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David G. Anderson,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
Dr. Anderson has taught all levels of Spanish at John Carroll University since 1987. He served as chair of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures from 1997 to 2005, and as interim chair for 2008-2009. His special interests are 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 Latin American poetry.
Spring 2012
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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 2012
- Office: O'Malley Center 143
- Office Hours: Tues 1-5:15 PM, Th 12:15-2 PM & by appt.
- Phone: (216) 397 - 4672
- E-Mail: gatto@jcu.edu
- More Information
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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.
Fall 2011
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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.
Fall 2011
- Office: O'Malley Center 126
- Office Hours: T/Th 12:15-2, 3:15-4:30
- Phone: (216) 397 - 4738
- E-Mail: aperezromero@jcu.edu
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Megan Thornton,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Megan Thornton specializes in 20th- and 21st- century Latin American Literature and Culture, with a particular interest in Mexico and Central America. Her work has focused on how orality and testimonial narrative have represented migration and mobility in literature, music and film, and she successfully defended her dissertation entitled The Power of the Voice: Listening to Mexican and Central American Immigrant Experiences (1997-2010) in April 2010. Professor Thornton is also interested in border studies and Latin American women writers. While she is new to John Carroll, Professor Thornton has taught various levels of Spanish since 1998. She has also spent time abroad in both Spain and Latin America and worked as a Consular Officer for the U.S. State Department in Hermosillo, Mexico in 2000-2002.
Spring 2012
- Office: O'Malley Center 127
- Office Hours: M/W/F 10-11 AM & 12-1 PM
- Phone: (216) 397-1797
- E-Mail: mthornton@jcu.edu
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PART-TIME
SPANISH FACULTY
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Susan
Barkett, M.A.
Lecturer in Spanish
Fall 2011
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Man-Lih Chai, M.A.
Lecturer in Spanish
Mrs. Man-Lih Chai has been teaching Spanish and Chinese at John
Carroll University since 1997. As an engaged teacher, she likes to
set high standards with high expectations for her students. She loves
to create activities that stimulate interest in the culture as well
as the language. Her passion is to bring different ingredients into
play on a daily basis. Her dream is to compile a playful activity
book for language learners.
Before coming to John Carroll University she taught at several different
institutions, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Boston Adult Education Center, Cleveland State University, Notre
Dame College, Cuyahoga Community College and currently also teaches
at Lakeland Community College. From 1989 to 2001 she taught and counseled
groups of children from their first year of Chinese Academy of Cleveland
to their last. She also developed an effective summer camp program
for children; served as head of the Educational Committee and vice
principal for several years.
Spring 2012
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Conchy Fajardo-Hopkins, M.A.
Lecturer in Spanish
Spring 2012
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James Pavlish, M.A.
Lecturer in Spanish
Jaime Pavlish is an adjunct instructor of Spanish in his second year at John Carroll. He has a BS in Linguistics from Georgetown University, an MA in Spanish from Cleveland State, and an MA from St. Mary Graduate School of Theology. He has taught classes in Beginning Spanish at Cleveland State, Lake Erie College, Lakeland, and Ursuline College. He has taught Intermediate Spanish and independent studies in Modern Spanish Literature and Spanish Translation at Lake Erie College.
Jaime's interests include language and World Literature, poetry, natural history, ethnology, and literary translation. He has translated and published several essays of the Hungarian writer Dezso Kosztolanyi.
He has spent extensive time living and studying abroad in Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Hungary and England, and has traveled in several other countries.
Spring 2012
- Office: O'Malley Center 135
- Office Hours: M/W/F 9 -10 AM & by appt.
- Phone: (216) 397-4737
- E-Mail: jpavlish@jcu.edu
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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 2012
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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.
Fall 2011
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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 2012 - not teaching this semester
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Clara Thurner,
M.A.
Lecturer in Spanish
Spring 2012 - not teaching this semester
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Luz Toledano,
M.A.
Lecturer in Spanish
Luz Toledano was born in Lima, Peru. She earned her BA and MA degrees at Cleveland State University. During her Masters program she studied at the Universidad de Alcalá and Universidad Complutense, in Madrid, Spain.
Ms. Toledano has been teaching Spanish language, literature and culture since 1999. She has taught at Shaker Heights High School, and Brush High School, while concurrently serving as a lecturer at John Carroll University, Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, and the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Adult Education Center. She has developed and implemented special teaching strategies for special needs students, ethnically diverse populations, and second-language learners, emphasizing oral and cultural proficiency.
Every year Ms. Toledano returns to Peru to research her native Peruvian culture in situ. Customs and beliefs from different areas of the Peruvian country can provide a framework of content knowledge to help aid learning and to develop better and more effective classes.
Spring 2012
- Office: O'Malley Center 117
- Office Hours: M/W/F 2-2:30; T/Th 4:15-4:45
- Phone: (216) 397-4564
- E-Mail:ltoledano@jcu.edu
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