FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL STAFF

Full-Time Faculty:

Part-Time Faculty
Kumar, Anil | Sato, Maiko |

Adjunct Faculty (might change from semester to semester):
| Baccan, Aurelio | Bernhaut, Dunio | Carmiel, Bilha | Cicilini, Giovanna | Clavijo, Pio | Crestitello, Lynne | Dattolo, Alphonse | Diello, Judith | Eberhard, Philippe | Favata, Vincent | Felix, Margarita | Fraga, Jose | Fraguela, Maria | Gonzalez-Leonard, Alex | Gonzalez, Flora | Gonzalez, Virginia | Heyek, Cheryl | Jendi, Soulamin | Ji, Enjung | Lopez, Michael | Martinez, Guillermo | Montseny, Marta | Moran, Claudette | Neiderstrasse, Maria | Olivares, Magaly | Padberg, Brigitte | Palmisano, Cosmo | Richardson, Cinzia | Romero, Ezequiel | Ruiz, Roberto | Sanz, John |Schaumburg, Susan | Seminara, Yana | Shabelman, Bella | Sutera, Letizia | Sweetman, Daniel | Vaca, Galo | Vilas, Jacinta | Washburn, Antoinette | Yannuzzi, Giuseppe | Zhang, Yue |

Professional Staff: | Caruso, Lorraine | Miles, James |

Department Faculty

BERNSTEIN, JUDY B., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Judy B. Bernstein completed the Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She also holds an M.A. in Teaching English as Second Language from Hunter College. Her research interests include syntax, the morphology-syntax interface, and language acquisition. Professor Bernstein’s research has focused on Romance languages as well as vernacular varieties of English. She is currently involved in collaborative NSF-funded research on Appalachian English. At William Paterson University she teaches courses on language and linguistics, as well as courses that address the needs of English language learners. [e-mail] [cv]

DE LA SUARÉE, OCTAVIO , PROFESSOR,, DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Ph.D., City University of New York. Es profesor de lenguas y literaturas hispánicas en The William Paterson University of New Jersey. Entre sus publicaciones se incluyen "La Obra literaria de Regino E. Boti," "Fiesta del Poeta en el Centro," "Sociedad y política en la ensayística de Ramón Peréz de Ayala," y un centenar de artículos, reseñas, y ensayos en revistas y publicaciones periódicas. También ha sido asimismo co-productor y/o director de una decena de películas de índole educadora, entre las que merecen citarse "Contemporary Hispanic Poets in New York," "The Letter Writer," y "Paterson: The Democratic Challenge."

El profesor de la Suarée es Director de Capítulos Regionales del Círculo de Cultura Panamericano. Actualmente tiene en preparación varias obras: una sobre poesía cubana en los Estados Unidos, otra sobre la prosa de Miguel de Cervantes y una tercera sobre el desarrollo de las bellas artes en Cuba al comienzo de la República. [e-mail]

FRYE, ELLEN C. , ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Ph.D. in Spanish Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1998. Her field of specialization is Renaissance and Baroque literature of Spain. She has published several articles on the comedia, most recently in Comedia Performance and Romance Studies, and she is currently working on a manuscript devoted to the communicative function of dramatic devices in early Peninsular drama. Her other areas of research interest include the early modern European novella, the evolution of the actor-spectator relationship through to modern Spanish drama, and mystic and hagiographic texts. She teaches courses in Spanish composition, foreign language methodology and pedagogy, and Peninsular and Golden Age literature. [e-mail]

MARTÍNEZ, ESTHER M. , ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ph.D. in Spanish Medieval Literature, University of Michigan, 1989. Focus on "cuaderna vía" narrative poetry of the thirteenth century. She has published and presented on the following subjects: cohesion theory and thirteenth-century "cuaderna via", several aspects of the Libro de Alexandre and the circular structure of the Libro de buen amor Traditional material in the Poema de Yuçuf, Perez de Guzmán's translation of Seneca's Epistulae, rhetoric in the Novelas ejemplares, and holymorphism in the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. [e-mail]

MADURO, GRISEL , ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ph.D and M.Phil in Hispanic and Luso- Brazilian Literatures, Graduate Center-CUNY,1999. Bachelor's and master's degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico. She is a specialist on Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American Literature. Her research focuses on issues of nation building creation of national identity in Latin American cultural productions.. She currently teaches courses in Latin American and Language. [e-mail]

RODRIGUEZ , FRANKLIN , ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Dr. Rodriguez holds a Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature, 2007; and a Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature, 2003, from SUNY Binghamton, New York; a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey campus, Puerto Rico, 2001. His professional experience includes appointments as Instructor, at SUNY-Binghamton in New York, 2002-2007. Dr. Rodriguez’s awards, fellowships and scholarships include the Graduate School Travel Award, SUNY-Binghamton University, 2006; Tinker Foundation Research Award, 2005; Clifford D. Clark Fellowship Program, 2001-2005; Clifford D. Clark Research Award 2003-2004; and Dean’s List Merit Scholarship, University of Puerto Rico, 1991-2001. He is a presenter and is published in his field. His research focuses on Contemporary Latin American Literature, Roberto Bolaño, and Ethico-political contexts of literary creation and theory. . [e-mail]

JIAN, MING, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ph.D. in German Literature/Comparative Literature, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 1991. He has published on contemporary Chinese writer Gao Xingjian’s fiction, Chinese language learning and the on-line environment, German literature, Chinese poetry in German Expressionist writers’ works. His current research interests are in the areas of contemporary Chinese fiction, Chinese cinema in the 1940s, and computer assisted Chinese language learning. He teaches courses in Chinese language, literature, cinema, culture, and Asian Studies. [e-mail] [cv]

MUKHERJEE, MADHURI , ASSISTANT PROFESSORE,
Ph.D. in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Literature, Rutgers University, 1999. She specializes in 19th and 20th-century poetry and theater and is particularly familiar with turn of the century Avant-Garde movements. She has annotated and catalogued the Schimmel Rare Book Library of 19th century books and periodicals located in the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Her interests also include art history and orientalism.

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SAA, ORLANDO, PROFESSOR
Ph.D. in Spanish Golden Age (Poetry and Theater), Tulane University, 1973. He is a professor of Spanish language and literature, and of Classical Greek and Latin languages at William Paterson University since 1974. His publications include
La serenidad en las obras de Eugenio Florit, 1973, De una angustia por destino, 1986, El teatro escolar de los jesuitas en Espana, 1990, De tiempo, espacio y armonia, 1999, and over a hundred articles. He is also Vice-president of Circulo de Cultura Panamericano, Chapter of New Jersey.[e-mail]

SCOTT, GLADYS, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics, Purdue University, 2000. Her field of specialization is language assessment and second language writing. Her other areas of research interests include second language pedagogy and teacher education. As director of the Academic ESL Program, she teaches undergraduate courses in Academic English. She also teaches applied linguistics courses in the Bilingual Education/ESL Graduate Program.
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TAJES, MARIA P., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Ph.D. in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Peninsular Literature, Rutgers University, 2002. She specializes on 19th and 20th century Spanish narrative. Her research focuses on the literature of migration and it´s effects on national identity. Other areas of interest include Galician literature and film, oral history and technology. She has published and presented papers on the works of Emilia Pardo Bazán, Miguel de Unamuno, and Adolfo Marsillach, Miguel Barnet, Miguel Delibes and Víctor Ombgá.[e-mail]

VASSILEV, KRIS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ph.D. in French Language and Literature, Rutgers University, 1997. MA, Université Paris 10 (Paris) and Middlebury College. He is a specialist in Nineteenth-Century French prose fiction. His area of interest also includes Narrative theory. His research focuses on the function of vengeance in the French novel of the 19th century and its relation to subjectivity. He has published in French Forum (University of Pennsylvania), Po&sie (Paris), Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France (Paris), Romanic Review (Columbia University), Romantisme (Paris), Translations (Université Paris 8). [e-mail]

WATANABE, HIDEO , ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Ph. D. in Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 2000. He specializes in Cultural Anthropology and East Asian Studies and is particularly familiar with Japanese Culture. His research focuses on issues of adult learning, gender, identity, music, and popular culture in Japan. He is a professor of Japanese culture, language, and literature, and is currently teaching Japanese language. His interest also includes Japanese calligraphy, songs, and films.
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WILLIAMS, BRUCE , PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE BILINGUAL/ESL GRADUATE PROGRAM
Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California-Los Angeles, 1986. He is a specialist on film theory and cinema history and aesthetics, and has published extensively in this field. His research focuses on the impact of the cinema in the cross-culturalization process and in the sociolinguistics of film. Other research issues include of gender, nation, and subjectivity in European and Latin American cinemas. Drawing upon his background in cinema studies he has directed several films. He currently teaches courses in Multiculturalism and Acculturation, Macro-Sociolinguistics, and Latin American and Spanish Peninsular Cinemas. [e-mail] [cv]

YOON, KEUMSIL KIM , PROFESSOR
Keumsil Kim Yoon, Professor Ph.D in Linguistics, University of Paris III, Sorbonne, 1984. She has published widely in highly acclaimed journals/collections (e.g. Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, International Review of Applied Linguistics). Her research interests have traveled from morpho-syntax through psycholinguistic to sociolinguistics and pragmatics, always focusing on language as it is used in varied
interactional settings. She co-authored and coordinated a Title VII Bilingual Teacher Training grant project funded ($ 500,000 +) by the US Department of Education, and has served frequently as a team leader/evaluator of the federal grant proposals. She has been chaired the WPU Bilingual/ESL Annual conference attended by 300+ language educators since 1992. [e-mail]

Professional Staff

CARUSO, LORRAINE , SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

Mrs. Caruso can be reached at 973.720.2330. [e-mail]

JAMES MILES, LANGUAGE LAB COORDINATOR

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Last updated 9/21/04