Asela Laguna, Professor and Chair
B.A., Puerto Rico; M.A., Ph.D., Illinois

Language Section: Spanish

Special interests:
Puerto Rican Literature
Comparative Anglo-Hispanic Relations
Contemporary Hispanic Literature
Hispanic US Literature
Theme of Christopher Columbus in Literature

Language Section: French

Special interests:
French Civilization and Culture
18th-Century French literary,
intellectual and social history
La Belle Epoque
The French Novel

Leonard J. Wang, Professor
B.A., CUNY (City College); M.A., Ph.D., Columbia

Language Section: French

Special interests:
17th-Century French Literature
Courtly Occitanian Literature of the Middle Ages
Latin Lyric and Epic Poetry

Marie M. Collins, Associate Professor
B.A., Trinity; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D., New York

Language Section: French

Special interests:
Women Writers in France
Francophone Writers
20th-Century Drama and Novel
George Sand

Nancy G. Diaz, Associate Professor
B.A., Illinois; M.A., CUNY; Ph.D., Rutgers

Language Section: Spanish

Special interests:
20th-Century Latin American Narrative
Comparative Latin American Studies
Postmodernism
Narratology
Latin-American Feminist Writing

Elpidio Laguna-Diaz, Associate Professor
B.A., Puerto Rico; M.A., St. John’s; Ph.D., CUNY

Language Section: Spanish

Special interests:
Civilization Studies
Spanish/Spanish-American Literature
History of Ideas

Robert R. Stieglitz, Associate Professor
B.A., CUNY (City College); M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis

Language Section: Hebraic Studies; Ancient and Medieval Civilizations

Special interests:
Biblical Archaeology
History of Seafaring
West-Semitic Epigraphy

Jennifer B. Austin, Assistant Professor
B.A., Earlham; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell

Language Section: Spanish

Special interests:  
First and Second Language Acquisition
Bilingualism and Language Contact
Hispanic Linguistics
Basque Linguistics

Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Assistant Professor
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern

Language Section: Portuguese

Web Site: http://www.portuguese.rutgers.edu/intro.htm

Special interests:
Expressive Culture in Portugal and Brazil
20th-Century Portuguese and Brazilian Literature
Performance Studies
Ethnography
Migration Studies

Monica Pereira, Lecturer from Instituto Camoes
M.A., F.C.S.H./U.N.L. (Lisbon, Portugal)

Language Section: Portuguese

Special interests:
Portuguese Linguistics, Culture and Arts

Mohamed Alsiadi, Assistant Instructor
Coordinator, Arabic Studies Program
B.A., Damascus, Syria

Language Section: Arabic, Urdu, and Persian

Special Interests: Arabic Language and Culture, Arabic Poetry, Literature, Music, and Arab History

Nela Navarro, Assistant Instructor
B.A. University of the Andes, Bogota; M.A., Rutgers University

Language Section: Spanish

Special Interests: Spanish language and culture; Applied Linguistics, Foreign language acquisition, instructional technology and ESL.

Bonnie Wasserman, Assistant Instructor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison

Languages Section: Portuguese

Special Interests: Brazilian and Portuguese literatures; Lusophone Cinema and Historial Theater.

Dr. Gonzalo Pasamar Alzuria, Visiting Professor
Professor of History, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Research Area: Spanish Hisotriography of the 19th & 20th Centuries