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Modern Languages Faculty

Spanish	French	Italian	German	Chinese	Japanese

Dr. Bill Allen - Department Chair

Spanish Faculty

	Linda Bartlett - Spanish Professor Came to Furman in 1991 B.A. Wake Forest University M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia Academic interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature, especially the Generación del '98 Office: FH 235-E Telephone: 864-294-3388 Email: linda.bartlett@furman.edu
	David Bost - Spanish Professor Came to Furman in 1981 B.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Academic interests: Spanish American literature, historical chronicles of the Conquest Office: FH 235-C Telephone: 864-294-3177 Email: david.bost@furman.edu
	Jeremy Cass - Spanish Associate Professor Came to Furman in 2004 B.A., Furman University M.A., Ph.D., University of Kentucky Academic Interests: Afro-Hispanic literatures, Latin American studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Caribbean Studies Office: FH 235-K Telephone: 864-294-2428 Email: jeremy.cass@furman.edu http://www.furman.edu/~jcass
	Maurice Cherry - Spanish and Italian Professor Came to Furman in 1969-71, 1974 B.A,, Furman University M.A., University of South Carolina Ph.D., Northwestern University Academic interests: Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature, Romance linguistics, methodology, Latin American civilization Office: FH 235-B Telephone:864-294-3174 Email: maurice.cherry@furman.edu
	Ron Friis - Spanish Professor Came to Furman in 1999 B.A., Dickinson College M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Academic interests: Modern Latin American literature, XX century Mexican and Chilean poetry, Spanish Conversation, textbook writing Office: FH 235-V Telephone: 864-294-2227 Email: ron.friis@furman.edu Website: http://eweb.furman.edu/~rfriis/
	Mary Grant - Spanish Lecturer B.A., Furman University M.Ed., Furman University Academic interests: Spanish language and literature, French language and culture, English as a Second Language Office: RLY 109-G Telephone: 864-294-3245 Email: mary.grant@furman.edu
	Sofia Kearns - Spanish Professor Came to Furman in 1994 B.A. Universidad Industrial de Santander M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois Academic interests: Twentieth-century Spanish American poetry, women's literature from Latin America, ecocriticism, ecofeminist literature from Latin America Office: FH 235-L Telephone: 864-294-3165 Email: sofia.kearns@furman.edu
	Stephanie M. Knouse - Spanish Assistant Professor Came to Furman in 2009 B.A., Towson University M.A., Middlebury College Ph.D., University of Florida Academic Interests: Spanish Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change, Technology in Foreign Language Education, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition Office: FH 235-W Telephone: 864-294-3247 Email: stephanie.knouse@furman.edu Website: http://millie.furman.edu/knouse
	Angelica Lozano-Alonso - Spanish Associate Professor Came to Furman in 2001 B.A. University of Colorado M.A. Cornell University Ph.D. Cornell University Academic interests: 20th Century Mexican literature, contemporary Latin American literature, Chicano literature, Latin American cultural studies Office: FH 235-X Telephone: 864-294-2965 Email: angelica.lozano-alonso@furman.edu
	Lourdes Manye - Spanish Associate Professor Associate Professor Came to Furman in 1993-94, 1995 B.A. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona M.A., Ph.D., University of South Carolina Academic interests: 20th century Spanish literature, Post-War Spanish fiction, exile literature. contemporary Spanish short-story, comparative literature, 20th century Catalan literature, translation studies. Office: FH 235-T Telephone: 864-294-3544 Email: lourdes.manye@furman.edu
	Adrian Massei - Spanish Associate Professor Associate Professor Language House Coordinator Came to Furman in 2000 B.A., Universidad National de Córdoba, Argentina M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa Academic Interests: Contemporary Latin American literature, cultural studies, language proficiency assessment Office: RH 109-P Telephone: 864-294-3318 Email: adrian.massei@furman.edu
	Elise Mills - Spanish Lecturer Came to Furman in 2004 B.A., Georgia Southern University M.A., University of Florida Academic Interests: Spanish language and literature; French language and culture; politics, culture and film of Spain and Latin America Office: FH 212-A Telephone: 864-294-3247 Email: elise.mills@furman.edu
	Bill Prince - Spanish Professor Spanish Coordinator Came to Furman in 1980 B.S.Ed., M.Ed., Ph.D., University of Georgia Academic interests: Golden Age Spanish prose, history of the Spanish language, ACTFL Certified Oral Proficiency Tester/Trainer Office: FH 235-M Telephone: 864-294-3180 Email: bill.prince@furman.edu
	Maria Rippon - Spanish Assistant Professor Came to Furman in 2005 B.A., Mount Saint Mary's College M.A., Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill Academic Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Narratives of Spain and Latin America, Twentieth-Century Peninsular Drama, Spanish Civilization, Narratology Office: FH 235-Z Telephone: 864-294-3712 Email: maria.rippon@furman.edu

French Faculty

	Bill Allen - French and Italian Professor Came to Furman in 1987 B.A. Wake Forest University M.A. , Ph.D., University of North Carolina Academic interests: Nineteenth and twentieth century French prose, French poetry, Italian language and culture Office: FH 235-D Telephone: 864-294-2954 Email: bill.allen@furman.edu Visit his website
	Marianne Bessy - French Assistant Professor Came to Furman in 2008 Maîtrise, Université Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne M.A., University of Limerick Ph.D., Louisiana State University Academic interests: Francophone literatures, translingual Francophone writers (Vassilis Alexakis), literary bilingualism, self-translation, questions of cultural identity, language memoirs, exile narratives, Haitian Women Writers of the Diaspora, autofiction, spatial/geographical perspectives in literature. Office: FH 235-G Telephone: 864-294-2407 Email: marianne.bessy@furman.edu
	Cherie Maiden - French Professor Came to Furman in 1983 A.B., M.A., Washington University Ph.D., University of Illinois Academic interests: African literature, French language and civilization, twentieth-century French literature Office: FH 235-Y Telephone: 864-294-3175 Email: cherie.maiden@furman.edu
	David Morgan - French Professor Came to Furman in 1993 B.A., B.S., Wofford College J.D., Vanderbilt University M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University Academic interests: Renaissance and seventeenth- century French literature. Office: FH 235-Q Telephone: 864-294-3172 Email: david.morgan@furman.edu
	Harlan Patton - French Professor French Language Coordinator Came to Furman in 1985 B.A., Carroll College M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University Academic interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature Office: FH 235-J Telephone: 864-294-3178 Email: harlan.patton@furman.edu
	Pat Pecoy - French Professor Director, Language Resource Center Came to Furman in 1986 B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan Academic interests: Eighteenth-century French literature, contemporary and historical French civilization, French cinema, educational technology Office: FH 228-A Telephone: 864-294-3356 Email: pat.pecoy@furman.edu
	Dawn Strickland - French Lecturer Came to Furman in 2002 B.A., Furman University M.A., Middlebury College Ph.D., Indiana University Academic interests: romance linguistics, second language acquisition, instructional technology Office: FH 235-H Telephone: 864-294-3382 Email: dawn.strickland@furman.edu

Italian Faculty

	Bill Allen - French and Italian Professor Came to Furman in 1987 B.A. Wake Forest University M.A. , Ph.D., University of North Carolina Academic interests: Nineteenth and twentieth century French prose, French poetry, Italian language and culture Office: FH 235-D Telephone: 864-294-2954 Email: bill.allen@furman.edu Visit his website
	Maurice Cherry - Spanish and Italian Professor Came to Furman in 1969-71, 1974 B.A,, Furman University M.A., University of South Carolina Ph.D., Northwestern University Academic interests: Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature, Romance linguistics, methodology, Latin American civilization Office: FH 235-B Telephone:864-294-3174 Email: maurice.cherry@furman.edu

German Faculty

	Jane Chew - German Professor Came to Furman in 1980 B.A., Queens College M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Academic interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, German realism, the German radio play Office: FH 235-O Telephone: 864-294-3179 Email: jane.chew@furman.edu
	Jerry Cox - German and Linguistics Professor Came to Furman in 1976 B.A., Wichita State University M.A., University of Colorado M.S., Ph.D., Indiana University Academic interests: German linguistics, second language teaching, TESOL, educational technology Office: RLY 109-D Telephone: 864-294-3187 Email: jerry.cox@furman.edu
	Anne Culberson - German Lecturer Came to Furman in 2005 B.S., Georgetown University M.A., Brown University Academic Interests: German language and literature, film and culture Office: FH 212-B Telephone: 864-294-3181 Email: anne.culberson@furman.edu
	Ilka Rasch - German Assistant Professor Came to Furman in 2007 B.A., Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel M.A., University of Utah Ph.D., University of Michigan Academic Interests: Esthetics of Terrorism/Politically Motivated Violence (Media Coverage, Film and Literature),Visual Archives and Collective Memory, Melodrama and Women’s Film, Post-war German Literature, German and American Film History, Fascist Cinema Office: FH 235-R Telephone: 864-294-3182 Email: ilka.rasch@furman.edu

Chinese Faculty

	Harry Kuoshu - Chinese Associate Professor Came to Furman in 2005 B.A. Beijing University of Foreign Studies M.A. University of Massachusetts-Boston Ph. D. Cornell University Academic Interests: Chinese cinema, theater, literature and cultural studies. Office: FH 219 Telephone: 864-294-2278 Email: harry.kuoshu@furman.edu
	Dongming Zhang - Chinese Assistant Professor Came to Furman in 2008 B.A. Peking University M.A. University of Colorado at Boulder Ph.D. Cornell University Academic Interests: Modern Chinese popular literature and culture, Chinese cinema, Chinese pedagogy Office: FH 235-I Telephone: 864-294-2951 Email: dongming.zhang@furman.edu

Japanese Faculty

	Sachi Schmidt-Hori – Assistant Professor Came to Furman in 2012 B.A. Obirin University in Tokyo M.A. University of Washington Ph.D. University of Washington Academic interests: Representations of gender, class, and power in pre-modern Japanese literature, sociolinguistics, Asian linguistics, teaching Japanese as a foreign language FH 235-P Telephone: 864-294-3146 Email: sachi.schmidt-hori@furman.edu
	Izumi Tokunaga - Japanese Lecturer Came to Furman in 1999 B.A. Seinan Gakuin University, Japan M.A. University of Illinois Academic interests: Japanese language and culture Office: FH 235-S Telephone: 864-294-3189 Email: izumi.tokunaga@furman.edu
	Shusuke Yagi - Japanese Professor Came to Furman in 1989 B.A. International Christian University, Japan M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington Academic Interests: Japanese language and culture, Japanese literature, Film, Anthropology Office: FH 222A Telephone: 864-294-3184 Email: shusuke.yagi@furman.edu

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