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All Modern Languages Faculty are committed to making the learning of a foreign language an enjoyable and practical experience. We believe that foreign language learning has become a vital requirement of globalization and that students must widen their cultural and linguistic perspectives as they are more likely to work in a multi-cultural environment.

Faculty

All Modern Languages Faculty encourage a confidence-building experience that not only facilitates conceptual learning but that is of great benefit to your future career and life.

Faculty members are:

• Yves-Antoine A. Clemmen, Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign; Contemporary French and Francophone literature, general linguistics, word and image studies, theory of photography
• Michael A. Denner, Ph.D., Northwestern University; Associate professor of Russian,
  Specialty area: 19th and 20th century Russian prose classics; Asian intellectual influence on Russia; avant-garde aesthetic theories; Russian Formalism; intellectual history; Soviet film and film theory
  Current research: Leo Tolstoy
  (website)
• David L. Dysart, Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign; second language acquisition and language pedagogy, 19th century German literature
• Ana Eire, Ph.D, Vanderbilt University; Ana Eire, Ph.D Vanderbilt University, Professor of Spanish & Jane Heman Language Professor. Hispanic poetry and poetics, 20th century Spanish and Spanish-American literature, modern intellectual history, film studies.
• Richard Arthur Ferland, Ph.D, Harvard University; The history of ideas in the 18th century, especially the political thought of writers such as Montesquieu and Rousseau, the structure of the novel, business French
• Elisabeth Poeter, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; women, medicine and religion in 18th century Germany, feminist pedagogy, ethnic minorities in German youth literature, post-war German women's writings, contemporary German film
• Robert K. Sitler, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; the 2012 phenomenon, Maya culture, local Mexican-American community, language acquisition, McInery Award
• Florian Vauleon, Ph.D., Ohio State University; French 18th-century literature and culture, critical approaches to literature and culture, French cinema and second language acquisition. Research interest: narrative logic and conceptual grammar informed by the game of chess, French cinema and literary adaptation, Colonial Cinema.
• Nancy B. Vosburg, Ph.D., University of Iowa; contemporary culture and literature of Spain, women's writing in exile

Special Features

There are many study abroad programs available at Stetson. Consult the Center of International Education in order to learn more about these fantastic opportunities to broaden your cultural, linguistic, professional, and personal horizons!!

Contact:
Cathy Burke
386-822-7260
cburke@stetson.edu

Full Time Faculty: 9

Degrees Offered:

• Bachelor of Arts-French
• Bachelor of Arts-German
• Bachelor of Arts-Spanish