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David G. Anderson, Ph.D.,  
Interim Department Chair & Associate Professor of Spanish

Dr. Anderson has taught all levels of Spanish at John Carroll University since 1987. He was previously chair of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures from 1997 to 2005. His special interests are in the areas of contemporary Latin American literature and culture. Dr. Anderson is the author of On Elevating the Commonplace: Internal Structure and Intertextuality in the “Odas” of Pablo Neruda (1987), and several articles on twentieth century Spanish American poetry.

Spring 2009

Rosa-Maria Boisset-Brindle, Ph.D.,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Rosa-Maria Boisset-Brindle was born in Lima, Peru, and moved to the United States in 1999. She obtained both her M.A. and Ph.D. from Purdue University, and has very recently joined the John Carroll University family. She specializes in Latin American Literatures and Cultures.

Spring 2009

  • Office: O'Malley Center 135
  • Office Hours: M/W/F 9 - 10 AM and 2 - 3 PM
  • Phone: (216) 397 - 4737
  • E-Mail: rboissetbrindle@jcu.edu

Katherine Gatto, Ph.D.,  
Professor of Spanish

Katherine Gyékényesi Gatto is Professor of Spanish and former Chairperson (1990-97) of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures at John Carroll University. The focus of Professor Gatto's scholarly research is medieval Spanish literature, Hispanic women writers and filmmakers, and Hungarian and Hungarian-American literature and film. Her most recent publication is Spain's Literary Legacy: Studies in Spanish Literature and Culture From the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (2005), which she edited and to which she contributed an essay on medieval medical views of women in the Lapidario of Alfonso X, the Learned. Currently she is extending and broadening a number of articles she has published on the Argentine director, María Luisa Bemberg, into a book length manuscript, entitled Solo Tango: The Feminist Films of María Luisa Bemberg. In 2001 she was the winner of the Lucrecia Culicchia Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Gatto was born in Austria and emigrated to the USA with her Hungarian parents.

Spring 2009

Enrique Luengo, Ph.D.,  
Associate Professor of Spanish; Latin American Studies, Head

Dr. Enrique Luengo specializes in 20th-21st-Century Latin American Literature, Culture and Film. He has been teaching at John Carroll University since 1995. He is the author of José Donoso: Desde el texto al metatexto. 1992 and José Chesta: Textos y contextos, 1994. He has also published several articles on Latin American narrative, poetry, and culture.

Spring 2009

Antonio Pérez-Romero, Ph.D.,  
Associate Professor of Spanish

Antonio Perez-Romero is a native of Cuenca, Spain; he
studied in Spain, England, France, and Canada where he
received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1988. He
has been teaching language, culture and literature courses
in the United States since 1992, and is the author of
Subversion and Liberation in the Writings of St. Teresa of
Avila
(1996), The Subversion Tradition in Spanish
Renaissance Writing
(2005), and of several articles on
Spanish mystical writings and Golden Age literature. At
present, Professor Perez-Romero is preparing a book about
the concept of womanhood in Early Modern Spain and
researching the lives and works of women playwrights of the
Baroque era for future critical publications.

Spring 2009

  • Office: O'Malley Center 126
  • Office Hours: T/Th 1:45-4:45 PM
  • Phone: (216) 397 - 4738
  • E-Mail: aperezromero@jcu.edu

Claudia Silvy M.A ,  
Visiting Instructor of Spanish

Spring 2009

  • Office: O'Malley Center 127
  • Office Hours: M/W/F 11 AM - 12 noon, 2 - 3 PM or by appointment.
  • Phone: (216) 397 - 1797
  • E-Mail: csilvy@jcu.edu
  • More Information
   

PART-TIME SPANISH FACULTY

 

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Susan  Barkett, M.A.
Lecturer in Spanish

Spring 2009

James Reed, M.A.,
Lecturer in Spanish

James Reed has served in several capacities at JCU since returning in 1987. While serving as the Director of Academic Advising and Study Abroad, and as Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Science, he taught Spanish and French. Before coming to John Carroll, he was a dean of summer schools in France and Spain. Mr. Reed has traveled extensively throughout South America and Spain. He earned a BS degree from Ohio State University and a MA from Case Western Reserve University.

Spring 2009

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Zita Stungys, M.A.,
Lecturer in Spanish

Zita Stungys has taught various levels of Spanish at JCU since 1992. She earned her BA at Creighton University in Omaha, NE and her MA at Cleveland State University.  She studied in Spain during her Master's program.  Before coming to JCU she taught at Beaumont School for Girls, at Cleveland State and at Ursuline College.

Spring 2009

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Antoinette Tartaglia, M.A.,
Lecturer in Spanish

Antoinette Tartaglia has been teaching several levels of Spanish language at John Carroll University since 1993. Her areas of special interest include contemporary Hispanic literature and Foreign Language methodology. Ms. Tartaglia earned her BA and MA degrees in Spanish at Case Western Reserve University and did post-graduate work in Spain, Mexico and Colombia. Before coming to JCU she taught Spanish at the high school level in the Cleveland Public Schools and at the Case Western Reserve University Summer Demonstration School for prospective language teachers.

Spring 2009

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Clara Thurner, M.A.,
Lecturer in Spanish

Spring 2009

 

Luz Toledano, M.A.,
Lecturer in Spanish

Spring 2009

  • Office: O'Malley Center 146
  • Office Hours:
  • Phone: (216) 397-1929
  • E-Mail:ltoledano@jcu.edu 

 

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