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Faculty and Staff Directory

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Faculty Staff

Olga Bezhanova, Chair Professor of Spanish Peck Hall 2309 (618) 650-2082 obezhan@siue.edu Ph.D., Yale University

Tara Huntley Office Manager Peck Hall 2308 (618) 650-3510 thuntle@siue.edu B.A. English, Eastern Illinois University

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

Heidy Cuervo Associate Professor of Spanish Peck Hall 2325 (618) 650-2016 hcarrut@siue.edu Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Tom Lavallee Associate Professor of Chinese Peck Hall 2327 (618) 650-3301 tlavale@siue.edu Ph.D., Washington University

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

Debbie Mann Professor of French Peck Hall 2328 (618) 650-231 (618) 650-2314 Ph.D., University of Florida

Carolina Rocha Professor of Spanish Peck Hall 2324 (618) 650-2313 crocha@siue.edu Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

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

Part-Time Faculty

Firouzeh Soltanshahi French Lecturer Peck 2317 (618) 650-2083 fsoltan@siue.edu

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

Emeriti and Emeritae Faculty

Kathy Bueno Emerita Professor of Spanish quebueno52@sbcglobal.net

Julian Bueno Emeritus Professor of Spanish jkbueno@sbcglobal.net

Liz Fonseca Emerita Professor of Spanish efonsec@siue.edu

Toby Griffen Emeritus Professor of German tgriffe@siue.edu

Mariana Solares Emerita Professor of Spanish msolare@siue.edu

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

Visiting Fulbright Scholars

Adelani Ayodeji Yoruba Teaching Assistant aadelan@siue.edu

Maryam Janahi Arabic Teaching Assistant mjanahi@siue.edu

Olga Belozerova Russian Teaching Assistant obeloze@siue.edu

Graduate Assistants

Danielle Hernandez Graduate Assistant FLTC Peck Hall 2312 (618) 650-3510 daniher@siue.edu

Graduate Assistant Peck Hall 2312 (618) 650-3510 gerodri@siue.edu

Susan McDonald Graduate Assistant Tandem PH 2312 (618) 650-3510 sspence@siue.edu

Retired Faculty

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

James Baltzell Professor of French 1971 - 1982

Julian Bueno Professor of Spanish 07/1986 - 05/2009

Kathy Bueno Professor of Spanish 08/1994 - 06/2009

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

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

Geert Pallemans Professor of French 01/1993 - 05/2022

Alfred Pellegrino Professor of Spanish

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

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

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

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

Veronique Zaytzeff Professor of French and Russian 09/1969 - 08/2008