Faculty & Staff
Modern & Classical Languages Faculty & Staff
Quarterly office hours are updated on each faculty profile page. Please contact faculty via email to request meeting details for in-person or online advising.
Department Chair

Shannon Dubenion-Smith
Chair of MCL Associate Professor of German and Linguistics German Study Abroad Advisor
MH 223B
Faculty

Sandra Alfers, PhD
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Professor of German Director of the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity On professional leave 2022
MH 215E & WL 572

Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley, PhD
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Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics World Languages Teaching Endorsement Advisor
Miller Hall 122A

Masanori Deguchi, PhD
Associate Professor of Japanese; Affiliated Faculty of Linguistics Japanese Study Abroad Advisor
Miller Hall 217E

Kirsten Drickey, PhD
Senior Instructor of Spanish Curriculum Coordinator, Spanish, Employee Language Program
MH 218F

Ernest Rafael Hartwell, PhD
Assistant Professor of Spanish (Minor Advisor of Spanish) Affiliated Faculty of Latin American Studies
MH 217D

Joan M. Hoffman, PhD
Professor of Spanish Study Abroad Advisor/Spanish Point Person for Spanish Outreach
MH 222A

R. Mata, PhD
Assistant Professor Major Advisor (Spanish with a Teaching Endorsement & BAE Spanish Elementary Education.
MH 218C
Edward Vajda, PhD
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Professor of Russian and Linguistics; Russian and Eurasian Studies Advisor
Miller Hall 218E

Julian Wu, PhD
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and East Asian Studies Study Abroad Advisor
Miller Hall 217B