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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), the Early Modern period, and in Spanish Women Writers. Dr. Albuixech ...read full profile >>

Mont Allen is an art historian & archaeologist of the ancient Mediterranean world.  His research interests include Greek and Roman funerary sculpture, ancient sculptural tools and techniques, Greek mythology, Roman painting, Late Antique religions, intellectual ...read full profile >>

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 earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois. Her research spans eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature and includes fairy tales, German theater, M.M. Bakhtin, and Jewish Studies. Her teaching areas include German language and literature, Holocaust literature, German theater, and the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Dr. 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 ...read full profile >>

Brianna Janssen Sánchez received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2015. Dr. Janssen Sánchez, an alumna of SIU (B.A. FLIT/Spanish 2007, M.A. Spanish 2009), specializes in foreign language teaching methodology, instructional technology in ...read full profile >>

My primary research interest these days is Socratic literature, particularly Xenophon's Socratic works. For the last 100 years or so Xenophon's works have often been ignored, while Plato's works have been studied ever more intensely. I am convinced that ...read full profile >>

Dr. Jennifer Smith received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University.  Her main areas of research are late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iberian literature and culture, with a special focus on medical discourses on gender ...read full profile >>

Satoshi Toyosaki Associate Professor, Director of International Studies, Japanese はじめまして！ I am an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade. I also ...read full profile >>

Shu-Ling Wu received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Hawaii in 2011. She has taught at the University of Hawaii, Kapiolani Community College in Hawaii, the Defense Language Institute, and West Point. Her research specialization is in ...read full profile >>