Languages Department
St. Mary's University
One Camino Santa Maria
Reinbolt Hall 304
San Antonio, Texas 78228-8553 Dr. Eva P. Bueno, Chair phone: (210) 436-3738 ebueno@stmarytx.eduRosalinda Helbig, Dept. Assistant
rhelbig@stmarytx.edu
(210) 436-3011 ext. 1039
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Full-time Faculty
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Eva Paulino Bueno, Ph.D.
Chairperson
Eva Paulino Bueno earned a B.A. in English and Portuguese from the State University of Maringá, an M.A. in American Literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pittsburgh (1991). She has taught English, Spanish and Portuguese and literatures associated with these languages at universities in Brazil, the U.S., and Japan. Bueno has published books about Latin American literature, Brazilian literature, popular culture in Latin America, Brazilian film, and English teaching in Japan.Her most recent book is Latin American Women Writers; An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2007). Dr. Bueno is currently a columnist with the monthly Espaço Académico in Brazil, and a contributor to several periodicals in the United States, Brazil, Japan, and France.
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Mark Lokensgard, Ph.D.
Lokensgard (Ph.D., Brown University, 1999) is founder of the Portuguese program at St. Mary's. He directs the Brazil portion of the Southern Cone Studies Program and the Brazil Semester Study Program in Curitiba, Brazil. He has published articles on Luso-Brazilian literature and culture and on Portuguese language instruction in Letras de Hoje, Cadernos Literrios, Romance Notes, Portuguese Studies, the Luso-Brazilian Review, and the collection Portuguese for Spanish Speakers/Portugus Para Falantes de Espanhol. He also appeared on the MLA radio program "What's the Word?" to discuss modern Brazilian cinema. His literary translations have been published by vea-Brown and are forthcoming in the anthology "500 Years of Latin American Poetry" from the Oxford University Press. His current research interests are representations of the law in Brazilian literature and cinema.
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Rubén Candia, Ph.D.
Candia earned an M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma, an M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from Middlebury College Graduate School of Spanish in Madrid, Spain. He earned the Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of New Mexico. He is a Fulbright Scholar to Spain, having taught at the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, as well as lectured at the University of Salamanca in Spain. He has lived and worked in Spain, Germany, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Colombia and Chile. He has taught at Ladycliff College in New York, the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY and the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has presented and published his academic and creative work in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, India and Nicaragua. He has published several short stories. He was inducted into the 2002 United States Army Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame and appeared in the 1967 Edition of Outstanding Young Men of America. He was Chair of the Department of Languages, Modern & Classical at St. Mary's University for more than 20 years. His current interests include the topics of exoliterary intertextuality and the code-switching phenomenon in border Spanish.
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Terry O'Connor, S.M.
O'Connor earned an M.A. from St. Louis University and the Diplôme Supérieure D'Etudes Françaises Modernes from the Alliance Française, Paris. An educator with more than 30 years experience, he has lived and worked in France, Canada, Italy and Switzerland as a teacher and translator with the Marianist Order (Society of Mary).
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Part-time Faculty
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Timothy Barnett, Ph.D.
Barnett earned a B.A. in Spanish and Marketing from the University of North Alabama, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish Renaissance and Baroque literature from the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor before teaching at St. Mary's and has lived in Spain, Mexico and Venezuela. His research interests include Lope de Vega and the writing techniques of other Spanish comedia dramatists.
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Rachel Dong
Dong, a native speaker of Chinese, earned her B.A. in China with a major in English language and literature; and M.Ed. in second languages and cultures education from the University of Minnesota. She has teaching experiences both at college and k-12 levels. Her approach to language learning emphasizes proficiency in communication skills as well as promotion of cultural awareness. She is also one of the founders of a children's English language school in Changsha, China and co-authored the 5-volume English textbook for the school. She has been teaching Mandarin Chinese at St. Mary's University since 2006. |
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Kathleen Rueppel
Rueppel, M.A., Lecturer in German and Russian. Prof. Rueppel received her B.A. from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Penn., and her M.A. from the University of North Dakota. In addition she studied for two years at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany. She has taught at Trinity University, the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Maryland. She also has several years experience teaching both German and Russian to American Military students posted in Germany. She has taught at Judson High School and the Texas Military Institute.
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Safia Iferroudjene
Safia Iferroudjene is a native of Algeria. She earned her MD degree from Algeria in 2002. In addition to her mother tongue "Berber" (North African native language) and the Algerian dialectical Arabic, she is fluent in both modern standard Arabic and French, which are the two languages of instruction in Algeria. From primary school to the end of high school, all subjects are taught primarily in Arabic with the exception of the French Language course. However, at the university where she majored in medicine, all subjects were taught in French. She came to the United States in 2004. She is currently preparing to take her boards examinations to start her medical residency in the United States and become a certified physician. For the last two years, she has been tutoring Arabic, French, Mathematic, Biology and other subjects at the Student Learning Assistance Center at San Antonio College, where she earned CRLA certificates, advanced levels I and II tutor, in January 2008 .Through this tutoring job, she discovered her passion for teaching. She would like to share her enthusiasm for language learning with her students.
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Juan Carlos Moreno, Ph.D.
Native to Spain, Juan Carlos Moreno earned his PhD in Latin American Literature in the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, after completing studies in Madrid and Buenos Aires. After 8 years of teaching in Argentina, Dr. Moreno earned a degree in Theology in Fribourg. As the director of Spanish programs at Swiss Radio International, Dr. Moreno produced reports and interviews in the different countries of Latin America. Having a strong passion for education, Dr. Moreno maintained connected to the academic world conducting courses, conferences, and writing articles. Since 2004, Dr. Moreno has been resident in San Antonio. Besides teaching the current courses, he is also very interested in teaching the cultural topics in Spanish.
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Lilian Cano
Lilian Lizeth Cano, born in Mexico, has lived in San Antonio, Texas since 1989.She received her B.A. in Spanish in 2005 and her M.A. in Spanish with a focus on literature in 2008 from the University of Texas at San Antonio.She participated as a contributor of a Spanish workbook Cuaderno suplementario para las clases de español 1014/1024 published by Vista Higher Learning that is currently used at the University of Texas at San Antonio.She is also currently working on a book translation from Spanish to English written by two Spanish professors; Dr. Amando de Miguel and Dr. Francisco Marcos Marín. She has been teaching Spanish at the University of Texas at San Antonio since the spring semester of 2007, and is currently teaching there full time. She recently participated in the "International Year of Languages" conference where she spoke about her current research topic of the ladino language and the culture of the Sephardic Jews.
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Erika Barragan
Barragan graduated with a B.S.E. in Education and teaching certification in Spanish, French and German and an M.A. from University of Arkansas. She has lived and taught in Bolivia as well as in the states of Florida and Arizona. She was an Assistant Professor of Spanish and French at Tarrant County College in the Forth Worth area before coming to St. Mary's Univerisity. |
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