Dr. William Walker
Associate Professor of German

Education: M.A. University of Washington; Ph.D. University of Illlinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Interests: Comparative Literature (Western Europe), especially 20th century European novel; East Germany; Worker's Literature; Hermann Kant.

Dr. Leslie A. Sconduto, Department Chairperson
Associate Professor of French

Education: B.A., Augsburg College, Minneapolis; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University

Interests: Medieval literature, 17th Century theatre, France during the German Occupation, French cinema, translation.

Dr. Alexander Hertich
Assistant Professor of French

Education: B.A., M.A., Washington University in St. Louis; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests: 19th and 20th Century French literature, contemporary novel, narrative theory, aesthetics of the everyday.

Dr. Adolfo Cisneros
Associate Professor of Spanish

Education: Ph.D., University of Iowa.

Interests: Contemporary Latin American Narrative and Poetry, Latin American Women Writers, Interdisplinary Approaches to Latin American Culture and Society, Latin American Film and Popular Culture.

Dr. Tracy K. Harris
Associate Professor of Spanish (Linguistics & Hebrew)

Education: B.A., Bennington College; M.A., Ohio State University; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University; Ph.D., Georgetown University.

Interests: The Judeo-Spanish language, sociolinguistics,
dying/declining languages.

Dr. Melvy Portocarrero
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Education: M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa

Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Narrative, The Latin American Novel of Exile, Latin American Women Writers, Latin American Poetry, Postmodernism, Literary Theory.

Dr. Deborah Kessler
Lecturer of Spanish

Education: B.A., Bloomsburg University of PA; M.A., Middlebury College;
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.

Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Pedagogy, Sociolinguistics, 20th century Latin American Literature.

Lisa Brittingham

Instructor of French

Education:  Illinois Wesleyan University, B.A.; Illinois State University, M.A.

Interests:  Pedagogy, Second language acquisition, Linguistics, History of the French Language.