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- José
Ballesteros, Associate
Professor of Spanish (2002),
on leave academic year 2008-2009
- Joanna Bartow,
Associate Professor of Spanish (2001)
- Leslie Bayers,
Assistant Professor of Spanish (2006)
- Zara Bennett,
Assistant Professor of French (2008)
- Laine
Doggett, Associate
Professor of French (2003)
- Jingqi Fu,
Associate Professor of Chinese (1995)
- Katherine
Gantz, Assistant Professor of French (2005)
- Haomin
Gong , Assistant Professor of Chinese (2008)
- Anne Leblans,
Associate Professor of German (1987)
- Gloria
Palacio , Visiting Instructor of Spanish (2007)
- William
Quirk, Visiting Assistant Professor of German and
Italian (2007)
- Jorge
R. Rogachevsky, Professor
of Spanish (1987)
- Israel Ruiz
Cumba, Department Chair,
Associate Professor of Spanish (1992)
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José
R. Ballesteros, Associate Professor of Spanish. B.A., M.A.,
Ph.D., University of Kansas. José R. Ballesteros was born
in Quito, Ecuador. He emigrated to the United States in 1986. As
an undergraduate at the University of Kansas, José studied
Political Science. Almost by accident José began a Masters
degree in Spanish Literature. While working on this degree, he fell
in love with the profession. He is currently finishing his Ph. D.
in the Spanish Department at the University of Kansas. His dissertation
El imperio desde el centro: representaciones indianas sexualizadas
en la literatura del Siglo de Oro español studies the
portrayal of American themes in XVII century Spanish literature.
José Ballesteros was also a visiting instructor at Universidad
San Francisco de Quito. Currently José is working on a Spanish
literary anthology. He is also active in the field of contemporary
Latin American Poetry as both writer and scholar.
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Joanna Bartow,
Associate Professor of Spanish
(2001). A.B., Washington University; M.A, M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.
Dr. Bartow grew up in New York City and exchanged her long-time
ambition to become an architect for her love of Spanish and Spanish
American writing. After receiving her A.B. in Spanish with a minor
in German, she studied for a year at the U. of Cologne, Germany.
During her graduate studies in Spanish she spent a year in Mexico
City under a Fulbright grant at the Interdisciplinary Women's Studies
Program at the Colegio de México. Her current research focuses
on 20th-century Latin American women's literature and feminist theories,
literary responses to dictatorship, and representations of urban
space. Her book Subject To Change: The Lessons of Latin American
Women's Testomonio for Truth, Fiction, and Theory was published
in 2005. She is also passionate about music, art, and architecture,
both Latin American and otherwise.
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Leslie
Bayers, Assistant Professor of Spanish. B.S., M.A., University
of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D., University of Kansas.
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Zara
Bennett , Assistant Professor of French. B.A., Ohio State
University; M.A., Université de Lyon II; Ph.D., University
of California-Los Angeles.
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Laine
Doggett, Associate Professor of French (2003), B.A., Wofford
College; M.A., Ph. D., The University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. Before coming to St. Mary's, Dr. Doggett was Assistant Professor
of French at Florida Atlantic University and Erskine College, as
well as Visiting Professor at North Carolina State University. Dr.
Doggett completed her dissertation, looking at the representation
of women and their relationship to healing in Old French narratives
in 1997. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on
the same subject provsionally titled, Love Cures: Healing and
Love Magic in Old French Verse Narrative.
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Jingqi Fu,
Associate Professor of Chinese (1995). B.A., Bejing Institute of
Languages; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. Jingqi Fu received
her B.A. in French language and literature from the Beijing Language
Institute (1982), a Nouveau Doctorat in linguistics From
Universite de Paris II (1986) and Ph. D. in linguistics from the
University of Massachusetts/Amherst (1994). She teaches Chinese
language, linguistics and Chinese culture, and her research interests
are in Chinese syntax, language comparison and language pedagogy.
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Katherine
Gantz, Assistant Professor of French (2005). B.A. Wittenberg
University; M.A., Ph.D. The University of Michigan. Between 2001-2005,
Dr. Gantz served as Assistant Professor of French at Valparaiso
University before coming to SMCM in 2005. While originally trained
as a specialist of French literature from the early twentieth century,
she has recently expanded her research interests to include urbanist
criticism, visual studies, and nineteenth-century Decadent fiction.
Dr. Gantz has published articles in the areas of French cultural
studies and American pop culture, as well as in the newly-nascent
field of French queer theory. Her current project is a discussion
of present-day uses of public space in Paris originally designed
during the Second Empire.
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Haomin
Gong, Assistant Professor of Chinese (2008). B.A., M.A.,
Beijing Foreign Studies University; Ph.D. University of California,
Davis.
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Anne Leblans,
Associate Professor of German (1987). "Kandidaat," U.F.S.I.A.,
Antwerp; "Licentiaat," U.I.A., Antwerp; M.A., Ph.D., University
of Oregon. Dr. Leblans grew up in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium,
where she finished her undergraduate degree in Germanic Languages
and Literatures (Dutch, German) with a senior thesis on Walter Benjamin.
She did her graduate work in Comparative Literature (German, English,
French and some Spanish) at the University of Oregon. She is interested
in the carnivalesque and its subversive potential, in problems of
modernity and the dream-life of capitalism, in fairy tales and children's
books, and in psycho-historical aspects of reading. She is a founding
member and an active participant in the Women Studies Program. In
Germany, she has lived in Konstanz (1985-86) and Berlin (1995-96).
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Gloria
Palacio , Visiting Instructor of Spanish. B.A., Universidad
Libre de Colombia; M.A., Universidad Externado de Colombia; M.A.
Marquette University.
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William
Quirk, Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Italian.
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia.
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Femi Ojo-Ade,
Professor Emeritus of French (1990). B.A., McMaster University;
M.A., Queen's University at Kingston; Ph.D., University of Toronto.
Born and raised in Nigeria, Femi Ojo-Ade began his travels abroad
immediately after high school. He studied in Sénégal,
Canada, Spain, and France. He obtained his Ph.D. in French and Francophone
literature at the University of Toronto in 1975. Before then, he
had worked as a diplomat in Nigeria, and as university lecturer.
He became a full Professor at the University of Ife , Nigeria, in
1980. He has taught at colleges in Canada, Brazil, and the United
States. Ojo-Ade has contributed many chapters to books of criticism,
written many journal articles, and published over a dozen books
of criticism, poetry, and fiction. His latest books include: Death
of a Myth: critical Essays on Nigeria (Africa World Press),
and the novel, The Almond Tree (Amoge Press). His works have
been translated into Portuguese in Brazil. His novel, One Little
Girl's Dreams, won the 1999 Association of Nigerian Authors'
Prize for Children's Literature. In 1996, he was honored as a Leader
of Black Consciousness by the Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly.
He is currently coordinator of the African and African Diaspora
Studies Program.
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Jacqueline
M. Paskow, Professor Emerita
of Language and Literature (1981). B.A., Skidmore College; M.A.
Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University. Dr. Jacqueline
Merriam Paskow was born during World War II in Fort Benning, Georgia
and raised on army bases in the United States and in England. She
received a B.A. in French from Skidmore College, after spending
her junior year in France, and a Ph.D. in French from Yale University,
after teaching at a French lycée on a student Fulbright grant.
She later received an M. A. in German from Middlebury College. She
has taught at Deep Springs College (California), Haverford College
(Pennsylvania) and at the University of Constance in Germany on
a senior Fulbright grant. She wrote her dissertation on the representation
of suicide in romanticist texts. Her abiding research interest are:
19th and 20th century French and German-language and literature
in relationship to philosophy and social change; Italian; creative
nonfiction.
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Jorge
R. Rogachevsky, Professor of
Spanish (1987). B.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dr. Jorge Rogachevsky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He emigrated
to the United States in 1964. In 1975 he received a B.A. in English,
and in 1987 a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with minors in Literature
and Psychology and Literature and History, both degrees from SUNY
Buffalo. His dissertation, Nicolás Guillén and
Heberto Padilla: The Revolutionary and the Romantic was a study
of two prominent Cuban poets within the context of the Cuban Revolution.
Prior to joining the faculty at St. Mary's College of Maryland,
Dr. Rogachevsky taught at Temple University and Germantown Friends
School in Philadelphia. His current research interests center on
Guatemalan literature and culture. In 1993-94 Dr. Rogachevsky spent
a year in Guatemala as a Fulbright Scholar.
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Israel Ruiz-Cumba,
Associate Professor of Spanish (1992). A.B., Universidad de Puerto
Rico; A.M., Ph.D., Brown University. Born in Puerto Rico, he came
to the United States to study Latin American Literature in Hispanic
Studies Department at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
He received his Ph.D. from Brown in 1995. His thesis explores postmodern
representations of Puerto Rican national identity in the novels
and chronicles of Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. His research
interests include: the literary construction of narrative authority,
the role of the intellectual in society and discourses of national
identity - especially in the 19th and 20th century Caribbean literature
and popular culture. In addition, he is interested in exploring
racial and political issues in the cultural productions of the many
Afro-Caribbean Diasporas in the Unites States. He has published
poetry and scholarly articles on these issues in newspapers such
as Claridad, and in journals such as INTI: Revista de
Literatura Hispánica, Casa de las Américas,
La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. Finally,
being a published poet himself, he is genuinely interested in anything
related to poetry.
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