WLC | Faculty Research Interests

Jorge Ata
Latin American studies, cross-cultural studies, and international studies

Lilian Baeza-Mendoza
The use of media as a language learning tool and learning disabilities in the language classroom

Naomi Baron
Student usage and attitudes towards mobile phones in Sweden, the US, Japan, and Korea

George Berg
Empirical research in applied linguistics with a focus on the development of communicative-based teaching materials for students of Arabic

Ranieri Moore Cavaceppi
Sixteenth century Italian Hospitaller Knights and twentieth century literature and modern cinema

Luis Cerezo
Empirical research methods with audiovisual technology for second language learning.

Usasi Chatterjee
Literature and cinema of Quebec and modern French and German poetry.

Naima Hachad
North African literature and cultural productions.

Shaghaf Hazimeh Glueck
Teaching, speaking and using authentic material in teaching foreign languages

Consuelo Hernandez
Latin American poetry, Colombian and Central American studies, Afro-Latin American culture and music

Esther Holtermann
Immigration and the Latino community

Alina Israel
Russian linguistics and literature

Elizabeth Lang
Political, economic, social and cultural issues in Francophone Africa and international development

Yvonne-Marie Mokam
Francophone writers from Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa, issues of exile, migration, hybridity, transnational culture, and postcolonial condition.

Erez Naaman
Arabic language, literature, and culture in the medieval and Pre-Modern Islamic world.

Amy Oliver
Marginality, feminism, nepantlismo, and transfronterismo in Latin America

William Quirk
German, English, and French literature from the Romanticism to the present.

Daniele Rodamar
16th and 17th century French literature, the history of ideas, international studies, and language teaching and methodology

Olga Rojer
Marginalized literature of the German speaking exile in Latin America

Ana Serra
Intersection between culture and political identity in Cuba, radical politics in Latin America, cultural relations between Spain and the Caribbean, and the make-up of cities and cultural representation

Younghee Sheen
Instructed second language acquisition, in particular, the role of form-focused instruction and corrective feedback in language learning

Kristi Velleman
Language and linguistics and cultural studies, particularly the impact and evolution of dance in Hispanic societies

Nuria Vilanova
Impact of migration on cultural production and narratives of violence and poverty.

Brenda Werth
Professor Werth specializes in contemporary Latin American Theatre. Her areas of interest include performance, memory studies, documentary theatre, and film. She teaches courses on diverse aspects of the Southern Cone, including Postdictatorial literature, performance, and human rights.

Noriko Williams
Japanese phonology, Japanese language pedagogy and material preparations, Kanji study

Svetlana Xu
Philosophy, literature, culture, and communication. 

Xiaoquan Zhang
Literature and culture of late imperial China.