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Faculty and Staff Directory

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Faculty Staff

Olga Bezhanova Professor of Spanish Peck Hall 2327 (618) 650-2082 obezhan@siue.edu Ph.D., Yale University

Heidy Cuervo, Chair Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Spanish Peck Hall 2309 (618) 650-2016 hcuervo@siue.edu Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Joaquin Florido Berrocal Associate Professor of Spanish Peck Hall 2322 (618) 650-2991 jberroc@siue.edu Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Tai Gruver American Sign Language Instructor Peck Hall 2328 (636) 695-8182 (Videophone) tgruver@siue.edu

José Licon-Oppenheimer Spanish Instructor Peck Hall 2323 (618) 650-3512 jlicono@siue.edu

Tanya Mushinsky French Instructor Peck Hall 2325 (618) 650-2083 tamushi@siue.edu

Douglas Simms Professor of German Peck Hall 2326 (618) 650-2177 dsimms@siue.edu Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Julie Huelsing Office Support Specialist Peck Hall 2308 (618) 650-3510 jhuelsi@siue.edu

Part-Time Faculty

Federica Bertolini Phillips Italian Lecturer (618) 650-2083 fphilli@siue.edu

Gerald Covell American Sign Language Lecturer Peck Hall 2331 gcovell@siue.edu

Thomas Russell American Sign Language Lecturer Peck Hall 2317 thrusse@siue.edu

Graduate Assistant

Axel Acosta-Vazquez Graduate Assistant FLTC Peck Hall 2312 (618) 650-3510 axacost@siue.edu

Emeriti and Emeritae Faculty

Julian Bueno Emeritus Professor of Spanish jkbueno@sbcglobal.net

Kathy Bueno Emerita Professor of Spanish quebueno52@sbcglobal.net

Belinda Carstens-Wickham Emerita Professor of German bcarste@siue.edu

Liz Fonseca Emerita Professor of Spanish efonsec@siue.edu

Toby Griffen Emeritus Professor of German tgriffe@siue.edu

Debbie Mann Emerita Professor of French jmann@siue.edu

Geert Pallemans Professor of French

Mariana Solares Emerita Professor of Spanish msolare@siue.edu

Retired Faculty

Gene Allsup Professor of Spanish 08/1968 - 08/1990

James Baltzell Professor of French 1971 - 1982

Belinda Carstens-Wickham Professor of German 08/1989 - 12/1921

Rino Cassanelli Professor of French, Italian, and Spanish 09/1971 - 11/1994

Claude Francis Professor of French 08/1970 - 08/1988

Helen Goode Professor of Spanish 09/1962 - 06/1981

Toby Griffen Professor of German 09/1977 - 05/2004, 08/2007 - 12/2017

Paul Guenther Professor of German 09/1960 - 08/1982

Tom Lavallee Professor of Chinese 08/2007 - 06/2026

Sonja Lind Professor of German 09/1962 - 06/1981

Gertrude Marti Professor of French 01/1966 - 09/1976

Frederick Morrison Professor of Spanish 09/1985 - 05/2007

Betty Osiek Professor of Spanish 08/1968 - 08/1986

Alfred Pellegrino Professor of Spanish

Dan Romani Professor of Spanish and Italian 08/1965 - 08/1987

Mariana Solares Professor of Spanish 08/2000 - 07/2018

Ray Spahn Professor of German 08/1957 - 12/1977