Literature

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 […]

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 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, […]

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 […]

Director of the Business Spanish Certificate (Graduate and Undergraduate) Spring 2025 Office Hours: In Person TR 10-11AM and by appointment Professor Coria-Sanchez is Professor of Spanish. Education Ph.D., Romance Languages, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. MA. Spanish, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. BA. Spanish, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Appointments UNC Charlotte 2001-Present Clemson University […]

Director of Latin American Studies Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person Only: Monday 11AM-12PM Dr. Dalton joined the faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish in August 2016, and he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Spanish in 2017 and Associate Professor of Spanish in 2021. His teaching and research focuses primarily on Mexican and […]

Spring 2025 Office Hours:In Person W 9-9:45AM, Online R 8:30-10AM and by appointment Dr. Paloma Fernández Sánchez is a Teaching Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation and serves as an Undergraduate Language Advisor (Spanish). Dr. Fernández Sánchez is an affiliate faculty for the Latin American Studies program. She holds a […]

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 […]

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 […]