Faculty

• Ratio of majors to full-time department faculty: 3:1
• Average class size, introductory: 15
• Average class size, advanced: 10

Full-Time Faculty

Veronica Dantán B.A., Claremont, 1988; M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1996

Linda DeMeritt B.A., Michigan State University, 1975; M.A., University of Illinois, 1977; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1982.

Courtenay Dodge B.A., Juniata College; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Peter Ensberg (chair) B.A., Universitaet Koeln; M.A., Universitaet Trier; Ph.D. Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz

Wilfredo Hernández B.A., Universidad Central de Venezuela; M.A.,Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Teresa Herrera-De la Muela B.A., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Judson Herrman B.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Harvard

Robin Orttung M.A., Boston University; ABD, Boston University

Laura Reeck B.A., Saint Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Jochen Richter Philosophicum, Kiel University; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University

Barbara Riess B.A., M.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., Arizona State University

Nancy Smith MAT (with concentration in languages) Allegheny College, 1975

Jing Wang PhD, B.A. Harbin Shipbuilding Engineering Institute; M.A. Shanghai Jiao Tong University; PhD. Florida State University

Phillip Wolfe B.A., Hamilton College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Rui Wu B.A., Sichun International Studies University; M.Ed., University of Pittsburgh

Selected Publications and Achievements

• The Role of Conceptual Metaphor in Marguerite Duras' Des Journées entières dans les arbres (paper presented to the modern drama section of Northeast Modern Language Association).
• Considérations politiques sur la Fronde: La Correspondance entre Gabriel Naud é et le Cardinal Mazarin (published by Biblio 17).
• Translator, At Freedom Station, in
  The Wild Beach and Other Stories.
• Günter Kunert (edited, published by Reclam).
• German Grammar (published by Harper Collins).
• Gerhard Roth: Kunst als Auflehnung gegen das Sein (published by Stauffenburg).
• Contemporary Austrian Drama: Text and Performance (edited, Ariadne Press).
• La Valse and Foreign, by E. Reichart, translation published by SUNY Press.
• Editor and annotator, Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale.
• The Emerging 'Feminist' Discourse in Cuban Cultural Production as seen through Mujer Transparente (published in Confluencia: revista hispánica de cultura y literatura)
• Contributor: Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture (published by Routledge)
• La idiosincracia cubana y la escritura/escritora: la posicionalidad en los textos de Marilyn Bobes (published in Celebración de la creaci ón literaria de escritoras hispanas en las Américas)
• Translator, Puppet: A Chicano Novela by Margarita Cota-Cárdenas (published by the University of New Mexico Press)