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Lourdes Albuixech

Associate Professor - Spanish, Director of Graduate Studies

Lourdes Albuixech

Office: Faner 3028
Phone: (618) 453-5029
Email: albuixel@siu.edu
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Lourdes Albuixech received her Ph.D. from U.C. Riverside in 1997. A native of Spain, Dr. Albuixech specializes in Spanish Literature of the Middle Ages (especially Late Middle Ages) and the Early Modern period. She is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the ...read full profile >>

Mont Allen

Associate Professor - Classics and Art History, Classics Advisor

Mont Allen

Office: Faner 3131
Phone: (618) 453-5403
Email: montallen@siu.edu
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Mont Allen is an art historian & archaeologist of the ancient Mediterranean world. With a bachelor’s degree in Geography (U.C. Berkeley), master’s degrees in the History of Religion (Syracuse Univ.) and European History (U.C. Berkeley), and a ...read full profile >>

Sasha Allgayer

Assistant Professor, International Studies

Sasha Allgayer

Office: Faner 3024
Phone: (618) 453-5419
Email: sasha.allgayer@siu.edu
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Kimberly Berger

Assistant Lecturer, American Sign Language

Kimberly Berger

Office: Faner 3022
Phone: (618) 453-5421
Email: kberger@siu.edu

Kimberly Berger fell into the Deaf World while finishing her bachelor’s degree in 1991. It was her very first American Sign Language class at SIU that launched her passion for ASL and the people who use it. Its art, literature, politics and cultural ideals ...read full profile >>

Mary Bricker

German Advisor, German Section Head; Associate Professor - German

Mary Bricker

Office: Faner 3034
Phone: (618) 453-2920
Email: mbricker@siu.edu
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Mary Bricker earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois. Her research and teaching spans Jewish Studies, Business German, and eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature. She teaches all levels of German language and literature as well as ...read full profile >>

Christopher Chiasson

Assistant Professor of Practice - German

Christopher Chiasson

Office: Faner 3036
Email: christopher.chiasson@siu.edu

Christopher Chiasson received his Ph.D. in Modern German Literature and Culture from Indiana University. He works on the emergence of narratives in unusual places: the stories that arise from visual artifacts in German Romantic literature; the possible stories of ...read full profile >>

Grace Darmour-Paul

Assistant Lecturer, Spanish

Grace Darmour-Paul

Office: Faner 3027
Phone: 618-453-5423
Email: gracedp@siu.edu

Grace Darmour-Paul earned her MA in Foreign Languages and Literatures with a focus in Spanish from SIU in 2014 and her MA of Teaching from SIU in 2015. She earned her BA from Beloit College in 2010 with majors in Music and Spanish. She taught Spanish at the high ...read full profile >>

Francesca Dennstedt

Assistant Professor - Spanish; Spanish Section Head and Advisor

Francesca Dennstedt

Office: Faner 3030
Phone: (618) 453-5429
Email: francesca.dennstedt1@siu.edu
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Francesca Dennstedt received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, where she also completed a certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her main areas of research are twentieth-century and contemporary Mexican literature and ...read full profile >>

Santiago Gualapuro

Assistant Professor

SIU Professor Santiago Gualapuro

Office: Faner 3040
Phone: 618-453-5445
Email: s.gualapuro@siu.edu
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Santiago Gualapuro is an Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics at SIU's School of Languages and Linguistics. He earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics at The Ohio State University in 2023. He is an Otavalo Kichwa from Northern Ecuador. His primary research ...read full profile >>

Brianna Janssen Sánchez

Assistant Professor, School of Education and School of Languages & Linguistics

Brianna Janssen Sánchez

Office: Faner 3029
Email: brianna.janssen@siu.edu
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Dr. Brianna Janssen Sánchez is an Assistant Professor World Language Education in the School of Education and the School of Languages & Linguistics at Southern Illinois University. She received her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition with a ...read full profile >>

David Johnson

Professor of Classics

David Johnson

Office: Faner 3129
Phone: (618) 453-5400
Email: mjohnson@siu.edu
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David M. Johnson (a.k.a. Dr. J) is a classicist who has taught content courses from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, and language courses in both Latin and Greek. Johnson's primary research interest is the Athenian author Xenophon (c. 430-350 BCE), particularly ...read full profile >>

Emi Kanemoto

Assistant Professor of Practice, International Studies

Emi Kanemoto

Office: Faner 3026
Phone: (618) 453-5488
Email: emi.kanemoto@siu.edu
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Dr. Emi Kanemoto received her Ph.D. in Media and Communication from Bowling Green State University. Her main areas of research are intercultural/international communication with a focus on peacebuiling, dialogue, and social change. Her academic research aims to strive to ...read full profile >>

Kristi Lofton

Office Administrator

Kristi Lofton

Office: Faner 3081
Phone: (618) 453-5430
Email: kristi.lofton@siu.edu

Jennifer Smith

Professor of Spanish; Associate Dean for Research, Budget, and Personnel

Jennifer Smith

Office: Faner 3032
Phone: (618) 536-5571
Email: smithjen@siu.edu
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Dr. Jennifer Smith received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University. Her main area of research is late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iberian literature and culture, with a special focus on medical discourses on gender and ...read full profile >>

Satoshi Toyosaki

Professor - Japanese Advisor, Director of International Studies

Satoshi Toyosaki

Office: Faner 3010
Phone: (618) 453-5418
Email: tsatoshi@siu.edu
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はじめまして!I am a professor in the School of Languages and Linguistics. My academic interests include Japanese language and culture, language pedagogy, and international education. I enjoy teaching ...read full profile >>

Shu-Ling Wu

Associate Professor - Chinese, Chinese Advisor, East Asian Section Head, FLIT Director

Shu-Ling Wu

Office: Faner 3038
Phone: (618) 453-5411
Email: shulingwu@siu.edu
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Shu-Ling Wu received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Hawaii. Prior to SIUC, she taught at the University of Hawaii, Kapiolani Community College in Hawaii, the Defense Language Institute, and West Point. Her research interests include: ...read full profile >>

Wan-Jun Wu

Visiting Scholar

Wan-Jun Wu

Office: Faner 3035
Phone: (618) 453-5425
Email:  wanjun.wu@siu.edu

Wan-Jun Wu received her MA in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom in 2016. Sponsored by the Taiwan Huayu Best Grant Program and Wenzao University, she is teaching at SIUC as a visiting instructor. Before SIUC, ...read full profile >>