Current Faculty

Anton V. Agafonov, Russian

Lecturer
Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia, M.A.

Fenton Hall, Room 2137
(716) 673-3833
Anton.Agafonov@fredonia.edu

• Ruth B. Antosh, French
  Indiana University, Ph. D.

Fenton Hall, Room 2117
(716) 673-3832
antosh@fredonia.edu

Areas of specialization:

Canadian Studies, Quebec Studies, Nineteenth-Century

French Literature

Chiara De Santi, Italian

Visiting Lecturer

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. (Italian)

European University Institute, Ph.D. (History)

Laurea (M.A. equivalent) in Modern Languages & Literatures, University of Florence-Italy

 Areas of specialization:

Modern Italian Literature, Italian Culture and Cinema, Italian as a Second Language, History.

Fenton Hall, Room 2104

(716) 673-4496

Chiara.DeSanti@fredonia.edu

Personal blog: http://www.chiara-mente.net/

• Juan Antonio De Urda Anguita

Spanish

Assistant Professor
University of Missouri-Columbia, PhD

Fenton Hall, Room 286
(716) 673-4494

juan.deurda@fredonia.edu

Areas of specialization:
20th Century Peninsular Literature, Spanish Poetry.

Kate Douglass

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in French with a concentration in Second/Foreign Language Acquisition Theory, Research, and Pedagogy The Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests:

Foreign Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, Motivation and Language Development, Study Abroad, Telecollaboration, Blogs and other New Technologies, Language Awareness, Immersion Schooling, Language Choice

Jeanette M. Ellian

Lecturer of Spanish

Indiana University, M.A.

Specialization: Second Language Acquisition

• Beth Huerta, Spanish
• Visiting Assistant Professor

State University of New York at Buffalo, PhD

Fenton Hall, Room 2119
(716) 673-4683
huerta@fredonia.edu

Areas of specialization:

Bilingual Studies, Learning and Instruction, Spanish Linguistics

Carmen S. Rivera, Chair and Professor of Spanish

University of South Carolina, Ph.D.

Fenton 2113       ext.  3380

Carmen.rivera@fredonia.edu

Specialization: Latino literature, Puerto Rican Literature, Issues of Space and Literature, Transnational studies and Literature of migration.  Publications include the book, Kissing the Mango Tree: Puerto Rican Women Rewriting American Literature (2002). 

• Clark M. Zlotchew, Spanish

  Distinguished Teaching Professor

• State University of New York at Binghamton, Ph. D.

SUNY Faculty Ex­change Scholar 12-1-87

President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1988

Kasling Lecturer, 1992

Fenton Hall, Room 2120
(716) 673-3836 zlotchew@fredonia.edu

Areas of specialization:

Jorge Luis Borges, 20th century Spanish-American Fiction, Galdos & 19th century Spanish Fiction, Medieval Spanish Literature, Literary Translation, Spanish Linguistics & Dialectology, Literary Interview.

Dr. Zlotchew has had over 15 books published.   A sampling of these books are:

 Varieties of Magic Realism, 2007.

  Spanish at Your Fingertips, 2007.

  Alpha Teach Yourself Spanish in 24 Hours, 2^nd Edition, 2004. 

 Voices of the River Plate:  Interviews with Writers of Argentina and Uruguay,  1995.

 Libido into Literature:  The “Primera Epoca” of Benito Pérez Galdós, 1993.

 Estilo literario: Análisis y creación , 1990.

Marilyn K. Zlotchew

Director of Language Lab

Sarah Lawrence College, A.B.