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Department Chair

Omar Granados  Profile of Omar Granados  Office hours

Associate Professor
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

Academic Department Associate
315 Graff Main Hall
jking@uwlax.edu
608.785.8324

Chinese

Hongying Xu  Profile of Hongying Xu  Office hours

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

Chase Cormier  Profile of Chase Cormier

Lecturer
315 Graff Main Hall
ccormier@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Francophone studies, Louisiana Studies, Louisiana literature, Louisiana foodways, southern foodways, postcolonial studies, diasporic studies, Acadian literature, Acadian foodways

Anna Keefe  Profile of Anna Keefe  Office hours

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

German

Shelley Hay  Profile of Shelley Hay  Meet with me  Office hours

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

Hmong

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  Office hours

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  Office hours

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  Office hours

Lecturer
329 D 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 Martin Gomez  Profile of Antonio Martin Gomez  Meet with me  Office hours

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

Kimberly Morris  Profile of Kimberly Morris  Office hours

Assistant Professor
315G 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  Office hours

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

Adriana Perez Candia  Profile of Adriana Perez Candia  Office hours

Teaching Assistant Professor
302C Graff Main Hall
aperezcandia@uwlax.edu
608.785.8331

Specialty areas:

Mass Media Social Communication 

Photography 

Psychology

Education 

Economy and Finance 

History of Art

Graphic Design 

Journalism

Spanish as a Second Language 

Megan Strom  Profile of Megan Strom

Associate Professor
315I Graff Main Hall
mstrom@uwlax.edu
608.785.8320

Specialty areas:

Hispanic Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics, Spanish in the United States, Critical Media Studies, Spanish for the Health Professions

Director of the Language Resource Center

Dane DeVetter  Profile of Dane DeVetter  Office hours

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