Sabine Davis
French Instructor (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
Associate 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 Amadís de
Gaula and a book (Scripta Humanistica, 2001) on The Exploits of Esplandián (Las Sergas de Esplandián ). He has also written on Don
Quijote, the Abencerraje and Céfalo y Pocris, a comedia burlesca attributed to Calderón. He is currently at work on a
study of the burlesque erotic poems of the period.
Joan Grenier-Winther
Associate 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). More specifically, she has prepared critical editions of the works of Jean de Werchin,
sénéchal de Hainaut (Montreal: Editions CERES, 1996) and is currently finishing an edition of the complete works of Oton de Granson (anticipated
submission for publication in June 2002). She is also involved in preparing an online edition of the poems in the cycle of "La Belle dans sans
mercy" (The Beautiful Lady without mercy), a corpus of roughly twenty poems written on this theme during the late Middle Ages. A prototype of
this e-edition may be viewed at http://www.innoved.org/belledame. Most recently, Professor
Grenier-Winther received a $750 WSU International Programs Mini-Grant to support attendance at a course at Laval University on
French-Canadian/Québecois culture and pedagogical methodology for teaching culture (July 2002).
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 German literature and culture and has published on the Historikerstreit, and the works of Siegfried Lenz, Jurek
Becker, and Günter de Bruyn. She is currently working on the interplay between narrative strategies and identity in autobiographies published by
East German authors following the Wende.
Elwood Hartman
Professor of French (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1969) He also obtained certificats from the Institut de Phonétique, Paris, and has done
post-doctoral work at Université de Laval, Québec, UC-Berkeley, and Stanford, as well as attended NEH Summer Seminars at Harvard with Laurence
Wylie and UC-B with Stanley Brandes. His research interests include nineteenth-century French literature, especially Romanticism and Symbolism,
as well as the comparative arts, and more recently contemporary Francophone literature of the Maghreb. His publications include 3 books, a
chapter in a book, some translations, and many articles and presentations as well as reviews of these subjects at frequent sessions at the MLA
and other American and French professional organizations.
Bernadette Hyner
Assistant Professor of German (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 2001) Dr. Hyner’s research interests include German travel literature, Romanticism,
Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit), gender studies, theory of gender, as well as gender and language. Dr. Hyner is currently building on her
interest in women’s perspectives on physical and cognitive relocation. In the near future, she will present close readings of texts written by
forgotten authors of the eighteenth century such as Eleonore Thon and Elisa von der Recke.
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 José 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
Administrative Manager. (B.A. Washington State University 1996; MBA in progress at Washington State University,
2001-Present) Her research interests include Climate at WSU for Staff, Conflict/Dispute Resolution, Labor Law, Negotiation/Mediation,
Organizational Behavior/Change, and Leadership.
