College of Arts and Sciences
Department Faculty & Staff
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
Jen Hamlin, Office Manager
Office: Morgan Hall 332
Phone: 309-298-1558
E-mail:
JL-Hamlin@wiu.edu
Ellen Poulter, Advisor
Office: Morgan Hall 436
Phone: (309) 298-2159
E-mail: E-Poulter@wiu.edu
Faculty
Dr. Edmund Asare, Assistant Professor of French
Office: Morgan Hall 332F
Office Hours: M 1:00-2:00 pm W 2:00-3:00 pm, W&F 7:55-8:55 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 9:00-9:30 am and 1:45-2:15 pm, WED 11:00-1:00 pm, and by appointment
Phone: (309) 298-1556
E-mail: DH-Brown@wiu.edu
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: M 9:00-11:00 am T/TH 8:30-9:30 am 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
Ms. Anastasia Bykova, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant of Russian
Office: Morgan Hall 305A
Office Hours: T/TH 11:00-11:50
E-mail: a-bykova@wiu.edu
Ms. Nora Yonis, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant of Arabic
Office: Morgan Hall 305C
Office Hours: T/TH 11:00-11:50
E-mail: n-yonis@wiu.edu
Faculty
Dr. Guada Cabedo-Timmons, Associate Professor of Spanish
Office: Morgan Hall 332E
Office Hours: MWF 11:00-12:00 & M 1:00-2:00
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: T/TH 2:00-3:00, W 11:00-12:00, 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
Dr. Beate Wilson, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Instructor of German
Office: Morgan Hall 403
Office Hours: M 12:30-1:30 pm, T 8:15-9:15 am, and W 8:50-10:50 am
Phone: (309) 298-2768
E-mail: BI-Wilson1@wiu.edu
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