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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 >>

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 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 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 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 >>

Dr. Freeman specializes in the religious and cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean in Greek-, Syriac-, Latin-, and Coptic-speaking contexts (joint appointment in History). In particular, she focuses on ancient Christianity from the first through seventh ...read full profile >>

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 >>

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 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 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 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 >>