People

A Fulbright Scholar, Professor Ali is the founding chair of CAIS, coordinator of Arabic Studies and head of Classics and Middle East Studies at ASU.

Almășan teaches Culture and Society Transformation and Romanian Language and Culture at SILC. She is a former ASU Fulbright scholar (School of Public Affairs - 2010-2011) and holds a doctorate in public management.

Hope M. Anderson is Director of Spanish Language Acquisition. She holds a doctorate in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching. Her research interests include hybrid language pedagogy and curriculum design.

Bahtchevanova teaches undergraduate and graduate linguistics courses and French language courses. As the coordinator of the lower-division French program, she coordinates, trains, and mentors French language instructors.

Beaudrie teaches graduate courses in second and heritage language pedagogy and bilingualism. She is also the lead faculty for the PhD track in heritage language pedagogy and research.

Ligia Bezerra has taught Portuguese, Spanish, and English in various institutions in Brazil and in the U.S. Bezerra's research interests include Latin American literature and culture, consumption, and everyday life.

Bolmarcich was born and raised in Philadelphia and came to ASU in fall 2010. She works on ancient Greek international relations and diplomacy.

Cheloha's work focuses on online curriculum development and teaching of American Sign Language and related topics.

Chery is a French instructor at ASU. Born and raised in Nancy (France), she moved to Arizona shortly after graduating high school to pursue her education at ASU.

Correa-Suarez joined ASU fall of 2003. She has a doctorate in Spanish Peninsular literature/ Medieval and Golden Age. She has lived, studied in and traveled extensively throughout Europe and United States.

Croft founded and led the ASU Critical Languages Institute from 1991-1997. He received lifetime professional achievement medal from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 2005.

Curran taught Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures: Survey of Literature of Spain, Brazil; Spanish, Spanish-American and Brazilian Civilization and published extensively on diverse cultures before/after retirement.

Italian by birth and passionate about the language and culture of her native country, Dal Martello has been teaching Italian language and culture courses at Arizona State since 1996.

Dell’Anna has been teaching Italian at ASU since 2005. Her areas of teaching and research include teaching Italian language through literature, Italian mass media communication, and pedagogy in language teaching.

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, Assists in Lower-Division Program coordination, and is a member of Learning Support Service's Instructional Support Team in the School of International Letters & Cultures.

Gahan teaches various levels of Japanese language.

Gil-Osle's interests include Spanish literature, golden age, Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, Celestina, Basque Studies, theater, comparative literature, friendship theory, networking theory, gender studies, and ekphrasis.

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.

Eva Humbeck is an instructor of German language in the School of International Letters and Culture at Arizona State University. Her academic interests reach from poetry to modern literature to cultural change in Germany.