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Myriam Al-Tai

Languages and Culture Studies

French Graduate Teaching Assistant

COED 422
maltai@uncc.edu

Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau

Associate Professor and Associate Chair

COED 441
704-687-8765
aaliagab@uncc.edu

David Arcia

Spanish Lecturer

COED 422
darcia@uncc.edu

Born and raised in El Salvador, David moved to Charlotte in 2014. He holds a Mayor and a Master in Environmental Studies, with specialization in Education. Interested in environmental issues, community development, photography, and technology....

Whitney Baggs

wmbaggs@uncc.edu

Academic Interests Young adult fiction translation, Consumer electronics and technology translation, History of the Spanish language Other Interests Orchid growing

Zahra Bahrani-Mostafavi

Lecturer in Farsi

COED 422
zmostafa@uncc.edu

Ms. Bahrani has many years of teaching experience in different areas of science and education. She has been a lecturer of Farsi language at UNC Charlotte since 2011. She is very engaged in community services and cultural activities.

Yuliya Baldwin

Lecturer in Russian Studies

COED 422
ybaldwin@uncc.edu

Yuliya Baldwin is a Lecturer of Russian Language and Russian Literature. She has also taught and coordinated a course in Global Connections. Baldwin has instructed courses in an on-campus, teleconference and online formats. She was awarded an Excellence...

Enika Banerjee

Japanese Lecturer

COED 444B
ebanerje@uncc.edu

José Manuel Batista

Associate Professor

COED 405
Jose.Batista@uncc.edu

Anna Berges

Languages and Culture Studies

DAAD for German

COED 421
a.berges@uncc.edu

Michèle Bissière

Professor

COED 423
mhbissie@uncc.edu

Jordan Bledsoe

Lecturer

COED 466
jbleds11@uncc.edu

Hugo Pascual Bordon

Spanish Fellow

COED 421
hpascual@uncc.edu

Basma Botros

Languages and Culture Studies

Arabic Professor

COED 422
bbotros@uncc.edu

David Boyd

Languages and Culture Studies

Assistant Professor of Japanese

COED 404
davidboyd@uncc.edu

Isabelle Buhot-Batista

Lecturer

COED 422
ibuhot@uncc.edu

Anna Gallant Carter

anna@gallanttranslator.com

After working on Habitat for Humanity International projects in Latin America, Anna developed an intense curiosity for the Spanish language and became involved in the Latino community not only in Latin America, but also at home in the U.S. It was with...

Renee Cave

rcave@uncc.edu

Renee received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish with a minor in Business Administration from Winthrop University. She is now pursuing a graduate degree in Spanish with a concentration in translation at UNC Charlotte where she is a member of the Mu Chapter...

Susan Cernyak-Spatz

Professor Emerita

SECernya@uncc.edu

Dr. Cernyak-Spatz lived in Berlin from 1929-1936, attending grade school until age 10 and then attending Lyceum (higher education girls’ school). In 1936 her parents moved to Vienna where the family business had a branch. Hitler’s occupation...

Susan Cernyak-Spatz

SECernya@uncc.edu

Education Ph.D. and M.A., University of Kansas, 1972 B.A., Southwest Missouri State College, 1968 Honors Honors: S.M.S. Regents Fellowship: 1966-68 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship: 1968 Who’s Who in U.S. Colleges: 1968 Fulbright Seminar Scholarship:...

Susana Cisneros

Lecturer

COED 444A
scisner1@uncc.edu

In addition to teaching, Ms. Cisneros has worked as a interpreter/translator for the Mecklenbury County Courthouse. Ms. Cisneros has been teaching for the Department of Languages and Culture Studies since 2008.

Myron Claeys

Languages and Culture Studies

Spanish MA Fellow

COED 412
mmcken17@uncc.edu

Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez

Associate Professor

COED 417
cmcoria@uncc.edu

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Daniela Cunico Dal Pra

Italian Lecturer

COED 459B
dcunicod@uncc.edu

David Dalton

Assistant Professor of Spanish

COED 463
ddalto14@uncc.edu

Edwin Dávila

Spanish Lecturer

COED 422
edavila1@uncc.edu

Will Davis

Languages and Culture Studies

Lecturer in Film Studies

COED 420
wsdavis@uncc.edu

Biography:

William S. Davis is an Adjunct Professor for the Film Studies Program in the Department of Languages and Culture Studies. He received his Bachelor's in Art with a concentration in Photography and Film Studies Minor from UNC Charlotte in 2004, and his Master's in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Film and Technology from UNC Charlotte in 2009.

William is CEO of Small Creatures LLC, an award-winning film production company and creative marketing firm based in Charlotte, NC. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, small...

Lorena Delgadillo

Spanish Lecturer

COED 464
mldelgad@uncc.edu

Amber Donley

adonley@uncc.edu

Amber Donley obtained her bachellor's degree in Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Michael Scott Doyle

Professor (Directing Santander program in Spain, 2017-18)

COED 424B
msdoyle@uncc.edu

Chie Drake

Languages and Culture Studies

Japanese Lecturer

COED 420
cdrake10@uncc.edu

Paloma Fernández Sánchez

Spanish Lecturer / Spanish Advisor

COED 459A
704-687-6017
pfernan2@uncc.edu

Garrett Fisher

gfisher6@uncc.edu

Originally from Salisbury, North Carolina, Garrett obtained his B.S. in Spanish Education from Western Carolina University. He also studied at ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico and taught for two years in Franklin, NC as a high school Spanish teacher and...

Mirna Garcia

Languages and Culture Studies

SGTA

COED 421
mgarci31@uncc.edu

Julia Geaney-Moore

Languages and Culture Studies

Administrative Support Associate

COED 439
704-687-8754
jgeaneym@uncc.edu

Noha Ghali

Arabic Lecturer

COED 430D
704-687-8754
nghali@uncc.edu

Robert Gleaves

Associate Professor Emeritus

rgleaves@uncc.edu

Concepción Godev

Associate Professor and Graduate Director

COED 408
704-687-8486
cgodev@uncc.edu

Susanne Gomoluch

German Lecturer

COED 459C
sgomoluc@uncc.edu

Ann González

Professor of Spanish and Chair

COED 435
704-687-8761
abgonzal@uncc.edu

Dale Grote

Associate Professor

COED 450
dagrote@uncc.edu

Candace Reese Haithcox

candacehaithcox@gmail.com

Candace is a high school Spanish teacher in Alexander County. In 2012, she earned her National Board Certification for Teaching. She lives in Taylorsville, NC with her husband, Adam.

Carol Hartley

Business Services Coordinator

COED 442
704-687-8786
CarolHartley@uncc.edu

Bobby Hobgood

Director, Language Resource Center

COED 443
704-687-8762
bobbyhobgood@uncc.edu

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Jane Houston

Lecturer

COED 422
jbhousto@uncc.edu

Ms. Houston has taught for the Department of Languages and Culture Studies since 1982.

Angela Jakeway

Senior Lecturer, German Coordinator and Adviser, Coordinator of Certificate of German for Business

COED 403B
ajakeway@uncc.edu

Verónica Janis

vjanis@uncc.edu

Phillip Kaffen

Assistant Professor of Japanese

COED 455
pkaffen@uncc.edu

Fumie Kato

Associate Professor

COED 451
fkato@uncc.edu

Karoline Kiefel

German MA Fellow

COED 421
kkiefel@uncc.edu

Jeffrey A. Killman

Assistant Professor

COED 462
jkillman@uncc.edu

Anastasia Koralova

Teaching Professor

COED 448
alkoralo@uncc.edu

Mary LaMarca

Lecturer

COED 459D
mlamarca@uncc.edu

Aura Lawson-Alonso

Lecturer

COED 406A
allawson@uncc.edu

Aura Lawson-Alonso

allawson@uncc.edu

Valentina Lioce

Languages and Culture Studies

Italian Professor

COED 421
vlioce@uncc.edu

Tianran Liu

Lecturer

COED 409A
tsavaiin@uncc.edu

Maryrica Ortiz Lottman

Associate Professor - Spanish; Affiliate Professor- Latin American Studies and International Studies; Adjunct Professor- Women's Studies

COED 457
mlottman@uncc.edu

Natalie Love

nmlove2@uncc.edu

Maria Mahaffey

Lecturer

COED 403D
memahaff@uncc.edu

Austin McComas

Coordinator, Language Resource Center

COED 434D
704-687-8790
rmccomas@uncc.edu

Shanna-Kay McKenzie

smckenz9@uncc.edu

Shanna is a Jamaican student with a passion for languages. She has studied abroad in Mexico where she lived with a host family for a semester. She has a particular interest in Medical Interpreting. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Academic Honor...

Korinne Meier

Languages and Culture Studies

Film Studies Professor

COED 420
kmeier5@uncc.edu

Luis Mejia Diaz

Languages and Culture Studies

Spanish Professor

COED 421
lmejia3@uncc.edu

Christopher Mellinger

Assistant Professor of Spanish Interpreting and Translation Studies

COED 461
704 687-6016
cmelling@uncc.edu

Martha Miller

Professor Emerita

mlmiller@uncc.edu

Fatima Moatassim de la Torre

Languages and Culture Studies

Spanish Professor

COED 422
fmoatass@uncc.edu

Chikako Mori

Senior Lecturer

COED 445
704-687-8217
cmori@uncc.edu

Seirin Nagano

Japanese Fellow

COED 420
snagano@uncc.edu

Irma J. Navarro

inavarr1@uncc.edu

Irma graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Spanish from Davidson College in 2007. She currently serves as Assistant Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, Assistant Director of Multicultural Admission, and Associate Director of July Experience at her alma...

Marie-Thérèse Noiset

Professor Emerita

mtnoiset@uncc.edu

Olga Padilla-Falto

Spanish Lecturer & Spanish Hybrid Coordinator

COED 446
opadill1@uncc.edu

Yennica Palmer

Languages and Culture Studies

Spanish Graduate Teaching Assistant

COED 421
ypalmer@uncc.edu

Xiaofei Pan

Languages and Culture Studies

Chinese Professor

COED 421
xpan2@uncc.edu

Andrew Parkhurst

aparkhur@uncc.edu

A native of Chattanooga, TN, Andrew developed an interest in Spanish while in high school. He completed his BA in Spanish in 2009 at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and came to Charlotte shortly thereafter to begin his MA in the Translating...

Kyle Parrish

Languages and Culture Studies

Spanish MA Fellow

COED 412
kparri13@uncc.edu

Bianca Potrykus

Lecturer

COED 430E
bpotryku@uncc.edu

Bianca Potrykus is a Lecturer of German and Coordinator of Elementary German. She studied Applied Linguistics, German Language and North American Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and the University of Vienna, Austria. She holds a Master’s...

Anton Pujol

Associate Professor

COED 456
apujol@uncc.edu

Maria Teresa Rains

Lecturer

COED 421
mtrains@uncc.edu

Ms. Rains has business, translating/interpreting and volunteer experience in the United States, Germany and Italy. She has been teaching for the Department of Languages and Culture Studies since 2002.

Maria Ramos

Languages and Culture Studies

Spanish Graduate Teaching Assistant

COED 422
mramospe@uncc.edu

Robert C. Reimer

Professor

COED 423A
704-687-8779
rcreimer@uncc.edu

Rebecca Roberson

Languages and Culture Studies

Spanish MA Fellow

COED 409B
rhoney16@uncc.edu

Mónica Rodríguez-Castro

Assistant Professor

COED 410
monica.rodriguez@uncc.edu

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Walquidia Sanchez

Languages and Culture Studies

SGTA

COED 422
wsanchez@uncc.edu

Robert Sandarg

Associate Professor Emeritus

rmsandar@uncc.edu

Cassidy Schenley

wschenle@uncc.edu

Cassidy graduated from Penn State University in 2009 with degrees in Spanish, English, and Comparative Literature. He entered the translation program at UNCC in 2011 after two years as a high school teacher. He has spent time in Spain and Mexico. ...

Valeria Schmid Queiroz

Graduate Assisstant

COED 460
vschmidq@uncc.edu

Kazue Shamburg

Languages and Culture Studies

Japanese Professor

COED 420
khara1@uncc.edu

Megan Sharpe

msharp19@uncc.edu

Megan received her B.A. in Spanish from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2012. As an undergraduate, she also completed two minors in Geography and Latin American studies. Megan entered the Translation and Translation Studies program...

Kate Skorodinskaya

Lecturer

COED 422
yskorodi@uncc.edu

Kate Skorodinskaya is an instructor of Russian studies. She graduated in 1995 from Moscow State University with a M.A. degree in Journalism. She worked for Russian national TV channels (ORT, RTR) as a screen writer and editor of TV-programs,...

Allison Stedman

Associate Professor

COED 416
astedman@uncc.edu

Katherine Stephenson

Associate Professor

COED 458
ksstephe@uncc.edu

Bridget Stipicevic

Administrative Assistant

COED 439
704-687-8754
bstipice@uncc.edu

Shaun Stone

Lecturer

COED 403A
sstone24@uncc.edu

Shaun Stone

sstone24@uncc.edu

Rodney Stringfellow

Languages and Culture Studies

Film Studies Professor

COED 420
rstringf@uncc.edu

Saundra Swain

saundrals@gmail.com

Saundra Swain lives in Wilmington, NC and is currently an Executive Assistant in the Business Development department at PPD. She hopes to transition into a bilingual position in the Medical Communications or Clinical department soon. Saundra received a...

Ekaterina Terentieva

Lecturer

COED 421
eterenti@uncc.edu

Carolina Helena Timoteo de Oliveira

Adjunct Instructor of Portuguese

COED 411A
ctimoteo@uncc.edu

Carolina Helena Timóteo de Oliveira is a professor of Languages and Culture. She spent most of her life in Belo Horizonte, Brazil where she taught English and Portuguese for seven years. In the fall of 2016 Carolina moved to Charlotte to join the Latin...

Christine Vance

Associate Professor Emerita

cwvance@uncc.edu

Victor D. Vazquez

Vvazque1@uncc.edu

Victor was born in the United States and comes from a Spanish and Puerto Rican family. He completed his B.A. in Spanish at Virginia Tech in 2013 and is now starting his M. A. in Spanish (LLC). Academic Interests Southern Cone Literature Other Interests...

Sandra Watts

Senior Lecturer; Coordinator of Elementary Spanish

COED 449
704-687-8216
swatts2@uncc.edu

Kai-Uwe Werbeck

Assistant Professor

COED 452
kwerbeck@uncc.edu

Samuel White Jr.

sam@lengualounge.com

Sam graduated in 2012 (MA, Spanish, TTS track) and founded Lengua Lounge right afterwards, specializing in translation of business, legal and medical documents into English, editing...

Svanny Wong

Languages and Culture Studies

Spanish MA Fellow

COED 411B
swong7@uncc.edu

Shirley Wright

Lecturer

COED 460
704-687-8609
shwright@uncc.edu

Yukiko Yokono

Lecturer

COED 403C
yyokono@uncc.edu

Melody Zayas-Peña

mzayaspe@uncc.edu

Melody received her bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Italian from Ithaca College. She is currently working on a Spanish M.A. with a focus on Translation and Translation Studies. Academic Interests 20th century Latin American Literature, Legal and...

Amanda Zhou

Languages and Culture Studies

Chinese Professor

COED 422
azhou5@uncc.edu

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Spanish Lecturer

Whitney Baggs

Zahra Bahrani-Mostafavi

Lecturer in Farsi

Yuliya Baldwin

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Japanese Lecturer

José Manuel Batista

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Anna Berges

Languages and Culture Studies

DAAD for German

Michèle Bissière

Professor

Jordan Bledsoe

Lecturer

Hugo Pascual Bordon

Spanish Fellow

Basma Botros

Languages and Culture Studies

Arabic Professor

David Boyd

Languages and Culture Studies

Assistant Professor of Japanese

Isabelle Buhot-Batista

Lecturer

Anna Gallant Carter

Renee Cave

Susan Cernyak-Spatz

Professor Emerita

Susan Cernyak-Spatz

Susana Cisneros

Lecturer

Myron Claeys

Languages and Culture Studies

Spanish MA Fellow

Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez

Associate Professor

Daniela Cunico Dal Pra

Italian Lecturer

David Dalton

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Edwin Dávila

Spanish Lecturer

Will Davis

Languages and Culture Studies

Lecturer in Film Studies

Lorena Delgadillo

Spanish Lecturer

Amber Donley

Michael Scott Doyle

Professor (Directing Santander program in Spain, 2017-18)

Chie Drake

Languages and Culture Studies

Japanese Lecturer

Paloma Fernández Sánchez

Spanish Lecturer / Spanish Advisor

Garrett Fisher

Mirna Garcia

Languages and Culture Studies

SGTA

Julia Geaney-Moore

Languages and Culture Studies

Administrative Support Associate