Timothy G. Compton
 Head/Professor 

Ph.D., University of Kansas

tcompton@nmu.edu
Dr. Compton's research specialty is Mexican literature. He has done considerable research on the picaresque subgenre in Mexico, the writings of Rodolfo Usigli, and contemporary Mexican theatre in performance. 

Selected Publications/Presentations

  • Mexican Picaresque Narratives. Published by Bucknell University Press.
  • "'Mascaras mexicanas' in Rodolfo Usigli's Jano es una muchacha." Latin American Theatre Review 25.1 (Fall 1991), 63-71.
  • "Mexico City Theatre, Spring 2002." Latin American Theater Review  (Spring 2003).

Susan Goodrich (Martin)
 Associate Professor

M.A., Middlebury College

Ph.D. Universtiy of California, Berkeley
 

sumartin@nmu.edu

Granada Study Abroad

Dr. Goodrich is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese language, literature and culture. Her research interests include the literatures, languages and cultures of the Andean regions, Brazil, and Mexico. She has recently returned from a summer in Cuzco, Peru where she studied Quechua, an indigenous language spoken by 16 million people in S. America. 

Selected Publications/Presentations

  • "Entrevista con Elena Poniatowska." Lucero: A Journal of Hispanic Studies (1998).

  • "The mama qocha revisited: sexual geographies in Jose Maria Arguedas's El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo." Presented at the 1998 Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL

  • "A Paixao Segundo Peixoto: Uma leitura de Passionate Fictions: Narrative, Violence and Gender in Clarice Lispector." Revista de critica literaria latinoamericana (July, 1996). 

Michael W. Joy
Assistant Professor

B.A. Carleton College

M.A., Ph.D. University of Minnesota

mjoy@nmu.edu

Dr. Joy is an Assistant Professor of Spanish language, literature, and culture.  His research interest is Spanish Golden Age literature.  He has held teaching positions at Presbyterian College and Carleton College where he organized faculty-led study abroad trips to Mexico and Guatemala. 

Selected Publications/Presentations:

Publications:

  • “Satire and the (Colonizing) Subject in the Theater of Gil Vicente.” Romance Languages Annual 11 (1999): 507-11.

  • “The Art of the (Im)possible: Politics and the Postmodern in Gómez de la Serna’s Greguerías.” Romance Languages Annual 10 (1998): 640-45.

  • “The Lema and the Emblema: Diverse Rhetorical Strategies in Saavedra Fajardo’s Empresas políticas.”  Romance Languages Annual 9 (1997): 539-44.

 Reviews:

  • Rivas Yanes, Alberto.  El hidalgo fuerte / L’hidalgo fuerte.  (Submitted to Cervantes on August 30, 2006.)

  • Pérez-Romero, Antonio.  The Subversive Tradition in Spanish Renaissance Writing.  (Submitted to Hispania on May 1, 2006.)

  • Borrego Gutiérrez, Esther.  Un poeta cómico en la corte: Vida y obra de Vicente Suárez de Deza.  Hispania 88.3 (September 2005): 486-487.

  • Huerta, Javier and Héctor Urzáiz, editors.  Diccionario de personajes de Calderón.  Hispania 87.1 (January 2004): 70-71.

Conference Presentations:

  • “Engaging Twenty-First Century Students With the Golden Age: Success Stories From Small Colleges.”  Moderator of panel at the Modern Language Association Conference (Philadelphia, December 2006).

  •  “El extrañamiento en la literatura de la conquista.”  Presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference (Atlanta, November 2005).

  • “Espartafilardo’s Asparagus: Don Quijote as Heroic Emblematist.” Presented at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature (SUNY-Cortland, October 2003).

  •  “Ideologies and Emblems in the Theater of the Spanish Golden Age.”  Presented at the Twenty-fifth Annual Comparative Drama Conference (Ohio State University, April 2001)

Nell Grossman Kupper
Associate Professor

B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University

M.A., Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville

nkupper@nmu.edu

French Table

French Club

French Credit Abroad

 

Dr. Kupper is an Associate Professor of French Language, Literature and Culture. Her areas of interest include: 19th and 20th century French literature, 19th century Russian literature, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies.

Selected Publications/Presentations

  • "The Sacrificial Woman in the Archetypal Triads of Prevost Vigny and Alain-Fournier." Romance Notes XXXVIII (Winter, 1998) pp. 207-14.
  • Review of Malraux, Romancier. Revue Andre Malraux Review 27 (1/2) (1998), pp. 118-119
  • "Eroticising Duty." Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts, 2000 April 13-14, "The Entangled Web of Seduction." Cincinnati Conference, May 1999.

Amy Orf
Instructor

M.A., University of Michigan

aorf@nmu.edu

Ms. Orf is completing her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics at the University of Michigan and is currently serving in a two-year position in Spanish. Her research interests include the history of the Spanish language, Spanish syntax, Spanish phonetics and phonology, and Spanish dialectology. She is also interested in creative learning, including songs and technology. 

Selected Publications/Presentations

  • "The Evolution of a Spatio-Temporal Metaphor: The Spanish Progressive." Six Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, April 4-5, 1997
  • "Ebonics Has Links to African Languages." State News [East Lansing] 10 Feb. 1997: 4A.
  • "The Advantages of Song in the Foreign Language Classroom." Colloquium on Spanish Linguistics, Roanoke College, Salem, VA, March 29-30, 1996.

Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos
Associate Professor

B.A. in German: Clark University

M.A. in Comparative Literature: Clark University

Ph.D. in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies with a focus on Eighteenth-Century German &
British Literatures and
the History of Education:
University of Connecticut

csotirop@nmu.edu

Vienna Study Abroad in May 2009

 

 

 

 

 


Professor Sotiropoulos has taught at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece, and most recently the University of Connecticut.  She has considerable experience related to the use of languages across the curriculum, the use of technology for teaching languages, and women's studies.

Selected Publications/Presentations

Book:

Articles:

  • “Scandal Writ Large in the Wake of the French Revolution: The Case of Amalia Holst.” Women in German Yearbook. Vol. 20 (2004): 98-121
  • "Educating for Women's Future: Thinking New Forms." Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders. Ed. Virgil Nemoianu and Stephen Sondrup. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004. 257-80. Co-author: Margaret R. Higonnet.
  • "Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter: Sophie von La Roche as Editor, Educator, and Narrator."  Colloquia Germanica 33.3 (2000): 213-38.
  • "Where Words Fail: Rational Education Unravels in Fiction by Maria Edgeworth." Children's Literatures in Education. 32.4 (2001): 305-21.
  • "Loosening the Leash on Writing: The Adult Language Learner." Perspectives and Horizons. Dimension: Languages '89. Ed. T. Bruce Fryer and Frank W. Medley. Columbia, S. Carolina: Southern Conference on Language Teaching, 1990:113-24.

Selected Conference Papers:

  • "The Mind: Gendered or Not? Competing Claims in the Enlightenment and Today." ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies). Portland, OR, March 2008.
  • "German Language and Culture through Inquiry Learning." AATG/ACTFL (American Association of Teachers of German/American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages). San Antonio, Nov 2007.
  • "Wherefore the Letters in Catharine Macaulay's Letters on Education?" ASECS (American Society for Eithteenth-Century Studies). Montreal, March-April, 2006
  • Engaging with Language and Culture: A Community Comes Together Through Service Learning. 10th Annual Michigan Institute on Service Learning. Flint, February 2006.
  • "(De)Gendering Perfectibility: Romantic Women Reformists Translate Male Models of Education." ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association). Ann Arbor, April 2004.
  • "Importing and Exporting the 'Other': Strategizing Educational Reform in Didactic Fiction." ASECS. Boston, March 2004.
  • "Charting New Terrain: Henriette Frolich and the Historico-Political Utopian Female Bildungsroman." ACLA. San Marcos, April 2003.
  • "The Querelle des Femmes": Theodor von Hippel and Reception Revisited. ASECS, Colorado Springs, April 2002.
  • "Lenz and Lacan," GSA (German Studies Association), Houston, October 2000.
  • "Springboards to 'Reason' in Teaching the "Age of Reason," ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies), Philadelphia, April 2000.
  • "Negative Narratives: Maternity in Eighteenth-Century Treatises on Women's Education," ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association). New Haven, February 2000.
  • "Gender Fixings and Formulations: Old and New Worlds in the Napoleonic Era," MLA (Modern Language Association), Chicago, December 1999.
  • "Hyperion and Zarathustra as Teachers: Rods and Rewards in the Polemics of Eighteenth-Century Pedagogy," MLA (Modern Language Association), San Francisco, December 1998.
  • "Adult Learning Styles: What We Need to Know to Develop Strategies That Work," Northeast Conference on Language Teaching, New York, April 1990.
  • "Lessening Language Anxiety: Loosening the Leash on Writing," (ACTFL) American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Boston, 1989.

Rebecca J. Ulland
Assistant Professor
 

B.A. Carleton College

M.A., Ph.D. University of Minnesota

rulland@nmu.edu

 Dr. Ulland’s research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first century Spanish American literature written by women, with emphasis on the Argentine historical novel (in particular, the representation of dictatorship and exile). Her secondary research interests include the female comediantes of Spain’s Golden Age and issues in women’s studies.

Dr. Ulland is currently serving in a two-year position in Spanish.

Selected Presentations/Publications:

  • “Sylvia Iparraguirre” and “María Rosa Lojo.” Latin American Writers: An Encyclopedia, edited by María Claudia André and Eva Paulino Bueno. New York: Routledge, 2009. (forthcoming)
  • The Discourse of Power: The Power of Discourse. The Voyage of the Beagle and La tierra del fuego.” Presented at the Annual Convention of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH). Ogden, Utah, October 2006.
  • “Whose Passion?: La pasión de los nómades and the Word-Weary Warrior.” Presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention (SAMLA). Atlanta, Georgia, November 2005.
  • “La desestabilización de la patria y del género en La nada cotidiana de Zoé Valdés.” Presented at the Annual Convention of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, October 2002.
  • “Deviant Women of the Golden Age: The mujer varonil and mujer esquiva in the Works of Ana Caro Mallén de Soto.” Presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association 42 nd Annual Convention (MMLA). Kansas City, Missouri, November 2000.

Last Updated: 10/30/2006

For suggestions or comments please contact the Modern Languages and Literatures Department
at 906-227-2940.

Back to Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Homepage
Back to NMU Homepage