Faculty and Staff

Tel:(415) 422-6372
banguraa@usfca.edu

Ahmed Bangura

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta in Canada, and specializes in the Orientalist tradition as it pertains to African literature.

Tel:415 422 5215
clberry@usfca.edu

Christine Berry-Locard

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, She received her Master's degree and post-graduate degree (Dîplome d'Etudes Approfondies) in French literature and French language from the University of Paris.

Tel:(415) 422-4612
erborbon@usfca.edu

Edith Borbon

Adjunct Professor and Language Liaison

Professor Borbon earned her BA in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her MS in Education, with a specialization in Intercultural Communication, is from the University of Pennsylvania.  Prof Borbon teaches Tagalog (Filipino) and is involved with developing the program and the collection. She is also active as a healthcare and social services interpreter, and has translated documents for city and county agencies.

Tel:415 422 5298
lborello@usfca.edu

Lorena Borello

Adjunct Instructor

Tel:(415) 422-6390
bouwerk@usfca.edu

Karen Bouwer

Professor

Professor and Department Co-Chair, Karen Bouwer enjoys teaching all levels of French and Francophone language, culture and literature as well as classes on African literature and film. Her research interests include Francophone African literature, African cinema and gender.  Her book Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.

Tel:
wlchang@usfca.edu

Wenchi Chang

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, has an M.A. in Chinese  and a B.A. in Chinese Literature. She has taught at Monterey Institute of International Studies ( An affiliate of Middlebury College) , UC Davis and National Taiwan Normal University. She teaches elementary to advanced Chinese language, Chinese literature and the summer program at National Taiwan Normal University.  

Tel:415 422 5298
lchavez4@usfca.edu

Luis Chavez

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct professor, received his B.A. Latin American Literature from Universidad de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature from Boston University. His areas of interest include literature of the Andean and Amazon regions of Latin America, specifically poetry, oral tradition and testimony.

Tel:415 422 5952
cortesboder@usfca.edu

Patricia Cortés-Bodero

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, was born, raised, and mainly educated in the country of Mexico. She received a B.A. in Spanish from Escuela Normal Superior de Jalisco, and a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Valle Atemajac.

Tel:415 422 5310
corvaisier@usfca.edu

Gäelle Corvaisier

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, received her Ph.D. in Francophone studies from the Department of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Paris, France.

Tel:415 422 5310
aadargent@usfca.edu

Aurélie Dargent

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, began teaching French at the University of San Francisco in 2006. She earned her first Master's Degree in English Language, Literature, and Civilization from the University of Grenoble, with one year spent abroad studying linguistics at the University of California, Irvine. Two years later, she received her second M.A. in French as a Foreign Language.

Tel:(415) 422-6335
deistr@usfca.edu

Rose Marie Deist

Professor

Professor, received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is professor of Classics and medieval French, as well as director of the Classical Studies Program. Her special comparative interests are Virgil, classical epic, and medieval French courtly romance.

Tel:415 422 5298
scdoubiago@usfca.edu

Shawn Doubiago

Adjunct Professor

Shawn Doubiago received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Davis with two designated emphases: Feminist Theory and Research and Critical Theory.

Tel:415 422 2962
dumett@usfca.edu

Rafael Dumett

Adjunct Professor

Tel:415 422 2913
jfgarcia2@usfca.edu

J.F. García

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, was raised in South Texas, where he was educated in public schools before attending the University of Texas at Austin. There he studied music, literature, and languages. He received a doctorate in Classics at Princeton University with a dissertation on early Greek poetry and language.

Tel:415-422-5298
jcgelburd@usfca.edu

Joel Gelburd

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, earned his M.A. in Teaching American Sign Language as a Foreign Language at Columbia University. Joel earned his B.A. in Psychology at the College of William and Mary.

Tel:415 422 6838
gonzalezm@usfca.edu

Maria José Gonzalez-Salido

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and was a research assistant at UC Berkeley for three years. Maria has taught at USF since 1996.

Tel:(415) 422-5298
igruen@usfca.edu

Ilja Gruen

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct professor, received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Slavic Studies from Stanford University, in the field of Russian and German literature, with an emphasis on the dialog between Russian and German authors in the 20th century. He has been teaching courses in Russian and German language and literature since Spring 2012. He earned his B.A. at the University of Regensburg, Germany, majoring in Slavic and English literatures, with a particular focus on literary theory. 

Tel:415 422 6375
hallierb@usfca.edu

Beatrice Hallier

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, enjoys teaching language, culture and conversation. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in French at the University of California Berkeley and completed course work in the doctoral program (ABD) in French Literature at the University of California, Davis.

Tel:
bhauptmann@usfca.edu

Barunka Hauptmann

Adjunct Professor

USF alumna with a BA in English (writing emphasis), French and Spanish who went on to pursue a Master's in French at SFSU and complete her doctoral thesis in French and Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris, Barunka Hauptmann has always enjoyed learning languages and sharing her interests in art, poetry, literature, comics, music, cinéma and advertising coming from France and other cultures that stimulate her imagination. Along with her literary research in Greek mythology, she has also published her poetry and artwork which have been exhibited on several occasions in Paris and in her native San Francisco.

Tel:415 422 5298
djhegarty@usfca.edu

David Hegarty

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, grew up in Massachusetts. He graduated from Gallaudet University in Business management and accounting. He has twelve years of teaching experience and has also worked as an ASL consultant.

Tel:(415) 422-6951
kahodoyan@usfca.edu

Karina Hodoyán

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, received her Masters in Comparative Literature at San Francisco State University and her PhD from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Stanford University. Her areas of focus include Mexican, Border and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies, with an interest in Feminist and Performance Studies.

Tel:415 422 2864
shhoelscher@usfca.edu

Susanne Hoelscher

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, is the MCL German Studies Coordinator. She received her Ph.D. in German Studies from the University of California, Davis, with an emphasis on issues of national and gender identities in post-wall Berlin literature and film. She has been teaching courses in German language and literature at USF since 2004, and has been pursuing research in both fields. She earned an M.A. in German Studies from San Francisco State University, and completed the Erste Staatsexamen at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany, majoring in Education with a focus on German Studies and History.    

Tel:415 422 2849
disern@usfca.edu

Dolores Isern

Adjunct Professor

Tel:(415) 422-6135
langechurion@usfca.edu

Pedro Lange-Churión

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati, specializing in Latin American Contemporary Narrative and Critical Theory. His academic areas of specialization include Latin American Literature and Culture, Film Studies, Urban Studies, Comparative Literature and Critical Theory; particularly Psychoanalytic theory.

Tel:415 422 2893
alee3@usfca.edu

Annabel Lee

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Professor, graduated from the University of San Francisco with a B.A. in French Literature in 2001 where she was part of programs such as Erasmus and study abroad in Paris. After finishing her M.A. in French Literature at San Francisco State University, she moved to Paris to pursue a D.E.A. (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) at the Université de Paris VIII and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Since Paris, Annabel has been teaching French and pursuing her PhD at the University of California Davis. Her interests are in music and 20th century French literature.

Tel:(415) 422-2215
zli2@usfca.edu

Zhiqiang Li

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the coordinator of the Chinese language program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. His research interests include phonetics, phonology and
 Chinese linguistics.

Tel:
wliu29@usfca.edu

Wan Liu

Adjunct Professor

Wan Liu received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.  She specializes in Chinese poetry, literary culture of the Tang and Song periods, gender and women.  Among her favorite subjects of teaching are also the relations among painting, calligraphy, and poetry.

Tel:(415) 422-6359
mairesse@usfca.edu

Anne Mairesse

Professor

Professor, Teaches French and Comparative Literature and Culture, and is Program Director. A graduate student from Columbia University and the University of Paris, she received her Doctorate and Post-Doctoral Accreditation to Direct Research in 2000. Her research specialty is in 20th/21st Century French and Comparative Literature, Poetry, and Film studies.

Tel:415 422 5763
cbmillspaugh@usfca.edu

Cassandra Millspaugh

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, received her B.A in Spanish from San Francisco State University. After spending a year working in Zacatecas, Mexico, she returned to the Bay Area and finished her M.A. in Linguistics from San Francisco State University. Prof. Millspaugh has been teaching Spanish at the University of San Francisco since 2002.

Tel:415 422 2918
ymccormick@usfca.edu

Yumi Moriguchi-McCormick

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, received her B.A. in English Literature from Notre Dame Women's College, Kyoto, Japan. She received her Ed.D. in International and Multicultural Education with an emphasis of Second Language Acquisition from the University of San Francisco.

Tel:415 422 5765
mjmotyka@usfca.edu

Matthew Motyka

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, is the French language coordinator. He has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley. He earned an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion from Heythrop College of the University of London, and a M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology at GTU, Berkeley.

Tel:415 422 6335
muenke@usfca.edu

Edward Muenk

Adjunct Professor

Edward (Ted) Muenk was born and raised in England, and completed his degree in Greek and Roman literature, history, and philosophy at Oxford University. He came to the United States in 1966 to teach Latin and Classical Studies at USF. Subsequently, he also taught for many years the Greco-Roman seminar in the Honors program, with a large emphasis on Greek drama, as well as courses on the history of art. Although he is now retired from full time employment, he occasionally teaches an art history and appreciation course in USF's summer session.

Tel:415 422 5298
skmukoma@usfca.edu

Samuel Mukoma

Adjunct Faculty

Samuel Mukoma earned his Master of Arts degree in Swahili Linguistics and Literature from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Living and studying in Kenya, his M.A. thesis (written in Swahili) is a comparative syntactic analysis of Swahili and Kikuyu language phrases. Samuel earned his Bachelors Degree in Swahili Language Education from Moi University in Kenya. Prior to his relocation to the United States, Samuel taught Swahili language at different high schools and colleges in Kenya for ten years. In addition to Swahili, Samuel speaks five other African languages. He also teaches Swahili at Stanford University.

Tel:(415) 422-6227
nagatan@usfca.edu

Noriko Nagata

Professor

Professor, is Director of the Japanese Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, jointly directed by the Laboratory for Computational Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University.  Her general area of research includes natural language processing, Japanese linguistics, second language acquisition, and computer assisted language learning.

Tel:415 422 2918
otomi@usfca.edu

Yoko Otomi

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, (M.A., San Francisco State University). Area of Specialization: Japanese language pedagogy, teaching of Japanese as a second language.

Tel:415 422 2849
sraintree@usfca.edu

Shannon Raintree

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Professor, was raised in San Francisco and Hawaii. She has lived, studied, and traveled extensively in Latin America and the Basque Country. She received her B.A. in Spanish, and her M.A. in TESOL at San Francisco State University.

Tel:(415) 422-6080
roddys@usfca.edu

Stephen Roddy

Associate Professor

Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Modern and Classical Languages, received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, and specializes in the fiction and other prose genres of 18th and 19th century China and Japan.

Tel:415 422 6819
salfi@usfca.edu

Mark Salfi

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, earned his M.A. in Comparative Literature at UC San Diego, combining interests in Spanish, English, Italian, film, and cultural studies. During and after his graduate career, he taught in the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Literature at UCSD. Mark has been working as an adjunct professor at USF since 1997.

Tel:(415) 422-6720
schafferm@usfca.edu

Martha E. Schaffer

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the University of California at Berkeley. Her current research centers on medieval Iberian texts and manuscripts, in particular the 13th century Cantigas de Santa Maria.

Tel:(415) 422-2224
kschell@usfca.edu

Karyn Schell

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics from the University of Washington. She also serves as the Chair for Spanish. Her areas of interest include Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy, and Theoretical Linguistics.

Tel:415 422 2893
ashannon@usfca.edu

Ariel Shannon

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, grew up bilingual, in French and English. After pursuing a double B.A. in Italian Studies and Psychology, and an M.A. in Italian Studies at U.C. Berkeley, she is currently completing her Ph.D. at Berkeley as well.

Tel:415 422 6650
skloot@usfca.edu

Esti Skloot

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, grew up in Israel where she studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and received her teacher's credentials from the Hebrew Teachers' Seminary. She received her BA in music from Sonoma State University, and her MA in creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Prof. Skloot also directs Ulpan San Francisco, an intensive three-week, multi-level Hebrew-immersion program that is offered to the community each summer.

Tel:(415) 422-6591
sudak@usfca.edu

Kyoko Suda

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, is director of Asian Languages Program, received her BA in History from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. She received her first MA in teaching English as a Second Language, and her second MA in teaching Japanese as a Second Language from San Francisco State University. Dr. Suda received her Doctorate in Education at the University of San Francisco in December of 2003.

Tel:415 422 2918
jhtsao@usfca.edu

Josephine Tsao

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, has an M.A. in Chinese from San Francisco State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She also teaches Chinese at San Francisco State University and the City College of San Francisco.

Tel:(415) 422-6043
urrutia@usfca.edu

Ana Urrutia-Jordana

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, earned her B.A. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature at Stanford University (1996). Prof. Urrutia-Jordana has taught at the University of San Francisco since 1996 and has been a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.

Tel:(415) 422-5298
jcvivrette@usfca.edu

Jason Vivrette

Adjunct Professor

Jason Vivrette holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as extensive training in Education and Foreign Language Pedagogy (Arabic, Turkish, Italian, and Persian). Since 2010, he has served as a program director at the CLS Summer Arabic Program in Tunis, Tunisia. He is also the Arabic Language Program Coordinator and Co-Director of Middle East and Islamic Studies at San Francisco State University.

Tel:415 422 5298
eawingpaz@usfca.edu

Elizabeth Wing-Paz

Adjunct Professor

Elizabeth Wing-Paz has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Davis, an MA in Spanish from the University of Cincinnati, and a BA in English and Spanish from the University of San Francisco (Class of '90!). Elizabeth currently enjoys teaching Intro to Comparative Studies for the Program in Comparative Literature and Culture at USF. In addition to being an adjunct instructor at USF, she teaches introductory courses in Humanities and Philosophy for Berkeley City College.

Tel:415 422 5298
tpwolcott@usfca.edu

Timothy Wolcott

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor, received his Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of interest include Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Pedagogy, and Discourse Analysis. The title of his dissertation was "American in Paris: A Discourse Analysis of Student Accounts of Study Abroad."