Gastón A. Alzate
Associate Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., Arizona State University
Contact: (323) 343-2267
E-mail: [email protected]
- Mexican and Colombian literature
- Mexican Theater
- Contemporary Mexican cabaret
Fluent in: Spanish, Portuguese.
Gretchen Angelo
Associate Professor of French; Ph.D., Yale University
Contact: (323) 343-4246
E-mail: [email protected]
- Medieval French literature
Fluent in: French.
Pablo Baler
Assistant Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Contact: (323) 343-4243
E-mail: [email protected]
- Contemporary Latin-American literature and visual arts.
Fluent in: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hebrew.
Joseph A. Chrzanowski
Emeritus Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Contact: (323) 343-4237
- 20th century novel
- Short story and theatre
- Translation of plays into English
- Venezuelan playwright Mariela Romero
Fluent in: Spanish.
Maria Dolores Costa
Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Contact: (323) 343-4238
E-mail: [email protected]
- 19th and 20th century Spanish narratives
- Gay and lesbian writers
Fluent in: Spanish.
Felipe Diaz
Associate Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Contact: (323) 343-4241
E-mail: [email protected]
- Spanish literature of the Golden Age
- Medieval Spanish literature
Fluent in: Spanish.
Domnita Dumitrescu
Emerita Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., USC
Contact (323) 343-4235
E-mail: [email protected]
- Spanish language structure and pragmatics
- Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-speaking world
- Contrastive analysis of Spanish, English, French, and Romanian
Fluent in: Spanish, Romanian, French.
Kylie Hsu
Emerita Professor of Chinese and Linguistics; Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 343-4275
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
- Chinese linguistics
- Analysis of word structure
- Language use in written and spoken discourse context
- Language and cultural socialization
- Heritage language pedagogy
- Intercultural communication
Fluent in: Mandarin (Chinese).
Christophe Lagier
Associate Professor of French; Ph.D., Princeton University
Contact: (323) 343-4273
E-mail: [email protected]
- Language and culture to literature and business French
- Post-World War II French theater
- Contemporary problems of immigration, racism and integration in France
Fluent in: French.
Sachiko Matsunaga
Professor of Japanese; Ph.D., University of Hawaii, Manoa
Contact: (323) 343-4240
E-mail: [email protected]
- Japanese psycholinguistics
- Second-language acquisition and reading research
- Computer-assisted instruction on learning Japanese
- Japanese Speech Contest
Fluent in: Japanese.
Elena Ruzickova
Associate Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Contact: (323) 343-4235
E-mail: [email protected]
- Spanish sociolinguistics and pragmatics
Fluent in: Spanish.
Alejandro Solomianski
Assistant Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Contact: (323) 343-4241
E-mail: [email protected]
- Latin American literature
- Cultural studies
- Subaltern studies
Fluent in: Spanish.
Hildebrando Villarreal
Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 343-4230
E-mail: [email protected]
- Spanish linguistics
- Teaching of Spanish as a second language and to native Spanish speakers
Fluent in: Spanish.
Qingyun Wu
Professor of Chinese; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Contact: (323) 343-4242
E-mail: [email protected]
- Chinese language
- Comparative literature
- Women’s literature
- Study of culture and literature
- Chinese Poetry Contest
Fluent in: Mandarin (Chinese).
Toshiko Yokota
Assistant Professor of Japanese; Ph.D., UC Irvine
Contact: (323) 343-4277
E-mail: [email protected]
- Japanese language and literature
Fluent in: Japanese.