People

Allen is a member of the faculty of the School of International Letters and Cultures. She teaches different levels of elementary French.

Arena teaches a broad range of courses in ancient Greek and Latin language and literature, Greek and Roman history, and medieval Latin.

Beas is interested in in linguistic typology and in the formal and generative approach to language.

Berman's research areas include globalization studies, humanitarianism, tourism, German orientalism and colonialism, Germans in Africa, and intercultural hermeneutics.

Bokenkamp specializes in the study of medieval Chinese Daoism, with a special emphasis on its literatures and its relations with Buddhism.

Her interests in linguistics include phonology acquisition and early childhood language acquisition.

Canovas has taught a wide range of classes, both graduate and undergraduate, on French literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, and on 17th-century French theater as well as on French film.

Chen teaches Buddhism and Chinese Religions at ASU. He has published on Buddhist monasticism and the interactions between Buddhism and Christianity. He is working on a project about animals in Chinese Buddhism.

Cho's research fields range from Pre-modern Korean and Chinese literature and culture; Sino-Korean exchange and East Asian comparative literature; performance literature; and oral storytelling and folk literature.

Cruse's research focuses on medieval Francophone culture (manuscripts, travel writing, visual culture).

Cutter's primary field of teaching and research is early medieval Chinese literature. He was founding director of the School of International Letters and Cultures at ASU.

Deal has taught at ASU for more than 27 years, having given hundreds of Portuguese-language classes to thousands of students.

Estévez is currently lecturer, course designer and Honors faculty member with SILC interested in migration patterns, transnational communities and historical recurrence of sociological patterns in Latin American literature.

Flanagan teaches Spanish and is a member of Learning Support Service's Online Instructional Support Team in the School of International Letters and Cultures.

Foster has written extensively on Argentine narrative and theater, and he has held Fulbright teaching appointments in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Javier García was born and educated in Spain and obtained his doctorate from the University of California, Davis.

Gilfillan has published widely on German and Austrian radio and sound art, and on the history of the radio in Germany as an experimental art medium.

Gradoville teaches Spanish linguistics courses. His research interests include usage-based linguistic theory, sociophonetics, corpus linguistics, research methodology, and variation and change.

William Hedberg's primary research focus is the literature and culture of early modern Japan, and his current project centers on the reception of late imperial Chinese fiction during the Edo and Meiji periods (17th-20th c.).

On leave to study corruption, Hoogenboom returned to the National Humanities Center, where she was a fellow (2000-1) for her book on 19th-century sentimental literature and duty in Russian noble service culture.

Internship coordinator and Spanish instructor at CISA downtown/SILC. Academic linguistics professional with extensive training and experience in education, research and people development

Johnson's teaching and research interests range widely, but mainly focus on the literatures and cultures of early modern Spain, Germany, England, and the Americas.

Joslin's interdisciplinary research on African literature and film combine aesthetic theories of representation and socio-cultural interpretations of texts in order to reimagine global discourses within a humanistic framework