Faculty & Staff
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Ursula Beitter, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth-Century Literature, German Cinema, Contemporary Germany, Foreign Language Pedagogy
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Diane Chaffee-Sorace, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization: Poetry of Luis de Góngora y Argote, Spanish Golden Age Literature. Visual Art in Literature
![Randy Donaldson](/_media/academics/modern-languages/images/faculty/donaldson-randy.jpg)
Randall P. Donaldson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus
Areas of Specialization: German-American history, culture, and literature, German literature of the nineteenth century, Twentieth-century German poetry, Early eighteenth-century literary culture and criticism in Germany
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Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, Ph.D. Professor
Areas of Specialization: Modern Spanish Fiction (19th-21st century)
- 410-617-2610
- respejo@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 461
![Alyssa Falcone](/_media/academics/modern-languages/images/faculty/falcone-alyssa-lg.jpg)
Alyssa Falcone, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: Medieval/Renaissance Italian Literature, the Literature of Migration, Italian-American Culture
- amfalcone@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 455
![Cynthia Fraga](/_media/academics/modern-languages/images/faculty/fraga-cynthia.jpg)
Cynthia P. Fraga-Cañadas, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Linguistics, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Teacher Education
- 410-617-5787
- cpfraga@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-F
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Ana Gómez-Pérez, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: 20th Century Spanish Literature, Spanish Realism and Naturalism, Women writers
- 410-617-2775
- agp@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-D
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Margaret Austin Haggstrom, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization: Eighteenth Century French Literature, Foreign language pedagogy
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Inas Hassan, Ph.D. Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: Advanced Arabic Curriculum, Classical Arabic linguistics and modern linguistics theories, Bilingualism, Applied linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics,
Teaching with Technology
Teaching with Technology
- 410-617-5668
- ihassan@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-J
![Yolopattli Hernandez-Torres](/_media/academics/modern-languages/images/faculty/yolopattli-hernandez-torres.jpg)
Yolopattli Hernandez Torres, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Colonial Spanish American Literatures and Cultures, Visual Culture in Spanish America
- 410-617-2463
- yihernandez@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 456
![Dr. Margarita Jacome](/_media/academics/modern-languages/images/faculty/Jacome-Headshot-smaller.jpg)
Margarita Jácome, Ph.D. Associate Chair of Student Issues, Professor, Director of Latin American and Latino Studies Program
Areas of Specialization: Latin American narratives of violence and displacement, Colombian literature and culture, Latin American and Latino studies
- 410-617-2364
- mjacome@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-G
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Kelly Keenan, M.A. Director of the Language Learning Center
Adaptation, 18th - 20th century French Literature, Gender Studies, Film
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Leslie Zarker Morgan, Ph.D. Professor Emerita
Areas of Specialization: Medieval and Renaissance Italian and French literature, Foreign language pedagogy, Humor
![Dulcenia Munoz Gomez](/_media/academics/modern-languages/images/faculty/dulcenia-munoz-gomez.jpg)
Dulcinea Munoz Gomez, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: Spanish Literature 20th-21st Century
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Paul Oorts, Ph.D. Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Specialization: French, Italian, and Dutch languages, The Trojan Legend in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth Century Western European Dance Music, Italian-American Mandolin Music
- 410-617-2324
- phoorts@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-B
Giuliana Risso-Robberto Robberto, MA Teaching Professor
- 410-617-2090
- grissorobberto@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 467
Heidi Shaker, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: 20th century Francophone Literatures and Cultures, Trauma Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Second Language Acquisition: French Language (all levels)
- 410-617-5607
- hsbrown@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 351-I
![Yu Zhang](/_media/academics/modern-languages/images/faculty/zhang-yu.jpg)
Yu Zhang Stearns, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Late imperial Chinese literature, Intersection of gender, text, and religion at the turn of the twentieth century
- 410-617-2507
- yzstearns@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 458
![Andrea Thomas](https://loyola.omniweb.cloud/_media/academics/modern-languages/images/faculty/thomas-andrea.jpg)
Andrea S. Thomas, Ph.D. Department Chair, Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: 19th - 21st Century French and Francophone Literature, Adaptation, Textual History and Criticism, French Theatre
- 410-617-2612
- asthomas@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 462
![Jinghua Wangling](/_media/academics/modern-languages/images/faculty/wangling-jinghua.jpg)
Jinghua Wangling, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Early and Medieval Chinese Literature, Classical Chinese Poetry, Chinese Language
- 410-617-2795
- jwangling@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 448
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Thomas Ward, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus
Areas of Specialization: Colonial and 19th-Century Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American and Latino Studies, Peruvian Literature
- Maryland Hall 462
- tward@loyola.edu
- Maryland Hall 462