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Dr. Luciano Picanҫo, Professor of French and 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, Office Manager

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

Sharon Hunter, Advisor Sharon Hunter.

Office: Morgan Hall 305B
Phone: (309) 298-1232
E-mail: SL-Hunter2@wiu.edu

Faculty

Dr. Edmund Asare, Assistant Professor of French

Office: Morgan Hall 332F
Office Hours: TTH 8:00-9:00 am and 2:00-3:00 pm, 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

Dr. Daniel H. Brown, Associate Professor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 332D
Office Hours: TTH 8:00-8:45 am and 12:15-1:00 pm, W 1:00-2:00 pm, 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.

Dr. Munia Cabal-Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 305F
Office Hours: T 9:00 am-10:00 am and 12:00-1:00 pm, W 11:00 am-12:00 pm, F 11:00 am-12:00 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)

Teaching Assistants

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

Office: Morgan Hall 305C
Office Hours: TTH 9:30-10:30 am and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-2519

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

Office: Morgan Hall 305A
Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:00 pm
Phone: (309) 298-2335
E-mail: sv-motov@wiu.edu

Faculty

Dr. Guada Cabedo-Timmons, Associate Professor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 332F
Office Hours: Not Available for Appointments during Spring 2019 semester.
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 Obregón, Instructor of Spanish

Office: Morgan Hall 305D
Office Hours: MWF 12:00-1:00 pm, T 11:00 am-12:00 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

Kelley K. Quinn, Instructor of Spanish