Research Interests

Arabic Faculty

  • George Berg:听Empirical research in applied linguistics with a focus on the development of communicative-based teaching materials for students of Arabic.
  • Erez Naaman:听Classical Arabic literature and culture, and the intellectual history of the premodern Islamic world.

Chinese Faculty

  • Jie Cai: Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), Teaching Chinese as a Heritage Language, Second Language Acquisition, Modern Chinese Literature and Classical Chinese language.听
  • Svetlana Xu:听Philosophy, literature, Chinese culture, and communication.
  • Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang:听Literature and culture of late imperial China.

French Faculty

  • Naima Hachad:听North African literature and cultural productions.
  • Elizabeth Lang:听Political, economic, social and cultural issues in Francophone Africa and international development.

German Faculty

  • William Quirk:听German, English, and French literature from the Romanticism to the present.

Italian Faculty

  • Ranieri Moore Cavaceppi:听16th century Italian Hospitaller Knights and 20th century literature and modern cinema.

Russian Faculty

Spanish Faculty

  • Lilian Baeza-Mendoza:听The use of media as a language learning tool and learning disabilities in the language classroom.
  • Luis Cerezo:听Empirical research methods with audiovisual technology for second language learning.
  • Ester Holtermann:听Immigration and the Latino community.
  • Juliana Martinez: Intersection of violence and body politics in Latin America, mainly representation of historical violence in recent cultural production; and gender and sexuality - particularly transgender studies.
  • Gemma Sune Minguella:听Relationship between poetry and philosophy, as well as cinema and visual arts.听Restoring the integrity of Spanish classic movies seriously censored under the Franco regime (50's and 60's).
  • Amy Oliver:听Marginality, feminism, nepantlismo, and transfronterismo in Latin America.
  • Amelia Tseng:听Sociolinguistics of migration and diaspora: Bilingualism, heritage languages, dialects, identity, discourse, ideology, race/ethnicity; Washington, D.C. Latinx Language and Identity Project (DCLLIP). Linguistics Coordinator.
  • Nuria Vilanova: Impact of migration on cultural production and narratives of violence and poverty.
  • Brenda Werth:听Professor Werth specializes in contemporary Latin American theater. Her areas of interest include performance, memory studies, documentary theater, and film. She teaches courses on diverse aspects of the Southern Cone, including Postdictatorial literature, performance, and human rights.
  • TESOL Faculty

  • Naomi Baron:听The effects of technology on reading and writing. One branch of her research is on differences between reading in print versus onscreen. A second branch is on the impact of artificial intelligence on how we write.
  • Robin Barr: Indo-European and psycholinguistics, morphology, relationship between language learning and language change.
  • Henry Chip Gerfen:听Phonology and linguistic studies.
  • Tabitha Kidwell:听Language teacher education, culture in language teaching and learning, student-centered and interactive language teaching methods, equitable learning opportunities for ELLs.
  • Sarah Knowles:听Second language acquisition, language teaching methods, applied linguistics, metalinguistic awareness, and working with low-literate adult learners.
  • Polina Vinogradova:听Advocacy and student empowerment; multiliteracies and multimodality; pedagogical uses of digital storytelling; postmethod pedagogy in teacher education.

Recent Publications

  • Amelia Tseng (2023), 鈥溾 Ethnic and Racial Studies.
  • Naaman, Erez. (2023). 鈥 Journal of Arabic Literature 54, 1-2 (2023): 51-72.
  • Jung, Y., Choi, S., Shin, H.Y., Steeley S., Haley, M.H. (2022). "Korean teacher's perceptions of embedding pop culture into classrooms,"听NECTFL Review, 88, 37-58.

  • Kidwell, T.(2022). "Intercultural experience and transnational culture education: A case study of one novice teacher鈥檚 personal and professional development."听听In R. Jain, B. Yazan & S. Canagarajah (Eds.),听Transnational practitioners and participants in TESOL: Critical identities and practices.听Multilingual Matters.听

    Kidwell, T.(2022). 鈥淲e should learn English to solve our problems鈥: Strategies to support adult ESL learners with emergent literacy. In L. J. Pent贸n Herrera (Ed.),听English and students with limited or interrupted formal education: Global perspectives on teacher preparation and classroom practice.听Springer.听

  • Baron, Naomi S. (2021).听. Oxford University Press.

  • Kidwell, T.听(2021). ""听Language and Intercultural Communication, 21(5), 631-645.

  • Kidwell, T.听听& Triyoko, H. (2021). ""听Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

  • Kidwell, T.听听(2021).听听鈥淭hey can be anywhere someday鈥: Integrating culture in Indonesian EFL classrooms. In K. M. Bailey & D. Christian (Eds.),听Research on teaching and learning English in under-resourced contexts.听Routledge and TIRF.听

  • Moore Cavaceppi, Ranieri. (2021).听鈥.鈥澨脡tudes 脡pist茅m猫39.

  • Tseng, A. (2021). 鈥.听Applied Linguistics,听42(1), 113鈥135.

  • Tseng, A. and Hinrichs, L. (2021).听. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 25(5), 649-661.听Theme Issue.

  • Yun, S. & Shin, H.Y. (2021). Social justice-oriented activity models for young learner's biliteracy development in a Korean language classroom,听NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 11,听13-21.

  • Choi, S., Jung, Y., Steeley, S., Shin, H.Y. & Haley, M.H. (2020) Examining a lens of Korean language teachers,听Academic Exchange Quarterly, 24(4),听1-7.

  • Flores, N., Tseng, A., and Subtirelu, C. (2020). 听

  • Hachad, Naima, Expressions Maghr茅bines. 19/1 (茅t茅 2020): 49-69.
  • Martinez, Juliana. (2020). 听University of Texas Press.
  • Naaman, Erez. (2020). Arabica 67 (1): 1-59.
  • Su帽茅 Minguella, Gemma. (2020). ",听Bolet铆n de la Biblioteca Men茅ndez Pelayo XCVI-1: 67-82.
  • Su帽茅 Minguella, Gemma. (2020). "" (Uncensored Tula: A Survey of the Other Version of Miguel Picazo's Classic).听Trasvases Entre La Literatura y El Cine听2: 211-239.
  • Tseng, Amelia. (2020). "Normalization of dialect translinguistics in an internally diverse global-city diasporic community." In Jerry Won Lee and Sender Dovchin (eds.), Translinguistics: Negotiating innovation and ordinariness. Routledge: 146-160.
  • Tseng, Amelia. (2020). "Advancing a sociolinguistics of complexity: Spanish-speaking identities in Washington, DC." In Andrew Lynch (ed.), Handbook on Spanish in the Global City. Routledge: 330-354.
  • Leow, R. P., Cerezo, L., Caras, A., & Cruz, G. (2019). CALL in ISLA: In R. M. DeKeyser and G. Prieto Botana (Eds.), Doing SLA research with implications for the classroom: Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins: 155鈥178.
  • Aristiza矛bal Juanita and Mart矛nez Juliana eds. (2019) 鈥淰iolent Tales: Cultural Representation in Colombia and Mexico.鈥 Revista de Estudios Hispa矛nicos. 53:1.
  • Hachad, Naima. (2019). Liverpool University Press.
  • Oliver, Amy A. (2019). Genealogy (Special Issue: New Directions in Latinx/Latin American Philosophy), 3(4): 57.
  • Vilanova, N煤ria. (2019). 鈥淟a frontera como est茅tica textual: la escritura de Jes煤s Gardea.鈥 In Daniel Samperio and Roberto Bernal (eds). Casi toda la luz: textos cr铆ticos en torno a Jes煤s Gardea. Santiago de Quer茅taro, M茅xico: Fondo Editorial. Universidad Aut贸noma de Quer茅taro: 187-217.
  • Vinogradova, P., & Ross, E. H. (2019). TESOL Journal, 10(4): e480.
  • Werth, Brenda. (2019). 鈥淭he Dramas of Human Rights: Documentary Theater and Performance.鈥 Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature. Ed. Crystal A. Parikh. Cambridge University Press: 141-154.