Faculty

Advisor Arabic Studies Coordinator Arabic Studies Spring 2025 Office Hours: In Person M 12:10-2:10PM, Online R 9-11AM and by appointment She is the coordinator and Teaching Professor of the Arabic language program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has developed the Arabic Studies minor at UNC Charlotte and she teaches varies Arabic […]

Spring 2025 Office Hours: Online Only: TW 10-11AM, R 5:30-6:30PM and by appointment Concepcion Godev teaches courses in the fields of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Spanish as a second language. Her research focuses on pedagogical aspects of translation and second language acquisition. In the last three years she has engaged in redesigning her undergraduate and […]

Coordinator of Elementary and Intermediate Level German Spring 2025 Office Hours: In Person MW 2:30-3:30PM and Online T 10-11AM Susanne Gomoluch is a Teaching Professor of German. She received her PhD in German from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. After teaching at liberal arts colleges in the Northeast, she returned to North Carolina […]

Coordinator GermanAdvisor for German MinorsCoordinator of Undergraduate Certificate Business German Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person M 1:30-2:30PM, Online T 8-9AM and by appointment My name is Professor Jakeway, and I am a Senior Lecturer for German, Director of the German Business Certificate, German Advisor, German Coordinator and I am the Director of the German American […]

Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person Only: TR 1:30-2:30PM Phil Kaffen is an associate professor of Japanese and cinema. His research and teaching focuses on visual images, including cinema, animation, photography, and installation. In particular, the role of images in broader social and cultural issues from militarism and war to sovereignty and ecology form the core […]

Coordinator of Spanish Spring 2025 Office Hours:Online Only: Tuesday 6-7PM and by appointment Jeffrey Killman is an associate professor of Spanish at UNC Charlotte, where he teaches a range of topics including legal translation, scientific and technical translation, translation technologies, and translation theory. He has also taught translation practice courses at the American University and […]

Major & Minor Advisor French Coordinator of Undergraduate Certificate of Translating French-English Coordinator of Undergraduate Certificate in Business French Director of Graduate Certificate in French Translating Spring 2025 Office Hours: In Person Only: Tuesday 4-6PM and by appointment Mary A. LaMarca is Teaching Professor of French and the French major/minor adviser, as well as the […]

  Education M.A. Spanish, Translating and Translation Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2011) Spanish Appointments Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation, 2021-present Lecturer in Spanish, Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation, 2014-2021 Affiliate Faculty of Latin American Studies 2016-present

Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person TR 1-1:45PM, Online 8-9:30AM or by appointment Maryrica Ortiz Lottman is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research examines 17th-century comedias as they were originally performed and as they are staged today, especially in relation to gardens and landscapes. Her publications include […]

Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person TR 1-2PM and Online by appointment Maria Mahaffey is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation where she currently serves as a Coordinator of the Second-year Spanish Language Program. Born and raised in Mexico, Maria started her teaching career in the United States upon […]