Amber Crawford, Ph.D.
Teaching Asst 2
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Office: MH 4.02.68
Office hours: MW 1:00-2:00PM or by appt.
Daniela Hernandez, M.A.
Teaching Asst 2
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Office: MH 4.02.68
Office hours: TR 12:00-1:00PM
Maria Coreno, M.A.
Teaching Asst 2
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Office hours: TR 12:00-2:00PM
Sara Budarz, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, German
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Office: MH 4.02.06
Office hours: M 12:00-2:00PM W 12:00-1:00PM
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Biography
Dr. Budarz braved the Texas heat (and faced her fear of cacti) to join the faculty of the Modern Language Department at UTSA in the fall of 2016, coming from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from where she received her PhD in German Languages and Literatures and was subsequently a faculty member. Originally from the gorgeously picturesque town of Königstein im Taunus near Frankfurt, she returns to Germany for work and to see family and friends as often as possible. In recent years, she spent time abroad in Berlin on a research fellowship, and calls the city home during the summer months. At UTSA, she designed and launched a much-beloved summer study abroad program to Berlin in 2017, which will be offered again in the summer of 2018 and 2020. A lover of languages, travel, and adventure, she has also lived in Barcelona, Spain, conducting research (and unofficially searching for the best café con leche in town.) Aside from Frankfurt and Berlin, she has also lived in many other cities in Germany, ranging from the moody, beautiful northern city of Kiel to the carefree, castle-dominated college town of Heidelberg. That is to say, if you have any questions about study abroad, or simply want to talk about how to craft a great travel itinerary, come talk to her.
There are few things she loves more than talking about future travel plans, which might explain why in the Spring 2018 semester, she will be offering a literature course (online, all readings & discussions in English) that focuses on travel narratives and the idea of a great adventure and how travel shapes our lives. The course, Embarking on the Grand Adventure: Travel in Literature in Film, can be found under GER 2333, GER 4003, or CSH 3023.
Dr. Budarz’s research focuses on modernist literature, specializing in the literature of the Weimar Republic. Her interest lies in examining the interplay and impact of changes in architecture and design on an individual’s physiological wellbeing and ability to exert influence over the space. Her research therefore draws heavily on spatial and gender theory. She is particularly interested in the production of interior space and how changes in the design of homes and offices led to a displacement and disempowerment of women. An ongoing fascination with urban space, along with her deep love of all things Berlin, continues to lead to new areas of interest as well, including German-Turkish documentary films and 21st-century, post-reunification literature and Street Art.
As a teacher, she has taught across the curriculum, with courses ranging from introductory German language courses to upper-level content-based courses, including a literature course that spanned from Martin Luther to the present. She has also taught at Middlebury’s German Summer School immersion program in Vermont and in the Gender Studies department at UNC-CH. At UTSA, she teaches language, content, and interdisciplinary courses.
She is also deeply interested and invested in second-language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy, and is currently co-authoring a new edition of Weiter geht’s! for the intermediate language classroom along with colleagues at UNC-CH and Hope College, which is slated to be published in Fall 2019.
On Wednesday afternoons during the semesters, she also hosts Kaffeestunde, an informal get-together that allows students to wind down from the busy week, drink (free!) coffee, eat baked goods, and practice their German. During the spring semester, it takes place from 2-3pm on Wednesdays in MH 4.02.04.
Dr. Budarz can be reached via email or found on Instagram.
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2014)
- M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2009)
- B.A., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2003)
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Recent Courses
- The Grand Adventure: Travel in Literature and Film, a comparative literature course that explores the call of the road and what elements make a journey worthy of retelling. Taught online. Spring 2018.
- Hitting the Mark: Decision Making (In)Action, an interdisciplinary, comparative literature course with a focus on analyzing moments of crisis and decision making in literature and film, from ancient to modern texts. Fall 2017.
- Berlin: Europe's Capital of Cool, an interdisciplinary course focusing on the history, architecture, and literature of Berlin from 1920-present. Spring 2017.
- German 2024, a fourth-semester intermediate language class. Spring Semesters.
- German 2013, a third-semester intermediate language class. Fall Semesters.
- German 1024, a second-semester introductory language class. Spring Semesters.
- German 1014, a first-semester introductory language class. Fall Semesters.
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Research in Progress
Research Interests:
- 20th- and 21st-Century Literature
- Modernism
- New Objectivity
- Literature of the Weimar Republic
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Spatial and Sound Theory
- Architecture and Urban Space
- Film, Queen Cinema, and Documentary Studies
- Street Art
- Transcultural Studies
- Second Language Acquisition
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Recent Publications
Publications:
- Co-author of the upcoming 2nd and fully revised edition of Weiter geht’s Intermediate German Language and Culture. Evia Publishing, forthcoming.
- Content author for 3rd edition of Auf geht’s Beginning German Language and Culture. Evia Publishing, 2016.
Book Reviews:
- Irmgard Keun: Zeit und Zitat. Narrative Verfahren und literarische Autorschaft im Gesamtwerk (2014) by Beate Kennedy. In: German Studies Review (forthcoming).
Presentations:
- "Bringing the Digital Humanities into the Language Classroom." American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: Nashville, TN. Nov 2017.
- "Isolation as Perfection? Towards a Working Definition of Heimat in Timm's Vogelweide." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference: Baltimore, MD. May 2017.
- “Condemning Berlin’s Streets: Situating Violence in Aysun Bademsoy’s Ehre.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference: Lexington, KY. Apr 2015.
- “Zeichen an der Wand: Graffiti und Straßenkunst in Berlin.” Duke University Auf Deutsch, bitte! Lecture Series: Durham, NC. Nov 2014.
- “Hurting [My]Self: Self-Violence in Weimar Literature.” German Studies Association Annual Conference: Denver, CO. October 2013.
- “When ‘Coming Home’ Means Nothing: The Impact of Design Movements on the Notion of the Home in Weimar Literature.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference: Boston, MA. March 2013.
- “At Home? An Investigation into Interior Spaces in 1920s Berlin.” Carolina-Duke Works in Progress Symposium: Durham, NC. December 2012.
Ashley (Ying) Li, Ph.D.
Lecturer II, Chinese
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Office hours: via email
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Biography
Dr. Ying (Ashley) Li is a Chinese Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). She earned a B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and a M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and a minor in Chinese folk culture studies from the School of Chinese Language and Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University, one of China’s leading institutions in the field of foreign language teaching. She holds a Ph.D. in Culture, Literacy, and Language from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Dr. Li has more than 15 years of teaching experience working with K-16 learners and adult learners in China and the United States. In China, she worked with various Chinese language programs, such include IES Abroad, Confucius Institute Headquarters, and the Lauder Institute’s Chinese Language Immersion Program in Beijing. She also taught Chinese in the Business degree-oriented Chinese program, and in various types of language immersion programs at Beijing Foreign Studies University. In the United States, she held several administrative positions and taught heritage and non-heritage students in the Confucius Institute after-school program at UTSA from 2011 to 2014.
Aside from her teaching responsibilities, she has taken on numerous professional and leadership roles. In 2013, she served on the organizing committee for the 15th annual Texas Foreign Language Education Conference (TexFLEC) at the University of Texas at Austin as well as for the Confucius Institute and Localization Development Symposium at UTSA. She currently serves as the faculty advisor for three UTSA student organizations: UTSA Chinese Language and Culture Club (visit us on Facebook), UTSA Alpha Sigma Rho (visit us on Facebook), and UTSA Vietnamese Student Association (visit us on Facebook). In 2015, she established UTSA Chinese Calligraphy Workshop where she regularly holds calligraphy sessions for UTSA students and the general public (visit us on Facebook).
As an active scholar, Dr. Li has presented at the state, national, and international level, and has published several book chapters and peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in the Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America, and Research on the Development of Confucius Institute. She is a member of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (USA), Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas, Chinese Historical Society of America, and American Society of Shufa Calligraphy Education. Given her commitment to teaching, research, and service, she was recently featured as a “Meet a Roadrunner” on UTSA Today.
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Recent Courses
CHN1014 - Elementary Chinese I
CHN1024 - Elementary Chinese II
CHN2013 - Intermediate Chinese I
CHN2023 - Intermediate Chinese II
CSH1213 - Topics in World Culture: China
CSH4003 - Colloquium: East Asian Culture
FL4953 - Special Project: Chinese Culture
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Research in Progress
Language Choice and Being Asian American in Higher Education. “This Land Is Our Land”: Chinese Pluralities Through the Americas. San Francisco, CA, 2017 (forthcoming)
Language, Culture, and Global Cultural Competence: Re-examining Chinese Textbooks for Chinese Language Learners. 2016 Annual Conference of Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas. San Antonio, TX, 2016
Cultural Representations in Chinese Language Textbooks: Re-defining Cultural Literacy in Chinese Language Teaching. Second CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning (CLTA-S2), College Park, MD, 2016
Lexical-Semantic Transfer and Strategies for Teaching and Learning Putonghua Vocabulary for Cantonese-speaking Learners. Texas Language Education Research Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2016
Cultural Representations in Chinese Literacy in the U.S. University of Alabama Language Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2016
Culture and Folklore Approaches in Teaching Chinese to K-12 Students in the Classroom. 35th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
Construction and Negotiation of Non-heritage Adult Chinese Learners’ Identity. The 2nd Chinese Teaching Conference of Confucius Institutes and Classrooms in the US and Canada, Portland, OR, 2013
Negotiating & Navigating Multiple Identities: Hmong Students' Experiences in Higher Education. The 16th Hmong National Development Conference, Fresno, CA, 2013
Diddyduz it, do u 2??? A look at language use by influential Tweeters and their followers in 2013. Binational Research Colloquium Educational Linguistics &Language Education in the 21st Century, San Antonio, Texas, 2013
They Said Whaaaat?! Expression of Age and Identity through Social Media and Use of Non- conventional Spelling. The Texas Foreign Language Education Conference (TexFLEC), Austin, Texas, 2013
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Recent Publications
Book Chapters
Li, Y. 2016. Chapter 4: Representations of Culture in Chinese language textbooks for the K-16 Chinese language learners in the U.S. Chinese Language Teaching and Learning in the United States. Beijing Language and Culture Press. Beijing, China. (forthcoming)
Li, Y. 2007. Historical changes of Bixia Goddess Temple on Miaofengshan Mountain. 2007 International Forum Proceedings for Chinese and Japanese Graduates on Chinese Linguistic and Culture. Tokyo, Japan.
Refereed Journal Articles
Li, Y. 2015. History of Chinese language education and the development of textbooks in the United States. Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America.
Zheng, C., & Li, Y. 2014. Report on Chinese teaching and learning in San Antonio, Texas USA. Research on the Development of Confucius Institute, 2(3), 84-92.
Encyclopedia Article and Entry
Li, Y., 2014. “Yin and Yang” in Encyclopedia of Asian American Religions Cultures, edited by Jonathan H. X. Lee [Greenwood/ABC-CLIO Press, 2014].
Marcela Lopez, M.A.
Lecturer II, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-7711
Office: MH 4.05.08
Office hours: MW 10:30-11:30PM
Anastasia Maltseva, M.A.
Lecturer 1, Russian
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5219
Office: MH 4.01.03
Office hours: MW 1:00-1:50PM
Deukhee Gong, Ph.D.
Lecturer 1, Korean
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5213
Office: MH 4.02.01B
Office hours: M 11:00-12:00PM
Whitney Chappell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Spanish Linguistics, Graduate Language Certificate advisor
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5223
Office: MH 4.01.10
Research area: Hispanic Linguistics
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Biography
Research Interests:
Hispanic linguistics, variation across dialects of Spanish, sociolinguistics, phonetics, glottal stop use in Spanish, hiatus resolution, /s/ phenomena in Spanish, the intonation/pragmatics interface, Spanish in contact with other languages, bilingualism, and second language acquisition.
Dr. Whitney Chappell works in Hispanic Linguistics, specializing in sociophonetic variation across monolingual and bilingual dialects of Spanish and languages in contact with Spanish. Her research sheds light on how different phonetic realizations are used to encode meaning and negotiate identity within a broader social setting, contributing to our understanding of sociolinguistics, phonetics, and dialectology.
Chappell's research attempts to bridge the gap between phonetics and sociolinguistics by wedding linguistic theory with concrete, contextual realizations. Her work therefore addresses the following broad research questions: (i) Where does the phonetic variation occur and how can it be couched within linguistic theory to account for the phenomenon? (ii) How do phonetic realizations encode social meaning? (iii) What social meaning is encoded and how does it differ across social groups and dialects? The pursuit of these questions expands our current understanding of why variation occurs and how variation and meaning interact to index social affiliation.
In her dissertation, Chappell focuses on Nicaraguan Spanish speakers' use of the glottal stop, i.e. the glottal closure found in English between the vowels in uh-oh, used in Nicaraguan Spanish between vowels at the word boundary for /s/, e.g. las olas as [laʔ ola]. It is the first study to offer a systematic analysis of the regional realization and explain both its social meaning and phonetic motivation. In addition to the glottal stop, Chappell's published work has explored the production and perception of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Ecuadorian and Costa Rican Spanish, /s/ aspiration in bilingual Miskitu communities, rhotacism of /s/ in Spanish-Catalan contact varieties, and the relationship between pragmatic meaning and intonational contours in Nicaraguan Spanish, among other topics. She is currently investigating heritage Spanish speakers' sociophonetic perception to determine if heritage speakers connect phonetic variants with social meaning in the same way that native Spanish speakers do, which will elucidate the connection between linguistic and social information in the mind based on language experience.
Degrees
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Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus (2013)
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M.A., Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (2009)
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B.A., The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2006)
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Recent Courses
Graduate and upper-level linguistics classes
Spanish 4113/5943, Language and Identity, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Spring 2015.
Spanish 4113, Spanish in Contact with Other Languages, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Fall 2013/2015.
Spanish 4113/Linguistics 3883, Sociolinguistics, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Spring 2014/2016.
Spanish 4113/Linguistics 4013, Language and Gender, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Fall 2014.
Spanish 3113, Linguistic Structures of Spanish, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Spring 2014/2015/2016.
Spanish 3013, Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Fall 2013/2014/2015.
Spanish 401, Advanced Spanish Grammar, The Ohio State University. Winter 2012.
Lower-level language classes
Spanish 103, Intermediate Spanish I, The Ohio State University. Spring 2012.
Spanish 102.66, Intensive Spanish for Review, The Ohio State University. Fall 2011.Composition classes
English 104, Rhetoric and Composition II, Northern Illinois University. Two classes, Spring 2009.
English 103, Rhetoric and Composition I, Northern Illinois University. Fall 2008.
Global studies classes
LAS 102, Global Studies, University of Illinois. Spring 2006.
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Research in Progress
Chappell, Whitney. Under review. “Actitudes lingüísticas de los misquitos en un entorno multicultural y multilingüe siempre en desarrollo.” Manuscript submitted for publication.
Chappell, Whitney. Under review. “Rate of speech or attention to speech?: A qualification about coarticulation.” Manuscript submitted for publication.
Chappell, Whitney. Under review. “The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies.” Manuscript submitted for publication.
Chappell, Whitney. In prep. “Svarabhakti vowel perception among native, heritage, and L2 Spanish speakers.” Manuscript in preparation to be submitted for publication.
Chappell, Whitney. In prep. “Costa Rican Spanish speakers’ phonetic discrimination of intervocalic [s] and [z].” Manuscript in preparation to be submitted for publication.
Chappell, Whitney. In prep. "En esta petsa, este anio: The Spanish sound system in contact with Miskitu." Invited chapter for Spanish Phonetics/Phonology in Contact.
Chappell, Whitney and Christina García. In prep. “Factors conditioning /s/ voicing in Costa Rica Spanish.” Manuscript in preparation to be submitted for publication.
Chappell, Whitney and Francisco Martínez Ibarra. In prep. “Intervocalic [z] in Valencian Spanish: Contact feature or language-internal change?” Manuscript in preparation to be submitted for publication.
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Recent Publications
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Chappell, Whitney. In press. “Bilingualism & aspiration: Coda /s/ reduction on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.” To appear in Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis. [In the Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics series].
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Chappell, Whitney and Francisco Martínez Ibarra. In press. “Rhotacism of /s/ in Elche Spanish: Social and linguistic factors conditioning the variant.” To appear in Contemporary Studies on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of Spanish Variation. [In the Theoretical Developments in Hispanic Linguistics series].
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Chappell, Whitney. In press. “On the social perception of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish.” To appear in Language Variation and Change.
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Chappell, Whitney. In press. “On Spanglish: Denominator of Linguistic Hybridity or Sociocultural Identity?” To appear in Hispania.
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Chappell, Whitney. 2015. “Linguistic factors conditioning glottal constriction in Nicaraguan Spanish.” Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica 27(2): 1-42
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Chappell, Whitney. 2015. “Formality strategies in Managua, Nicaragua: A local vs. global approach.” Spanish in Context. 12(2): 221-254.
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Chappell, Whitney. 2014. “Reanalyses and hypercorrection among extreme /s/-reducers.” University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 20: Iss. 2, Article 5. Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol20/iss2/5
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Chappell, Whitney. 2013. “Intonational Contours of Nicaraguan Granadino Spanish in Absolute Questions and Their Relationship with Pragmatic Meaning.” In Selected Proceedings of the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Chad Howe et al., 119-139. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com, document #2880.
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Chappell, Whitney. 2011. “The Intervocalic Voicing of /s/ in Ecuadorian Spanish.” In Selected Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Jim Michnowicz and Robin Dodsworth, 57-64. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com, document #250.
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Chappell, Whitney. Accepted for publication. [Financial issues have delayed publication]. “Los bajamientos vocálicos en el quechua ancashino: Un análisis fonético y fonológico.” Por los senderos de las lenguas en Ancash: Pasado, presente y futuro del Quechua. Lima-Huaraz: CILA-UNMSM and UNASAM.
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Melissa Wallace, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Translation and Interpreting Studies; Graduate Advisor of Record
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5217
Office: MH 4.01.08
Office hours: T 1:00-4:00PM or by appt.
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Biography
Melissa Wallace received her Ph.D. in translation and interpreting studies from the Universidad de Alicante, Spain. A certified court interpreter and certified healthcare interpreter, Wallace served two terms as an appointed member of the state Supreme Court Committee to Improve Translation and Interpreting in Wisconsin Courts and has just begun a 5-year term on the Licensed Court Interpreter Advisory Board of the Judicial Branch Certification Commission for the Supreme Court of Texas. She is an active appointed member of the Standards and Training Committee of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC), and is co-lead on the Webinars Work Group of the NCIHC’s Home for Trainers initiative. She is a former member of the Executive Board of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association and chair of the Advisory Council of Voice of Love, a U.S.-based nonprofit that develops training and resources to support interpreting for survivors of torture, war trauma and sexual violence.
Her research focuses on indicators of aptitude on court interpreter certification exams, interpreter and translator training, and policy innovations as language access activism. She has presented her research in the United States and abroad, including to the Qualitas research group, a project funded by the Department of Justice of the European Commission which aims at providing a roadmap for the development of valid and reliable certification procedures for judicial and police interpreters for all EU member states.
Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio where she directs the graduate certificate program in translation studies.
Wallace has been granted a Fulbright to teach and conduct research in court interpreting at the University of Tampere, Finland, beginning in January 2016.
Degrees
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Ph.D., Translation and Interpreting, Universidad de Alicante, Spain (2012)
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B.A., Spanish and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin (1989)
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Recent Courses
FL 3003 Introduction to Translation and Interpreting
SPN 6083 Theory and Practice of Translation
SPN 6973 Interpreting in Legal Settings
MES 3113 Film Studies
FL 5043 Principles of Translation
SPN 5023 Writing and Editing in Spanish
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Research in Progress
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(Tentative title) Language Access Compliance in Texas Courts: An Environmental Scan. This project and consists of an environmental scan of compliance with language access legislation in Texas Courts. It will be based on a survey administered to 3000 Texas judges to get a snapshot of how, when and if spoken language interpreters are provided in court proceedings at all levels. A complementary survey might explore experiences from the perspective of LCIs (Licensed Court Interpreters) who practice in the state. The overarching goal of the study would be to discover deficiencies in the provision of spoken-language interpreters in Texas courts and to use that information to inform future statutory changes in the next legislative session. The Office of Court Administration and the Judicial Branch Certification Commission have expressed strong interest in supporting the study.
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(Tentative title) The Development of National Standards for US Court Interpreter Training Programs. This project will develop a roadmap for the drafting of a research-driven set of national standards of training for court interpreter programs, with specific recommendations on the teaching and learning required for interpreters entering into practice. The model will be correlated with the knowledge, skills and abilities already tested on two of the US’s extant psychometrically-normed certification exams. In collaboration with the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators, Wallace intends to carry out focus groups, national surveys, empanel an advisory board, and gather a group of subject matter experts in order to execute the roadmap and develop specific findings which will meet the needs of the judiciary by addressing program content standards, instructional methods standards, and programmatic standards.
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(Fulbright project) The Transposition of Directive 2010/64/EU and its Impact on University-Level Court Interpreter Training. The objectives of this research project are to critically examine recent changes in university-level training of legal interpreters at the University of Tampere in light of Directive/2010/64/EU. Tampere is one of six Finnish universities that have introduced a novel approach to university-level training for court interpreters by having reconceptualized the Principles of Authorised Translation course and by opening it up to active professional members of the Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters, or SKTL. The results of this project will produce meaningful research, improve and enhance teaching, and meet the Fulbright program's vision of public diplomacy and the cultivation of international friendship.
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Recent Publications
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In press (Spring 2015) “Access and Protection: Civil Court Remedies for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Current State of Free Language Mediation in US Courts.” Proceedings of The FIRST INTERNATIONAL SOS-VICS CONFERENCE: Building communication bridges in gender violence at the University of Vigo, Spain, on the 25th and 26th September, 2014.
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“A further call to action: Training as a policy issue in court interpreting.” Monzó Nebot, E. & L. Cheng (eds.) Special issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Volume 9, Number 2, June 2015. Routledge.
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“Current Dilemmas in Court Interpreting: Improving Quality and Access through Smarter Testing and Administration Protocols.” Ortega Herráez, Juan Miguel and Catalina Iliescu (eds). MonTI Special Issue (June 2015) – Insights in Interpreting: Status and Developments.
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“Resisting Market Disorder and Ensuring Public Trust: Reimagining National Registers for Legal Interpreters in the United States and the European Union.” Blasco Mayor, María Jesús and Maribel del Pozo Triviño (eds). MonTI 7 (April 2015) – Legal Interpreting at a Turning Point. ISSN 1889-4178.
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“Team-Based Learning in Introductory Translation Courses.” Handbook of Research on Teaching Methods in Language Translation and Interpretation. Released in the Advances in Educational Technologies & Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series, IGI Global, October 2014.
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“Rethinking Bifurcated Testing Models in the Court Interpreter Certification Process.” Tsagari, D. & R. van Deemter (eds.) (March 2013). Assessment Issues in Language Translation and Interpreting. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH. (Language Testing and Evaluation Series, Vol. 29) ISBN: 978-3-631-63603-9.
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“Writing the Wrongs of Literature: The Figure of the Feminist and Post-Colonialist Translator”, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Fall 2002, Volume 35, Number 2, ISSN 0742-5562.
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Wallace obtains healthcare interpreter certification
Molly Zaldivar, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Italian
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5688
Office: MH 4.02.10
Office hours: MW 12:00-1:00PM TR 11:30-12:30PM
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Recent Courses
CSH 1113 - Lit Masterpieces W Culture II
CSH 2113 - Foreign Film: Italian
CSH 3823 - Topics: Italian Drama
ITL 1024 - Elementary Italian II
ITL 2023 - Intermediate Italian II
ITL 2043 - Begining Language-Study Abroad in Urbino Italy
Christopher Wickham, Ph.D
Professor Emeritus, German
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Office hours: via email
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Biography
Dr. Wickham received a B.A. in German and Linguistics and an M.Phil. in German from the University of Reading (UK). His doctorate was earned in German Literature at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has served on the UTSA Faculty Senate and the national executive council of the American Association of Teachers of German. He is on the editorial board of Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur. Dr. Wickham was for many years a summer faculty member at the prestigious German School at Middlebury College and leads the study abroad program UTSA in Munich. He is the author of Constructing Heimat in Postwar Germany: Longing and Belonging and is co-editor of Framing the Past: The Historiography of German Cinema and Television and "Was in den alten Büchern steht . . .": Neue Interpretationen von der Aufklärung zur Moderne. His published articles include studies on Austrian and German cinema, German poetry, dialect, regional culture, German painters, and the writer, botanist and traveler, Adelbert von Chamisso.
Degrees
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1968‑72: University of Reading, England, 1972: B.A.(Hons.) German and Linguistics
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1972‑74: University of Reading and University of Regensburg (Germany), 1974: M.Phil., German, University of Reading (with distinction)
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1976‑82: University of Wisconsin‑Madison, 1982: Ph.D., German Literature (magna cum laude)
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Recent Courses
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CSH 3823 - Tops: Germany in the 1920's
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GER 3023 - Advanced Language Skills
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Research in Progress
Research Interests:
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18th and early 19th century literature and culture
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20th century literature and culture
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Adelbert von Chamisso
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Literature and science
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Poetry
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Film
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Singer-songwriters
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Dialect literature
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Regionalism
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German artists in the U.S.
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Recent Publications
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"Representation and Mediation in Edgar Reitz' Heimat" in German Quarterly 64 (1991), pp. 35‑45.
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"The Business of Survival: Aspects of Economy in Pevny/Turrini's Alpensaga" Modern Language Studies 24:3 (Summer 1994), pp. 55-61.
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"postmodern mundart: Zum Schnubiglbaierisch des Felix Hoerburger," Rüdiger Harnisch, Anthony Rowley, Ludwig Eichinger (eds.), "...im Gefüge der Sprachen": Studien zu System und Soziologie der Dialekte. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beihefte 90 (1994), pp. 218-236. (Refereed)
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"Oil and Water: The Development of the Portrayal of Native Americans by 19th Century German Painters" Yearbook of German-American Studies 13 (1996), pp. 63-106.
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"Vom Wert der Worte: Zu Ernst Jandls 'oberflächenübersetzung'" Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 57.3 (2007), pp. 365-370.
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Mimi Yu, M.A.
Senior Lecturer, Japanese
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-8558
Office: MB 1.209
Office hours: MW 9:00-10:00 AM and by appt.
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Biography
Mimi Yu joined UTSA as a Japanese lecturer in 2008 where she also serves as the associate director for the East Asia Institute. Her areas of interest are Japanese teaching pedagogy and instructional technology. Prior to joining UTSA, Yu taught Japanese at the University of Nevada, Reno for almost 20 years and won the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award within the College of Liberal Arts. Because of her involvement in promoting Asia-related programs both at UTSA and in the S.A. community, she recently received DiversityFirst Award given by the Texas Diversity Council. In addition, Yu recently received UTSA President’s Distinguished Diversity Award for promoting diversity and inclusion in creative and collaborative ways.
Degrees
M.A. in Japanese Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989)
B.A. in Japanese Studies, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan (1986)
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Recent Courses
JPN 1024 - Elementary Japanese II
Gilberta Turner, M.A.
Lecturer I, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-8326
Office: MH 4.02.12
Office hours: T 10:00-11:00 AM TR 2:30-3:30PM
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Biography
Gilberta Turner is a native of Spain where she was involved in the teaching of languages (Spanish, French and English) as a volunteer in the American schools of Spain, Italy, and Germany from 1985 to 1997. She has been teaching at UTSA for ten years, five as a Teaching Assistant and the last five as Lecturer. She teaches Elementary Spanish I and II but has also taught Hispanic literature and oral communication. In 2010 she created a new course never before offered at UTSA, Zarzuela (Spanish operetta). In 1980 she independently published her book of poems in Spanish and English, My thoughts.
She is a member of the Spanish Cultural and Historical Society and docents at the Spanish Governor’s Palace of San Antonio. She believes that the study of languages should be more than grammar so she includes folklore in her teaching as part of what she calls “cultural moments.”
Her teaching goes further than languages. She also teaches crochet at the Northeast Independent School District of San Antonio.
She believes in voluntarism thus she is involved with several organizations of the community volunteering in different capacities. She is often invited to give presentations about her native Spanish folklore.
Degrees
- 2003. BA in Spanish. University of Texas at San Antonio, Summa Cum Laude
- 2004. Associate of Arts in Italian, University of Maryland University College
- 2007. MA in Spanish, University of Texas at San Antonio
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Recent Courses
- SPN 1024 - Elementary Spanish II
- SPN 4003 - Advanced Language Skills:Oral
- SPN 3033 - Oral Communication Skills
Michael Rushforth, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-7732
Office: MH 4.02.08
Office hours: MWF 2:00-3:00PM
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Recent Courses
LNG 3813 - Introduction To Linguistics
SPN 1024 - Elementary Spanish II
SPN 3063 - Grammar & Composition
SPN 6011 - Supervised Teaching in Spanish
Elizabeth Olvera, M.A.
Lecturer II, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-7711
Office: MH 4.05.08
Office hours: TR 10:00-11:30 AM and 5:30-6:00 PM and by appt.
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Recent Courses
SPN 1024 - Elementary Spanish II
SPN 1014 - Elementary Spanish I
Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, Ph.D.
Professor, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5214
Office: MH 4.01.20
Office hours: T 5:00-600PM R 3:00-4:00PM
Research area: Latin American and Latino syncretic religions, Afro-Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Slavic Studies
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Biography
Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba is Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. She specializes in cross-cultural, comparative research in syncretic religions, and the feminine. Among her publications are the books, Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America: Baba Yaga, Kali, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte (Palgrave 2015), The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation (UNMP 2007, 2009, 2011), and Teatro popular peruano: del precolombino al siglo XX (Warsaw University and the Austrian Institute of Latin America, 1995), as well as numerous scholarly book chapters and articles. She has lived, studied, and lectured widely around the world, and is fluent in seven languages.
Degrees
Ph.D., Latin American Literature and Culture, New York University (1991)
M.Phil., Spanish American and Brazilian Literature and Culture, New York University (1985)
Magister, Iberian and Latin American Studies, Warsaw University (1981)
M.A., Spanish and Portuguese Literature and Culture, Queens College (1981)
B.A., Romance Languages, Queens College (1979)
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Recent Courses
Recent Undergraduate Courses
SPN 4303 Topics in Hispanic Cultures: La narcocultura
SPN 4303 Topics in Hispanic Cultures: Popular Religions of Latin America
SPN 4203 Topics in Hispanic Lits: The Fantastic and the Marvelous in Latin American Fiction
SPN 3463 Latin American Literature to Modernism
SPN 3473 Latin American Literature since Modernism
SPN 3623 Latin American Culture and Civilization
SPN 3043 Introduction to LiteratureSPN 4203 Topics in Hispanic Literatures: Women Writers of Latin America
WS 3953 Special Topics in Women Writers
WS 3713 Special Topics in Women’s Studies
SPN 2333 Hispanic Literature in English Translation
Recent Graduate CoursesSPN 5483 Studies in Hispanic Culture: La narcocultura
SPN 5813 Studies in Hispanic Literature: Women Writers of Latin America
AmericaSPN 5483 Studies in Hispanic Culture: Popular Religions of Latin America
SPN 5813 Studies in Hispanic Lit: The Fantastic and the Marvelous in Latin American Fiction
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Research in Progress
Research in Progress
“Continuity of Feminine Symbolism in Popular Art from Prehistory to the Present.” Manuscript in progress
“Baba Yaga: An Eastern European Liminal Deity.” She Is Everywhere! Vol.4. 10 ms. pages. Accepted for publication.
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Recent Publications
Recent Publications
Books
Fierce Feminine Divinities from Eurasia and Latin America: Baba Yaga, Ka̅li̅, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Hardcover (204 pages, 40 halftones; Ebook, 204 pages, 40 halftones)
The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 2011. Electronic edition (246 pages, 140 halftones, 15 color plates)
The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 2009. Paperback edition, revised (246 pages, 140 halftones, 15 color plates)
The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Hardcover (246 pages, 140 halftones, 15 color plates)
Book Chapters“Sara-La-Kâli y las vírgenes negras/ Sara-La-Kâli e as virxes negras/ Sara-La-Kâli et les vierges noires.” Les gens du Chemin. Peregrinación a Saintes Maries de la Mer. Santiago de Compostela, Spain: Xunta de Galicia, 2013. 21-31 & 105-110
“Origini e transformazioni del culto della Madonna Nera oltre Atlantico” (“Origins and Transformations of the Black Madonna Devotion across the Atlantic”). Nigra Sum. Culti santuari e Imagini delle Madonne Nere d’Europa. Paolo Pellizari, ed. Parco Naturale e Area attrezzata del Sacro Monte di Crea, Italy: ATLAS Centro di documentazione dei Sacri Monti Calvari e Complessi devozionali europei, 2012. 197-208.
“Saint Sara-La-Kâli: The Romani Black Madonna.” She Is Everywhere! Vol.3. Mary Saracino and Mary Beth Moser, eds. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2012. 128-143
Articles
“Holy Death, Our Protectress: The Mexican Santa Muerte /Święta Śmierć, Nasza Opiekunka: Meksykańska Santa Muerte.” Etnografia nowa /The New Ethnography 5 (2013): 119-139.
“El narcotráfico y la religión en América Latina.” Revista del CESLA 13, vol. 1 (2010): 211-224
“Reloj, no marques las horas: patetismo y ausencia en La hora de la estrella de Clarice Lispector.” Revista del CESLA 12 (2009): 53-61. Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Warsaw University
“Los hispanos en los Estados Unidos y la identidad: el símbolo de la Virgen de Guadalupe.” Simposio aculturación y transculturación, las diversas voces de América. Margarita Alegría de la Colina, ed. Azcapotzalco: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2007. 81-97
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Additional Information
Radio Programs. “The Popularity of Santa Muerte in San Antonio/South Texas.” Interview as expert. Aired on All Things Considered, Nov 1, 2016, and on Morning Edition on Nov 2, 2016, Texas Public Radio
“Santa Muerte, Skeletal Folk Saint of Death, Gains Followers in San Antonio,” by Aaron Schrank. http://tpr.org/post/santa-muerte-skeletal-folk-saint-death-gains-followers-san-antonio, Nov. 2, 2016
Documentary. “Santa Muerte.” Filmed interview as expert by Charlie Lockwood. Texas Folklife Resources, Austin, TX, October 11, 2016
“Oleszkiewicz Researches Feminine Symbolism in Art,” October 24, 2016
“Alvarez Grant Funds Unique Education Abroad Course in Oaxaca,” by Sherrie Voss Matthews. UTSA International and UTSA Today, December 14, 2015
“Searching for Santa Muerte in San Antonio,” by Michael Marks. San Antonio Current, October 28, 2015
Nancy Membrez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5225
Office: MH 3.02.02
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Recent Courses
MES 3333 - Digital Video Production
SPN 4303 - Topics: Contemporary Spain
SPN 5483 - Studies In Contemporary Spain
Francisco Marcos-Marin, Ph.D.
Professor, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5220
Office: MH 4.01.18
Office hours: M 4:45-5:45PM T 9:30-11:30AM
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Biography
Dr. Marcos-Marin's academic publications
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Recent Courses
- FL 5043 - Principles Of Translation
- SPN 4113 - Top: Spanish of the US
- SPN 6973 - SpecialProb: Spanish of the US
- SPN 5893 - Spanish Dialects
Isabelle Hall, M.A.
Lecturer 2, French
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5219
Office: MH 4.01.04
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Biography
Degrees
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Research in Progress
Tess Ladd-Hill, M.A.
Lecturer II, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Office hours: via Skype
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Biography
Tess Ladd-Hill joined UTSA as a Spanish lecturer in 2009. Previously she taught first and second year Spanish at Texas State University in San Marcos.
Her style of teaching utilizes multiple strategies based upon the students’ learning styles as well as the department’s expectations. Her research and teaching interests include: first and second year oral and conversational Spanish, grammar, reading, composition, and comprehension, as well as literature and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth century in the Caribbean and Latin America, and Peninsular Literature. At UTSA she serves as a member of the textbook and curriculum development committees to improve upon the university’s language acquisition standards. In spring 2012 she also launched an online course that implements various media during instruction to stay current with technology trends and foreign language learning standards.
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Recent Courses
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SPN 1014 - Elementary Spanish I
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SPN 1024 - Elementary Spanish II
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Jack Himelblau, Ph.D.
Professor, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5218
Office: MH 4.01.16
Office hours: TR 11:30-12:30PM, 4:00-4:30PM or by appt.
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Degrees
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Ph. D. University of Michigan, 1965
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M.A. University of Chicago, 1959
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A.B. University of Chicago, 1958
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Recent Courses
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SPN 3043 - Advanced Reading
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SPN 3473 - Latin Amer Lit Since Modernism
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SPN 4303 - Top: Latin American Culture
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SPN 5473 - Latin American Civilization
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SPN 5763 - Latin American Literature to Modernism
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Recent Publications
- "Chronologic Deployment of Fictional Events in M. A. Asturias' El Señor Presidente." Hispanic Journal 12 (Fall 1991): 181‑209. Print.
- " Antonio de Saavedra Guzman=s 'Tirano amor'(1599): The Rhetoric of Love." Hispanic Journal 22 (Spring 2001): 227-35. Print.
- "M. A Asturias's El Señor Presidente: Chaos Begotten from Order." Hispanófila 135 (mayo 2002): 107-23. Print.
- "On the Anonymous Italian ("Binelli") Monologue in and the Gestation of El Señor Presidente: A Critical Note." Hispanófila 136 (septiembre 2002): 55-60. Print.
- "El relato de Camila y Cara de Ángel en El Señor Presidente de M. A. Asturias: Un análisis folklórico y socioanalítico". Actas del coloquio internacional 1899-1999 Un siècle de/ un siglo de Miguel Ángel Asturias. Eds. Jean-Pierre Clément, Jacques Gilard, Marie-Louis Ollé. Poitiers: Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines / Archivos Maison des Sciences de lCantar de Mio Cid: A Morphological-Syntagmatic Analysis of the Exile of the Cid." eHumanista: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies 6 (2006): 1-18.
Makiko Fukuda, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Japanese
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-5212
Office: MH 4.02.01C
Office hours: MW 1:00-2:30PM F 1:00-2:00PM
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Recent Courses
JPN 1024 - Elementary Japanese II
JPN 2023 - Intermediate Japanese II
JPN 3023 - Advanced Language Skills (Japanese)
JPN 3053 - Business Japanese
JPN 4213 - Topics: Japanese Culture
JNP 3113- Film Studies: Japanese
Santiago Daydi-Tolson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Degrees
1973 Doctor of Philosophy, Spanish. University of Kansas
1969 Licenciado en Filosofía y Educación. Profesor de Castellano. Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Author of two literary blogs:
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Recent Courses
- SPN 3423 - Lit Of Spain:1700-Present
- SPN 3493/5803 - Mexican American Literature
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Recent Publications
Author of Café Labrapalabra, Literary Blog
Lilian Cano, M.A.
Lecturer II, Spanish
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-7714
Office: MH 4.02.14
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Recent Courses
SPN 1024 - Elementary Spanish II
SPN 2013 - Intermediate Spanish I
SPN 3033 - Oral Communication Skills
SPN 4003 Advanced Language Skills
Marita Nummikoski, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Director of Undergraduate Language Programs, Associate Professor, Russian
Dept of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Phone: 210-458-4377
Office: MH 4.01.05
Office hours: By Appointment Only
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Recent Courses
- RUS 1024, Elementary Russian II
- RUS 2023, Intermediate Russian II
- RUS 3033, Oral Communication Skills
- RUS 3633/CSH 1213, Topics: Russia Today
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