Our People
Meet Our People
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Delaware is home to a diverse and accomplished group of faculty and staff who are dedicated to the study and promotion of language, literature, and cultural understanding. Our department features experts in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, literary analysis, cultural studies, and language pedagogy. Together, we work to provide our students with a rich and engaging educational experience that prepares them for success in an increasingly globalized world.
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Chad M. Gasta
Department Chair
Professor of SpanishOffice: 103A Jastak-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-0671
Email: [email protected]
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Deborah Steinberger
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Associate ChairOffice: 205 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-2591
Email: [email protected]
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Ali Alalou
Associate Professor, French and Pedagogy
Office: 117 Jastak Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-0701
Email: [email protected]
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Persephone Braham
Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Iberian Studies
Office: 209 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Email: [email protected]
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Amy Bustin
Spanish Basic Language Program Director, and Assistant Professor of Spanish and Pedagogy
Office: 305 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Email: [email protected]
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Judy Celli
Senior Instructor of French
Office: 321 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-0722
Email: [email protected]
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Jianguo Chen
Associate Professor of Chinese
Office: 317 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-0765
Email: [email protected]
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Meghan Dabkowski
Associate Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and Linguistics
Office: 323 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Email: [email protected]
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Julia Domínguez
Professor of Spanish
Director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies ProgramOffice: 107 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-0785
Email: [email protected]
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Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths
Associate Professor of Spanish
Office: 315 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-0835
Email: [email protected]
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Eynat Gutman
Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Office: 308 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Email: [email protected]
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Rachael Hutchinson
Elias Ahuja Professor of Japanese and Game Studies
Office: 113 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-0918
Email: [email protected]
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Crista Johnson
Instructor of Spanish
Office: 320 Jastak Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-4667
Email: [email protected]
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Doris Manzano
Instructor of Spanish
Email: [email protected]
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Tomas McCone
Director of Language Resource Center
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: 006A Jastak-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-6551
Email: [email protected]
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Nikol Miroieva
Instructor of Spanish
Office: 316 Jastak-Burgess Hall
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Basia Moltchanov
Associate Professor of Spanish and Pedagogy
Office: 318 Jastak Burgess Hall
Email: [email protected]
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Phillip Penix-Tadsen
Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies
Office: 219 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Email: [email protected]
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Flora Poindexter
Instructor of French
Office: 322 Jastack-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-1054
Email: [email protected]
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Ester Riehl
Assistant Professor of German
Office: 233 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Phone: (302) 831-1056
Email: [email protected]
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Alexander Selimov
Elias Ahuja Chair of Spanish and Latin American Studies
Office: 236 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Email: [email protected]
| Name | Affiliation | |
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Alfonso Caballero, Marta |
Adjunct Faculty, Spanish |
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Alrawi, Noora |
Adjunct Faculty, Arabic |
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Berndt, Judith |
Adjunct Faculty, German |
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Cai, Jie |
Adjunct Faculty, Chinese |
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Ciuffetelli, Anthony |
Adjunct Faculty, Spanish |
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Gama Avella, Lorena |
Adjunct Faculty, Spanish |
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Kadhim-Sudani, Thamer Dawood |
Adjunct Faculty, Arabic |
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Kelly, Carlos |
Adjunct Faculty, Game Studies |
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Kim, Heejin |
Adjunct Faculty, Korean |
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Ladner, Erik |
Adjunct Faculty, Spanish |
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Laird, Margaret |
Adjunct Faculty, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies |
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Le Jeune, Christine |
Adjunct Faculty, German |
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Liu, Na |
Adjunct Faculty, Chinese |
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Paulino, Bill |
Adjunct Faculty, Spanish |
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Sato, Mutsuko |
Adjunct Faculty, Japanese |
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Villarreal, Christina |
Adjunct Faculty, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies |
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Vorozhbit, Maria |
Adjunct Faculty, Russian |
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Waldburger Mathe, Jennifer |
Adjunct Faculty, Italian and French |
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Wilson, Keri |
Adjunct Faculty, American Sign Language |
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Boosz, Janet |
Adjunct Field Instructor, World Language Education |
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Foley, Kalee |
Adjunct Field Instructor, World Language Education |
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Wainwright, Lea |
Adjunct Field Instructor, World Language Education |
| Name | Title | |
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Brown, Joan L. |
Elias Ahuja Chair Emerita of Spanish |
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Busch, Hans-Jörg |
Retired Associate Professor of Spanish & Pedagogy |
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Busch, Iris |
Retired Assistant Professor of German |
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Coulet Du Gard, Donna |
Retired Senior Instructor of French |
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Cubillos, Jorge |
Retired Professor of Spanish |
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Dominguez, Ivo |
Associate Professor Emeritus of Spanish |
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Donaldson-Evans, Mary |
Elias Ahuja Professor Emeritus of French |
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Finnicum, Carmen |
Retired Senior Instructor of Spanish |
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Giesecke, Annette |
Retired Elias Ahuja Professor of Classics |
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Gilgenast, Edeltraut |
Assistant Professor Emerita of German |
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Ilarregui, Gladys |
Associate Professor Emerita of Spanish |
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Inoue, Chika |
Retired Senior Instructor of Japanese |
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Lees, Cynthia |
Retired Assistant Professor of French |
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Martinez, America |
Retired Assistant Professor of Spanish |
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McKenna, Susan |
Retired Associate Professor of Spanish |
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Musik, Krystyna |
Retired Senior Instructor of Spanish |
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Nobile, Nancy |
Retired Associate Professor of German |
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Robb, Bonnie |
Retired Associate Professor of French |
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Saad Maura, Asima |
Retired Associate Professor of Spanish |
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Schmidt-Cruz, Cynthia |
Professor Emerita of Spanish |
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Shafi, Monika |
Retired Elias Ahuja Professor of German |
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Thibault, Bruno |
Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Emeritus of French Literature |
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Thibault, Elizabeth |
Retired Senior Instructor of German |
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Veitia, Amalia |
Retired Instructor of Spanish |
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Wedel, Alfred |
Professor Emeritus of German |
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Zipser, Richard |
Retired Professor of German |
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Olney, Kaylee |
Business Administrator II & CAS BA Lead |
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Turner, Kathleen |
Academic Program Coordinator - Undergraduate Studies |
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Camacho, Lizette |
Academic Program Coordinator - Graduate Studies |
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Milbury-Steen, Blythe |
World Languages Education Program Coordinator and Advisor |
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McCone, Thomas |
Director, Language Resource Center |
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Ward, Aaron |
Systems Programmer III, CAS IT |
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Biddle, Susan |
Grants Analyst II, CAS Research |
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Holmes, Andrew |
Financial Analyst I, CAS Financial Operations |
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Silva, Ashlee |
Financial Processor II, CAS Financial Operations |
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Bailey, Latasha |
HR Generalist, CAS HR |
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Sherman, Nate |
Facilities Coordinator, CAS Facilities |
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Abioye, Victor |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French |
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Acevedo, Nathan |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish |
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Chrétien, Johanna |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French |
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Garcia Vazquez, Jessica Mariana |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish |
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Houle, Avery |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish |
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Lahoz, Carlota |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish |
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Morales Arias, Elena |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish |
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Osemwegie, Blessing |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French |
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Pacheco del Rio, Maria Jose |
Graduate Student, Spanish |
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Raas, Cécile |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French |
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Rodriguez Milan, Sheila |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish |
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Sanchez Linares, Mirian |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish |
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Simón Mendez, Leire |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish |
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Snodgrass, Falon |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French |
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Tabouillot, Laurène |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French |
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Vera Bravo, Miguel |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish |
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Wuensch, Gabrielle |
Graduate Student, French |
Operational and Academic
| Name | Role | |
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| Gasta, Chad | Department Chairperson | [email protected] |
| Steinberger, Deborah | Associate Chair | [email protected] |
| Braham, Persephone | Undergraduate Studies Chair | [email protected] |
| Guardiola-Griffiths, Cristina | Graduate Studies Chair | [email protected] |
| Johnson, Crista | Foreign Language Placement Advisor | [email protected] |
| Moltchanov, Basia | Course Scheduling Officer | [email protected] |
| Penix-Tadsen, Phillip | Game Studies Director | [email protected] |
Coordinators, Language Chairs and Sequence Supervisors
| Name | Role | |
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| Masmoudi, Ikram | Arabic Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Dong, Renee | Chinese Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Yang, Haihong | Chinese 100-Level Course Sequence Supervisor | [email protected] |
| Boyd, Marcaline | Ancient Greek & Roman Studies (Classics) Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Oancea, Ana | French Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Poindexter, Flora | FREN 105 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Amzallag, Olivia | FREN 106 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Celli, Judy | FREN 107 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Richardson, Diane | German Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Gutman, Eynat | Hebrew Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Ray, Meredith | Italian Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Veneziano Broccia, Lillyrose | Italian 100-Level Course Sequence Supervisor | [email protected] |
| Saggese, Riccarda | ITAL 105 & ITAL 107 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Morrione, Roberta | ITAL 106 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Mondelli, Frank | Japanese Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Miller, Mark | Japanese 100-Level Course Sequence Supervisor | [email protected] |
| VanLuvanee, Eric | JAPN 105 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Miller, Mark | JAPN 106 & JAPN 107 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Yoon, Sunmin | Korean Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Dabkowski, Meghan | Portuguese Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Myers, Holly | Russian Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Selimov, Alexander | Spanish Language Chair | [email protected] |
| Bustin, Amy | Spanish Basic Language Program Director | [email protected] |
| Johnson, Crista | SPAN 105 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Villaverde Salgueiro, Sheila | SPAN 106 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Manzano, Doris | SPAN 107 Course Coordinator | [email protected] |
| Milbury-Steen, Blythe | Three Languages Advisor |
[email protected] |
| Milbury-Steen, Blythe | World Languages Education Coordinator | [email protected] |
Department Representatives
| Name | Role | |
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| Dabkowski, Meghan | Department Representative, University Faculty Senate | [email protected] |
| Dabkowski, Meghan | Department Representative, College Faculty Senate | [email protected] |
| Guardiola-Griffiths, Cristina | Department Representative, Graduate College Council | [email protected] |
| Steinberger, Deborah | Department Representative, AAUP Faculty Union | [email protected] |
| VanLuvanee, Eric | Department Representative, AAUP Faculty Union | [email protected] |
| Steinberger, Deborah | Department Liaison, Honors College | [email protected] |
