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Rogelio Miñana, PhD
Department Head and Professor of Spanish
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- PhD, Spanish Literature, Penn State, 1999
- MA, Spanish Literature, University of Ottawa - Canada, 1996
- BA, Spanish Literature and Linguistics, University of Valencia - Spain, 1995
- BA, Catalan Linguistics and Literature, University of Valencia - Spain, 1995
- BA, Piano, “Joaquín Rodrigo” Conservatory, Valencia - Spain, 1994
Bio:
Hola! I am a Professor of Spanish and Head of the new Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages. Our students and faculty travel in and out of the classroom across regions and cultures to tackle global issues from a transnational and multidisciplinary perspective. Of course, we also look at the effects of globalization on our local communities here in the US.
In my research I study the role of classic cultural icons, particularly Don Quixote, in 21st century political and social justice discourse. In my scholarship and pedagogy, I explore the interplay between the traditional humanities, youth organizations, and digital storytelling.
I have published two books on early modern prose: La verosimilitud en el Siglo de Oro: Cervantes y la novela corta (Juan de la Cuesta, 2002) and Monstruos que hablan: El discurso de la monstruosidad en Cervantes (U of North Carolina P – Chapel Hill, 2008). My latest book project, tentatively entitled Living Quixote: Don Quixote, Politics, and Social Justice in 21st-century Spain and the Americas, examines appropriations of Don Quixote in public discourse in contemporary Spain and the Americas, particularly in Brazil.
I enjoy travel, all cultural expressions, good food, the empowering awkwardness of speaking languages other than your own, and tennis.
Selected Publications:
- “Lessons From Migrant Youth: A Digital Storytelling Course in Springfield, Massachusetts” Learning From Diverse Latina/o Communities: Social Justice Approaches to Civic Engagement. Ed. Mari Castañeda and Joseph Krupczynski. New York: New York UP, 2016
- “Don Quijote de las Américas: Activismo, teatro y el hidalgo Quijano en el Brasil contemporáneo.” El Quijote desde América (Segunda parte). Ed. James Iffland, DOJ Ayalamacedo e Ignacio Arellano. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, 2016
- "Latina/o Community Media Activism: Digital Storytelling and the Latino Youth Media Institute in Springfield, MA.” The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media. Ed. María Elena Cepeda and Dolores Inés Casillas. New York: Routledge, 2015
- “Beyond the Classroom Wall: Engaging Local Communities in Five Words.” ADFL Bulletin 43.3 (2015)
- “Seeing Quixote: Teaching Don Quixote in the 21st Century.” Approaches to Teaching Don Quixote. Ed. James A. Parr and Lisa Vollendorf. New York: MLA, 2014. 359-64
- “Don Quixote Among Brazilians: Um tal de Dom Quixote (Márcio Meirelles and Cleise Mendes, 1998)." Homenaje a Frederick de Armas (tentative title), 2015
- “The New Mission and Location of Spanish Departments in the United States: The Mount Holyoke Experience.” Profession, December 2013
- “Righting Wrongs: Don Quixote’s ‘Other History’ in Brazilian Youth Theater.” Don Quixote: Interdisciplinary Connections. Ed. James A. Parr and Matthew Warshawsky. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2013. 203-22.
- “The ‘Don Quixote of the Streets’: Social Justice Theater in São Paulo, Brazil.” Cervantes 31.1 (2011): 159-70
- “Nación de quijotes: Don Quijote en el discurso político contemporáneo en España.” USA Cervantes. 39 cervantistas en Estados Unidos. Ed. Georgina M. Dopico Black y Francisco Layna Ranz. Madrid: Polifemo, 2009. 895-924
- “O Projeto Quixote em São Paulo: reflexões sobre cultura e transformação social.” Translated into Portuguese by Laura Calejón. Revista UNICSUL 15 (2007, published in 2008): 58-65
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Higher education; international education; education policy; equity and access
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Rebecca Clothey, PhD
Director, Global Studies major
Associate Professor, School of Education
Case Study Advisor, Center for Public Policy
School of Education
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Center for Public Policy
Education:
- PhD, Administrative and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
- MA, International Communication, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC
- BA, English Writing, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests:
International education; education policy; equity and access; cultural transmission; China
Bio:
Rebecca Clothey, PhD, has been a faculty member at Drexel University since 2006. Her vast international experience started in India, where she attended an international school as a youth. Prior to moving to Philadelphia, she lived in China for five years where she was based at various higher education institutions throughout the country.
Clothey’s current research on maintenance and transmission of Uyghur culture spans several countries, including China, the US, and Turkey, where she was a visiting scholar in 2018-19. Uyghurs are an ethnic group indigenous to China’s northwestern-most Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where she was a visiting scholar in the fall of 2014.
Prior to completing her PhD she was also seconded by the US State Department to conduct elections training for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo. She has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships for her research, one to China and one to Uzbekistan, a Spencer Fellowship to study community-based schools in Argentina (with Kai Heidemann of Maastricht University in the Netherlands), and an ARIT-NEH Fellowship to study cultural transmission among the Uyghur diaspora in Turkey. She has a PhD in Administrative and Policy Studies from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.
Specialization:
Higher education; international education; education policy; equity and access
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DIY and independent media production; transnational consumer culture; popular music; new media and mediated subjectivities; youth culture in the US and Indonesia.
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Brent Luvaas, PhD
Center for Science, Technology and Society
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- PhD, Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 2009
Research Interests:
- Visual Anthropology
- Digital technologies and mediated cities
- Photography and the urban imagination
- Street photography, street fashion, and street style blogging
- DIY, amateur, and independent media
- New Media and Mediated subjectivities
- United States and Southeast Asia
Bio:
Brent Luvaas is a visual and socio-cultural anthropologist interested in digital technologies and their impacts on creative practice and everyday urban experience. He is the author of Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging (Bloomsbury 2016) and DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Culture (Berg 2012), and co-editor of The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader. He has received several prominent fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant, the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, and the American Institute for Indonesian Studies Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship, and has published in journals including Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Fashion Theory, and Visual Anthropology Review. Visit his personal website and see his visual work at brentluvaas.com.
Specialization:
DIY and independent media production; transnational consumer culture; popular music; new media and mediated subjectivities; youth culture in the US and Indonesia.
Selected Publications:
- The Anthropology of Dress and Fasion: A Reader (editor, with Joanne Eicher) London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
- Street Style Geographies: Re-Mapping the Fashion Blogipelago, in International Journal of Fashion Studies 5(2): 289-308, 2018.
- Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style, in Fashion Studies 1(1): 1-20, 2018.
- Unbecoming: The Aftereffects of Autoethnography, in Ethnography,
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1466138117742674?ai=1gvoi&=3ricys&af=R, 2017.
- The Affective Lens, in Anthropology & Humanism 42(2): 163-179, 2017.
- What Does a Fashion Influencer Look Like? Portraits of the Instafamous, in Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture 4(3): 341-364, 2017.
- Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
- Internet Famous in Real Life: Becoming a Street Style Star at New York Fashion Week, in Cultural Anthropology 31(2) online edition, 2016.
- Indonesian Fashion Blogs: On the Promotional Subject of Personal Style, in Fashion Theory, 17(1): 55-76, 2013.
- Shooting Street Style in Indonesia: A Photo Essay, in Clothing Cultures 1(1): 59-81, 2013.
- Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand, in Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 127-143, 2013.
- Exemplary Centers and Musical Elsewheres: Performing Authenticity and Autonomy in Indonesian Indie Music, in Asian Music 44(2): 95-114, 2013.
- Third World No More: Re-Branding Indonesian Streetwear, in Fashion Practice 5(2): 203-228, 2013.
- DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Cultures, London and New York: Berg, 2012.
- Designer Vandalism: Indonesian Indie Fashion and the Cultural Practice of Cut ’n’ Paste in Visual Anthropology Review 26(1): 1-16, 2010.
- Dislocating Sounds: The Deterritorialization of Indonesian Indie Pop, in Cultural Anthropology 24(2): 246-279, 2009.
- Re-Producing Pop: The Ambivalent Aesthetics of a Contemporary Dance Music, in International Journal of Cultural Studies 9(2): 167-187, 2006.
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Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, Colonial Latin American Literature and Early Modern Spanish Literature
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Monserrat Bores Martínez
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
Monserrat Bores holds a Diploma in Literature from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, and a BA in Communications from Universidad Cuauhtémoc, Mexico. In 2003, Monserrat earned her MA degree in Spanish from The University of Western Ontario, Canada. In addition, she has taken several doctoral courses in Comparative and Spanish Literature, in Canada and in the United States. Her area of specialization is Colonial Latin American Literature and Early Modern Spanish Literature.
Research Interests:
- Second Language Acquisition
- Language Pedagogy
- Colonial Latin American Literature
- Early Modern Spanish Literature
Bio:
Monserrat Bores is an assistant teaching professor in the Global Studies and Modern Languages Department at Drexel University. Before coming to Drexel, Monserrat taught at Princeton University for 9 years, as a lecturer of Spanish. At Princeton, she developed, taught and coordinated different intermediate- and advanced-level Spanish courses. From 2011 to 2012 she was the Acting Associate Director of the Spanish Program at the same academic institution. In addition to her role as an educator, she was a Fulbright Faculty Advisor for Princeton University undergraduates.
At Pennsylvania State University, Monserrat was the Co-Director of the Education Abroad Program in Puebla, in three different occasions. Her administrative role in this abroad program has been key to her development as a faculty member and student advisor.
Her work in the Hispanic community includes translating as a volunteer in the Pediatric Clinic at the University Medical Center of Princeton.
Specialization:
Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy, Colonial Latin American Literature and Early Modern Spanish Literature
Selected Publications:
- 2016 “Dale la vuelta a la tortilla: rediseño curricular”. Co-authored with Prof. Lorena Camacho.
Observatorio Publications. Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.
cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/informe_simposio_lengua_0.pdf
- 2010 “Las conversaciones culturales de Francisco Imperial: la importancia del dezir y la gaya ciencia
en la construcción de la voz autorial.” Revista Internacional d’Humanitats 18 (2010): 59-64.
- 2009 “La Historia de la doncella Teodor y las (con)tensiones del discurso obsceno.” eHumanista 12
(2009): 107-126.
- 2008 “A Linguagem Obscena do Parvo No Auto da Barca do Inferno de Gil Vicente: Uma Luta de
Palavras Pelos Espaços Divinos.” Romance Notes 48.2 (2008): 235-245.
- 2005 “Hacia una nueva genealogía de carácter femenino maternal: Con mi madre (2001) de Soledad
Puértolas desde una perspectiva irigariana.” AnMal electrónica17 (2005): online.
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- 2004 “La representación de la muerte en El Caballero determinado de Hernando de Acuña.” SILVA:
Estudios de humanismo y tradición clásica 3 (2004): 9-35.
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Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures, Latino/a studies, migration studies, Latin American diaspora, Critical race theory, Gender and sexuality in a global context
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Octavio Borges-Delgado, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- PhD, Hispanic Cultural Studies, Michigan State University, 2016
- BA, Spanish Education, University of Puerto Rico, 2004
Research Interests:
- Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures
- Latino/a Studies
- Migration Studies
- Latin American diaspora
- Critical race theory
- Gender and sexuality in a global context
Bio:
Octavio Borges-Delgado earned his PhD in Hispanic Cultural Studies from Michigan State University. He is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages at Drexel University. His research and teaching examine contemporary narrative representations of Hispanic Caribbean migrations to the United States. An important part of his research focuses on transnational issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and national identity concerning migration and postcolonialism in literature and popular (sub) cultures. He has taught courses on Spanish as a second language, Hispanic/Latinx identities, Latin American migrations to the United States, and Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures.
Specialization:
Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures, Latino/a studies, migration studies, Latin American diaspora, Critical race theory, Gender and sexuality in a global context
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Norma Bouchard, PhD
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- PhD, Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 1996
- MA, Italian Literature, Indiana University, 1993
- Laurea French Literature, German as second area, University of Turin (Italy), 1984
Academic Positions:
- 2019 - Present: Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Modern Languages, Drexel University, Philadelphia
- 2015 – 2019: Professor of European Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego
- 2013 – 2015: Professor of Italian and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- 2003 – 2013: Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- 1998 – 2003: Assistant Professor of Italian and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- 1997 – 1998: Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR
Academic Administration:
- 2019 – Present: Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia
- 2015 – 2019: Dean, Arts and Letters: College of Humanities and Social Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego
- 2012 – 2013: Associate Dean for Humanities and Regional Campuses (Interim), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- 2010 – 2011: Chair, Program of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- 2005 – 2010: Head, Department of Languages, Cultures and Literatures, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- 1998 – 2004; 2006 – 2008: Director of Italian Language Program,Modern and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Selected Publications:
Works in Progress:
- “Nation(s) and Translation: special issue of Annali d’Italianistica” (forthcoming 2020)
- “The Camps of the ‘Duce’: Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy (1940-1943)”: co-translated and co-edited; (forthcoming with Routledge 2020)
- “Umberto Eco: Cultural Interventions from the Archives of History”
Books:
- “The Politics of Culture and the Ambiguities of Interpretation: Umberto Eco's Alternative,” with an afterword by Umberto Eco, ed. (New York: Peter Lang, 1998)
- “Céline, Gadda, Beckett: Experimental Writers of the 1930s,” with a preface by Stanley Gontarski (Florida University Press 2000)
- “Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture: Revisiting the 19th century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinema,” ed. (Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005)
- “Reading and Writing the Mediterranean: Essays by Vincenzo Consolo,” ed. with M. Lollini (Toronto University Press, 2006)
- “Italian Cultural Studies: Negotiating Regional, National and Global Identities,” ed. Special issue of Annali d’Italianistica” 24 (2006)
- “Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean,” with V. Ferme (Fordham University Press, 2011; Race & Ethnic Studies series); translated, edited and annotated.
- “Italy @ 150: National Discourse at the Sesquicentennial (1861-2011)”; guest-editor for special issue of Italian Culture XXX.1 (2012)
- “Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era,” with V. Ferme (co-authored monograph, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).
- “From Otium and Occupatio to Work and Labor in Italian Culture,” co-ed. for Annali d’Italianistica 23 (2014)
Chapters in Books/Articles (Recent):
- “Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Interruptions.” ISSA 31.1 (2018): 25-59.
- “Umberto Eco’s Semiotic Imaginary”, with a response by Umberto Eco The Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court, 2016, 533-559.
- “Fighting Cosa Nostra with the Camera’s Eye: Letizia Battaglia’s Evolving Icons of ‘Traumatic Realism,’” Italian Women at War, ed. Susan Amatangelo, Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2016, 165-179.
- Writing the Mediterraneity of the Italian South,” with V. Ferme, CLC: Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 371 (2015): 222-247 (rpt.)
- “Vincenzo Consolo and His Mediterranean Paradigm,” with M. Lollini, CLC: Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 371 (2015): 177-197 (rpt.)
- “Vincenzo Consolo and the Postmodern Writing of Melancholy,” CLC: Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 371 (2015): 144-154 (rpt.)
- “Consolo, Lévinas, and the Ethics of Postmodernist Storytelling,” Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 371 (2015): 119-128 (rpt.)
- “From Sicily to the Global South(s): Vincenzo Consolo and the Mediterranean,” Sicily and the Mediterranean: Migration, Exchange, Reinvention, ed. Summerfield and Karagoz, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, 195-215.
- “European Cities Dream the ‘Great Sea’: Discourses on the Mediterranean and their Reception in the Arab and Islamic World,” Mediterranean Review 7.2 (2014): 53-82.
- “Creative Tensions: Evolution and Involution in Eco’s Aesthetics Theory and Fictional Practice” Parol: quaderni d’arte e di epistemologia 14 (2013): 119-133.
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Early modern cultural production; ecology and representation; history and sociology of science; historical bibliography; politics and poetics of translation
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Steve Vásquez Dolph, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- PhD, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
- MA, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
- MA, English, Temple University, 2007
- BA, English, Colgate University, 2004
Research Interests:
- Latin American diaspora and climate change
- Politics and poetics of translation
- Early modern cultural production
- History and sociology of science
Bio:
Steve Vásquez Dolph, PhD, is an assistant teaching professor of Spanish in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages. His research and teaching examine the relationship between global diaspora and climate change, with a special focus on Spanish-speaking immigrant communities in Philadelphia. At Drexel, he has taught courses on sanctuary cities, food sovereignty and cultural translation. He is also the coordinator of Elementary Spanish for the Modern Languages program, and the current Vice President of Bienvenidos, the university's Hispanic/Latino faculty and professional staff association. As the 2019-20 Teaching Faculty Fellow at the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement, he leads a working group on community-based global learning.
Specialization:
Early modern cultural production; ecology and representation; history and sociology of science; historical bibliography; politics and poetics of translation
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Language acquisition pedagogy, teaching writing, seventeenth and eighteenth century French literature, women writers, translation.
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Brenda Dyer, MA
Associate Teaching Professor of French
Contact for French Study Abroad Course Approvals
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- MA, French Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Research Interests:
- Language acquisition pedagogy
- Teaching writing
- 17th and 18th century French literature
- Women writers
- Translation
Bio:
Brenda Dyer is a lecturer of French whose communicative approach to language teaching is designed to help students develop the linguistic and cultural skills necessary to function in a French-speaking environment, providing them with skills that they can use in their lives after graduation and to help them become better citizens of the world. She has a particular interest in the areas of cross-cultural studies, global competency and French for Business.
Professor Dyer takes a collaborative approach to teaching and is a frequent participant in Drexel Center for Academic Excellence workshops designed to improve her teaching skills. She also has received a certificate in Teaching Business Language from the CIBER program at the Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Specialization:
Language acquisition pedagogy, teaching writing, seventeenth and eighteenth century French literature, women writers, translation.
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Postcolonial Francophone African Literature, Human Rights Critical Theories, Childhood Studies, Oral Literature
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Parfait Kouacou, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- PhD, French and Francophone Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- MA, French Literature, Arizona State University
- DEA Conflict Resolution, University of Abidjan-Cocody, Cote Ivoire
- Maitrise, Public Law, University of Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire
- License, Public Law, University of Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire
Research Interests:
- Francophone African and Caribbean Literature
- Human Rights in Literary Studies
- Childhood in Literature
- Postcolonial Studies
- Oral Literature
Bio:
Parfait Kouacou is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages at Drexel University. His research investigates the relation between Francophone African literary discourses and contemporary global issues. His research has received several honors and awards, including the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) Fellowship, the Dean K. Harrison Fellowship and the Early Research Initiative Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Public Knowledge from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His recent roles as Co-Chair of the Africa Research Group (ARG) and as Human Rights Seminar Fellow at the Henri Peyre French Institute, CUNY, translate his strong interest in global affairs.
Parfait previously worked as a journalist, a public information officer and a human rights officer with the United Nations in Côte d’Ivoire. Prior to joining Drexel University, he had enjoyed teaching French language and culture to graduate and undergraduate students for six years in Arizona and New York.
Specialization:
Postcolonial Francophone African Literature, Human Rights Critical Theories, Childhood Studies, Oral Literature
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Hiromi Koyama
Instructor
Contact for Japanese Study Abroad Course Approvals
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Nadia Magnanini
Adjunct Professor, Contact for Italian Study Abroad Course Approvals
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Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy, The life and music of Brazilian composer, Francisca “Chiquinha” Gonzaga
Theater in Spanish and Portuguese, Hispanic and Brazilian Film, Latin American and Iberian Music
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Celeste Mann
Instructor
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- University of Iowa, MA in Spanish
- Yale University, BA in Spanish with Distinction
- PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, graduate study in Brazilian Arts and Letters
- PUCMM, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Research Interests:
- Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy
- The life and music of Brazilian composer, Francisca “Chiquinha” Gonzaga
- Theater in Spanish and Portuguese
- Hispanic and Brazilian Film
- Latin American and Iberian Music
Bio:
Celeste Dolores Mann has taught Spanish and Portuguese for years, at various universities. Before coming to Drexel, she taught at Villanova University. As a student, Celeste specialized in Spanish medieval literature, Afro-Cuban poetry and Brazilian literature. She has an extensive background in opera and theater, and integrates the performing and visual arts in her language teaching whenever possible. Celeste has taught computer education and enjoys using technology to enhance the learning of languages. In her language teaching she hopes to inspire students to excel in their ability to speak, read, understand and write Spanish and Portuguese, and to appreciate the beauty, enchantment and diversity of the many Latin American and Iberian cultures.
Specialization:
Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy, The life and music of Brazilian composer, Francisca “Chiquinha” Gonzaga
Theater in Spanish and Portuguese, Hispanic and Brazilian Film, Latin American and Iberian Music
Selected Publications:
- Celeste Dolores Mann and Robert Simon, “It Takes a Village: Professional Development for Faculty in Portuguese.” In Handbook for Portuguese Instructors. Editors: Margo Milleret and Mary Risner. July 2017.
- “Chiquinha Gonzaga: O legado da maestrina.” Ao redor do mundo II. Atlantico Books. January 2013. p. 19-26.
- “The Search for Identity in Afro-Brazilian Women’s Writing: A Literary History.” In: Moving Beyond Boundaries Part I: Critical Responses. Eds. Carole Boyce Davies and Molara Ogundipe-Leslie. Pluto Press: 1995. p. 173-178.
- “Translations.” In: Moving Beyond Boundaries Part II: Women Weaving Words. p. 116-119; 202-213.
- “O Geraldo Viramundo de O Grande Mentecapto: Um carnavalizador carnavalizado.” Torre de Papel. University of Iowa, June 1993.
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Ilana Margolis
Adjunct Professor of Hebrew
Contact for Hebrew Study Abroad Course Approvals
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Japanese Linguistics with an emphasis on pedagogy and topics concerning second language acquisition and teaching
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Natalie Marley
Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese
Contact for Japanese Study Abroad Course Approvals
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Research Interests:
- Japanese Linguistics with an emphasis on pedagogy and topics concerning second language acquisition and teaching
Specialization:
Japanese Linguistics with an emphasis on pedagogy and topics concerning second language acquisition and teaching
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Nada Matta, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Department of Sociology
Education:
- BA, Psychology and Communication Studies (Joint Honours), Tel-Aviv University, 2000
- MA, Department of Sociology, Goldsmith College, University of London, UK, 2002
- PhD, Department of Sociology, New York University, 2017
Research Interests:
- Political Economy
- Social Movements
- Middle East Studies
- Gender Studies
- Revolutions
- Inequality
Bio:
I am an assistant professor in the Departments of Global Studies and Modern Languages and Sociology. My research interests are in political economy, social movements and gender studies; I primarily investigate questions of structural inequality and social change in the Middle East.
I am currently working on a manuscript entitled "The Road to Tahrir: Origins and Sustainment of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011". I examine the background conditions and the social forces that brought about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. By studying changes in Egyptian capitalism and state policies since the 1980s, I highlight the structural changes that facilitated the generation of a revolutionary process in Egypt in the 2000s. I then look closely at how the Egyptian youth and democracy movements took advantage of the political opportunity and mobilized against the regime.
In a related project, I have written a paper on gender and labor in Egypt; and I have also co-authored a paper on the Second Palestinian Intifada, which is published in the European Journal of Sociology.
Selected Publications:
- "Class Capacity and Cross-Gender Solidarity: Women's Organizing in an Egyptian Textile Company" Politics & Society (Forthcoming).
- Matta, Nada and Rene Rojas. 2016. “The Second Intifada: A Dual Strategy Arena”, European Journal of Sociology, 57 (01): 65-113.
- Matta, Nada. 2003. “Postcolonial Theory, Multiculturalism and the Israeli Left: A Critique of Post-Zionism.” Holy Land Studies, 2 (1) 85-107.
- Achcar, Gilbert and Nada Matta. 2016. “Gilbert Achcar On the Arab Upheaval: Facts and Fiction.” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 18 (1): 1-15. (translated to Arabic in Bidayat Journal).
- Matta, Nada. 2005. “Disparities Between Arab and Jewish Local Authorities in the Social Welfare Ministry Budget.” Sikkuy Report.
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Language variation in Spanish, the relationship between language variation and mobility (social and geographical) among the Mexican communities in Mexico and the United States, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, theater, baroque and contemporary literature.
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Maria de la luz Matus-Mendoza, PhD
Associate Professor of Spanish
Contact for Spanish Study Abroad Course Approvals
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- PhD, Spanish, Temple University, 1999
Research Interests:
- Spanish Linguistic Variation in the U.S.
- The relationship between language variation and mobility (social and geographical) among the Mexican communities in Mexico and in the United States
- Second Language Acquisition
- Language Variation in media
Specialization:
Language variation in Spanish, the relationship between language variation and mobility (social and geographical) among the Mexican communities in Mexico and the United States, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, theater, baroque and contemporary literature.
Selected Publications:
- Road to Kenny: Migration and Affricate /č/. Southwest Journal of Linguisitcs. 2008, vol. 27 Issue 2, p 65-78, 2007.
- Affricate /č/ in an Immigrant Community. PAMAPLA 28 / ACALPA 28. Papers from the Twenty-Eight Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Université de Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada, 2007.
- Linguistic Variation in Mexican Spanish as Spoken in Two Communities-Moroleón, Mexico and Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. (2002). New York: Mellen Press, 2002.
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Self, identity & personhood, emotional functioning, Hindu morality, gender relations in Hindu society, adult development, popular Hinduism, post-colonial feminism, Hindu religious nationalism and Islamic radicalism.
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Usha Menon, PhD
Professor
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Education:
- BA, Economics, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, India, 1972
- MA, Anthropology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, 1987
- PhD, Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1995
Research Interests:
- Hindu society and civilization
- Goddess worship
- Family dynamics
- Gender relations
- Morality
- Concepts of the self
- Women’s well-being
Bio:
Usha Menon grew up in India, receiving a BA (Hons.) degree in Economics in 1972 from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi. In 1987, she completed her Masters in Anthropology from Utkal University, in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, and in 1995, she earned a PhD with Honors in Human Development from the University of Chicago. From 1995 through 1997, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pitzer College, in Claremont, California. She has taught at Drexel University since September 1997.
Specialization:
Self, identity & personhood, emotional functioning, Hindu morality, gender relations in Hindu society, adult development, popular Hinduism, post-colonial feminism, Hindu religious nationalism and Islamic radicalism.
Selected Publications:
- Menon, U. (forthcoming). The Three Selves of Adulthood. In Concepts of Self and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective edited by Girishwar Misra, Delhi: Centre for Study on Civilizations.
- The Hindu Child. The Chicago Companion to the Child. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- The Hindu Concept of Rasa and the Cultural Psychology of the Emotions. Psychological Studies, Delhi: NAOP, 2009.
- Menon, U. Forecasting Iraq’s Future: Democracy à la Islam or Is It Déjà Vu All Over Again? In A. Shostak (ed.) America: Moving Ahead, Volume 2, in a 4-book series entitled Tackling Tomorrow Today. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.
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The intersection between religion and law, gender politics, constitutional transition, and language education
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Amel Mili, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Contact for Arabic Study Abroad Course Approvals
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- PhD, Global Affairs, Rutgers University
- JD, Private Law, University of Tunis, Tunisia
- MS, Global Affairs, Rutgers University
- MA, Public Affairs, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Research Interests:
- The intersection between religion and law
- Gender politics
- Constitutional transition
- Language education
Bio:
Amel Mili holds a Master’s Degree and a PhD in Global Affairs from Rutgers University, Newark. She also holds a JD in Private Law from the Law School of Tunis and a Master’s in Public Administration from The University of Tunis. From 1991 to 2009, Amel served as a Magistrate in the Administrative Tribunal of Tunisia. From January 2010 to May 2017, Amel served as director of the Arabic Language and Culture Program at the Lauder Institute for International Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA.
Amel’s professional interests include the intersection between religion and law, gender politics, constitutional transition, and language education. She has published articles in journals and conferences. Amel’s forthcoming book (co-edited with Sahar Khamis, PhD) entitled “Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation” is due to appear in October 2017.
Specialization:
The intersection between religion and law, gender politics, constitutional transition, and language education
Selected Publications:
- Mili, Amel. (co-editor, Sahar Khamis, PhD). “Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation”. Forthcoming, October 2017.
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International organizations, international finance, development, human rights
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Department of Politics
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Joel E. Oestreich, PhD
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Department of Politics
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Education:
- BA, History and Government, Cornell University
- MPhil, International Relations, Oxford University
- PhD, Political Science, Brown University
Bio:
I am Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University, specializing in International Relations. My primary areas of research include international organizations, international finance, development and human rights. I have published three books: on how U.N. agencies design and implement human rights policies, on the conditions of independence for international organizations, and on the rights-based approach to development. I have also published on the rights of indigenous peoples, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the meaning of “equity” among develop experts, among other topics. Classes that I have taught include courses on international relations theory and practice, human rights, international organizations, and ethical issues in international affairs.
My current research continues my interest in international organizations and human rights based approaches to development. My 2017 book from Oxford University Press examined the link between development and human rights in India. Current research focuses on how the Universal Periodic Review process can inform UN development policy, and how global power shifts are changing the UN Secretariat.
I have been a visiting Research Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and visiting Teaching Fellow at the University of Abomey-Calavi, in Benin. I am currently Chair of the International Organization Section of the International Studies Association (ISA). I founded and directed the “ISA at UNAI” program, which brings together ISA scholars with their counterparts at the UN for discussion of important issues. From 2007-2018 I was the Director of the International Area Studies/Global Studies major at Drexel.
When not teaching, reading or writing, I enjoy rowing on the Schuylkill River and am a member of the Vesper Boat Club.
Specialization:
International organizations, international finance, development, human rights
Selected Publications:
- “Headwinds and Tailwinds to the Rights-based Approach to Development,” forthcoming from The Journal of Human Rights
- “The World Bank’s Equity Agenda After Ten (or so) Years” Global Governance 24, 2018.
- “SDG 10: Reduce Inequality in and Among Countries.” Social Alternatives 37, 2018.
- Human Rights and Development: Rhetoric and Reality in India. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- "International Organizations as Independent Actors: A Framework for Analysis." Editor. Routledge, 2012.
- "Power and Principle: Human Rights Programming in International Organizations". Georgetown University Press, 2007.
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Sunmi Oh
Assistant Teaching Professor
Contact for Korean Study Abroad Course Approvals
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Ni Ou
Assistant Teaching Professor
Contact for Chinese Study Abroad Course Approvals
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Education:
- BA, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, East China Normal University, 2008
- MS, Education, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
Bio:
Ni Ou was appointed assistant teaching professor in Fall 2017. Ni earned her BA in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from East China Normal University in 2008 and her MS in Education from the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania in 2011. Ni taught all levels of Chinese classes and coordinating intensive Chinese courses at the University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2017. Ni was also coordinating and developing a beginning business Chinese course at Penn. In addition to working at Penn, Ni has also worked at several language programs including CIEE (2007-2008), Columbia Business Chinese Program in Shanghai (2008), Princeton in Beijing Instructor, 2012) and Startalk Penn High School Chinese Academy as an instructor, curriculum designer and course coordinator (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014).
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Atlantic World, Jewish Migration and Diaspora, Economic Culture, Trade Networks, Colonial American History
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Department of History
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Toni Pitock, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of History
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Education:
- BA, English and Psychology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
- MA, History, Villanova University
- PhD, University of Delaware
Research Interests:
- Atlantic World
- Jewish Migration and Diaspora
- Economic Culture
- Trade Networks
- Colonial American History
Bio:
I am an assistant teaching professor of History at Drexel University. I teach courses in American history and Jewish history and culture.
I am currently working on a manuscript that examines Philadelphia’s earliest Jewish merchants and traders, in the late colonial, revolutionary and early national periods. I look at the ways they, as newcomers, established their business and how they sustained them as they sought out new opportunities locally and further afield. I also explore the ways they built economic networks. Merchants and traders depended on associates to conduct trade, and I trace the kinship, ethnic, and cross-cultural networks, analyzing the complicated dynamics that that facilitated – and sometimes undermined – commerce.
I also work on a project that gathers material on Jamaica’s Jewish history, including cataloging and conserving cemeteries and archival collections.
Specialization:
Atlantic World, Jewish Migration and Diaspora, Economic Culture, Trade Networks, Colonial American History
Selected Publications:
- “Separated from us as far as West is from East: Eighteenth-Century Ashkenazi Immigrants in the Atlantic World.” American Jewish History, Vol. 102, No. 2 (April 2018)
- “Commerce and Community: Philadelphia’s Early Jewish Settlers, 1740-1776.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 140, no. 3 (Oct., 2016)
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International business communication (Germany and the U.S.), public health policy and languages, German post-war history through film and literature, development of writing assessment tools for German minor.
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Simone Schlichting-Artur, EdD
Teaching Professor of German
Contact for German Study Abroad Course Approvals
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Education:
- MS, Science, Technology and Society, Drexel
- EdD, Educational Leadership, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Research Interests:
- Educational Leadership in Higher Education
- Issues of Identity, Leadership in a Globalizing Work Environment
- Conflict Resolution in Multicultural Environments
- Reflective Practice as a Tool in Intercultural, Communication, Global Learning Environments
- International Business Communication (Germany and the US), Language Policy and Planning with a focus on Foreign Language Acquisition
- German Post-War History through Film and Literature, Development of Writing Assessment Tools for German Minor, Foreign Language Learning and Technology
Bio:
Simone Schlichting-Artur is a practitioner-researcher in the field of educational leadership and multiculturalism. Her research focuses on developing leadership strategies in multicultural learning and work environments.
Specialization:
International business communication (Germany and the U.S.), public health policy and languages, German post-war history through film and literature, development of writing assessment tools for German minor.
Selected Publications:
- "The Germans Protest: Still a Country of Pacifists?" in Alexander G. Nikolaev, Ernest Hakanen, eds. Leading to the War: The Global Media Debate. New York: Palgrave-McMillan, 149-163, January 2006.