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Faculty and Staff

Maria Carreira

Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990
Phonology, Spanish in the US, Sociolinguistics, Heritage languages, Educational linguistics

  • Location: AS-333
  • Email:Carreira@csulb.edu

Laura Ceia-Minjares

Assistant Professor of French Ph.D.
University of California, Davis, 2005 Dr. Laura Ceia-Minjares
Contemporary France (nouvelles francophonies, intellectual history, contemporary European literature, French and European cinema)

  • Location: AS-327
  • E-mail: lceiamin@csulb.edu
Carlo-Chiarenza

Carlo Chiarenza

Professor of Italian
Ph.D Johns Hopkins University, 1973
19th and 20th century Italian literature, Italian and European Cinema, Literary theory

  • Phone: 562-985-4621
  • Location: AS-305
  • Email: cchiaren@csulb.edu

Carrie Collenberg Carrie Collenberg

Language Coordinator

  • 562-985-1795
  • Location: AS-322
  • Email: ccollenb@csulb.edu

 

 

 

Alicia-del-Campo

Alicia del Campo

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. University of Califorina, Irvine, 1998
Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American Theater, Cultural Studies in Latin America, Literature and Human Rights,
Memory, Politics and Theatre.

  • Location: AS-331
  • Email: delcampo@csulb.edu
Clorinda

Clorinda Donato
Graduate/Undergraduate Advisor
French

Professor of French/Italian
Ph.D. UCLA, 1987
European encyclopedism; the "long" eighteenth century; early modern France and Italy; gender studies; the Iberoamerican
Enlightenment; Romanticism

  • Phone: (562) 985-4316
  • Location:AS-343
  • Email: donato@csulb.edu
Teresa-Fiore

Teresa Fiore

Associate Professor of Italian
Ph. D. University of California San Diego, 2002
19th, 20th and 21st-century Italy; Migration literature and film from/to Italy; Space, identity, national formation,
postcoloniality, and diaspora; Italian language pedagogy.

  • Phone: (562) 985-2655
  • Location: AS-319
  • E-mail: tfiore@csulb.edu


 

Steve-Fleck

Steve Fleck

Professor of French
PhD University of California, Davis, 1993
17th Century French theater, especially Molière; comic theory and practice; opera and other musical theater; poetry and music;
French literature and cinema relations.

  • Location: AS-325
  • Email: sfleck@csulb.edu

Bonnie Gasior
Program Director-Spanish Undergraduate Advisor Dr. Bonnie Gasior

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2001
Early Modern Spain and Colonial Spanish America (subaltern studies, travel literature, theater)

Nele-Hempel-Lamer

Nele Hempel-Lamer
Undergraduate Advisor-German

Associate Professor of German
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998
20th century German Literature and Culture; Contemporary Austrian Studies; Feminism; Service Learning/Community Engagement.

  • Office: AS-326
  • E-mail: nhempell@csulb.edu
Jeffrey High

Jeffrey High
Graduate Advisor-German

Associate Professor of German
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001
18th century German Literature, Revolution, Aesthetic Theory, and Moral Philosophy.

  • Location: AS-321
  • E-mail: jhigh@csulb.edu
Jean-Jacques-Jura

Jean-Jacques Jura

Professor of French; LOTE Coordinator, Single Subject Credential Program
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 1988
20th century French literature; theatricality in Julien Green's novels; advisement for foreign language credentialing; silent
movie history of Long Beach.

  • 562-985-2200
  • Location: AS-317
  • E-mail: jjura2@csulb.edu (E-mail contact preferred)
  • Curriculum Vitae

Claire MartinDr. Claire Martin

Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. Yale University, 1988
Ninetenth-century Latin American studies, gender studies, contemporary Argentinean literature.

  • Location: AS-328
  • E-mail: cmartin@csulb.edu
    On Leave Fall 2009 - Spring 2010


Markus Muller

Associate Professor of French
Ph.D. UCLA, 1998
Teaching Methodology (TA training), Second Language Acquisition, 19th Cent. French literature (the novel and the fantastic)

  • Phone: (562) 985-4323
  • Office: AS 342
  • E-mail: memuller@csulb.edu
    On Leave Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
Aparna-Nayak-Guercio

Aparna Nayak-Guercio

Assistant Professor of French
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2006
20th century France; literature of Fascism and the Resistance; Literature, History, and Memory.

  • Location: AS-320
  • E-mail: anayakgu@csulb.edu
Leslie-Nord

Leslie Susan Nord
Undergraduate/Graduate Advisor-Spanish

Lecturer in Spanish
Ph.D. Yale University, 1989
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spain; Romanticism;
Generation of 27

  • Phone: (562) 985-4310
  • Location: AS-336
  • Email: lnord@csulb.edu

Rita Palacios

Assistant Professor of Spanish

  • Location: AS-329
  • Email: rpalacio@csulb.edu

 

 

Alex-Rainof

Alex Rainof

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1969
Translation and interpretation with special emphasis on interpretation for the Federal Courts and the California Courts and State
Agencies.

  • Location: AS-323
  • E-mail: arainof@csulb.edu

Najib Redouane

Professor of French
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1999
Francophonie literatures with emphasis on northern Africa.

  • Location: AS-335
  • E-mail: nredouan@csulb.edu
Harold Schefski

Harold Schefski
Program Director

Professor of Russian
Ph.D. Stanford University, l976
Russian language, literature, film and cultural studies

  • Location: AS-334
  • E-mail: schefski@csulb.edu

Enrico Vettore

Assistant Professor of Italian
Ph.D. University of Oregon, 2005
19th and 20th century Italian Literature; Italian Cinema; Literature and philosophy, Literature and Ethics; Jungian Literary
criticism.

  • Location: AS-341
  • E-mail: evettore@csulb.edu
Lisa-Vollendorf

Lisa Vollendorf
Department Chair

Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1995
Women's cultural history (Spain); early modern Spain and colonial Latin American women's writing; gender violence; Inquisition;
convent history; Atlantic studies.

  • Phone: (562) 985-2670
  • Location: AS-309
  • E-mail: lvollend at csulb.edu (E-mail contact preferred)
  • Curriculum vitae

Adjunct Faculty

Tri C. Tran Tri Tran

Lecturer in French and Spanish
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
French, Spanish & Romance Linguistics; Second Language Acquisition; Negative Transfer; Spanish Morphology; Comparative Syntax and Phonology

  • Location: AS-324
  • E-mail: ttran29@csulb.edu