Faculty and Staff
Department Chair
Mohamed Kamara
Department Chair, Professor of French
Tucker Hall, Room 306
540-458-8475
kamaram@wlu.edu
Faculty
Matthew Bailey
Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 302
540-458-8160
baileym@wlu.edu
Jeff Barnett
S. Blount Mason Jr. Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 304
540-458-8950
barnettj@wlu.edu
Latin American Narrative and Cultural Studies, with regional emphasis on Mexican, Central American, and Pan-Caribbean cultures.
Mónica Botta
Professor of Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Tucker Hall, Room 313
540-458-8297
bottam@wlu.edu
Latin American Theater, emphasis on the transmission of history and memory in the theater of the Southern Cone. Human rights and post-dictatorial literatures and, Staging in the Academe.
Kelley Cordova
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Tucker 303
540-458-8795
kcordova@wlu.edu
Jose Dominicci-Buzo
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Tucker 307
540-458-8819
jdominicci-buzo@wlu.edu
Dick Kuettner
Adjunct Professor of Romance Languages and Teacher Education and Director of the Global Discover Laboratories in the Ruscio Center for Global Learning
Ruscio Center for Global Learning 138
540-458-8995
kuettnerd@wlu.edu
James R. Leva
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Tucker Hall, Room 314
540-458-4729
levaj@wlu.edu
Ellen Mayock
Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 305
540-458-8816
mayocke@wlu.edu
The Novel in Spain and Latin America; Literary Naturalism: Women Writers of Spain, Latin America, and the U.S.; Feminist Theory; Immigrant Populations in the U.S.
Stephen P. McCormick
Associate Professor of French and Italian
Tucker Hall, Room 324
540-458-8817
mccormicks@wlu.edu
Old French epic, Italian medieval and early modern literature, digital humanities, manuscript studies, TEI, IIIF.
Seth Michelson
Associate Professor of Spanish, Head of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Tucker Hall, Room 322
540-458-8818
michelsons@wlu.edu
Poetry, Aesthetics, Translation Theory, Feminist Poetics, State Violence, Colonialism, Neoliberalism
Aroldo Nery Mora
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
540-458-8823
anerymora@wlu.edu
Jayne Reino
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 318
540-458-8716
jreino@wlu.edu
Antonio Reyes
Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 315
540-458-8081
reyesa@wlu.edu
Kristina Roney
Assistant Professor of French
On Leave
Tucker Hall, Room 303
540-458-8795
kroney@wlu.edu
French novel; 19th through 20th-century French literature; Honore de Balzac; French for business purposes; Industrial Revolution; Economic history and finance; Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
Affiliated Faculty
Domnica Radulescu
Edwin A. Morris Professor of Comparative Literature
Newcomb Hall, Room 313
540-458-8030
radulescud@wlu.edu
Emeritus
Laurent Boetsch
Professor of Spanish
Years of Service: 1976 - 2016
lboetsch@wlu.edu
Gwyn E. Campbell
Professor of Spanish
Years of Service: 1985 - 2021
campbellg@wlu.edu
Françoise Fregnac-Clave
Professor of French
Years of Service: 1996 - 2019
fregnac-clavef@wlu.edu
John Lambeth
Professor of French
Years of Service: 1985 - 2021
lambethj@wlu.edu
Staff
Alex Williams
Administrative Assistant II
Tucker Hall, Room 308
540-458-8821
awilliams@wlu.edu
Teaching Assistants
Jessica Sousa Borges
Portuguese Teaching Assistant
jsousaborges@mail.wlu.edu
Paul Moreaux
French Teaching Assistant
pmoreaux@mail.wlu.edu
Maria Francesca Pastore
Spanish Teaching Assistant
mpastore@mail.wlu.edu