Faculty
Soheila Amirsoleimani
Associate Professor, Persian
Soheila Amirsoleimani
Associate Professor, Persian
801-585-3011 | LNCO 1951
soheila.amirsoleimani@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 1995, University of Michigan
Interests: Classical Persian texts; history, historiography, & the literature of the early Perso-Islamic
world
Gary Atwood-Mendez
Assistant Professor (Lect.), Spanish
Gary Atwood-Mendez
Assistant Professor (Lect.), Spanish
801-581-5229 | LNCO 1213
gary.atwood@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2006, University of California, Irvine
Interests: Peninsular Literature and Culture, Poetry, Queer Studies
Shoji Azuma
Professor, Japanese
Shoji Azuma
Professor, Japanese
801-581-7326 | LNCO 1225
shoji_azuma@yahoo.co.jp
Education: Ph.D., 1991, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Japanese studies, sociolinguistics, Japanese linguistics
Yoko Azuma
Instructor (Lecturer), Japanese
Yoko Azuma
Instructor (Lecturer), Japanese
801-581-5331 | LNCO 1311
y.azuma@utah.edu
Karin Baumgartner
Professor, German
Karin Baumgartner
Professor, German
801-585-3001 | LNCO 1323
karin.baumgartner@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 1999, Washington University in St. Louis
Interests: Travel literature, the historical novel, Swiss Studies, feminist theories 1789-present,
transnational literature
Vanessa Brutsche
Assistant Professor, French
Vanessa Brutsche
Assistant Professor, French
801-581-4395 | LNCO 1324
vanessa.brutsche@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Interests: 20th-21st century French and Francophone studies; film and media; memory studies;
Holocaust studies; critical geography and the spatial humanities
Tim Cannon
Instructor (Lecturer), Spanish
Tim Cannon
Instructor (Lecturer), Spanish
801-581-7561 | LNCO 1966
tim.cannon@utah.edu
Education: M.A., University of Utah
Interests: Learning abroad, travel, second language acquisition and pedagogy, literature, culture,
and Don Quixote.
KuanYi Chao
Instructor (Lecturer), Chinese
KuanYi Chao
Instructor (Lecturer), Chinese
801-585-3004 | LNCO 1419
kuanyi.chao@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2021, Indiana University
Alexis Christensen
Associate Professor (Lect.), Classics
Alexis Christensen
Associate Professor (Lecturer), Classics
801-581-6057 | LNCO 1419
alexis.christensen@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2006, Florida State University
Interests: Roman archaeology, Latin literature & epigraphy, mythology, classical reception, Roman
history
Talía Dajes
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Talía Dajes
Assistant Professor, Spanish
801-585-3003 | LNCO 1421
t.dajes@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2013, University of Michigan
Interests: Latin American Literature, Film and Visual Culture
Thérèse De Raedt
Associate Professor, French
Thérèse De Raedt
Associate Professor, French
801-587-7766 | LNCO 1958
therese.de-raedt@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2000, University of California, Davis
Interests: Modern French literature & culture, film & visual culture, Francophone literatures
& cultures
Nathan P. Devir
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Nathan P. Devir
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
801-585-3000 | LNCO 1325
nathan.devir@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2010, Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Religious Studies; Jewish Civilization; African Studies; Cultural Studies
Derek Driggs
Instructor (Lecturer), Korean
Derek Driggs
Instructor (Lecturer), Korean
801-581-7561 | LNCO 1328
derek.driggs@utah.edu
Education: Masters, 2018, University of Oxford
Interests: Pragmatics, honorifics and relational dynamics in East Asian languages, Korean literature
and media, first and additional language acquisition.
Isabel Dulfano
Professor, Spanish
Isabel Dulfano
Professor, Spanish
801-581-4605 | LNCO 1956
id2@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 1993, Yale University
Interests: Indigenous Feminist Studies; Business and Culture
Christine Everaert
Associate Professor, Hindi
Christine Everaert
Associate Professor, Hindi
801-581-8381 | LNCO 1215
christine.everaert@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2006, Ghent University, Belgium
Interests: Hindi & Urdu 20th-century short stories; Comparative (socio-) linguistics between
Hindi and Urdu; Subversive Indo-Pakistani literature; Sufism and Shi’ism in South
Asia
Elizabeth Ewaskio
Instructor (Lecturer), Russian
Elizabeth Ewaskio
Instructor (Lecturer), Russian
801-581-5994 | LNCO 1319
elizabeth.ewaskio@utah.edu
Education: M.A., Middlebury College
Interests: Foreign Language Pedagogy, L2 Russian, Translation, Central Asia
Tanya Flores
Associate Professor, Spanish
Tanya Flores
Associate Professor, Spanish
801-581-5439 | LNCO 1209
tanya.flores@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2014, Indiana University Bloomington
Interests: Sociolinguistics, Phonetics
Maria Teresa Martínez García
Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Spanish
Maria Teresa Martínez García
Assistant Professor (Lect.), Spanish
Education: Ph.D., 2016, University of Kansas
Katharina Gerstenberger
Professor, German
Katharina Gerstenberger
Professor, German
801-585-7908 | LNCO 1960
katharina.gerstenberger@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 1993, Cornell University
Interests: Contemporary German literature; Environmental Humanities; women’s literature; feminist
theory; autobiography studies; city literature
Michael Gruenbaum
Assistant Professor (Lect.), German
Michael Gruenbaum
Assistant Professor (Lect.), German
801-581-7722 | LNCO 1312
m.gruenbaum@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2012, University of Kansas
Interests: Germanic Language History, Philology & Dialectology; Mythology; Medievalism; Arthurian
Romance; German Film; Old Norse and Danish
Gema Guevara
Associate Professor, Spanish
Gema Guevara
Associate Professor, Spanish
801-585-3005 | LNCO 1317
g.guevara@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 1999, University of California, San Diego
Interests: Latin American Literature and Caribbean Studies
Jane F. Hacking
Professor, Russian
Jane F. Hacking
Professor, Russian
801-581-6688| LNCO 1954
j.hacking@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 1993, University of Toronto
Interests: L2 Russian; L2 Phonology; Dual Language Immersion; Language Proficiency
Anna Murta Hodgson
Assistant Professor (Lect.), Portuguese
Anna Murta Hodgson
Assistant Professor (Lect.), Portuguese
801-581-7737 | LNCO 1211
anna.hodgson@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2018, University of Arkansas
Interests: Portuguese Language and Literature, Business Portuguese, Brazilian Cinema.
Jesse Hurlbut
Visiting Associate Professor, French
Jesse Hurlbut
Visiting Associate Professor, French
801-581-7561 | LNCO 1324
jesse.hurlbut@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D. 1990 Indiana University
Interests: Medieval French literature & culture, text & image studies, manuscripts, comics, digital
humanities, allegory, and poetry
Sae Kawase
Instructor (Lecturer), Japanese
Sae Kawase
Instructor (Lect.), Japanese
801-581-7754 | LNCO 1425
sae.kawase@utah.edu
Education: M.A., 2002, Durham University (UK)
Interests: Japanese Language Pedagogy, Language Teaching and ICT, Curriculum Design
M. A. Mujeeb Khan
Asst. Professor of Japanese & Islamic Studies
M. A. Mujeeb Khan
Assistant Professor of Japanese and Islamic Studies
801-585-3005 | LNCO 1313
mujeeb.khan@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Interests: Japan; Arab-Islamic World; East Asian (Sinitic) Cultural Sphere; Islamicate Cultural
Sphere; Comparative Intellectual History; History of Science and Medicine; Religion,
Science, and Law; Law and Society; Cross-cultural Representation; East-West Communication
Hyesun Kim
Assistant Professor (Lect.), Korean
Hyesun Kim
Assistant Professor (Lect.), Korean
801-585-3012 | LNCO 1223
hyesun.kim@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2018, University of Utah
Interests: Heritage language Education among Korean-American family, language ideologies and
identities, Bilingual Education
Natalya Kuznetsova
Assistant Professor (Lect.), Russian
Natalya Kuznetsova
Assistant Professor (Lect.), Russian
801-581-6005 | LNCO 1207
natalya.kuznetsova@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2018, West Virginia University
Interests: Russian language pedagogy, bi/multilingualism, and identity, language ideology
Anne Lair
Professor (Lecturer), French
Anne Lair
Professor (Lecturer), French
801-581-7534 | LNCO 1212
anne.lair@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2003, The Ohio State University
Interests: The teaching of culture; pedagogy; cultural aspects of the French business world;
the symbolism of culinary art in French culture, literature, and art
Ashton Lazarus
Assistant Professor, Japanese
Ashton Lazarus
Assistant Professor, Japanese
801-581-7722 | LNCO 1325
ashton.lazarus@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Classical and medieval Japanese literature; Sino-Japanese literature; folk performance;
performance history; sound studies; sensory studies; translation
Christopher Lewis
Chair; Associate Professor, Portuguese
Christopher Lewis
Chair; Associate Professor, Portuguese
801-581-4604 | LNCO 1417
christopher.t.lewis@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2011, Harvard University
Interests: 21st-century Brazilian Literature, Machado de Assis, time studies, intersections of
music, politics, literature, and cinema throughout the Lusophone world
Giuliana Marple
Instructor (Lecturer), Italian
Giuliana Marple
Instructor (Lecturer), Italian
801-585-3008 | LNCO 1303
g.c.marple@utah.edu
Education: M.A.T., University of Utah
BA, French Literature & International Relations, Brigham Young University
Joseph Metz
Associate Professor, German
Joseph Metz
Associate Professor, German
801-581-7620 | LNCO 1964
joseph.metz@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 1999, Harvard University
Interests: Aesthetics and affect; the sublime; Austrian & German Realism & Modernism; Literary
Theory; Lyric poetry; Contemplative pedagogy & empathy
Eunkyung Park
Instructor (Lecturer), Korean
Eunkyung Park
Instructor (Lecturer), Korean
Songdo Korea Campus eunkyung.park@utah.edu
Education: M.A., Ewha Womans University
Interests: Korean Culture, Contents-Based Instruction (CBI), Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT)
Alejandro Quin
Associate Professor, Spanish
Alejandro Quin
Associate Professor, Spanish
801-587-8524 | LNCO 1219
a.quin@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2011, University of Michigan
Interests: Latin American Literature and Culture
Fernando Rubio
Professor, Spanish
Fernando Rubio
Professor, Spanish
801-581-4610 | LNCO 1930
fernando.rubio@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2000, SUNY at Buffalo
Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Language Teaching Methodology
Lucía Rubio
Instructor (Lecturer), Spanish
Lucía Rubio
Instructor (Lecturer), Spanish
801-585-0639 | LNCO 1228
lucia.rubio@utah.edu
Education: M.A., University of Utah
Interests: (DLI) Dual Language Education, L2 Assessment and Teaching.
Shereen Salah
Instructor (Lecturer), Arabic
Shereen Salah
Instructor (Lecturer), Arabic
801-585-0639 | LNCO 1226
shereen.salah@utah.edu
Education: M.A., 2008, Brigham Young University
Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Business Arabic, Mastering Arabic through Debate, Arabic
Culture, Middle Eastern History, Translation.
Jacqueline Sheean
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Jacqueline Sheean
Assistant Professor, Spanish
801-587-8817 | LNCO 1423
j.sheean@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., USC
Interests: 20th and 21st Spanish Peninsular Literature, Film, and Visual Culture; Media Studies;
Memory Studies; Critical Theory; Architecture and Urbanism; Surrealism; Experimental
and Documentary Cinema.
Yunwen Su
Assistant Professor, Chinese
Yunwen Su
Assistant Professor, Chinese
801-581-5994 | LNCO 1203
yunwen.su@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2017, Indiana University Bloomington
Interests: Acquisition and assessment of second language pragmatics
Cindi Textor
Assistant Professor, Japanese
Cindi Textor
Assistant Professor, Japanese
801-581-4608 | LNCO 1205
cindi.textor@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2016, University of Washington
Interests: modern Japanese literature, modern Korean literature, Zainichi literature, empire
and post- colonialism, critical race studies, translation
Deberniere Torrey
Associate Professor, Korean
Deberniere "Bunny" Torrey
Associate Professor, Korean
801-581-7990 | LNCO 1221
d.torrey@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2010, Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Korean culture, religion, & literature; religion & identity; intellectual history
& identity; East-West exchange & influence
Margaret Toscano
Associate Professor, Classics
Margaret Toscano
Associate Professor, Classics
801-581-4768 | LNCO 1968
margaret.toscano@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2002, University of Utah
Interests: gender & sexuality, myth & religion, reception of ancient Classical world in film,
Mormon feminism
Margaret Wan
Professor, Chinese
Margaret Wan
Professor, Chinese
801-581-6059 | LNCO 1952
margaret.wan@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2000, Harvard University
Interests: Popular culture in Late Imperial China; Chinese vernacular fiction of the Ming & Qing;
martial arts novels; Digital Humanities
Fusheng Wu
Professor, Chinese
Fusheng Wu
Professor, Chinese
801-581-6056 | LNCO 1315
fusheng.wu@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 1995, Brown University
Interests: Classical Chinese poetry, East-West comparative literature and poetics, translation
studies
John Wynne
Associate Professor, Classics
John Wynne
Associate Professor, Classics
801-581-8384 | LNCO 1321
john.wynne@utah.edu
Education: Ph.D., 2008, Cornell University
Interests: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, especially of the Hellenistic and later periods;
Cicero; philosophy of religion and philosophical skepticism