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 |
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| 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 | ||
Chinese |
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| 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 | |
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MPM (Public policy), Georgetown University MBA, Southeastern University BA (Chinese literature), Renmin University, China |
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| 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 | ||
French |
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| Elkin, Jane, Adjunct Instructor | jelkin@usna.edu | 410-293-6885 |
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M.L.S., Southern Connecticut State University
French Basic Course, Defense Language Institute |
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| 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 | ||
German |
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| 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 |
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M.A., Historical Science, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, University of the Federal German Armed Forces |
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Japanese |
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| 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 | ||
Russian |
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| 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 | ||
Spanish |
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| 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) | ||
