College of Arts and Sciences

Department Faculty & Staff

Luciano Picanco.

Dr. Luciano Picanҫo, Ph.D., Chair

FLL Office: Morgan Hall 332
Office Hours: 9:00 am-3:00 pm
FLL Phone: (309) 298-1558
E-mail: LC-Picanco@wiu.edu

 

Lisa Rutledge.Lisa Rutledge, Office Manager

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


Faculty

Edmund Asare.Dr. Edmund Asare, Assistant Professor of French

Office: Morgan Hall 332F
Office Hours: M 1:00-2:00 pm, W 7:55-8:55 am and 2:00-3:00 pm, F 7:55-8:55 am, and by appointment.
Phone: (309) 298-1496
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 

Daniel Brown.Dr. Daniel H. Brown, Assistant Professor of Spanish 

Office: Morgan Hall 332D 
Office Hours: MWF 8:00-9:20 am and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-1556
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.

Munia Cabal-Jimenez.Dr. Munia Cabal-Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 305F 
Office Hours: M 10:00 am-12:00 pm, TTH  2:00-3:00 pm, and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-2260
E-mail: M-Cabal-Jimenez@wiu.edu
Website: http://muniacabal.weebly.com

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

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

Naoufal ElftahMr. Naoufal Elftah, Fulbright Foreign Languages Teaching Assistant of Arabic

Office: Morgan Hall 305C
Office Hours: TTH  10:00-11:00 am, and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-2519

 

 


Faculty

Guada Cabedo-Timmons.Dr. Guada Cabedo-Timmons,  Associate Professor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 332F
Office Hours: M 11:00 am-12:00 pm and 1:00-2:00 pm, WF 11:00 am-12:00 pm, and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-1615
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

Margarita Obregon.Margarita Obregón, Instructor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 305D 
Office Hours: MWF 11:00 am-12:00 pm, M 2:00-3:00 pm, and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-1557
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

Kelly Quinn.Kelley K. Quinn, Instructor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 305E
Office Hours: MWF 9:00-9:50 am, TTH 10:00-10:50 am, and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-1074
E-mail: K-Quinn@wiu.edu

Dr. Beate Wilson, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Instructor of German

Office: Morgan Hall 403
Office Hours: T 8:00-9:00 am and 10:00-11:00 am, W 12:00-1:00 pm, TH 12:30-1:30 pm, and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-2768
E-mail: BI-Wilson1@wiu.edu

Sergei Motov. Mr. Sergei V. Motov, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant of Russian

Office: Morgan Hall 305A
Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00 pm, and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-2335
E-mail: sv-motov@wiu.edu