Faculty
LEFT to RIGHT: Front: María Acosta Cruz, Michael Spingler, Carol and Marvin D'Lugo; Middle: Odile Ferly, Ivy Sun, Belén Atienza, Alice Valentine, Constance Montross, Beth Gale, Pilar Justo; Back: Paul Burke, Walter Schatzberg, William Ferguson, Everett Fox; Not present: Tzilla Barone, Cedric Cunningham, Hartmut Kaiser, Cathie Spingler, Chengcheng Wang
Ancient Civilization/Classics (Latin and Greek)
Paul Burke Professor of Classics,
Literatures and Ancient Civilization
Eric A. Parks Lecturer in Latin
Ph.D.: Boston University (2008),
M.A.: Boston University
Eric's thesis is titled "The Portrayal of Women in the Works of Tacitus."
Chinese
Wenhua Jin Visiting Assistant Professor in Chinese
Ph.D.: University of Texas at Arlington; M.A. Liaoning University, P.R. China
Wenhua has over ten years of university level teaching experience in the U.S.A.
and China in the areas of Chinese Language, Linguistics and English. She has
published extensively on these topics. Her current research interests lie in
Chinese linguistics and Chinese language teaching/acquisition.
Bei Zhang Lecturer in Chinese
M.A.: Clark University, B.A.: Yangzhou University, China
Bei has a Certificate in Excellent Proficiency in Mandarin issued by
National Proficiency Test of Putonghua (Mandarin), P. R. China. She currently
teaches Elementary and Intermediate Chinese. Bei believes that culture is
inseparable from language teaching. To increase students’ interest in Chinese
and make the rote learning of a new language more enjoyable, she teaches Chinese
nursery and pop songs, tells interesting cultural stories and lets students
participate in hands-on activities, such as inquiry based conversation, sketch
performance, a Chinese new year party, and language/culture-related games, which
utilize the language skills students have acquired. Her research interest is Asian images
in advertising.
French
Odile Ferly Assistant
Professor of French
Ph.D.: University of Bristol (UK)
Having been raised in the French Antilles, Odile has concentrated her studies on Caribbean literatures and cultures. Her thesis "Women Writers from the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean at the Close of the Twentieth Century: En-gendering Caribbeanness" includes writers who live and work in the Caribbean as well as in other venues such as urban United States. Odile has already published numerous articles on related
topics. Her teaching and research concentrate on interdisciplinary approaches to
Caribbean and Francophone literature and culture.
Beth Gale Associate Professor of French
Dorothy Kaufmann Professor
Emerita of French Retired 2005
Catherine Quick Spingler Lecturer in French, costume designer for the Department of Visual
and Performing Arts
M.A.: University of Michigan
Cathie teaches Beginning and Intermediate French and Costume History and Design. Her language courses place particular emphasis on communicative competence as well as grammatical skill. Her classes explore the subtleties and humour of language. Cathie is responsible for the training of the Teaching Assistants who come from The University of Versailles and The University of Dijon. She recently supervised a master’s thesis on pedagogy written by Natalie Salazar, a former Teaching Assistant from the University of Dijon.
Cathie designs costumes for the major productions for The Department of Visual and Performing Arts. She is currently working on a study of the connections between Fashion and Costume in collaboration with Rick Takvorian, a Clark graduate who is the Executive Producer for the Performance Center at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, Germany.
Michael Spingler Associate Professor of French,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Theater Arts
German
Robert Tobin
Professor and Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures
Wendy Owanisian-Wagner Visiting Lecturer in German
Ph.D.: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Educated in Germany and Greece, Wendy returns to Clark for a second time. She
has been self-employed in connecting German cultures and has wide experience in
business, high technology, teaching.
Kenneth Hughes
Professor Emeritus of German
Retired May, 2005
Hartmut Kaiser Associate Professor Emeritus of
German; Adjunct Associate Professor of Music
Retired May, 2002
Walter Schatzberg Professor Emeritus of German
Retired May, 2006
Hebrew
Everett Fox, Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies,
Director, Program in Jewish Studies,
Chair of Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
David Shemesh Lecturer in Hebrew
M.A.: Jewish Theological Seminary New York, N., B.A.: Leningrad State
Conservatory Leningrad, Russia
David is fluent in Hebrew, English and Russian languages and experienced in
pedagogy, nursing and music.
Japanese
Alice Valentine Lecturer in Japanese
M.A., A.B.D.: Harvard University
Alice teaches Beginning and Intermediate Japanese as well as courses in Japanese history.
Her research interests are classical Japanese literature and Japanese
women in the 20th century.
Spanish
María Acosta Cruz Associate Professor of Spanish
Belén Atienza Assistant Professor of Spanish
Carol D'Lugo Professor of Spanish; Director of the Spanish Program
Marvin D'Lugo Professor of Spanish and Adjunct Professor of Screen Studies;
William Ferguson Associate Professor of Spanish, Adjunct Associate Professor of English
Constance Montross Director of the Language Arts Resource Center [LARC], Adjunct in Spanish
Ph.D.: Yale University
Connie's specialty is language pedagogy, and she is the co-author of Vistas: voces del mundo hispánico, a highly successful intermediate-level
Spanish reader, now in its third edition. She also coordinates Spanish
117, Field Work in the Hispanic Community, an internship program that
gives our students the opportunity to use their Spanish while working
in a variety of community- based activities, among them the bi-lingual
public schools and Centro Las Américas.
Luisa-María Rojas-Rimachi Visiting
Lecturer in Spanish
Ed.D./ABD candidate: University of Massachusetts-Amherst; M.A. Literary Studies: Université
du Quebéc
à Montréal
(UQAM) From Perú she has participated in numerous academic events while researching her
interest of cultural discourse analysis and "A Dialogue of One Voice: The
Theory of Opposing Codes in Human Rights Discourse."
Dana Simpson Visiting Faculty in Spanish
Ph.D.: Middlebury College; M.Ed. Harvard University; M.A. Middlebury College
Dana wrote his dissertation on: The Role of Women in Three Spanish
Renaissance Chivalric Novels and has taught Spanish, French and English at
the college level.
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