Curricula Vitae in Languages, Literatures, & Cult.

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Dr. Junko Baba Associate Professor	cross-cultural studies between Japanese and American culture, how Japanese culture affects language in communications, literature, theater, and media art	Junko Baba received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Her teaching and research includes cross-cultural studies between Japanese and American culture and on how Japanese culture affects language in communications, literature, theater, and media art. Dr. Baba's research has been interdisciplinary in nature, developed from her primary research area in socio-pragmatics (language use in society/culture) and from secondary training in literature during her graduate studies.
Mark Beck Associate Professor	Greek language and literature, Sport and combat in the ancient world	Teaching interests are: Greek Language and Literature; Sport and Combat in the Ancient World.
Alexander Beecroft Professor	Greek Epic, Lyric, and Tragedy, Roman Lyric and Elegaic Poetry, Shi Jing, Chu Ci and Early Shi Poetry in China	Alexander Beecroft is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, and Director of the Comparative Literature Program, at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. His research concentrates on the literatures of Ancient Greece and Early China.
Maria Benavente Senior Instructor		In 1998 I returned to USA and in 2003 I obtained a master degree in "Teaching Spanish as a Second Language by the National Distance University in Spain. In USA I briefly taught at the High School level, and at the college level as an Spanish Instructor in Columbia College (2002) and at the University of South Carolina (2007 until present).In my teaching Spanish I encourage to make it their own by integrating it in their lives and using it to expand who they are.
Dr. Pia Bertucci Senior Instructor	Italian language/culture	Dr. Pia Bertucci is currently working on two book projects: 1. Chora, Chorus, Coro: Navigating the Female Space in Matilde Serao’s Universe. 2. Beyond Il Giallo: Calvino, Eco, Gadda, Sciascia and the Metaphysical Italian Mystery.
Alexandre J Bonafos Associate Professor	French	Alexandre Bonafos' research interests lie at the intersection of literature, history, art, and the history of the sciences in 19th-century France, especially during the Romantic period. A specialist of travel discourses and practices, he is particularly interested in the relationship between archaeological travel writings and the construction of heritage politics in modern France.
Alanna Breen Senior Instructor		Prof. Breen earned her PhD in 2010 and came to UofSC after a year as ESL faculty. Her dissertation explored the role that literature plays in the process of trauma recovery, looking at changing perceptions of memory and history since the Civil War in Spain. She has taught a variety of lower division Spanish and Portuguese courses as well as Portuguese for IMBAs, and she led the Spanish study abroad program to Costa Rica in 2014.
Ellen Brightwell Senior Instructor		Ellen Brightwell has an M.A. in Spanish from Winthrop University. She has been an Instructor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina since 2005 and was promoted to Senior Instructor in 2011. She is currently serving as the Assistant Program Director of Spanish, in charge of coordinating teaching schedules for all full and part time faculty, as well as graduate students. Prof. Brightwell usually teaches Spanish language courses, especially at the 100-300 levels.
Mr. Jorge Camacho, PhD Professor	literature, culture, film, chronicles	Colonial Literature and the Caribbean from XVIth century to the present; The Conquest and its reception in Modern literature and film; Modernismo / Modernity: Poesía y Novela. Martí, Darío, Casal, Silva; The Avant-Garde Movement: Creacionismo, poesía pura, negrismo. Cuban literature and Culture; New Latin American Cinema & its relationship to Literature / Music;
Ines (Carolina) Cruz Instructor
Ana Cueto Senior Instructor		Originally from San Jose, Costa Rica, Ana studied journalism at the University of Costa Rica where she graduated with an emphasis in advertising, public relations, and print and television journalism. Additionally, Ana has studied at multiple institutions of higher learning in the United States. Much of her career in television was spent at San Jose, Costa Rica's Notiseis (Channel 6) where she served as the assistant news director and as a nightly news anchor and reporter.
Aria E Dal Molin Associate Professor	Renaissance studies, Medieval studies, Performance studies	Dr. Dal Molin’s areas of specialization include Renaissance studies, medieval studies, performance studies, comedy, humanist theory, Tuscan literary academies, French medieval theater, and disability studies. Her teaching interests include Renaissance Italy, early modern theater, early modern humor, Italian cultural legacies, Italian lyric poetry, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, French farces, Rabelais, and Molière.
Patricia A Davis Senior Instructor	Spanish, Portuguese	Mrs. Patricia Davis earned her Bachelor's degree in Recife, Brazil in 2006, and then completed her Master of Arts in Teaching at the University of South Carolina in 2011. She has previously taught a Portuguese immersion program in the summer and a Portuguese class for business students at the University of South Carolina. In the summer of 2015 she began her formal career at the University of South Carolina by teaching Portuguese to students in the IMBA program.
Dr. Lara Claire Ducate Professor	German Language and Culture, all levels, Foreign Language Teaching Methodology, Computer-assisted language learning	Lara Ducate is originally from Aiken, SC and received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. She has been at USC since 2003 and teaches courses on German language and culture and foreign language teaching methods, including using technology in language classes. In addition to getting students excited about studying the German language and culture, she is dedicated to training future foreign language teachers to be motivated and passionate members of the teaching profession.
Anna Eaton Senior Instructor		Anna Eaton is an Instructor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Ursula M Engelbrecht Instructor	Second Language Acquisition Theory, in particular development of oral skills in learners of German, incorporating cultural aspects of the German speaking countries in the foreign language classroom, encouraging students to develop insights into their own language and culture through comparison	Ursula Engelbrecht earned a degree in German and Spanish languages and literature at Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg, Germany. The focus of her program was teaching German as a Foreign Language (DaF) and Contrastive Linguistics. She received her M.A. in German Studies (1987) and a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (1991) from the University of South Carolina.
Elizabeth T. Evans Senior Instructor	Language, Literature, and Culture	Teel Evans owned hospitality businesses in Charlottesville Va, Sueca, Cullera, and Alzira Spain. Also worked Universal Expositon (Worlds Fair) in Sevilla Spain and as emport/export coordinator for Ford Motor Company in Almussasfes, Spain. Born in Okinawa, Japan, lived in Philippines, Spain, Belgium, England, Washington State, Virginia, and finally settled in South Carolina in 2003 to primarily teach business Spanish at USC.
Dr. Jeanne Marcella Garane Professor	French and Francophone Literature and Film, Translation Studies, Postcolonial Studies	Jeanne Garane is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and teaches courses on francophone literature and film, postcolonial theory, translation, and comparative literary studies. She has completed two book-length literary translations, and published articles, introductions, and interviews on francophone literature and film. She is also the editor of the French Literature Series (Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi).
Benjamin Garcia Egea Senior Instructor		Benjamin has been an Instructor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina since 2014, first as a graduate teaching assistant, and then promoted in 2018 to full-time instructor. He is currently serving as the SPAN 209 (Intermediate Spanish I) and SPAN 210 (Intermediate Spanish II) Coordinator, in charge of coordinating and creating materials for all instructors teaching these courses. Currently, Garcia Egea teaches Spanish language courses, especially at the 100-300 levels.
Hunter Gardner Professor		Hunter Gardner is Assistant Professor of Classics in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina (2005), with a dissertation entitled, "The Waiting Game: Gender and Time in Latin Love Elegy." Her publications on Ovid and Catullus are readings inspired in part by Julia Kristeva's concept of the semiotic chora, and its applications to female subjectivity.
Dr. Kurt Gustav Goblirsch Professor	Germanic Linguistics, Medieval Literature	My primary area of research and publication is historical phonology of the Germanic languages. This work is comparative and integrates modern dialect data into historical reconstruction. I am also interested in other areas of research, including the relationship of standard language and dialect and Germanic etymology.
Brigitte Guillemin-Persels Senior Instructor	Languages, Literatures, and Cultures	Brigitte Guillemin-Persels is a Senior Instructor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Jie Guo Associate Professor	Comparative Literature	Jie Guo received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Johns Hopkins University, and is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include the history of sexuality, gender theory, visual culture, the history of Chinese women, and Chinese literature and film.
Dr. D. Eric Holt Associate Professor	Acquisition of phonology, particularly of Spanish pron-, unciation by English-speaking learners in a variety, of contexts.	My research interests lie in phonological theory, especially as a tool for understanding aspects of the sound structure of Spanish, both modern synchronic & historical diachronic, including dialect variation past & present. A common theme to be found in my work is the application & development of issues in general linguistic theory to Spanish & dialectal data, thus providing me the opportunity to offer revinements both to previous analyses of the data and to the theory more broadly.
Professor Yvonne Marie Ivory, PhD Associate Professor	sexuality, urban culture, homosexuality in literature, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann	Yvonne Ivory is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, Columbia She has taught at SDSU, Duke University, University College Dublin, and the Ruhr University. Her research focuses on the nexus between sexuality and aesthetics, and she has published articles on fin-de-sicle German anarchism, on aestheticism, and on Oscar Wildes German reception.
Rebecca Janzen Professor	excluded populations in Mexico	Rebecca Janzen is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She is a scholar of gender, disability and religious studies in Mexican literature and culture whose research focuses on excluded populations in Mexico. Her first book, The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015), explored images of disability and illness in 20th century texts.
Judith E. Kalb Associate Professor	Classical themes in Russian modernist literature, Twentieth-Century Russian Literature, Russian intellectual history and issues of Russian national identity	Judith E. Kalb earned a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University and a joint PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Humanities at Stanford University. Dr. Kalb's research focuses on the interactions between Russian culture and the Greco-Roman classical tradition. Her book Russia's Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890-1930, examines the image of ancient Rome in the writings of Russian modernists. Her new project focuses on Russia's reception of Homer.
Cari A. Kepner-Lee Senior Instructor		Cari Lee is a Senior Instructor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Olesya Kisselev Assistant Professor		Olesya Kisselev is an Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Leah Lindsey Senior Instructor		Leah Lindsey is a Senior Instructor of Spanish and Spanish Undergraduate Advisement Coordinator in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Nancy Spleth Linthicum Assistant Professor		Nancy Linthicum is joining the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in fall 2019 as Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies and Director of the Arabic Program. She recently completed her PhD in Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.
Jiang Liu Associate Professor	relation between the indexical information in speech and the sound categorization, processing of Chinese characters, which is of logographic writing system.	Jiang is currently studying the relation between the indexical information (e.g., speaker voice) in speech and the sound categorization trying to further understand why multiple talkers’ speech is more robust in terms of training learners’ speech perception. He is using video game as a perceptual training paradigm to study learners’ speech learning. Jiang also studies the processing of Chinese characters, which is of logographic writing system.
Ana Lopez Instructor
Mercedes Lopez-Rodriguez Associate Professor	Language, Colonial Spanish Literature	Her research project addressed the emergence of a racialized discourse about Colombian populations that marginalized and subordinated perceived "non-white" groups. It focuses on how literature and visual arts represented mestizos, indigenous and black subjects, especially in 19th century costumbrista narratives. This research suggests that the representation of indigenous and Afro-Colombians was a device used by the lettered elites to establish the definition and the limits.
Dr. Paul Malovrh Department Chair/Professor		Dr. Malovrh specializes in SLA, applied Hispanic linguistics, and foreign language pedagogy. Working within a cognitive framework, he investigates interlanguage development and the underlying psycholinguistic strategies constraining it.Professor Malovrh’s current research explores variability in L2 performance by examining the effects of working memory and modality in L2 production.
Timothy C. McAteer Senior Instructor		Timothy McAteer is a Senior Instructor of Spanish and Placement Coordinator in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Paul Allen Miller Professor	Classical tradition, Literary Theory, Ancient Philosophy	Dr. Paul Allen Miller, Carolina Distinguished Professor & Vice Provost and Director, International Programs. Dr. Miller is an internationally know expert in Latin poetry, Plato, the receptions of the classical tradition, and literary theory. I have written 10 books and published more than 80 articles.
Dr. Nina Moreno Professor	Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Applied Linguistics, Teaching Methodology	I study the effects of variables upon the acquisition of a second language among adult learners. My latest interests include the integration of technology in the study of the effects of external variables -- such as the impact of different types of feedback and task -- on the aquisition of Spanish structures.
Dr. Agnes C Mueller Professor	German Studies, contemporary German and American literature, Jewish and Holocaust studies, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, Global Studies	Agnes Mueller, College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, is an expert on recent and contemporary German literature. She is core faculty in Comparative Literature and affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies. Her publications are on German Jewish relations, Holocaust studies, minority studies, migration studies, contemporary German and American literature, and literature and emotion.
Gregory Maurice Newall Senior Instructor		Gregory Newall has taught Spanish for over 15 years, and created courses in Hispanic Linguistics. He is familiar with the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. He enjoys learning about different teaching methods that are well-suited for the foreign language classroom, and putting them into practice
Gustavo Obeso Instructor	Spanish	Gustavo Obeso is an Instructor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Jason M Osborne Senior Instructor	The Visigothic Kingdom of Spain, Late Antiquity, the Early Medieval World	Jason Osborne is an Instructor of Classics in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
ROSARIO POLLICINO Instructor		Rosario Pollicino is Instructor in Italian Studies at the University of South Carolina. His scholarly interests include literary, cultural, documentary and film studies. Specifically, his interdisciplinary interests focus on Transnational Italy and Mediterranean studies. His comparative approach intertwines with Postcolonial literature and cultural production, migration, diaspora and trauma studies.
Gregory Patterson Associate Professor	Chinese Language, Chinese Literature & Culture, Medieval Chinese Poetry	Gregory Patterson teaches courses in Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, and Chinese language. His main areas of interest are medieval Chinese poetry (third to tenth centuries), traditional Chinese theories of literature, poetry and imperial institutions in medieval China, and modern interpretations of classical Chinese poetry. He is also interested in issues of cultural memory and media studies as they relate to literature in comparative perspective.
Dr. Jeff Persels Associate Professor	Early Modern French history, literature, religion & culture	Jeff Persels' area of specialization is the French Sixteenth Century. His current research interests include the polemical literature of the French Wars of Religion and the rhetoric of French Evangelical Humanism.
Nancy Pinzon-Acevedo Instructor		Nancy Pinzon-Acevedo is an Instructor of Spanish for the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Andrew C. Rajca Associate Professor	Contemporary Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Cultural Production, Latin American Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, especially related to narrative discourse, memory, space, and subjectivity	Andrew C Rajca is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish and is the Portuguese Program Coordinator at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Rajca specializes in Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Cultural Studies, Subaltern Studies, and Critical Theory. His current research examines memory discourses produced in postdictatorial literary and visual cultural production in Brazil and Argentina, as well as questions of violence and human rights in recent Latin American film.
Professor Francisco J Sanchez Professor	Spanish Literary and Cultural criticism , Literary Theory	Place of literary production in the construction of early-modern forms of subjectivity. Representations of the self in terms of discursive elaborations of ideological, social and political issues in Early Modern Spain, a core area of the field of Hispanism. I have been exploring a new area of scholarship. I want to contribute to the current trends on inquiry about the changing signification of Spanish literary and cultural works within a global contex.
Maria Victoria Sanchez Samblas Instructor		Maria Victoria Sanchez Samblas is an Instructor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Wendy C. Schneider Senior Instructor		Wendy Schneider is Senior Instructor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Mary Sincioco Instructor
Bryon Smith Instructor
Lesley E Smith Instructor
Carla Swygert Senior Instructor		Born and raised in Valladolid, Spain, she has been teaching at USC since 2001, when she was admitted to the M.A. Program in Spanish as a graduate student. She came to the US in 2000 and spent a year studying at Mount Holyoke College. She moved to South Carolina in 2001 to attend USC and earn a M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Literature . She was on her way to Florida in 2003 to pursue a PhD when she was offered a full time instructor position at USC, so she stayed in Columbia instead.
ANGELA TUMINI Instructor		Dr. Angela Tumini earned her PhD in Italian Literature at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom in 2002. She has taught Italian Language, Literature and Film in several universities in the USA, such as Emory University, Skidmore College, the University of Mississippi, Endicott College and Chapman University, as well as in the UK and in Azerbaijan. She has worked as a film instructor at Columbia College Hollywood, in Los Angeles. She has organized several Italy study abroad programs.
Dr. Krista Jane Van Fleit Hang Associate Professor	Chinese language/culture	Dr. Van Fleit Hang's research and teaching interests lie primarily in the study of contemporary China. She has published articles on culture of the Maoist period in the Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and two edited volumes published with Routledge. Her current project focuses on the labor of cultural production in Maoist China.
Whitney Waites Instructor		Whitney Waites is an Instructor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences.
Ashley M Williard Associate Professor	French	Dr. Williard teaches courses on French language as well as French-speaking cultures, history, and literature. Before coming to South Carolina, she taught French and contributed to writing pedagogy and digital learning initiatives on several campuses of the City University of New York. She is particularly enthusiastic about incorporating new media into her courses and expanding her interest in digital humanities through her teaching and research at USC.
Catherine N. Wiskes Senior Instructor	Foreign language acquisition and instruction, Translation, Sign language development and acquisition	Catherine Wiskes is a Senior Instructor of Spanish and the Course Coordinator for the Beginning Spanish courses, Spanish 109 and Spanish 110.She started teaching at USC as a TA in 1998 and was hired as a full-time faculty member in 2000. She has also worked as a translator and interpreter for the Department of Social Services and the Department of Health and Environmental Control, and has translated and recorded materials for McDonald’s and BCBG Max Azria.
Parrish Elizabeth Wright Assistant Professor	foundation stories in southern and central Italy, archaeological research in Italy as a trench supervisor at the Gabii Project, outside of Rome (2014), excavates at the Venus Pompeiana Project exploring the temple complex of Venus in Pompeii	Parrish Elizabeth Wright received her Ph.D. in Greek and Roman History and her M.A. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. She holds a B.A. in Classics from McGill University. Before coming to South Carolina, she was the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She is generally interested in studying the history and archaeology of pre-Roman and Roman Italy with the use of both textual and material evidence.