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María Guadalupe Arenillas |
Timothy Compton Department Head Professor, Spanish |
Michael Joy Associate Professor, Spanish |
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| Amy Orf Instructor, Spanish |
Rebecca Ulland Associate Professor, Spanish |
Nelly Kupper Professor, French |
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Tara Foster Associate Professor, French |
Jon Sherman Assistant Professor, German |
Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos |
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Assistant Professor Degrees Held:
Favorite place to visit abroad: Buenos Aires, Argentina Favorite subject to teach: Latin American Film and Literature Fun Fact: I lived in Patagonia, the other extreme of the continent for many years. |
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Department Head Degrees Held:
Favorite place to visit abroad: Mexico City! Favorite subject to teach and why you like to teach: I love being at NMU so I can teach a wide variety of courses. I love to see students perform plays in my Hispanic Theatre Performance classes. I love seeing students learn to communicate in basic Spanish classes. I love seeing students start to see how interesting and expressive language can be. I love seeing students come to admire the incredible poetry, theatre, short stories, and novels of Spanish-speaking writers. I love seeing students learn and admire the accomplishments of the people of Spain and Latin America. I love sharing the amazing music of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world with my students. I love seeing students get excited about studying & living abroad. I love learning about what my former students are doing after they graduate. Fun Fact: I met my wife on a study abroad in Mexico! |
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Associate Professor Degrees Held:
Favorite place to visit abroad: Guanajuato, Mexico and Madrid, Spain Favorite subject to teach: Golden Age Spanish Literature, especially the Quixote. Fun Fact: I've run three marathons and three half-marathons. |
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Instructor Degrees Held:
Favorite place to visit abroad: Cuba Favorite subject to teach: I particularly enjoy teaching Spanish grammar and linguistics. Fun Fact: I play the piano, autoharp, hammered dulcimer, and bowed psaltery. |
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Associate Professor Degrees Held:
Favorite place to visit abroad: Argentina, Spain, Istanbul Favorite subject to teach: I love to teach Argentine women writers because they open up a whole new world of experience and perspective! Fun Fact: I love to play Settlers of Catan (anyone interested?) and I also cross-stitch. |
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Associate Professor Degrees Held:
Favorite place to visit abroad: France and the British Isles Favorite subject to teach: Medieval Literature Fun Fact: I'm a descendant of Eleanor of Aquitaine. |
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Assistant Professor Degrees Held:
Favorite place to visit abroad: Vienna, Austria Favorite subject to teach: Viking Mythology (it is Viking Mythology!) Fun Fact: I once spent a week on islands off the coast of Norway which are above the polar circle (where it stays light 24 hours a day in the summer). |
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Professor Degrees Held:
Favorite place to visit abroad: City: Vienna Austria / Countryside: Corinthian Gulf, Greece Favorite subject to teach and why you like to teach: I can honestly say that I am totally enthused about every course, whether language or content based. I love classroom engagement and trust students to sense that for every class session their grasp of the material and progress is my #1 goal, and that their classroom is the only place I wish to be. In talking more specifically about cognitive rewards for myself, these always center on my learning something new and inspirational from students. In a German language course it may be that a student raises a question that leads me into a more effective way to teach a concept or vocabulary field. In a content course, e.g., German Culture/Civilization, German Film & Fiction, European Romanticism, etc., it often happens that students make observations and connections that punch holes in traditional understandings of an historical course of events or of a literary work or a socio-cultural “fact.” These are thrilling moments that nudge me to think in new ways and invigorate the “how’s” and “what’s” of my teaching. Fun Fact: Secret wish, now public: to operate a Dairy Queen (in Europe perhaps??) :) |