FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL STAFF Full-Time Faculty: | Bernstein, Judy | Jian, Ming | Maduro Grisel | Martínez, Esther | Mukherjee, Madhuri | Rabbitt, Kara | Rosa, William | Saa, Orlando | Santoro, Maurizio | Shepherd, Gregory | de la Suarée, Octavio | Tajes, Maria | Vassilev, Kris | de Vries, Scott | Williams, Bruce (Chair) |Watanabe, Hideo | Yoon, Keumsil Kim | Instructors: | Alcaide, Juan | Martinez, Guillermo | Adjunct Faculty (might change from semester to semester): | Adams, Nora | Allen, Tokoyo | Bilong, Marie-Noelle | Dattolo, Alphonse | Eberhard, Philippe | Favata, Vincent | Fraguela, Maria | Hoffman, Migdalia | Jendi, Soulamin | Lamming, Robert | Lopez, Michael | Mc Closkey, Bernard | Menendez, Rigobert |Mickiewicz, Jan | Moran, Claudette | Mourad, Debra | Nachimson, Sharon | Padberg, Brigitte| Patino, Nelson | Rendon, Elisa |Romero, Ezequiel | Shabelman, Bella | Spina, Josephine | Stampone, Grace | Varzegar, Minoo | Washburn, Antoinette | Zhang, Yue | Professional Staff: | Caruso, Lorraine | Jacelone, Helen | Miles, James | Department Faculty BERNSTEIN, JUDY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DIRECTOR OF ACADEMIC ESL Ph.D. in Linguistics, City University of New York, 1993; M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language, Hunter College (CUNY), 1982. Professor Bernstein specializes in the comparative syntax of Romance languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, and Walloon, a moribund Romance language spoken in Belgium. She has published widely on the topic of the internal structure of the noun phrase. A second area of specialization is child language acquisition, particularly the acquisition of syntax. Building on previous collaborative work on the acquisition of relative clauses in English-speaking children, she is currently adapting and broadening the study to include Spanish-speaking children. [e-mail] JIAN, MING, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Ph.D. in Comparative Literature/German Literature, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 1991. He has published on Chinese poems, German Expressionist writers, aesthetics, etc. His current research interests are in the areas of modern Chinese novels and computer assisted language learning. [e-mail] GRISEL MADURO, ASSISTANT 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] ESTHER M. MARTÍNEZ, 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] MADHURI MUKHERJEE, 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. [e-mail] KARA RABBITT, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Ph.D. in French Literature and linguistics, Cornell University, 1996. Her specializations are in 19th-century French literature and contemporary Francophone literature (particularly North African, Caribbean, and "Beur"). Drawing on her background in linguistics, she also works in cinema and cultural studies. She has published and presented papers on the works of Charles Baudelaire, Aimé Césaire, C.L.R. James, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stendhal, as well as on Quebecois and Caribbean artistic movements. [e-mail] WILLIAM ROSA, PROFESSOR Ph.D. in Latin American literature with emphasis on nineteenth century narrative and "Modernismo" from Ohio State University. He is especially interested in the nineteenth century novel and short story of the Caribbean basin. He has also worked on Latino literature of the United States and women writers. The Instituto de Culturea Puertorriquena published his book on Alfredo Collado Martell, and at the present time he is working on a book that will study the relationship between the sciences and the Modernista short story. [e-mail] ORLANDO SAA, PROFESSOR Ph.D. in Spanish Golden Age (Poetry and Theater), Tulane University, 1973. He is a professor of Spanish language and literature, and of Latin language at William Paterson University since 1974. His publications include La serenidad en las obras de Eugenio Florit, 1973, De una anguistia por destino, 1986, El teatro escolar de los jesuitas en España, 1990, and over a hundred articles. His is also Vice-president of Círculo de Cultura Panamericano, Chapter of New Jersey. [e-mail] MAURIZIO SANTOTO, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR M.Ph in Linguistics., City University of New York, 1999; M.A. in Teachig English as a Second Language, Teachers College, Columbia University; Laurea-degree in English literarure and linguistics, Instituto universitario Orientale, Naples (Italy). Professor Santoro specializes in second Language Acquisition with special attention to the acquisition of English by Romance Language speakers. His second area of interest is the genesis and the development of Spanish-based creole language. He currently teaches courses on language teaching metholology and contrastive analysis. He also teaches and coordinates Italian language courses. [e-mail] OCTAVIO DE LA SUARÉE, PROFESSOR 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] KRIS VASSILEV, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Ph.D. in French Language and Literature, Rutgers University, 1997. MA, Paris 10 (France) 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 Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France (Paris), French Forum, Romanic Review, Littérature (Paris). [e-mail] HIDEO WATANABE, 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. [e-mail] BRUCE WILLIAMS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT CHAIR 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 issues 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 Latin American and Spanish Peninsular Cinemas, Latin American and Spanish Theatre, and Linguistics. [e-mail] [cv] KEUMSIL KIM YOON, PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE BILINGUAL/ESL GRADUATE PROGRAM Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Paris III-Sorbonne, 1984. She is currently the Director of the Bilingual/ESL Graduate Program. She teaches courses in linguistics, and trains bilingual and ESL teachers. She has published widely in the areas of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and pragmatics. Her current research interests include machine-mediated discourse and ethnolinguistic identity. [e-mail] Instructors JUAN ALCAIDE, Spanish.[e-mail] TOYOKO ALLEN, Japanese. [e-mail] GUILLERMO MARTINEZ, Spanish. [e-mail] Adjunct Faculty NORA ADAMS, Spanish. TOKOYO ALLEN, Japanese. [e-mail] MARIE-NOELLE BILONG, French. ALPHONSE DATTOLO, Spanish. [e-mail] PHILIPPE EBERHARD, French. MARIA FRAGUELA, Spanish. MIGDALIA HOFFMAN, Spanish. [e-mail] SOULAMIN JENDI, Arabic. ROBERT LAMMING, Acabemic Eniglish. MICHAEL LOPEZ, Spanish. BERNARD MC CLOSKEY, Spanish. RIGOBERTO MENENDEZ, Spanish. JAN MICKIEWICZ, Spanish. CLAUDETTE MORAN, French. [e-mail] DEBRA MOURAD, Academic English. [e-mail] SHARON NACHIMSON, French. BRIGITTE PADBERG, German. NELSION PATINO, Spanish. ELISA RENDON, Spanish. EZEQUIEL ROMERO, Spanish. BELLA SHABELMAN, Russian. [e-mail] JOSEPHINE SPINA, Italian. [e-mail] GRACE STAMPONE, Spanish. ANTOINETTE WASHBURN, Italian. [e-mail] YUE ZHANG, Chinese. [e-mail] Professional Staff LORRAINE CARUSO, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES Mrs. Caruso has been with the department for one year and with the college for ten years. She manages the day to day affairs of the department. She can be reached at 973.720.2330. [e-mail] HELEN JACELONE, SUPPORT STAFF, DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGE CENTER Mrs. Jacelone has been with the Department for over twenty years, supervising the Language Laboratory since its inception in 1974. She also assists in the organization of the Poetry Recitation Contest. In 1992 the campus community recognized her as an "Unsung Heroine." She can be reached at 973.720.2344. JAMES MILES, LANGUAGE LAB COORDINATOR [e-mail] Last updated 02/19/02