Faculty Research Areas

• 20th & 21st Century Mexican Literary and Cultural Studies
• ;Foreign language proficiency, performance assessment; creation of conditions that allow students to reach the highest level of proficiency possible in the number of class contact hours allotted
• African Francophone Literature, Film, Arts and Cultures
• African Literature, Film and Culture
• Artistic and political vanguard movements
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• Comparative literature
• Content-based language curriculum development
• Creative Writing
• Creative writing
• Curriculum development
• Dance and Film Studies
• Enlightenment thought and modernity
• French cultural history
• Gender studies
• History of the press
• Human Rights
• Implicit vs explicit feedback
• Instructed Second Language Acquisition
• Language pedagogy
• Latin American literatures & cultures (with a specialty in the Southern Cone)
• Latina/o Studies
• Learning to learn
• Literary translation
• Media discourse analysis
• Multimedia technologies
• Nahuatl Language and Culture / Indigeneity
• Nineteenth-Century French literature and culture
• Post-Soviet Media in the Russian Federation and Central Asia
• Queer, Feminist, and Performance Studies
• Russian and Soviet Culture; 19th-Century Russian Literature; Russian and Soviet Cinema; Georgian Cinema; Central Asian Cinema;
• Second language (L2) acquisition
• Spanish Imperialism
• Spanish and Latin American intellectual history
• Sustainability in Second Language Acquisition
• Sustainability literacy in Spanish
• Task-based second language learning
• The role of the mother tongue (L1) in instructed second language (L2) acquisition
• U.S. Imperialism
• Urbanism and urban history
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