Sabine Davis
Clinic Associate Professor of French (M.A. in English / Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), Oklahoma State University 1995; Teaching Certificate with
Endorsements in French, German and English as a Second Language, Washington State University 1999) Her research interests are Second Language
Acquisition and descriptive linguistics of French.
Eloy R. González Argüelles
Professor of Spanish (Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1974) His research interests include the Spanish Renaissance and Baroque literature
and culture. He has published and given conference presentations on diverse texts of the Early Modern Spanish period, such as the
Amads de
Gaula and a book (Scripta Humanistica, 2001) on
The Exploits of Esplandin (Las Sergas de Esplandin ). He has also written on
Don
Quijote, the
Abencerraje and
Cfalo y Pocris, a
comedia burlesca attributed to Caldern. He is currently at work on a
study of the burlesque erotic poems of the period.
Joan Grenier-Winther
Professor of French (Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park 1991) Her research is centered on editing the lyric poetry of late medieval French knights (14th and 15th centuries), including a critical edition of the works of Jean de Werchin, snchal de Hainaut (Montreal: Editions CERES, 1996) and of the 14th c. Savoyard knight, Oton de Granson (Paris: Editions Honor Champion, 2008). She is also preparing an online edition of the anonymous late medieval poem, "La Belle dame qui eut
mercy."
Rachel J. Halverson
Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Texas 1989) During her academic career she has studied and conducted research frequently in Germany. She specializes in post-war and post-Wende German literature and culture and has published a book on the
Historikerstreit and the works of Siegfried Lenz, as well as articles and book chapters on publications by Jurek Becker, Thomas Brussig, Gnter de Bruyn, Wolfgang Hilbig, Tobias Hlswitt, Judith Kuckart, and Hanna Johansen. She currently is
working on the interplay between narrative strategies and identity in autobiographies published by East German authors following the
Wende. As a member of the Goethe-Institut
Trainernetzwerk, she presents interactive pedagogical workshops at state, regional, and national conferences. At this time she is serving a three-year term as Presiding Officer of the Chapter Presidents on the Executive Committee of the American Association of Teachers of German.
Birgitta Ingemanson
Associate Professor of Russian (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1975) Her research interests include cultural topics that border on history, e.g.
travel literature, the work of socialist women, and Ingmar Bergman's film scripts. Starting in 1987, she helped organize the exchange program
between WSU and Far Eastern State University in Vladivostok (in the Russian Far East), and visited this city for the first time in April 1990.
She has given lectures at Far Eastern State University and the regional history museum, as well as worked during a professional leave at the
Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Division. She has published several articles on the culture and history of
Vladivostok, and is currently engaged in a huge book project involving the transcribing and editing of more than 20,000 pages of letters written
there between 1894 and 1930 by an American woman, Eleanor L. Pray.
Christopher Lupke
Assistant Professor of Chinese (Ph.D. Cornell University 1993) His research interests include modern Chinese literature, film and cultural
studies. His edited volume of essays entitled
The Magnitude of Ming: Essays on Command, Alottment, Life and Fate in Chinese Culture is due
out from the University of Hawai'i Press. He recently has finished a scholarly translation of Peng Ge's novel
Setting Moon that includes a
survey of Chinese literature from the 1950s in Taiwan and several appendixes on the Peking Opera, critical reception of the novel and
correspondences. Having taught several summers in the Cornell FALCON and Middlebury Chinese Programs, Prof. Lupke also has a scholarly interest
in Chinese language pedagogy.
Francisco Manzo-Robledo
Assistant Professor of Spanish (Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1997.) His research interests include the Spanish Latin American literature,
cinema and culture. He has published and given conference presentations on diverse literature texts from Latin America and Spain, as well as
cinema from Latin America. He has also written a short novel and a book on Mexican literature (Luis Spota and Jos Revueltas). He is currently at
work on a study of the representation of women in the cinema of the Mexican Wars.
Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi
Associate Professor of Spanish and Graduate Studies Advisor. (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, 1989) Her research interests include
Contemporary Latin American Literature, Film and Culture; and Spanish Film and Culture. She has published and lectured internationally on film
and literature, theater, and hybrid genre topics.
Lisa McMullen
Finance & Personnel Manager-DFLC/Employee Relations Manager-CLA. (MBA Willamette University 2003; PHR Certification 2006; BA Washington State University 1996) Her research interests include Organizational Audit, Merit-Based Evaluation/Compensation Systems, Conflict/Dispute Resolution, Labor Law, Organizational Culture/Climate, Organizational Behavior/Change, and Leadership.
William Puck Brecher
Assistant Professor of Japanese (Ph.D. University of Southern California, 2005). His recent research interests span the early modern and modern periods and include Japanese thought, aesthetics, literature, urban history, art history, environmental sustainability, and language pedagogy. Currently he is working on a monograph on changing notions of eccentricity among literati in early modern Japan.
Mike Hubert
Assistant Professor of Spanish (Ph.D. Purdue University, 2008). His general areas of research interest include second language acquisition, general Spanish linguistics, and
translation studies. His primary research interests lie within the scope of second language acquisition studies, with special emphasis on language production. His
dissertation (May 2008) investigated the relationship between speaking and writing proficiencies among U.S. university Spanish language students, and this topic continues
to guide much of his current research. He is also working to develop an autonomous theory of foreign language writing, since U.S. high school and university foreign
language teaching currently has no writing theories of its own.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels
Assistant Professor of Spanish (BA in Philosophy, 1987, Universidad Catlica de Valparaso; MA in Social Sciences, 1996, ILADES and Universit Gregoriana di Roma; MA and PhD in Spanish, 1998/2003, University of Connecticut). Her field of study is Twentieth-Century Peninsular Spanish Literature, Film, and Culture. Her research interests bridge the fields of Literature, Philosophy, Social Sciences and Film Studies. One of her main lines of research dwells on History and its representations
in narrative, drama, and cinema. She is interested in discussing the validity of what we call Official History, its mythification as well as its oblivion, either in works whose plots and characters directly resort to historic events or in which we find the loss of memory. In both cases, the reader can perceive a gap between the official version of History and the possibility of interpreting the past through the creation of many new meanings. Manipulation and idealization of the past,
parallelism between private and national history, restoration of historical personages, and amnesia are different ways to argue against the idea of a monolithic Spanish History. A second area of research interest that she has developed has to do with the representation of Spanish identity in the Post-Francoist Peninsular Spanish Literature and Film, especially focused on social problems related to the idea of discrimination against any kind of Otherness: African immigrants, homeless
people, women, transvestites, drug-addicts, the elderly, etc. She has published on Peninsular Spanish novel, short fiction, film, and theater.
Joshua Bonzo
Clinical Assistant Professor of German. (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2005). His research interests focus primarily on foreign language writing, and how output is influenced both autonomously as well as by instructional convention. His studies include extensive backgrounds in second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy. He is also deeply interested in comparative and historical Germanic linguistics. Dr. Bonzo is currently working on the development of an index he
created for more accurately measuring writing complexity among intermediate German students.
Chai Jie
Visiting assistant professor of Chinese (Ph. D., University of California, Riverside, 2008). Jie Chais research interests include classical Chinese Literature (poetry and
poetics), comparative studies, Classics (Greek), poetry and painting. She is currently working on a project of expressions of the self in womens poetry of Early Imperial
China.
