Graduate Faculty
For more information about the graduate program, please contact the Program Director:
Dr. Beverly MoserDepartment of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Box 30263, Sanford 519
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
Tel: 828-262-2303 (direct); 828-262-3095 (message)
Fax: 828-262-7079
French:
 | Dr. Martial Frindéthié Office phone: 828-262-6657 Office: Sanford 430 Research interests: Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Diaspora, the intersection of literature, film, and political imagination |
| Dr. Josette Hollenbeck Office phone: 828-262-2307 Office: Sanford 526 Research interests: 17th and 20th Century & Francophone Literature Publications: Eléments Baroques dans les Romans de Claude Simon, Reflets de la culture contemporaine francaise d’après quelques films choisis, Aperçu culturel de films francophones, “Claude Simon and the Baroque,” “René Coulet du Gard and the Algerian Experience,” Contributed seven articles to the Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Littéraires Négro-africaines de Langue Française, “Ce que Camille Claudel ne pouvait pas nous dire...,” and “Honey and Ashes” |
|
Dr. Michael Lane Office phone: 828-262-2304 Office: Sanford 517 Research interests: Gender and genre studies, 19th & 20 Century Literature and Film, Technology in the FL classroom |
Spanish:
|
Dr. Zhiyuan Chen Office phone: 828-262-7822 Office: Sanford 428 Research interests: Spanish Syntax, Chinese Syntax, Translation Theory, Cultural Study, Sinology, Cultural Anthropology, Foreign Language Methodology |
|
Dr. Victoria Cox Office phone: 828-262-2928 Office: Sanford 522 Research interests: Colonial and contemporary Latin America, Argentine theatre and literature |
| Dr. Catherine Fountain Office phone: 828-262-2308 Office: Sanford 529 Research interests: Sociolinguistics, language contact, language policy, multilingualism in Latin America, phonology, historical linguistics, technology in foreign language instruction |
| Dr. Maria Patricia Napiorski Office phone: 828-262-7356 Office: Sanford 429 Research interests: Contemporary Hispanic comparative literature, Hispanic authors in the US, gender studies |
|
Dr. Benito del Pliego Office phone: 828-262-2306 Office: Sanford 525 Research interests: Modern and contemporary poetry in Spain and Latin America, literature and migrations in the Spanish speaking world, creative writing |
FL and Applied Linguistics:
| Dr. Richard McGarry Office phone: 828-262-2932 Office: Sanford 518 Research interests:Applied Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language and the Brain, Sociolinguistics, and Bilingual Creative Writing |
| Dr. Beverly Moser Office phone: 828-262-2303 Office: Sanford 532 Research interests: Second language teaching methodology, the acquisition of L2 reading and writing skills, discourse analysis and its applications to second language acquisition research |
| Dr. Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand Office phone: 828-262-7101 Office: Sanford 427 Research interests: Medieval German Culture and Literature, Arthurian Romance, German Romantic Literature, Reception of the Middle Ages in Literature and the Arts, Fairy Tales, Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum |
