Language Studies Faculty

Chair: Prof Sylvain Guarda
Associate Chair: LCDR Christian Johannsen, GN
Senior Academic Advisor: Prof Joseph Gwara

Arabic Chinese French German Japanese Russian Spanish

Arabic

Brosh, Hezi, Visiting Associate Professor brosh@usna.edu 410-293-6345
Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, Israel
Learning and teaching Arabic as a foreign language; development of Arabic teaching materials; language pedagogy
Burt, Clarissa, Associate Professor burt@usna.edu 410-293-6353
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Elgebaly, Salwa, Adjunct Assistant Professor elgebaly@usna.edu 410-293-6349
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Arabic language; enhancement of Arabic language learning
Owens, Jocelyne, Senior Lecturer owensj@usna.edu 410-293-6318
M.A., Exeter University, England
Sadek, Sanaa M., Assistant Professor sadek@usna.edu 410-293-6342
Ph.D., Zagazig University, Egypt
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Chinese

Chen, Changkuo, Adjunct Instructor chen@usna.edu 410-293-6318
Hu, Wenze, Assistant Professor whu@usna.edu 410-293-6341
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Chinese syntax, pragmatics, and socio-linguistics
Ku, Shu-mei, Adjunct Instructor sku@usna.edu 410-293-6318
Shen-Crispen, Rui, Assistant Professor shen@usna.edu 410-293-6355
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Wang, Jenny, Associate Professor najenny@usna.edu (Leave, AY 2009)
Ph.D., University of Delaware
Wu, Xiaofeng, Adjunct Instructor xwu@usna.edu
MPM (Public policy), Georgetown University
MBA, Southeastern University
BA (Chinese literature), Renmin University, China
Chinese literature and culture; American culture and society
Yuan, Fangyuan, Assistant Professor yuan@usna.edu 410-293-6319
Ed.D., Temple University
Second language acquisition; language pedagogy; Chinese business culture; economic reforms in China
Zhu, Julie, Visiting Assistant Professor zhu@usna.edu 410-293-2508
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Chinese literature and culture; teaching pedagogy of a second language
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French

Elkin, Jane, Adjunct Instructor jelkin@usna.edu 410-293-6885
M.L.S., Southern Connecticut State University
French Basic Course, Defense Language Institute
French and Québécois music and film
Gaquin, Audrey, Professor gaquin@usna.edu 410-293-6368
Ph.D., Yale University
Language policy in France and the European Union; minority language theater in France and in the European Union (also teaches: Spanish)
Knutson, Elizabeth, Professor knutson@usna.edu 410-293-6363
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Second language reading and writing; pragmatics (conversation and listening behavior); Franco-Arab studies
Sidikou, Aissata, Assistant Professor sidikou@usna.edu 410-293-6392
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Language and identity in the Francophone world; French, Francophone, and comparative literatures; oral literature; women's studies; African and Francophone cinema
Yarbro, John, Professor Emeritus yarbro@usna.edu 410-293-6348
M.A., Columbia University
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German

Fletcher, William H., Associate Professor fletcher@usna.edu 410-293-6362
Ph.D., Cornell University
Corpus linguistics, esp. Web as corpus; multimedia in language learning; comparative / contrastive linguistics, esp. English / Dutch / German / Spanish (also teaches: Spanish, Linguistics)
Guarda, Sylvain, Professor guarda@usna.edu 410-293-6351
Ph.D., University of Washington
(also teaches: French)
Johannsen, Christian, LCDR, GN (Instructor) johannse@usna.edu 410-293-6360
M.A., Historical Science, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität,
University of the Federal German Armed Forces
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Japanese

Anzai, Shinobu, Assistant Professor anzai@usna.edu 410-293-6347
Ph.D., American University
Cross-cultural psychology and education; narrative analysis
Dobberfuhl, Phillip, Capt, USAF (Instructor) dobberfp@usna.edu 410-293-6377
M.Engr., University of Wisconsin – Madison
Paik, Chie, Associate Professor chiepaik@usna.edu 410-293-6366
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Cross-cultural psychology; psychometric testing and evaluation; language and culture
Zimmerman, Erica L., Assistant Professor zimmerma@usna.edu 410-293-6376
Ph.D., University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Acquisition of Japanese as a second/foreign language; language pedagogy; conversation analysis; identity in talk; computer-mediated communication
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Russian

Chevalier, Joan, Assistant Professor chevalie@usna.edu 410-293-6344
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Falcon, Danine, Adjunct Instructor falcon@usna.edu 410-293-6318
M.A., State University of New York at Albany
Russian language and culture
Fujimura, Clementine, Professor cfujimur@usna.edu (Leave, Spring 2009)
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Cultural anthropology; Russian language and culture; German language and culture (also teaches: German, Anthropology)
O'Neil, Catherine, Assistant Professor oneil@usna.edu 410-293-6356
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Russian language; Russian and Polish literature
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Spanish

Bautista, Ruben, LT, MN (Instructor) rbautist@usna.edu 410-293-6358
B.S., Heroica Escuela Naval Militar, Mexico
Contreras, Ana, Assistant Professor contrera@usna.edu 410-293-6317
Ph.D., Tulane University
Latin American literature and culture; Central American literature; Latin American film studies
Echavarri-Dailey, Ana, Adjunct Instructor echavarr@usna.edu 410-293-6378
Garth, Todd, Associate Professor garth@usna.edu 410-293-6373
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Spanish American literature; Brazilian literature; intellectual history; literature and ethics
Gilmore, Elsa, Professor egilmore@usna.edu (Leave, Spring 2009)
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
(also teaches: French)
Gordon-Bluntschli, Elizabeth, Adjunct Instructor gordon@usna.edu 410-293-6388
(also teaches: ESL)
Gwara, Joseph J., Professor gwara@usna.edu 410-293-6367
Ph.D., University of London
Peart, Silvia, Assistant Professor peart@usna.edu 410-293-6365
Ph.D., Texas Tech University
Acquisition of Spanish as a second language; focus on form interventions in classroom settings; heritage speakers and the acquisition of Spanish in the U.S.; identity, language and education in Latin America; identity and Hispanic women writers in the U. S.; identity, language and culture in Lusophone Africa
Rivera-La Scala, Gladys, Professor rivera@usna.edu 410-293-6361
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Sassón-Henry, Perla, Associate Professor sasson@usna.edu (Leave, Spring 2009)
Doctor of Arts, State University of New York, Albany
The works of Jorge Luis Borges; Latin American digital literature from the perspective of comparative studies, science, electronic literature, video games and net-art
Stone, Robert S., Associate Professor rstone@usna.edu 410-293-6357
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Cervantes; the picaresque novel; Lope de Vega; Spanish Golden Age
Stover, Andrea, Capt, USMC (Instructor) stover@usna.edu 410-293-6352
B.A., Harvard University
Language Study Abroad Program, Chile; operational culture and LREC
Voros, Sharon, Professor voros@usna.edu 410-293-6359
Ph.D., Columbia University
Early Modern Spanish "Golden Age" literature: women writers, theater and performance, poetry (also teaches: French)
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