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Robert (Moses) Fritz
Associate Professor of Spanish
Faculty Hall 4A-3
Ph.D. Indiana University Bloomington. M.A. Indiana University Bloomington. M.A. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Areas of Interest: Early Modern Spanish Literature, History of Science, Cognitive Literary Studies

Autumn Johnson
Administrative Assistant
Faculty Hall 4A

M.A.: Miami University. Areas of Interest: Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature, Language Assessment, Second Language Acquisition

Elena Picech
Associate Professor of Spanish
Faculty Hall 4A-2
Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins University. M.Ed.: Millersville University. Areas of Interest: Latin American Culture, 20th-Century Literature, Film, Modernity
Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin-Madison. M.A.: University of Wisconsin-Madison. Areas of Interest: Colonial Latin America, Religion and Literature, Theater
Roxane Riegler
Associate Professor of French and German
Faculty Hall 4A-8
Ph.D.: University of Maryland. M.A.: University of Salzburg. Areas of Interest: 20th- and 21st-Century Germanophone Literature, Holocaust Studies, Migration Studies

Tanya Romero-González
Associate Professor of Spanish, Global Languages Coordinator
Faculty Hall 4A-5
Ph.D.: Yale University. M.Phil.: Yale University. M.A.: Yale University. M.A.: Miami University. Areas of Interest: 19th- through 21st-Century Peninsular Literature and Film, Spanish Civil War, Interdisciplinary Studies, Teaching Methodology, Technology-Mediated Teaching and Learning

Akane Shirata
Japanese Adjunct Faculty
M.Ed.: George Mason University. Areas of Interest: Heritage Language Education, Cultural Identity Development

Tabitha Venable
American Sign Language Adjunct
M.A. Gallaudet University Areas of interest: Deaf Culture, Sign Language, Deaf Community, Language Acquisition

Ph.D.: University of Washington. M.A.: University of Washington. M.A.: University of Colorado. Areas of Interest: Traditional Chinese Poetry, Literary and Textual Criticism, Philology, Literary and Cultural History