Language Program
2011-12 General Catalog
218 Cowell College
(831) 459-2054
http://language.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Chinese
David Keenan
Chinese language, fiction, and history
French
Angela Elsey
Francophonie, 19th-century French history and civilization, French and Francophone cinema
Greta Hutchison
Foreign language pedagogy, second language acquisition, medieval French literature, and 19th-century literature and art
Nora Megharbi
Second and foreign language acquisition, applied linguistics, pedagogical grammar, technology and multimedia, sociolinguistics, TA training, course supervision, business French, scientific French, francophone literature, translation
German
Zsuzsanna Abrams
Applied linguistics, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, computer-mediate communication
Walter Campbell
Language teaching, 18th- and 19th-century German literature, history of German
Greek
Karen Bassi (Literature)
Greek and Latin literatures, Greek drama, Hellenistic poetics, feminist interpretation, literary and cultural theory, pre- and early modern studies, historiography
Mary-Kay Gamel (Literature)
Performance studies, ancient Mediterranean performance, Greek and Latin literatures, myth, reception of Greek and Roman texts and artifacts, film, feminist approaches to literature and performance
Gildas Hamel (History)
History of Judaism and Christianity; Hebrew and Greek Bible; classical languages
Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. (History)
Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, historiography, political theory
John P. Lynch (Literature), Emeritus
Jennifer Lynn
Later Roman Republic and Principate; Homeric epic; Hellenistic and Augustan poetry; Cicero
Daniel Selden (Literature)
Afroasiatic languages and literatures, Greek and Latin, Hellenistic culture, the classical tradition, history of criticism, literary theory
Hebrew
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Hebrew language and culture, biblical Hebrew syntax and semantics, the Hebrew Bible, Jewish thought, psycholinguistics, second-language acquisition and bilingualism
Italian
Giulia Centineo
Italian culture and civilization; history of Italian language; Italian linguistics, syntax, and semantics; language pedagogy
Tonia Prencipe
Technology and foreign language pedagogy; modern Italian culture, history, literature, and cinema; creative writing; promotion of Italian language and culture of K-12
Japanese
Sakae Fujita
Foreign language methodology, drama/theater/improvisation use in language learning, language and identity, foreign language literacy
Shigeko Okamoto
Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, language and gender, foreign language pedagogy, Japanese linguistics
Latin
Karen Bassi (Literature)
Greek and Latin literatures, Greek drama, Hellenistic poetics, feminist interpretation, literary and cultural theory, pre- and early modern studies, historiography
Mary-Kay Gamel (Literature)
Performance studies, ancient Mediterranean performance, Greek and Latin literatures, myth, reception of Greek and Roman texts and artifacts, film, feminist approaches to literature and performance
Gildas Hamel (History)
History of Judaism and Christianity; Hebrew and Greek Bible; classical languages
Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. (History)
Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, historiography, political theory
John P. Lynch (Literature), Emeritus
Jennifer Lynn
Later Roman Republic and Principate; Homeric epic; Hellenistic and Augustan poetry; Cicero
Daniel Selden (Literature)
Afroasiatic languages and literatures, Greek and Latin, Hellenistic culture, the classical tradition, history of criticism, literary theory
Portuguese
Ana Maria Seara
Portuguese language; literature, film, and music of Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking world; acquisition and teaching of foreign, second, and heritage languages
Russian
William Nickell
Leo Tolstoy, Russian cultural history, 1920s–1930s Soviet Russia, Russian Soviet film, Russian language and pedagogy
Spanish and Spanish for Spanish Speakers
Brenda Barceló
Medical and professional Spanish, language instruction technology, Latin American culture, Latin dance expressions, Spanish/English/Spanish translation and interpretation, Hispanic linguistics, Romance languages
Carlos Calierno
Bilingualism and intercultural communication; Latin American culture; history of the conquest, music, art, and cinematography
Verónica Feliu
Latin American literature of the 20th century; Chilean feminisms, politics, and culture; Latin American cultural studies; Spanish learning for both non-native and heritage speakers
María Victoria GonzÁlez-Pagani
Language teaching methodology; Spanish syntax; computer-assisted foreign language learning; Latin American cultural studies, especially women’s contributions
María Morris
Language learning styles and strategies, culture and technology in language training
Marta Navarro
Latin American literature, Mexican/Chicano culture, Latina/Chicana issues
Ariel A. PÉrez
Language acquisition and teaching methodology, computer-assisted language learning, teaching language for proficiency, oral proficiency assessment; Latin American current affairs
Alvaro Romero-Marco
Spanish literature of the 19th- and 20th-centuries; film, cultural studies
Eve Zyzik
Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, language pedagogy and curriculum design\
Revised: 8/13/12
