, Romanticism, comparative literature.

Cris Reyns Chikuma
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (University of Colorado)
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Teaching areas: French language, 20th Century literature, Francophone literature, Japanese culture.

Research interests: Comparative literature, 20th-century novels and film, Japanese film, women's issues. 

 

Mary Toulouse
Director of FLL Resource Center
and French Instructor
B.A. (Skidmore College), M.A. (NY University), M.Ed. in Technology (Lehigh University)
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Workshop facilitator for multimedia computer-assisted language instruction. Also teaches various French language and civilization courses.

Additional professional activities: Developer of the JIST language auditory comprehension strategy for second language acquisition. Member of the PSMLA Eastern Pennsylvania Technology Committee, and editor of the NEALLT newsletter.

Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Department Head
Professor
M.A. (University of Illinois), Ph.D. (Rice University)
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Teaching areas: German language including business German, seminars on literature, film, and the cultural history of German-speaking countries, and the introductory course to Women's Studies. Is involved with the development of computer assisted self-paced German language modules and has also created an interactive CD-ROM lesson.

Research interests: Contemporary Austrian literature and film.

 

Edward R. McDonald
Professor
M.A., Ph.D. (Columbia University) 

Teaching areas: German language, literature, culture and civilization, and the First Year Seminar, 'Crises of Culture in the Making of the Modern German Nation'.
Research interests: Topics/authors extending from the medieval period through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, including the contemporary period. Also, has written various articles on pedagogy.

Rado Pribic
Professor & Chair of International Affairs B.A. (Florida State University), M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University).
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Teaching areas: German and Russian language, literature and culture, comparative literature, international affairs, and interdisciplinary courses.

Research interests: Germano-Slavic literary, linguistic and cultural relations, east-west European relations, Holocaust studies, and the relation between literature and politics.

 

Naomi Ikegami
Part-Time Visiting Instructor
B.S., M.A. (Tokyo University)

Teaching areas: Japanese language and culture.

Research interests: Japanese language instruction, interests include Asian studies

 

Rado Pribic
Professor & Chair of International Affairs
B.A. (Florida State University), M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University).
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Teaching areas: German and Russian language, literature and culture, comparative literature, international affairs, and interdisciplinary courses.

Research interests: Germano-Slavic literary, linguistic and cultural relations, east-west European relations, Holocaust studies, and the relation between literature and politics.

Valeria Sajez
Lecturer
B.S. in Chemistry & Russian (Iowa State U), A.M. Slavic Linguistics (Brown University)

Valeria Sajez undertook doctoral studies in Russian Literature at Brown University. She teaches all levels of Russian language as well as advanced literature courses including "The Russian Short Story" and "Soviet & Russian Literature." She also leads an interim trip to Russia and Latvia. Her research interests include Lev. N. Tolstoj and Russian Folklore.

 

Sidney Donnell
Associate Professor
B.A. (University of Texas at Austin);
M.A., Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
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Teaching areas: Renaissance and Baroque literature, medieval and early modern Spanish literature and civilization, seminars on Don Quixote, Golden Age drama, and the works of Luis Buñuel. Created a one-semester, accelerated elementary Spanish course and was instrumental in implementing a computer training project for language instructors funded by the  Mellon Foundation.

Research interests: Drama, film, and gender studies.

Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci
Associate Professor
A.B. (Wellesley College),
M.A. & Ph.D. (Stanford University)
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Teaching areas: Topics ranging from Spanish literature and civilization from the 18th-century to the present and various levels of Spanish language.

Research interests: Poetry, Spanish women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition theory.

 

Denise Galarza Sepúlveda
Assistant Professor
B.A. (University of Connecticut),
M.A. (Purdue University), Ph.D. (Emory University)
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Teaching Areas: Colonial Latin American Literature, Early Hispanic Civilization & Culture, Spanish for the Health Professions.

Research Interests: Eighteenth-century colonial literature, urban studies, cultural identity formation, and the intersection of historical and literary discourse.

 

Michael Jordan
Assistant Professor
B.A. (Carleton College), M.A. (Northwestern University), Ph.D. (Emory University)
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Teaching areas: all levels of Spanish language, modern Latin American literature and culture.

Research interests: 20th-century Latin American poetry and short narrative, with special emphasis on issues of social justice, identity politics, and the ethics of technology.

Richard C. Shupp
Part-Time Visiting Instructor
B.A. (Lafayette College), M.A. (Lehigh University)
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Teaching areas: Spanish language and literature, Mexican history and civilization.

Research Interests: Images of Latin America in U. S. film, fiction, and popular music; Images of Pre-Columbian cultures in U. S. film and fiction; Mayan glyph decipherment and interpretation.