Department Chair
Professor and Graduate Faculty
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Research Interests
African Americans and foreign language learning , the history of Black education, and the manifestations of Blackness in the literature of the Dominican Republic.

Director of Graduate Studies & Assistant Professor and Graduate Faculty
Ph. D., Universidad de Alcala (Madrid/Spain)

Research Interests
Afro-Hispanic literature and culture/ Hispanophone Africana literature and culture (Equatorial Guinean literature and culture); Representations of Black in Latin American discourses/thoughts; African and African Diaspora comparative studies; Postcolonial/cultural theories/womanism; literary theory and criticism

Associate Professor
Ph. D., University of California

Research Interests
Literary representation of women+family in African Hispanic Literature; Explorations of image/text in Latin American/Caribbean literature and art; Stories of origins+place in Latin American/Caribbean literature; Formulations of identity in African Hispanic/Latin American/Caribbean literature

Lecturer
M.A., Howard University

Research Interests
Afro-Panamanian Culture/ Folklore

Lecturer

Lecturer

Lecturer, Russian and Spanish
Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Interests
Russian Language and Literature, Spanish Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Poesia de la movida post-Franco, Film Studies, International Studies

Spanish Supervisor, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California - LA

Research Interests
Spain (Peninsular) literature: 16th-17th Centuries; Blacks in Spain; Afro-Hispanic (Women) Studies

Master Instructor

Courses taught in Fall 2010
Spanish III (Span 003-03; Span 003-04; Span 003-05); Oral Expression I (Span 050-01)

Lecturer
M.A., Geaorge Mason University

Research Interests
Spanish Languages

Lecturer

Spanish Coordinator, Associate Professor
Ph. D., University of Maryland

Research Interests
Nicaraguan literature; Latin American poetry

Lecturer
M.A., Universidad Distrital (Bogotá/Colombia)

Research Interests
Socio-Linguistics, African Diaspora Studies

Associate Professor
Ph. D., University of Maryland

Associate Professor and Graduate Faculty
Ph. D., University of Maryland

Research Interests
Central American and Caribbean literature, women authors

Professor
Ph.D., University of California - LA

Research Interests
Afro Hispanic Studies; African and Caribbean carnival

Professor and Graduate Faculty
Ph.D., Tulane University

Research Interests
Nineteenth century peninsular Spanish literature; Modern Catalan literature; Nineteenth century Spanish plays featuring characters of African ancestry

Lecturer
M.A., Howard University

Research Interests
Spanish Languages

Lecturer
M.A., Howard University

Research Interests
Afro-Colombian Music/ Folklore

Lecturer
M.A., Howard University

Research Interests
Translation/Interpretation

Lecturer

Lecturer
M.A., Howard University

Research Interests
Francophone Studies

Professor
Ph.D., University of Paris

Research Interests
Late 19th/Early 20th Century French
Literature; Women Studies; Translation; Francophone Literature; Modern Persian Literature

Lecturer, French and Wolof
Ph.D., Francophone Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

Research Interests
Francophone Studies with a special emphasis on African Cinema and Women

Associate Professor
Ph. D., Georgetown University

Research Interests
Applied Linguistics: Issues of language use and policy in society; Second language acquisition, and foreign language education; Francophone West African cultures: history, literature, and use of language(s).

Lecturer
Ph.D., Université de Paris-Sorbonne (France)

Research Interests
Francophone & Women Studies

Professor
Ph.D., University of Paris

Research Interests
Cinemas and Literatures from Francophone areas of Africa and the Caribbean

Lecturer
M.A., Howard University

Research Interests
French socio-linguistics, Francophone Cultures in Urban Settings

French Supervisor, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Sorbonne University/ Paris

Research Interests
Postcolonial Studies, Theoretical and Aesthetic Canon of Cinema as a Visual Medium, Arts and Literature as Vehicle and Tool for New Cultural Identity in Postcolonial Africa (especially in francophone countries), Arts, Culture and Social Change.

French Coordinator, Professor
Ph.D., City University of New York

Research  Interests
French language and literature; Francophone Caribbean and African literature; Women studies

Lecturer, French and Haitian Creole
Ph.D., Université de Montréal (Canada)

Research Interests
Motivation and French Language Learning, Haitian Creole Studies

Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Research Interests
German Travel Narratives and other Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Prose; Multicultural and Post-colonial Studies; Women’s Studies;  Germany and Africa; German Film Studies; Foreign language instruction; Identity Formation

Professor
Ph. D., University of Maryland

Associate Professor
Ph.D., New York University

Research Interests
Afro-German Studies, Translation/ Interpretation

Professor
Ph.D., Suny University

Research  Interests
Politics in German and Austrian Literature, 1890-1980; Alienation, Consciousness, and Identity in African-American and East German Fiction; Construction of Black German Consciousness; Translation

Lecturer, Portuguese
M.A., Howard University

Research  Interests
Portuguese as a second language; language and identity; media representation; discourse analysis; critical discourse analysis; corpus linguistics; sociolinguistics; critical studies and media

Lecturer, Chinese

Lecturer, Korean
M.A., Seoul Woman’s University

Lecturer, Russian and Spanish
Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Interests
Russian Language and Literature, Spanish Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Poesia de la movida post-Franco, Film Studies, International Studies

Lecturer, Wolof and French

Master Instructor, Swahili
M.A., Howard University

Master Instructor, Arabic
M. A., American University  (Cairo)

Lecturer, Japanese

Lecturer, Swahili
MA (Linguistics), Ohio University (Athens, USA)

Lecturer, French and Haitian Creole

Lecturer, Japanese

Administrative Assistant

Secretary

Student Assistant

Teaching Assistant of Spanish

Teaching Assistant of Spanish

Spanish

Teaching Assistant of Spanish

Teaching Assistant of Spanish