Global Cultures & Languages
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Department Chair
263C Cartwright Center
ogranados@uwlax.edu
608.785.5243
Specialty areas:
Contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and cultural studies, Caribbean studies, film studies, migration studies and literary translation.
Academic Department Associate
Chinese
Associate Professor
259F Cartwright Center
hxu@uwlax.edu
608.785.8312
Specialty areas:
Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Computer-Assisted Language Learning
French
Associate Professor
329B Graff Main Hall
akeefe@uwlax.edu
608.785.5246
Specialty areas:
Contemporary French and Francophone cultures, film studies, postcolonial studies, African studies, disability studies
Assistant Professor
259J Cartwright Center
djacob@uwlax.edu
608.785.8321
Specialty areas:
Dandyism, European fin-de-siècle, modern and postmodern masculinities, sociocultural identities and their performativity, fetishization and affect in popular culture, construction of cultural myths
German
Associate Professor
329C Graff Main Hall
shay@uwlax.edu
608.785.8319
Specialty areas:
19th- and 20th-century German literature and philosophy, intermediality (music and language), pedagogy and pop culture, assessment in the foreign language classroom
Russian
Teaching Professor
259K Cartwright Center
nroberts@uwlax.edu
608.785.8621
Specialty areas:
Distance education, blended leaning and technology-mediated language learning.
Spanish
Associate Professor
315E Graff Main Hall
rbrougham@uwlax.edu
608.785.5242
Specialty areas:
Spanish American poetry, Southern Cone, daughter-mother relationships, and performance poetry
Associate Professor
263D Cartwright Center
vcalmes@uwlax.edu
608.785.8328
Specialty areas:
XX Century Peninsular Literature, Film Studies, 2nd Language Acquisition
Lecturer
259H Cartwright Center
tgabbard-rocha@uwlax.edu
608.785.8313
Specialty areas:
Neurohumanities; Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction); 20th and 21st century Peninsular Spanish literature and media
Assistant Professor
259G Cartwright Center
amartingomez@uwlax.edu
608.785.8322
Specialty areas:
Applied and Experimental approches to Spanish Morphosyntax
Second and Heritage Language Acquisition
Lecturer
315 Graff Main Hall
mmoreno@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Racism and Anti-Racism
Gender in Latin America
Ecuador, Andes
Associate Professor
263B Cartwright Center
kmorris2@uwlax.edu
608.785.8323
Specialty areas:
Hispanic Linguistics, World Language Pedagogy, Pragmatics, Study Abroad, Curriculum Design, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Teacher Preparation, Academic Literacy
Assistant Professor
263A Cartwright Center
aochoacampo@uwlax.edu
608.785.5247
Specialty areas:
Contemporary Latin American literature and culture; women writers; women, gender, and sexuality studies; Latinx studies; and World Languages Education
Director of the Language Resource Center
Laboratory Supervisor
259B Cartwright Center
ddevetter@uwlax.edu
608.785.8325