Faculty

Hanna Albertson

Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian and Director of the Italian Language Program
Ph.D., A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Dr. Albertson’s research interests include 19th- and 20th-century Italian literature.
Office: C-106 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7711 | hfalbert at olemiss.edu

Heather Allen

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Dr. Allen’s research interests include Nahuatl and new philology, book history and print culture in Spain and Latin America and transatlantic studies.
Office: C-111 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-6981 | hjallen at olemiss.edu

Melvin S. Arrington, Jr.

Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Dr. Arrington’s scholarly work has focused on 20th-century Latin American writers, but he has recently developed a research interest in medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature.
Office: E-205A Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7713 | marringt at olemiss.edu

Natacha Biyong

Instructor of French
M.A., University of Lyon
Office: E-212 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-1980 | mnbiyong at olemiss.edu

Luanne Buchanan

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Office: C-112 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-6923| lbuchana at olemiss.edu

Allison Burkette

Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Dr. Burkette’s esearch interests include language variation and Appalachian English, with an emphasis on complexity theory in historical studies as they relate to Linguistic Atlas data.
Office: 210 Howry | 662-915-1458 | burkette at olemiss.edu

Julia E. Bussade

Director of Basic Portuguese and Spanish Language Programs
Ph.D., University of Mississippi
Office: E-207 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7709 | bussade at olemiss.edu

John P. Campiglio

Instructor of Spanish
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 011A Bondurant | 662-915-1943 | jpc at olemiss.edu

Valerio Cappozzo

Instructional Assistant Professor of Italian
Ph.D., Indiana University
Dr. Cappozzo’s research focuses on the influence of Islamic dream and divinatory sciences on early Italian poetry.
Office: 207 Howry | 662-915-6980 | vcappozz at olemiss.edu

Myung Chegal

Visiting Instructor of Korean
Ph.D., Keimyung University, Korea
Office: Bondurant C-014 | 662-915-3499 | mchegal at olemiss.edu

Marta Chevalier

Instructor of French
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: E-213 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5809 | mrego at olemiss.edu

Allen Clark

Assistant Professor of Arabic and Director of the Arabic Language Program
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Dr. Clark’s research interests include translation in the Arabic-English language pair, questioning the source of semantic mismatches whether they may be ideological, political, social, military, or a combination of these factors.
Office: 209 Howry | 662-915-1194 | asclark at olemiss.edu

Felice Coles

Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Coles’s research interests include dialects of American English and Hispanic sociolinguistics and language obsolescence.
Office: E-210A Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7702 | fcoles at olemiss.edu

Enrique Cotelo

Lecturer of Spanish
M.A. (Spanish), Ph.D. (History), University of Mississippi
Office: E-115 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5346 | ecotelo at olemiss.edu

Cristina Delano

Instructional Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Emory University
Office: E-206 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-3171 | cdelano at olemiss.edu

Marco Devera

Instructor of Intensive English
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 103 Old Athletics | 662-915-1340 | mmdever1 at olemiss.edu

Donald L. Dyer

Chair and Professor of Russian and Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Dr. Dyer’s research interests include the Russian, Bulgarian and Romanian languages, Slavic and Balkan Linguistics, languages in contact and Moldova.
Office: C115 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7298 | mldyer at olemiss.edu

Esim Erdim

Professor of Applied Linguistics
Ph.D., Kent State University
Dr. Erdim’s research interests include teaching English as a second language curriculum design and translation theory.Office: 13 Old Athletics | 662-915-7915 | eerdim at olemiss.edu

Ying (Sophia) Feng

Flagship Instructor of Chinese
M.A., Jinan University, China
Office: 216 Croft | 662-915-6792 | yfeng1 at olemiss.edu

Maria Fionda

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Fionda’s research interests include Hispanic and cognitive linguistics and languages in contact.
Office: E-205B Bondurant Hall | 662-915-3140 | mifionda at olemiss.edu

Ashley Fly

Instructor of Intensive English
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 103 Old Athletics | 662-915-1340 | amfly at olemiss.edu

Lorena Fonseca

Lecturer of French
Ph.D., University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and Lumières-Lyon II, France
Office: E-213 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5809 | lfonseca at olemiss.edu

Hernán Garrido

Instructor of Spanish
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 011B Bondurant Hall | 662-915-1943 | hagarrid at olemiss.edu

John Gutiérrez

Croft Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Dr. Gutiérrez’s research interests include Spanish-language pedagogy and second language acquisition.
Office: E-211A Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7717 | johng at olemiss.edu

Brenda Hales

Instructor of Intensive English
M.A., University of Mississippi
10 Old Athletics | 662-915-1559 | bhales at olemiss.edu

Lance Herrington

Instructor of Intensive English Program & Instructional Support Coordinator
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: Old Athletics 103 | 662-915-7386 | lherring at olemiss.edu

Valentina Iepuri

Assistant Professor of Russian
Ph.D., Minsk State Linguistics University
Dr. Iepuri’s research interests include Russian language in the post-Soviet period, languages in contact and language pedagogy.
Office: E-210B Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7715 | vbiepuri at olemiss.edu

Jasmine Karlowski

Instructor of Intensive English Program and Assistant Director of IEP
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 10 Old Athletics | 662-915-1560 | jakarlow at olemiss.edu

Irene Kaufmann

Lecturer of Spanish
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: E-115 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5346 | ikaufman at olemiss.edu

Jason Klodt

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Dr. Klodt’s research interests include the cultures, literature and cinema of contemporary Spain.
Office: C-109 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-6694 | jklodt at olemiss.edu

Tracy Case Koslowski

Intensive English Program Instructor and Community Service Coordinator
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 10 Old Athletics | 662-915-1847 | tlcase at olemiss.edu

Eugenia Landa

Lecturer of Spanish
M.A., University of Santiago, Chile
Office: E-110 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5346 | eugenia at olemiss.edu

Yi Lin

Assistant Professor of Chinese and Academic Director of the Flagship Chinese Language Program
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Dr. Lin’s research interests include applied Chinese linguistics and language assessment.
Office: 212 Croft | 662-915-6793 | ylin at olemiss.edu

Ahmed Mansour

Instructor of Arabic
M.A., Nova Southeastern University
Office: 207 Howry | 662-915-8987 | aymansou at olemiss.edu

Diane Marting

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Dr. Marting’s esearch interests include Spanish American and Brazilian literature, film and culture (especially by women writers and directors or about women’s lives), feminist literary criticism and European-Latin American cultural relations.
Office: E-104 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7104 | dmarting at olemiss.edu

Kaoru Ochiai

Croft Instructional Assistant Professor of Japanese
Ph.D., The University of Mississippi
Dr. Ochiai’s professional interests include second language acquisition, teaching methodologies and comparative cultural studies of the United States and Japan.
Office: 217 Croft | 662-915-3772 | kochiai at olemiss.edu

Melissa Ondrovcik

Instructor of German
M.A., University of Massachusetts
Office: E-212 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-1980 | mjondrov at olemiss.edu

Daniel O’Sullivan

Associate Professor of French and Senior Fellow of the Residential College South
Ph.D., Boston College
Dr. O’Sullivan’s research focuses on Old French and Old Occitan literature, music and text relations in medieval song, and manuscript studies.
Office: 126 Residential College South | 662-915-2054 | dosulliv at olemiss.edu

Velsie Pate

Instructor and Operations Coordinator of Intensive English
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 103 Old Athletics| 662-915-1560 | vdpate1 at olemiss.edu

Corina L. Petrescu

Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Petrescu’s research interests include National Socialist Germany, representations of 1968 in the German and Romanian imaginary, transcultural literature, German-Jewish relations from the 18th century to the present, and East-European Yiddish theater.
Office: E-208 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7716 | petrescu at olemiss.edu

Milene Prewitt

Instructor of Spanish
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: E-115 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5346 | mvprewit at olemiss.edu

Anne Quinney

Associate Professor of French
Ph.D., Duke University
Dr. Quinney’s research interests include 20th-century French poetry and fiction, French cultural studies, literary theory, psychoanalysis and film.
Office: C-113 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-6695 | aquinney at olemiss.edu

Michael Raines

Instructional Assistant Professor of TESL and IEP
Ph.D., University of MIssissippi
Office: 204 Howry | 662-915-1492 | mcraines@olemiss.edu

Mevelyn Romay Fernández

Instructor of Spanish
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: E-110 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5346 | mfernand at olemiss.edu

Carmen Sanchez

Instructor of Spanish
Office: 011B Bondurant Hall | 662-915-1943 | msanchez at olemiss.edu

Christopher D. Sapp

Associate Professor of German and Linguistics
Ph.D., Indiana University
Dr. Sapp’s research specialization is the historical morphology and syntax of German and he has also investigated language acquisition and Scandinavian linguistics
Office: E-211B Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7664 | csapp at olemiss.edu

Dinorah Sapp

Instructor of Intensive English and Coordinator of IEP Teaching Assistants
M.A., Indiana University
Office: 103 Old Athletics | 662-915-1852 | dsapp at olemiss.edu

William Schenck

Instructor of Italian
Ph.D., Boston College
Office: 314 Croft | 662-915-1500 | wschenck at olemiss.edu

Diana Semmes

Instructor of Spanish
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: E-110 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5346 | dfsemmesat olemiss.edu

Edgar Serrano

Instructor of Intensive English Program
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 011B Bondurant Hall | 662-915-1943 | eserrano at olemiss.edu

Penny Sisson

Instructor of Spanish
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: C-108 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7660 | psisson at olemiss.edu

Vance Smith

Instructor of Intensive English
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 103 Old Athletics | 662-915-1560 | lvrebarc at olemiss.edu

Elena Sorokova

Instructor of Intensive English
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: 103 Old Athletics | 662-915-1560 | esorokov at olemiss.edu

Rachel Sockwell

Instructor of Spanish
M.A., University of Mississippi
Office: E-115 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5346 | rcmorgan at olemiss.edu

Manuel Sosa-Ramirez

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Dr. Sosa-Ramirez’s research focuses on (Post) Modern Transatlantic theatre, film and literature.
Office: E-206 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-3171 | msosaram at olemiss.edu

Maribel Sullivan-González

Instructor of Spanish
Office: E-110 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-5346 | msg at olemiss.edu

Olivier Tonnerre

Assistant Professor of French
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Tonnerre’s research interests include French civilization and culture and representations of French nobility in French literature.
Office: E-203 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7712 | ogtonner at olemiss.edu

Tamara Warhol

Assistant Professor of TESL and Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Warhol’s research explores classroom and professional discourse in the humanities and the sciences; the intersection of language, gender and religion; and second language teaching and learning, with an emphasis on second language writing.
Office: 213 Howry | 662-915-5029 | twarhol at olemiss.edu

Ivonne Whitehead

Lecturer of Spanish
M.A., University of Mississippi (Spanish and TESL)
Office: C-108 Bondurant Hall | 662-915-7660 | ijwhiteh at olemiss.edu

Mei Yang

Assistant Professor of Chinese
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Dr. Yang’s areas of research include Chinese literature and cinema.
Office: Croft 215 | 662-915-5042 | myang2 at olemiss.edu

Weibing Ye

Flagship Instructor of Chinese
M.A., Beijing Language and Culture University
Office: 216 Croft | 662-915-6792 | wye at olemiss.edu

Yongping Zhu

Croft Associate Professor of Chinese
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Dr. Zhu’s research interests are mainly in the study of the development of Chinese function words and language acquisition.
Office: 213 Croft | 662-915-6794 | yzhu at olemiss.edu

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