
Faculty and Staff
Department Chair

Matthew Bailey
Department Chair, Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 302
540.458.8160
baileym@wlu.edu
Faculty

Jeff Barnett
S. Blount Mason Jr. Professor of Spanish
Sabbatical Leave Full Year 2020/2021
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
Associate Professor of Spanish and Program Head, 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.

Gwyn E. Campbell
Professor of Spanish
Leave 2020/2021
Tucker Hall
540-458-8821
campbellg@wlu.edu

Patricia Hardin
Adjunct Instructor of Italian and Visiting Instructor of German
Tucker Hall, Room 325
540.458.8828
hardinp@wlu.edu

Julia C. Hernández
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 307
540-458-8819
jhernandez@wlu.edu

Mohamed Kamara
Associate Professor of French; Program Chair, Africana Studies
Sabbatical Leave Winter Term 2021
Tucker Hall, Room 306
540.458.8475
kamaram@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

John Lambeth
Professor of French
Tucker Hall, Room 315
540.458.8814
lambethj@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
Tucker Hall, Room 322
540.458.8818
michelsons@wlu.edu
Latin American Poetry, Aesthetics, Translation Theory, Feminist Poetics, State Violence, Colonialism, Neoliberalism

A. Cristina Pinto-Bailey
Visiting Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Tucker Hall, Room 320
540.458.8055
pinto-baileyac@wlu.edu

Jayne Reino
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 318
540-458-8716
jreino@wlu.edu

Antonio Reyes
Associate Professor of Spanish
Tucker Hall, Room 312
540.458.8081
reyesa@wlu.edu

Kristina Roney
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Tucker Hall, Room 303
540-458-8795
kroney@wlu.edu
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
lboetsch@wlu.edu
Staff

Shirley Richardson
Administrative Assistant II
Tucker Hall, Room 308
540.458.8821
srichard@wlu.edu
Teaching Assistants

Daniela Quiroz
Spanish Language TA
Tucker Hall, Room 311
540-458-8439
quirozd21@alumni.wlu.edu