Faculty and Staff - College of Arts and Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences

Academic Advisor

Caryn Morgan, B.A., MBA

Office: Morgan Hall 203B
Office Hours: M-F: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Phone: (309) 298-1610
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: CN-Morgan@wiu.edu

Department Faculty & Staff

Dr. Gary Schmidt, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Department

Office: Morgan Hall 332
Office Hours: M: 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., W, F: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Phone: (309) 298-1558
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: G-Schmidt2@wiu.edu

Education: B.A. (Knox College), M.S.Ed. (Northern Illinois University), M.A. (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ph.D. (Washington University in St. Louis)

Teaching and Research: Contemporary German Literature and Film, Thomas Mann, Austrian Literature, Gender Studies and Queer Theory, Post-World-War-II Literature

Lisa Rutledge, Office Support Specialist

Office: Morgan Hall 332
Phone: (309) 298-1558
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: LA-Rutledge@wiu.edu

Faculty A - L

Dr. Edmund Asare, Assistant Professor of French

Office: Morgan Hall 305C
Office Hours: M, W: 2:00-3:00 p.m. and T: 2:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-1496
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: E-Asare@wiu.edu

Education: BA (French), Dip Ed - (University of Cape Coast)(French), (Purdue University), MA FLL/MLIS – (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), PhD, (Kent State)

Teaching and Research: French and Francophone Culture, Translation Tools and Informatics, Usability, Francophone Literature

Dr. Daniel H. Brown, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 332D
Office Hours: M, W, & F 12:00-1:20 p.m. and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-1556
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: DH-Brown@wiu.edu
Website: http://faculty.wiu.edu/DH-Brown

Education: B.S., M.A.T. (Marquette), PhD (UCLA)

Teaching and Research: Spanish Language and Literature with special emphasis on Peninsular Spanish Literature from the 18th century to the early 20th century; Foreign Language Pedagogy.

Dr. Munia Cabal-Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 305F
Office Hours: T, TH 8:30-9:30 a.m. and W 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Phone: (309) 298-2260
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: M-Cabal-Jimenez@wiu.edu

Education: B.A., M.A. (Costa Rica), Ph.D., (UIUC)

Teaching and Research: Spanish in the community, pragmatics (in Spanish, as L1 and L2), sociolinguistics of Spanish, history of Spanish, Spanish dialectology (varieties of Spanish, varieties of Spanish in the USA)

Dr. Guada Cabedo-Timmons, Associate Professor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 332F
Office Hours: Not Available-Overseas-WISE-Spain
Phone: (309) 298-1615
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: GM-Cabedo@wiu.edu

Education: B.A. (Universitat de València, Spain), M.S. (WIU), Ph.D. (UIUC),
Teaching and Research: 20th Century Spanish Novel, Teaching of Spanish Literature

Dr. Timothy Johnson, Instructor of Spanish

Office: Currens Hall 514A
Office Hours: T, TH 12:15-1:00 pm
Phone: n/a
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: TF-Johnson@wiu.edu

Education: Ph.D. and M.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of California at Davis; B.A. in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Teaching and Research: Taught Spanish language and literature at both the secondary and university levels, and currently teach Advanced Conversation and Spanish for Law Enforcement. Research centers on literature from the early modern period (16th-17th centuries), particularly Spanish texts on war and the conquest of the Indies.

Faculty M - Z

Ada Macias, Instructor of Spanish.

Office: Memorial Hall 102
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: (309) 298-2453
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: AM-Macias@wiu.edu

Education: B.A., M.A. (Bradley)

Teaching and Research: Introductory Spanish courses.

Dr. Catherine R. Moore, Professor of French

Office: Morgan Hall 332E
Office Hours: M, W, F: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and W: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Phone: (309) 298-1559
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: CR-Moore1@wiu.edu
Website: http://wiu.edu/apollinaire

Teaching and Research: French Language, Twentieth Century French Literature and Civilization, Translation, Business French.

Education: B.A. (Université de Toulouse Le Mirail, France); Translator Diploma (Ecole de Traduction et d’Interprétation, Université de Genève, Switzerland); M.A. (Purdue University, IN); Ph.D. (University of Florida, FL)

Margarita Obregón, Instructor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 305D
Office hours: M, F: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. and T, W: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Phone: (309) 298-1557
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: M-Obregon@wiu.edu

Teaching and Research: Spanish Language, Language Acquisition, Using Technology in the Classroom. Motivation, Trust, Anxiety and Frustration in the Foreign Language Classroom

Kelley K. Quinn, Instructor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 305E
Office Hours: M, W, F 8:00-8:50 a.m. and 11:00-11:50 a.m.
Phone: (309) 298-1074
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: K-Quinn@wiu.edu

Dr. Norma J. Suvak, Assistant Professor of Women's Norma Suvak Studies and German

Office: Morgan Hall 305A
Office Hours: M, T: 12:00-1:00 p.m. and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-2335
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: NJ-Suvak@wiu.edu

Education: Ph.D. Washington University, M.A. University of Waterloo, B.A. Memorial University in Newfoundland

Also studied at the FreieUniversität Berlin and the Universities of Eichstatt and Mannheim

Teaching and Research: Nineteenth and twentieth century women's advice writing (advice books, magazines, and didactic literature, etc.), unauthorized editions of Troztkopf produced during WWI, and lesbian periodicals published in the Weimar Republic. German language, literature, and film; Women's Studies.

Wenhong (Zhang) Teel, Instructor of Chinese and Japanese