Tenure-Line Faculty
Dr. Verónica Añover
Markstein Hall 224
vanover@csusm.edu
Professor of French and Spanish
Contemporary French and Spanish Women Writers . Pedagogy . Creative Writing
Degrees: B.A. Université Catholique de Paris; M.A. Florida State University; Ph.D. Florida State University
Research: Contemporary French and Spanish Women Writers, Second Language Acquisition, and Creative Writing. Author of the first-year French textbook A vous!, her current research is centered on a second-year Spanish textbook project.
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Dr. Marion Geiger
Markstein Hall 257
mgeiger@csusm.edu
Associate Professor of French and German
French, Francophone, and German literatures and cultures
.European Studies . Narrative and the Novel . Literature
and Medicine
Degrees: Licence ès Lettres, Université de Genève; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Research: The Poetics of illness in 19th-century French and German novels. Recent publications on Emile Zola, Marie Ndiaye, Montaigne, and language pedagogy. Her research interests extend to the visual arts, women narratives, and transnational narratives. Currently serves as Review Editor for Literary History and Criticism of The French Review (AATF).
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Dr. Michael Hughes
Markstein Hall 244
mhughes@csusm.edu
Department Chair
Associate Professor of German and Spanish
Linguistics . Pedagogy
Degrees: B.A. Lewis and Clark College; M.A. UC Davis; Ph.D. UCSD
Research: Germanic and Hispanic linguistics, Mayan linguistics, language documentation and maintenance, linguistic morphology and syntax, and applied linguistics. Currently involved in a language documentation and maintenance program of Ixil, a Mayan language spoken in the northwest highlands of Guatemala, as well as in writing a second-year Spanish textbook.
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Dr. Francisco Martín
Markstein Hall 255
fmartin@csusm.edu
Study Abroad Director
Professor of Spanish
Middle Ages and Golden Age Literature
Degrees: B.A. Universidad de Valladolid; M.A. University of Connecticut; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Research: Spanish Medieval and Golden Age literature. Additionally, he has done research on rhetorics, and medieval legal codices. Major publications include scholarly editions of Bartolomé Jiménez Patón's Elocuencia española en arte, and the Fuero de Briviesca. He has also published many articles, conference proceedings, reviews, and has given scholarly presentations at conferences worldwide. Currently writing a Spanish Theatre Dictionary.
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Dr. Karina Miller
Markstein Hall 235
kamiller@csusm.edu
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Contemporary Latin American Literature . Literary Theory
Degrees: B.A. Universidad de Buenos Aires; M.A. University of Florida; Ph.D. UC Irvine
Research: Representations of violence with irony and political rhetoric in Latin American narrative, which create an ethical writing that eludes the image of a community such as nation or people. Her areas of interest are Latin American contemporary narrative and Critical Theory. Specializing in Southern Cone and the intersection of ethics and politics, her current work is interested in articulating relationships between political rhetoric and ethics in the field of Latin American literature.
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Dr. Alberto Ribas-Casasayas
Markstein Hall 237
aribas@csusm.edu
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Latin American Literature and Culture . Mexican Film and Narrative . Culture and Society in the US . Border Studies
Degrees: B.A. (Licenciado), Universitat Pompeu Fabra; M.A. Harvard University; Ph.D. Harvard University
Research: His current research focuses on ghosts and haunting in Latin American narrative. He has published scholarship on Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Heriberto Yépez, and turn-of-the-century Mexican film. He has also produced a textbook and educational materials for CIDEB (a DeAgostini subsidiary) and Cengage Learning, LLC.
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Dr. Michelle Ramos Pellicia
Markstein Hall 236
mramos@csusm.edu
Teaching Associate Supervisor
Assisstant Professor of Spanish
Linguistics . Pedagogy . Bilingual Education
Degrees: B.A. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; M.A. The Ohio State University; Ph.D. The Ohio State University
Research: Language variation, languages and dialects in contact, language attitudes, language and ethnicity, language and gender, conversational analysis, and bilingual education. She has recently published her book: Language Contact and Dialect Contact: Cross-Generational Phonological Variation in a Puerto Rican Community in the Midwest of the United States.
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Markstein Hall 225
srolle@csusm.edu
Graduate Coordinator and Advisor
Professor of Spanish
Contemporary Spanish Literature . Poetry . Literary Theory . Women Authors . Translation Studies . Creative Writing . Pedagogy
Degrees: B.As. CSU Long Beach; M.A. CSU Long Beach; CLCI Univeristà degli Studi di Siena; Ph.D. UC Riverside
Research: Writing the erotic, the mystical, and the political female body in Contemporary Hispanic literature. Her current research is centered around three different projects: the Spanish translation of Helen Brown's acclaimed novel, Cleo. The Cat Who Mended a Family, the creation of a second-year Spanish textbook, ¡En vivo!, and her own poetry collection.
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Markstein Hall 254
strother@csusm.edu
Office of Community Service Learning Director
Professor of Spanish
Theatre of the Golden Age . Pedagogy
Degrees: B.A. University of Pennsylvania; M.A. UC Irvine; Ph.D. UC Irvine
Research: Theatre of Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries. Apart from numerous publications in the area of theatre, she has published articles and presented conference papers on poetry and narrative, as well as on pedagogy. Dr. Strother is currently the Theatre Review Editor for the scholarly journal, Comedia Performance, as well as the Director for the Office of Community Service Learning.
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