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Department Chair: Associate Chair: Graduate Advisor (French): Graduate Advisor (Spanish): Undergraduate Advisor: |
Dr. Marie-Christine Koop - marie-christine.koop@unt.edu Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo - lopezcalvo@msn.com Dr. Marijn S. Kaplan - marijn.kaplan@unt.edu Dr. Cristina Sánchez-Conejero - cristina.sanchez-conejero@unt.edu Ms. Maria Muñiz - maria.muniz@unt.edu |
Dr. Marie-Christine Koop - marie-christine.koop@unt.edu
Ph.D. in French, Michigan State University, 1987.
Department Chair and Director of the French Summer Institute (summer M.A. program).
Qualified as "Maître de conférences" by the French Ministry of Education.
Research and Teaching Interests: Contemporary French Culture and Civilization,
French educational system, women in France, Québec society, business French,
teaching culture. Review Editor for the Society and Culture section of the
French Review. and member of the editorial board of Women in French Studies.
Recipient of several national awards and regular presenter at national and
international conventions.
Selected publications
Dr. Michel Sirvent - michel.sirvent@unt.edu
Ph.D. in French Contemporary Literature and Theory, Aix-Marseille I (France), 1988.
Graduate Advisor in French.
http://www.cas.unt.edu/~sirvent/
Qualified as Maître de conférences in
Langue et littérature françaises, French Ministry of Higher Education and
Research (1999).
Research and Teaching Interests: Autobiography and Detective genres, Nouveau
Roman, Contemporary Fiction, Narratology, Semiotics, Textual Analysis and
Literary Theory. French Literature from 18th to 20th century.
Selected Publications
Dr. W. Lee Nahrgang (Retired) -
nahrgang@unt.edu
Ph.D. in 20th Century German Literature, University of Kansas, 1966.
Research and Teaching Interests: Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll,
German literature dealing with WWI and WWII, and Austrian Dramatist Fritz
Hochwälder.
Selected Publications
Dr. Jerry Nash (Retired) - jnash@unt.edu
Regents Professor of French
Ph.D. in French, University of Kansas, 1972.
Research and Teaching Interests: French Renaissance Literature, Early Modern
Feminism, François Rabelais, Maurice Scève, and Hélisenne de Crenne.
Selected Books & Edited Works
Dr. Solveig Olsen (Retired) -
olsen@unt.edu
Ph.D. in Germanics, Rice University, 1968.
Research and Teaching Interests: Medieval, Baroque, 19th and 20th Century German
Literature; German language, culture and film; German music-literature
comparative studies.
Selected Publications
Dr. Pierina Beckman - pierina.beckman@unt.edu
Ph.D. in Spanish Literature,
University of Iowa, 1988.
Research and Teaching Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature,
Fantastic Literature, Feminist Writers.
Selected Publications
Dr. Marijn S. Kaplan - marijn.kaplan@unt.edu
Ph.D. in French Studies, University of New Mexico, 2002.
Director of the French Coop.
http://www.forl.unt.edu/~mkaplan/
Research and Teaching Interests: Eighteenth-century French women writers,
epistolary fiction, correspondence, gender studies, cultural studies.
Dr. Jongsoo Lee -
jongsoo.lee@unt.edu
Ph.D. in Spanish American Literature, Indiana University, 2000.
Graduate Advisor in Spanish.
Research and Teaching Interests: Indigenous Codices in Mexico; Náhuatl Language
and Literature; Spanish American Colonial Literature; Spanish American
Contemporary Literature; Comparative Literature; Spanish American History.
Selected Publications
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo - lopezcalvo@msn.com
Ph.D. in Romance Languages,
University of Georgia, 1997. Associate Chair of the Department.
Selected Publications
Dr. Teresa Marrero -
california_cuban@yahoo.com
Ph.D. in Latin American Literature, University of California at Irvine, 1992.
Research and Teaching Interests: Latin American Theater, Chicano and U.S. Latino
Theater, Theories of the Theater, Poststructuralism, Women's Studies,
Post-Colonial Studies, Creative writing.
Selected Publications
Dr. Jiyoung Yoon - jiyoung.yoon@unt.edu
Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics, Indiana
University, 2002.
http://www.forl.unt.edu/~jyyoon/
Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish Syntax and Semantics, Second Language Acquisition, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics and Second Language Instruction.
Dr. Dorian Roehrs - dorian.roehrs@unt.edu
Ph.D. in Germanic Studies and Linguistics, Indiana University, 2006.
Coordinator of Elementary and Intermediate German.
http://www.forl.unt.edu/~roehrs/
Dr. Cristina Sánchez-Conejero -
cristina.sanchez-conejero@unt.edu
Ph.D. in Spanish, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2003.
http://www.forl.unt.edu/~csconejero/
Research and Teaching Interests: 20th-21st Century Spanish Novel, Cinema, and
Culture.
Dr. Lawrence Williams -
lawrence.williams@unt.edu
Director of Curriculum & Assessment
Ph.D. in French; Doctoral Minor in Linguistics, Penn State, 2003.
Ms. Bei Chen - bei.chen@unt.edu
M.A. in French, University of North
Texas, 2007.
Ms. Kellye Church -
kellye.church@unt.edu
M.A. in Spanish, University of North Texas, 1997.
Teaching Interests: helping students become more orally proficient, developing a
strictly conversational class, and expanding UNT's study-abroad programs.
Research Interests: (1) analyzing the number of undergraduate foreign language
majors, double majors, and minors as well as the number of graduate students in
M.A. programs (here and elsewhere); increasing enrollment and improving methods
of recruitment; (2) mentioning programs for both undergraduate and graduate
students in foreign language departments; (3) establishing ties with surrounding
high school teachers and students, laying the groundwork for discussion,
orientation, and possible field course work for graduate students.
Mr. Robert J. De Lutri - robert.delutri@unt.edu
M.A. in French, Middlebury College,
1989.
M.A. in Spanish, Middlebury College, 1998.
Assistant Coordinator of Spanish.
Dr. Liljana Elverskog -
liljana.elverskog@unt.edu
Ph.D. in Arabic, Indiana University,
1999.
Ms. Marla Estes -
marla.estes@unt.edu
M.A. in Spanish, University of North
Texas, 2002.
Ms. Peggy Hardt -
peggy.hardt@unt.edu
Ms. Connie Martinez - connie.martinez@unt.edu
M.A. in Spanish, University of North
Texas.
Ms. Sophie Morton -
sophie.morton@unt.edu
M.A. in French, University of North Texas
Coordinator of Elementary and Intermediate French.
Ms. María Muñiz - maria.muniz@unt.edu
M.A. in Spanish, University of Texas-Pan American, 1992.
Undergraduate Advisor
Research and Teaching Interests: Mexican and Peninsular culture, language
history and development, and teaching methods.
Ms. Martine Price -
martine.price@unt.edu
ABD in Spanish, Texas Tech University.
Mr. Steven Sheppard - steven.sheppard@unt.edu
M.A. in Spanish, University of North
Texas
Ms. Gayla Tekell -
gayla.tekell@unt.edu
Ms. Carmen Terry -
carmen.terry@unt.edu
M.A. in German, Texas Tech University, 1993.
Head of UNT's test center for two internationally recognized examinations: Prüfung Wirtschaftsdeutsch International (PWD) and Zertifikat Deutsch für den Beruf (ZDfB). Faculty Sponsor of Delta Phi Alpha -- the National German Honor Society. Sponsor of the German Conversation Group and the German Movie Series.