Section
Languages

Faculty

Faculty

Languages Faculty
Dr. Julia Stewart
Ph.D., Spanish, University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Spanish, University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Romance Languages, University of Arizona; B.A., French, Oral Roberts University
Phone: 610.341.5901
E-mail: juliastewart@eastern.edu
Areas of specialty:Latin American civilization and literature, Mexican literature, 19th and 20th century French literature, applied linguistics, CALL (Computer-assisted language learning).

Recent publications
  • "Using e-Journals to Assess Students' Language Awareness and Social Identity During Study Abroad." Foreign Language Annals. Vol. 43, No. 1, Spring 2010.
  • “Using the Literary Text to Engage Language Learners in a Multilingual Community.” Foreign Language Annals. Vol. 39, No. 4, Winter 2006.
  • "Borges and Chesterton: Theologians of the Detective Story" in Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, Vol. 4 Spring 2003.
  •  Textos en contexto: Literatura hispanoamericana en multimedia. Ft. Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace. June 2000.
  •  "El humor mexicano como desahogo", Newsletter of the Int'l Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies. Vol. 3, No.1 Winter 1998.
  • "Humor in Crisis: Guadalupe Loaeza's Caricature of the Mexican Bourgeoisie", Journal of Popular Culture, Bowling Green, OH., Fall 1997.
Anne Francios Dr. Anne François
Ph.D. , French, New York University; M.A.,  French, New York University; B.A.,  French, New York University
Phone: 610.225.5544
E-mail: afrancoi@eastern.edu
Areas of specialty: Francophone Caribbean Women Writers. French language, literature and culture. Francophone studies. Post-colonial studies. Women’s studies. Translation.


Recent publications

  • "Rewriting the Return to Africa. Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers." Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2011
  • “Reflections SCT 2006,” The Newsletter of the School of Criticism and Theory. Cornell University. Fall 2006
  • “Haiti” in African Caribbeans: A Reference Guide, Wesport: Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 2003.
  • “Une histoire de danse et de pluie,” Translation of Louis-Philippe Dalembert’s short story . Calabash (A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters). Vol. I, Fall 2000.
  •  French Women Authors: The Significance Of The Spiritual (1400-2000)
    Edited by Kelsey L. Haskett and Holly Faith Nelson
    Published in 2012 by University of Delaware Press, Newark
    The chapter's title: "Simone Weil: Ambivalence in Search of God"
Language Faculty

Dr. Elvira Ramírez
Ph.D., Spanish, Temple University; M.A., Spanish, Temple University; M.A., Cross-cultural communications, Wheaton College; M.A., Education, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; B.A., Theology, IBBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone: 610.225.5076
E-mail: eramirez@eastern.edu
Areas of specialty: Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Literature and Civilization of Spain.

Recent Publications:

"Metaficción y parodia en El amor en los tiempos del cólera"Encuentros, The Annual Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica (CILH) Journal, 2011.

Languages Faculty Dr. Robin L. MacDonald
Ph.D., Modern Languages, Middlebury College; M.A., German, Villanova University; B.A., Houghton College
Languages Faculty

Heather Young
Ph.D coursework completed at Temple University; M.A., Spanish, Temple University; B.A. with Honors, Spanish, The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College)
Telephone: 610.225.5559
E-mail:hyoung2@eastern.edu
Areas of Specialty: Early Modern Peninsular literature, Colonial Literature.

Recent publications

  • "Crisis de un mito en Sor Juana." Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz en el aula: Nuevas lecturas. Ed. Alberto Chiri. Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de letras y ciencias humanas, 2007. 143-159.
  • "Hispanics and Bilingual Education Programs." Hispanos en los Estados Unidos: Tercer Pilar de la Hispanidad. Actas del II Simposio Internacional Presencia Hispánica en los Estados Unidos, ed. by Gerardo Piña-Rosales, Nicolás Toscano Liria, Carmen Fernández Klohe, Rafael Corbalán, Oneida Sánchez & Eda Henao. New York: ALDEEU, 2004. 271-8.
Milka Dubon

Milca Dubón
M.A. in Spanish, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; B.A. in Spanish, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; A.A. in Education, Gloucester County College, Sewell, NJe-mail: 
mdubon@eastern.edu
Areas of specialty: Socio-linguistics and Dialectology

Interests:
History of Spanish Language (its evolution)
Languages in Contact 
Applied Linguistics 
Colonial Literature