Global Languages Faculty and Staff

April Ashway-Railing, Department Secretary

Dr. David Wildermuth, Associate Professor
B.A., State University of New York at Cortland
M.A., Bowling Green State University, Ohio
D.M.L., Middlebury College
Specialty Areas: 20th Century German and Austrian History, Culture and Literature, The Holocaust

Dr. Robert Lesman, Associate Professor/Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Specialty Areas: 20th Century Latin American poetry, U.S.-Latin American Literary Intersections, the Hispanic Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic Cultures, Translation, Spanish for the Professions

Dr. Blandine Mitaut, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
Specialty Areas: 20th and 21st-Century French Literature, French Thought, Critical Theory, Translation Studies and Translation Theory

Dr. Ana Moraña, Professor/Director of Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Specialty Areas: 19th-Century Latin American Literature and Latin American Modernismo, Latin American Film

Dr. Marcela Pineda, Associate Professor
B.A., Rutgers University
M.A., Middlebury College
Ph.D., Indiana University
Specialty Areas: 20th Century Latin American Prose, Fiction and Poetry, Specializing in the South Cone

Dr. José Ricardo-Osorio, Associate Professor
M.A. and Ed.D., University of Arkansas
Specialty Areas: Student Learning Outcome Assessment, Foreign Language Teaching Methods