Modern Languages & Literatures Faculty
Current faculty:
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Chinese faculty:
Hua Li, Associate Professor of Chinese, Coordinator of Chinese Section
Office: Gaines 118A; Phone: 406-994-6449; Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Contemporary Chinese Literature; Su Tong and Yu Hua's coming-of-age stories; contemporary
Chinese army-writer fictions
Philip Williams, Teaching Professor of Chinese and Japan Studies
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Chinese and Japanese literature and culture; Monsoon Asian civilization; Chinese language
and migration studies
French faculty:
Ada Giusti, Professor of French, Coordinator of French Section
Office: Gaines 117B; Phone: 406-994-6442; Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: International service learning; Contemporary French Civilization (immigration, poverty,
French NGOs).
Pascale Hickman, Associate Teaching Professor of French
Office: Gaines 117C; Phone: 406-994-6444; Email: [email protected]
Brigitte Morris, Assistant Teaching Professor of French
Office: Gaines 118 or 115A; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Evelyn Paz, Instructor of French & Spanish
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
German faculty:
Lukas Graf, Instructor of German
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Kate Kithil, Instructor of German
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Karoline Krauss, Retired Teaching Professor of German
Email: [email protected]
Liana McKelvy, Instructor of German
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Peter Schweppe, Assistant Professor of German, Coordinator of German Studies
Office: Gaines 118F; Phone: 406-994-5502; Email: [email protected]
Japanese faculty:
Yuka Hara, Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese, Curriculum Coordinator of Japanese Language
Instruction
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Peter Tillack, Associate Professor of Japan Studies, Chair of Asian Studies Program, Japanese Section
Coordinator
Office: Gaines 118D; Phone: 406-994-6441; Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Modern & contemporary Japanese literature; literary/filmic representations of social
space during Japan's "economic miracle"
Philip Williams, Teaching Professor of Chinese and Japan Studies
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Chinese and Japanese literature and culture; Monsoon Asian civilization; Chinese
language and migration studies
Spanish faculty:
Galen Brokaw, Department Head, Coordinator of Spanish Section
Office: Gaines 117A; Phone: 406-994-6448; Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Colonial Latin America and Early Modern Spain, Indigenous Latin American cultures,
the Andean khipu, Mesoamerican iconography, indigenismo, critical theory, translation
Patricia Catoira, Associate Professor of Spanish
Office: Gaines 118C; Phone: 406-994-4447; Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Latin American literature and culture; Cuba (antislavery narratives, exile, Special
Period); National identity; Women's and gender studies; Print culture; Latin American
migration to and cultural production in Spain since the 1990s
Gillian Cleary, Instructor of Spanish
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Veronica Garcia Moreno, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Lauren Gette-King, Instructor of Spanish
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Bridget Kevane, Professor of Spanish, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Letters
and Science
Office: Wilson 2-265; Phone: 406-994-6446; Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Latino/a Studies, especially literature, and cultural expressions of faith and spirituality
in this literature
James Martin, Associate Professor of Spanish, Coordinator of Latin American & Latino Studies Program
Office: Gaines 115B; Phone: 406-994-6447; Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Travel and tourism; U.S.-Latin American relations; modern Latin American history;
Latin American literature
Evelyn Paz, Instructor of Spanish & French
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
Sally Sanchez, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
LaTrelle Scherffius, Instructor of Spanish
Office: Wilson 2-160; Phone: 406-994-5201; Email: [email protected]
John Thompson, Professor of Spanish
Office: Gaines 118E; Phone: 406-994-6445; Email: [email protected]
Thomas Walsh, Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish
Office: Gaines 118; Phone: 406-994-4448; Email: [email protected]
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