Faculty

Chair of the Department of Languages and Culture Studies Spring 2025 Office Hours:Both In Person & Online: Tuesday 10AM-12PM and Wednesday 1-3PM, Online Thursday 3-5PM Appointments via my Appointment Schedule Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau is Professor of German. Currently she is serving as Chair of the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation. She was awarded the prestigious Bank […]

Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person Monday 8:30AM-12:30PM & TR 11:30AM-12:30PM, Online Wednesday 10-11AM Jaime is a first year MA fellow in Spanish. Ashby holds an MA in Spanish from UIUC and an MA in Latin American studies from UNC Charlotte. Ashby is also obtaining their PhD where they focus on language acquisition and social liberation […]

Francophone Studies Coordinator and Advisor Spring 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only WF 10AM-12PM Education Ph.D., Florida State University, 2022 (French and Francophone Studies) M.A., Florida State University, 2016 (French and Francophone Studies) B.A., Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville 2014 (French Language and Literature) Research and teaching interests Francophone film and literature Postcolonial studies Critical […]

Coordinator of Undergraduate Certificate Business Japanese Spring 2025 Office Hours: In Person MWF 12:10-1:10PM, Tuesday 12-1PM by Zoom Enika Banerjee is a Senior Lecturer of Japanese. Currently she is teaching elementary and upper intermediate level of Japanese language courses. She also teaches Japanese Business and Culture and Advanced Spoken Business Japanese. She is currently oversees […]

Coordinator of the Undergraduate Certificate Hispanic Literary Studies Spring 2025 Office Hours: In Person TR 11:30AM-12:30PM, Online Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM José Manuel Batista is an Associate Professor of Spanish, and an affiliate of the Latin American Studies Program. From 2011 to 2013, he directed the Spanish MA Program.  Dr. Batista’s areas of specialization are Latin American […]

Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person Tuesday 2:30-3:30PM and by appointment. Dr. Bissiere is a professor of French. Education Ph.D. French, 1989 – University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.A. French, 1986 – University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.A. American History, 1986 – University of Wisconsin-MadisonAgrégation d’anglais, 1982 (France)Maîtrise d’anglais / M.A. English, 1981 – Université Paul Cézanne-Aix-Marseille IIILicence d’anglais / B.A. English, […]

Full Time Faculty Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person MWF 9:15-10AM & 11:15AM-12PM, Online by appointment Overview Jordan Bledsoe is a lecturer of Japanese, teaching all levels of Japanese language as well as Japanese culture-related courses. After living in Kyushu and Okinawa for two years, Jordan then earned a B.A in Japanese and an M.A. in […]

Coordinator of Undergraduate Certificate of Translating Japanese-English Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person Only: TF 1-2PM David Boyd is an Associate Professor of Japanese. He has translated fiction by Izumi Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, and Kanoko Okamoto, among others. His translations of novellas by Hideo Furukawa (Slow Boat; Pushkin Press, 2017) and Hiroko Oyamada (The Hole; New […]

Spring 2025 Office Hours:Both In Person & Online: MW 2:30-4:30PM, Online by appointment Jenn Burke is an MA Fellow in Spanish. She holds an MA in Spanish, which she obtained here at Charlotte. She worked in the department as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for two years and has been studying the Spanish language for 14. […]

Assistant Teaching Professor & Coordinator of Chinese Coordinator of Chinese Advisor of Chinese Minor Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person Friday 1:15-2:15PM, Online TR 9-10AM or by appointment Fang-yi Chao is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese. She is currently the coordinator and advisor of the Chinese language program at the University of North Carolina at […]