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Department Staff
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Chris CoskiDepartment Chair, Professor Office: Gordy Hall 283C Phone: (740) 593-2768 Email: coski@ohio.edu |
French Faculty
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Kelsey BarxiasLecturer Office: Gordy Hall 271 Phone: (740) 593-2762 Email: barxiask@ohio.edu |
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Chris CoskiProfessor, Department Chair Office: Gordy Hall 283C Phone: (740) 593-2768 Email: coski@ohio.edu |
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Signe DenbowProfessor of Instruction – Retired Office: Gordy Hall 227 Phone: (740) 593-2809 Email: denbowe@ohio.edu |
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Dominique DuvertProfessor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 335 Phone: (740) 593-2819 Email: duvert@ohio.edu Ph.D., U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Business French, French Conversation. |
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Yolande HelmProfessor Office: Gordy Hall 333 Phone: (740) 593-2789 Email: helm@ohio.edu Ph.D., Pennsylvania State Univ., 20th-Century French and Francophone Literature. |
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Brigitte Moretti-CoskiProfessor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 325 Phone: (740) 593-2772 Email: moretti@ohio.edu Maîtrise LEA Université de Nice, MA, ABD University of Maryland. |
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Lois VinesProfessor – Retired Office: Gordy Hall 267 Phone: (740) 593-2776 Email: vinesl@ohio.edu Ph.D., Georgetown U. 20th-Century French Literature, French Film, French for Journalism. |
French Teaching Assistants
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Adele BuissetTeaching Assistant Office: Gordy Hall 272 Phone: (740) 593-9866 Email: ab408813@ohio.edu |
German Faculty
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Nikhil SatheAssociate Professor Office: Gordy Hall 271 Phone: (740) 593-2762 Email: sathe@ohio.edu Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Austrian Studies; Literature, Film and Culture from the 20th Century to the Present; Language Pedagogy. |
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Bärbel SuchAssociate Professor Office: Gordy Hall 131 Phone: (740) 597-2725 Email: such@ohio.edu Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, Holocaust and Exile Literature, Contemporary German Literature and Culture. |
German Teaching Assistants
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Manuela JakoberTeaching Assistant Office: Gordy Hall 261 Phone: (740) 597-2733 Email: mj351019@ohio.edu |
Italian Faculty
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Francesca ColloredoAssistant Professor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 245 Phone: (740) 593-2824 Email: collored@ohio.edu Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere from the Universita’ Statale di Milano, Milan, Italy. |
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Molly MorrisonAssociate Professor Office: Gordy Hall 133 Phone: (740) 597-2726 Email: morrisom@ohio.edu Ph.D., Indiana Univ., Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature. |
Portuguese Teaching Assistants
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Anne KawabeTeaching Assistant Office: Gordy Hall 260 Phone: (740) 593-2795 Email: ak119917@ohio.edu |
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Vinicius Ramos MafraTeaching Assistant Office: Gordy Hall 260 Phone: (740) 593-2795 Email: vm781919@ohio.edu |
Russian Faculty
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Tetyana DovbnyaVisiting Assistant Professor Office: Gordy Hall 240 Phone: (740) 597-2727 Email: dovbnya@ohio.edu |
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Mila ShevchenkoAssociate Professor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 329 Phone: (740) 593-0856 Email: shevchen@ohio.edu Ph. D.,The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her primary area of specialization is 19th-c. Russian drama. Her research interests include drama and melodrama, theories of space and spatial form; Slavic literatures and culture, and discourses of liminality. Mila Shevchenko has taught all levels of Russian language courses, courses in Russian Drama, Cultural History of Russia, 19th-c. Russian literature, Russian Novel, Russian Revolution in History and Literature, Soviet Literature, and Contemporary East European Film, Drama, and Short Fiction. |
Spanish Faculty
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Emilia Alonso SameñoProfessor Office: Gordy Hall 247 Phone: (740) 593-2826 Email: markse@ohio.edu Ph.D., U of Seville. Second Language Acquisition & Methodology; Phonology. |
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Matthew BarrileOnline Curricular Designer and Assistant Professor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 246 Phone: (740) 593-2778 Email: mbarrile@ohio.edu Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Iberian studies, 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature, 19th and 20th-century Portuguese literature, Galdós studies, Sephardic studies, instructional design |
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José Delgado-CostaProfessor Office: Gordy Hall 251 Phone: (740) 593-9171 Email: delgadoj@ohio.edu Ph.D. University of Virginia. Twentieth-Century Latin American literature, the Caribbean, creative writing and theater |
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Melissa FigueroaAssistant Professor Office: Gordy Hall 275 Phone: (740) 593-2767 Email: figuerom@ohio.edu Ph.D., Cornell University. Early Modern Spanish Literature, Theater, Muslims in Spain |
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Muriel GallegoAssociate Professor Office: Gordy Hall 225 Phone: (740) 593-2761 Email: gallego@ohio.edu Ph.D., Purdue University. Instructed Second Language Acquisition, Language Teaching Methodology, Sociolinguistics, Language in Contact. |
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Nelson HippolyteProfessor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 273 Phone: (740) 597-2734 Email: hippolyt@ohio.edu Ph.D., U of Pittsburgh. 20th-Century Latin American Literature; Popular Culture.Intermediate Spanish, Advanced Conversation and Composition, Culture |
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Arthur HughesAssociate Professor Office: Gordy Hall 327 Phone: (740) 593-2773 Email: hughesa@ohio.edu Ph.D., Arizona State University. Contemporary Spanish Literature, Latin American (Afro-Hispanic) Literature, Literary Theory (Cultural, Gay and Lesbian, Film Studies). |
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Mary Jane KelleyProfessor – Retired Office: Gordy Hall 129 Phone: (740) 593-9437 Email: kelley@ohio.edu Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Medieval Spanish Literature. |
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Amado LáscarAssociate Professor Office: Gordy Hall 229 Phone: (740)597-2724 Email: lascar@ohio.edu Ph.D., University of Oregon. Latin American poetry and novel. |
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Dave LawrenceInstructor Office: Gordy Hall 242 Phone: (740) 597-2728 Email: lawrend@ohio.edu M.A., Ohio University |
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Joanna MitchellAssociate Professor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 331 Phone: (740) 593-2791 Email: mitchej2@ohio.edu Ph.D., U of Rochester. Comparative Literature. Spanish and Latin American Literature; Mexican Literature. Beginning and Intermediate Spanish. |
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Betsy PartykaAssociate Professor, Director of Spanish Honors Tutorial Program Office: Gordy Hall 279 Phone: (740) 593-4582 Email: partyka@ohio.edu Ph.D., U of Oxford, England. 20th-Century Spanish-American Literature, Oral Narrative & Folklore. |
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Maria PostigoAssistant Professor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 244 Phone: (740) 597-2729 Email: postigo@ohio.edu Ph.D., U of Valladolid, Spain. Translation & Interpreting Studies, Applied Linguistics & Cinema. Intermediate Spanish |
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Anne ScottProfessor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 244 Phone: (740) 597-2729 Email: scotta2@ohio.edu |
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Daniel TorresProfessor Office: Gordy Hall 263 Phone: (740) 593-2769 Email: torres@ohio.edu Ph.D., U of Cincinnati. Colonial & Contemporary Spanish-American Poetry, Literary Theory. |
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Carisa TrappAssociate Professor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 269 Phone: (740) 593-2811 Email: trappc@ohio.edu M.A., Miami University. Intermediate Spanish, Advanced Conversation and Composition. |
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Fer VallejoInstructor Gordy Hall 245 Phone: (740) 597-2735 Email: vallejo@ohio.edu |
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Keith WoodallAssociate Professor of Instruction Office: Gordy Hall 233 Phone: (740) 593-2763 Email: woodall@ohio.edu M.A., Texas Tech University. 19th and 20th century Latin American and Peninsular literature. Intermediate Spanish, Advanced Conversation and Composition |
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Emiley AdamsInstructor Office: Gordy Hall 257 Phone: (740) 597-2731 Email: ea209914@ohio.edu M.A., Ohio University |
Spanish Teaching Assistants
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Alyssa KingTeaching Assistant Email: ak309413@ohio.edu
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Guillermo Lira ContrerasTeaching Assistant Email: gl752420@ohio.edu |
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María José VélezTeaching Assistant Email: mv366420@ohio.edu |
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Juanita Eslava BejaranoTeaching Assistant Email: je152720@ohio.edu
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Paige WilsonTeaching Assistant Email: pw049314@ohio.edu |
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Tristan DonohoeTeaching Assistant Email: td788515@ohio.edu |
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Jafet Aurora Ix CaamalTeaching Assistant Email: ji449418@ohio.edu |
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Carolina BonanseaTeaching Assistant Email: cb247919@ohio.edu
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Francisco Alberto Cabre VasquezTeaching Assistant Email: fc017619@ohio.edu
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Jeff YoderTeaching Assistant Email: jy239219@ohio.edu
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Ramon MartinezTeaching Assistant Email: rm657618@ohio.edu
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Isaiah O’BryonTeaching Assistant Email: ib054813@ohio.edu
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Margaret SaineTeaching Assistant Email: ms970615@ohio.edu
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