Faculty and Staff Directory

Chair

Joseph Mai

Department Chair; Professor of French
Email: jmai@clemson.edu
Office: 716 Strode

American Sign Language

Bo Clements, M.S., Certified ASLTA - Professional/Master

Section Head, Senior Lecturer of American Sign Language
Email: wrcleme@clemson.edu
Office: 361-D Humanities Hall

Associate Professor of ASL
Courses: American Sign Language 1-5; Linguistics of American Sign Language; Development of Signed Language and Reading Skills with Deaf Children; Deaf History; Literature, Music, and Film in the Deaf Community
Research Interests: Universal Design, Signed Music, Signed Language Pathology, Language and Literacy Acquisition for Deaf Children
Email: jcripps@clemson.edu
Office: 309 Strode
Phone: 864-642-1786

Anthony Fattibene, M.S.

Lecturer of American Sign Language
Email: afattib@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall
Phone: 8645588687

Stephen Fitzmaurice, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Interpreting: ASL
Email: sfitzma@clemson.edu
Office: 705 Strode Tower
Phone: 864-431-7778

Tasha Goodrich

Lecturer of ASL
Email: tashag@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Jason Hurdich, M.Ed.; CDI

Senior Lecturer of American Sign Language (ASL)
Courses: American Sign Language, American Deaf Culture, and Signed Language Interpreting
Email: jhurdic@g.clemson.edu
Office: 361-C Humanities Hall

Chinese

Yanming An, Ph.D.

Professor of Chinese & Philosophy
Email: yanming@clemson.edu
Office: 614 Strode

Su-I Chen, Ph.D.

Principal Lecturer of Chinese; Director of Language Lab
Email: schen@clemson.edu
Office: 230A Daniel Hall

Ling Rao, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Chinese
Email: lingr@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Yanhua Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chinese
Email: yhzhang@clemson.edu
Office: 304 Strode

French

Mylene Boudreau, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

Lecturer
Email: myleneb@clemson.edu
Office: 201 Edwards Hall
Phone: (864) 656-7622

Kelly Digby Peebles, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of French
Email: kpeeble@clemson.edu
Office: 710 Strode
Phone: (864) 656-8922

Anne Salces y Nedeo

Senior Lecturer of French
Research Interests: Feminist Rhetorics, New Materialism, History, Philosophy
Email: asalces@clemson.edu
Office: Daniel Hall 330C

Amy Griffin Sawyer, M.A.

Senior Lecturer of French
Email: agriff2@clemson.edu
Office: 230C Daniel Hall
Phone: 864-656-3393

Pauline De Tholozany, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of French
Courses: Survey of French Literature; Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism; Band of Sisters: Feminism in French Literature and Culture; Intermediate French
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century French literature and cultural history; 18th- and 19th-century representations of slavery and colonized groups; Affect theory, emotions in Literature; Social customs, salons and rules of civility; Transatlantic literature, relation between French and Hispanic literature in the 19th and 20th centuries/
Email: pdethol@clemson.edu
Office: 512 Strode

Eric Touya de Marenne, Ph.D.

Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies; Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
Research Interests: 20th-21st century French/Francophone Literature and Culture, Women's Studies and Leadership, Public Humanities, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Ethics, and Social Studies
Email: etouya@clemson.edu
Office: 505 Strode

Kenneth Widgren, Ph.D.

Principal Lecturer of French
Email: kwidgre@clemson.edu
Office: 230D Daniel Hall

German

J Lee Ferrell, M.A.

BMW Principal Lecturer of German
Email: ferrell@clemson.edu
Office: 501 Strode
Phone: 864-656-3421

Susanne Masterson

Lecturer of Technical German
Email: skmaste@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Johannes Schmidt, Ph.D.

Professor of German; Director of ML Program
Research Interests: Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 18th century, German philosophy; Holocaust / Shoah studies
Email: schmidj@clemson.edu
Office: 704 Strode

Gabriela Stoicea, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of German and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research Interests: Science & Culture in the European Context; Body Studies; Gender & Sexuality Studies; History & Theory of the Novel; Epic Theater; German & East European Cinemas; Translation Studies
Email: stoicea@clemson.edu
Office: 513 Strode

Italian

Roberto Risso, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Italian
Email: rrisso@clemson.edu
Office: 301 Strode

Julia Schmidt, M.A.

Senior Lecturer of Italian
Email: schmid3@clemson.edu
Office: 704 Strode

Japanese

Miyabi Ozawa, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Japanese
Courses: Japanese Conversation & Composition, Selected Topics in Japanese Culture (Introduction to Japanese Linguistics), Japanese for International Business
Research Interests: Japanese linguistics, Conversation Analysis, discourse analysis, usage-based approaches
Email: mozawa@clemson.edu
Office: 303 Strode Tower

Kumiko Saito, Ph. D.

Associate Professor of Japanese
Email: ksaito@clemson.edu
Office: 308 Strode

Satomi Saito, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Japanese
Email: ssaito@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Latin

Kenneth Tuite, Ph.D.

Lecturer
Email: ktuite@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Russian

Stephanie Morris, M.A.

Senior Lecturer of Russian
Email: semrrs@clemson.edu
Office: 706 Strode

Olga Volkova, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Russian
Email: ovolkov@clemson.edu
Office: 706 Strode

Spanish

Raquel Anido, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Courses: Spanish Film and Women Directors, Music in Film
Email: ranido@clemson.edu
Office: 510 Strode

Yezid Flores, M.Ed.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish
Email: yflores@clemson.edu
Office: 361-5 Humanities Hall

Alma Garcia-Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish, Coordinator for Spanish 1000/2000 Levels
Email: aygarci@clemson.edu
Office: 501 Strode

Daniel Garcia-Vieyra, M.Ed.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish
Email: ddgarci@clemson.edu
Office: 501 Strode

Emily Goebelt, M.A.

Lecturer of Spanish
Courses: Elementary Spanish 1 & 2, Intermediate Spanish 1
Email: egoebel@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities

Lee Kirven

Lecturer of Spanish
Email: lkirven@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Nora Logue, M.A.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish
Courses: Intermediate Spanish (2010 and 2020 levels)
Email: nlogue@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Stephanie M. Madison, Ph.D.

Visiting Lecturer
Courses: Spanish 1020
Email: stephm@clemson.edu
Office: Humanities 361

Magdaléna Matušková, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Courses: SPAN 4160, LAIB 4000
Research Interests: Latin American history, culture, and literature with special emphasis on the Caribbean, Latin American–Eastern Europe relations, translation studies, film studies, service-learning
Email: mmatusk@clemson.edu
Office: 313 Strode

Ana Paula Miller, M.A.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish; Schedule Coordinator
Email: ana2@clemson.edu
Office: 715 Strode
Phone: (864)656-1670

Arelis Moore, MD, PhD, MPH, MEd.

Associate Professor of Spanish and Community Health
Research Interests: Community Health and Well-being; Social Determinants of Health; Community-Based Participatory Research; Health Disparities; Health Equity; Health Promotion; Underrepresented communities; Latinx.
Email: ared@clemson.edu
Office: 504 Strode Tower

Salvador A. Oropesa, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Spanish
Email: oropesa@clemson.edu
Office: 603 Strode Tower
Phone: 864-656-3544

José Luis Ortiz-Rosario, M.A.

Lecturer of Spanish
Email: jlortiz@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

George Palacios, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Courses: Introduction to Hispanic Literary Texts, The Hispanic World: Latin America, Hispanic Narrative Fiction, Intermediate Grammar & Composition, Spanish through Culture, Spanish Language Immersion in Seville, Spain.
Research Interests: Afro-Latin America, Latin America, Colombian and Brazilian Literatures and Cultures, US-Latin American Relations, Literary and Cultural Relations of the Global South.
Email: gpalaci@clemson.edu
Office: 515 Strode
Phone: 864-656-3393

Melva Persico, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish
Email: mpersic@clemson.edu
Office: 230B Daniel Hall
Phone: 864-656-2852

Rosa M. Pillcurima, M.A.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish; Modern Languages Placement Test and Exit Exam Coordinator
Email: rpillcu@clemson.edu
Office: 330 B Daniel Hall

Mónica M. Rojas de Massei, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Email: mmassei@clemson.edu
Office: 503 Strode

Ellory Schmucker, M.A.

Principal Lecturer of Spanish; Director of LIH Program
Email: eschmuc@clemson.edu
Office: 330-A Daniel Hall

Daniel J. Smith, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Email: daniels@clemson.edu
Office: 508 Strode

Graciela E Tissera, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Research Interests: Sabbatical Fall 2024
Email: gtisser@clemson.edu
Office: 713 Strode

Ricardo A. Velasco Trujillo, PhD

Assistant Professor of Spanish / Latin American Cultural Studies
Courses: SPAN 3080 The Hispanic World. Latin America; LANG 4550 Hispanic Film: Documentary and Feature; SPAN 4990 Special Topics: Cine, Cultural Visual y Memoria Histórica.
Research Interests: Cultural Production in Post-Conflict & Post-Authoritarian Societies; Memorialization and Cultural Activism; Transitional Justice; Symbolic Reparation; Social Documentation; Critical Digital Media Practices; Digital & Public Humanities; Fieldwork and Ethnography in the Humanities.
Email: ricardv@clemson.edu
Office: 310 Strode