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Department Chair

Omar Granados  Profile of Omar Granados

311B Graff Main Hall
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

Judith King  Profile of Judith King

315 Graff Main Hall
jking@uwlax.edu
608.785.8324

Chinese

Hongying Xu  Profile of Hongying Xu

Associate Professor
311C Graff Main Hall
hxu@uwlax.edu
608.785.8312

Specialty areas:

Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Computer-Assisted Language Learning 

French

Anna Keefe  Profile of Anna Keefe

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

Dany Jacob  Profile of Dany Jacob

Assistant Professor
315F Graff Main Hall
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

Shelley Hay  Profile of Shelley Hay  Shelley Hay saysMeet with me

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

Natalia Roberts  Profile of Natalia Roberts

Teaching Professor
321C Graff Main Hall
nroberts@uwlax.edu
608.785.8621

Specialty areas:

Distance education, blended leaning and technology-mediated language learning.

Spanish

Rose Brougham  Profile of Rose Brougham

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

Victoria Calmes  Profile of Victoria Calmes

Associate Professor
311D Graff Main Hall
vcalmes@uwlax.edu
608.785.8328

Specialty areas:

XX Century Peninsular Literature, Film Studies, 2nd Language Acquisition

Tyler Gabbard-Rocha  Profile of Tyler Gabbard-Rocha

Lecturer
315G Graff Main Hall
tgabbard-rocha@uwlax.edu
608.785.8313

Specialty areas:

Neurohumanities; Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction); 20th and 21st century Peninsular Spanish literature and media

Antonio Martín Gómez  Profile of Antonio Martín Gómez  Antonio Martín Gómez saysMeet with me

Assistant Professor
315H Graff Main Hall
amartingomez@uwlax.edu
608.785.8322

Specialty areas:

Applied and Experimental approches to Spanish Morphosyntax

Second and Heritage Language Acquisition

Maria Moreno  Profile of Maria Moreno

Lecturer
315 Graff Main Hall
mmoreno@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Racism and Anti-Racism

Gender in Latin America

Ecuador, Andes 

Kimberly Morris  Profile of Kimberly Morris

Associate Professor
315I Graff Main Hall
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

Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo  Profile of Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo

Assistant Professor
315D Graff Main Hall
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

Dane DeVetter  Profile of Dane DeVetter

Laboratory Supervisor
321A Graff Main Hall
ddevetter@uwlax.edu
608.785.8325