Faculty & Staff
Dorina Apahidean, Ph.D.Profile page
Lecturer
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 2217,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: Russian
Derek Beaudry, Ph.D.Profile page
Lecturer of Spanish
Office locationStudent Resource Center, 524,
Oconee
Area(s) of Expertise: 20th and 21st Century Latin American Cultural Production, Latin American Studies, Literary and Film Theory, Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory
Maria Calatayud, Ph.D.Profile page
Assoc Professor, Spanish
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 4246,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: Contemporary Latin American Women Artist
Chi-Hsuan CattersonProfile page
Senior Lecturer - Chinese
Office locationDunlap Hall, 305B,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: East Asian Language and Literature.
Ran Chen, Ph.D.Profile page
Program Coordinator
Chinese Flagship Program
Office locationBarnes Hall, 313,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Chinese
Jiyoung Daniel, Ph.D.Profile page
Associate Professor, Korean
Office locationDunlap Hall, 314-C,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL), linguistics, second language acquisition
Shane Emplaincourt, Ph.D.Profile page
Assistant Professor
Office locationDunlap Hall, 301A,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: French
Alessandro GaspariniProfile page
Part-Time Faculty
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 2110,
Gainesville
Barnes Hall, 108,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Italian
Area(s) of Expertise: History of Romance Languages (Spanish/French), Sociolinguistics, 3rd Language Acquisition
Area(s) of Expertise: Second language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, Chinese pedagogy.
Area(s) of Expertise: Spanish, Linguistics
Kristi Hislope, Ph.D.Profile page
Department Head, Modern Languages
Professor of Spanish
Office locationDunlap Hall, 303-A,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Spanish Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition
Nicolas Hu, M.A.Profile page
Lecturer
Office locationDunlap Hall, 322A,
Dahlonega
University Center 400, 267,
Cumming
Area(s) of Expertise: Pedagogy, Language Technology, 19th Century Spanish Literature
Yizhe Huang, Ed.D.Profile page
Lecturer & Chinese Flagship Tutoring Coordinator
Office locationBarnes Hall, 128,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Chinese, High Impact Teaching Strategies, Foreign Language Pedagogy and Assessment, Teacher Training, International Education, Global Mobility, Intercultural Communicative Competence
Area(s) of Expertise: Arabic language, persian language, middle eastern history
Kasi Ives, M.A.Profile page
Limited Term Faculty
Office locationStudent Resource Center, 524,
Oconee
Kihoon KimProfile page
Lecturer
Office locationDunlap Hall, 305-A,
Dahlonega
Nesbitt Academic Building, 4172,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: Japanese and Korean
Olivier Le Blond, Ph.D.Profile page
Associate Department Head, Associate Professor of French
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 4238,
Gainesville
Dunlap Hall, 301A,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: French and Francophone literature, gender studies
Area(s) of Expertise: Spanish
Ary Malaver, Ph.D.Profile page
Associate Professor, Spanish
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 4248,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: Latin American Short Narrative, Microfiction in Latin America and Spain, Latinx Literature and Culture in the United States
D. Brian Mann, Ph.D.Profile page
Professor
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Office locationDunlap Hall, 322C,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: French, Francophone, Latin America, Spanish language cultures and pedagogy, French literature, 20th century narrative of French and Latin America
Tatiana Maslova, Ed.D.Profile page
Assistant Professor
Program Director of Study Abroad in Russia
Office locationDunlap Hall, 312,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: Russian Language, Culture, and Society; Curriculum Development; Foreign Language Teaching Methods; Self-Regulated Learning
Area(s) of Expertise: Contemporary Spanish-language
Rosaria Meek, Ph.D.Profile page
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Office locationStudent Resource Center, 590,
Oconee
Garry Merritt, M.A.Profile page
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 4250,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: French
Area(s) of Expertise: Second language acquisition, applied linguistics, Japanese pedagogy
Raphael Palermo Dos Santos, Ph.D.Profile page
Assistant Professor
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 2134,
Gainesville
Joseph Pecorelli, Ph.D.Profile page
Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 4252,
Gainesville
Dunlap Hall, 311,
Dahlonega.
Area(s) of Expertise: Spanish Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics
Area(s) of Expertise: Chinese, Second Language Acquisition, Pedagogy and Assessment, Interlanguage Pragmatics
Jaime Salinas Zabalaga, Ph.D.Profile page
Assistant Professor
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 4114,
Gainesville
University Center 400, 267,
Cumming
Area(s) of Expertise: Italian
Alvaro Torres-Calderon, Ph.D.Profile page
Associate Department Head
Office locationDunlap Hall, 314D,
Dahlonega
Area(s) of Expertise: XIX and XX Latin American Literature, The Building of the Nation, Women, Identity and Progress in Latin America XIX and XX Century
Area(s) of Expertise: Japanese
Area(s) of Expertise: Chinese
C. Noelle Wynne, Ph.D.Profile page
Lecturer
Office locationNesbitt Academic Building, 4254,
Gainesville
Area(s) of Expertise: French
Area(s) of Expertise: Russian