Faculty
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Dr. Elena Olivé, Chair Elena Olivé joined the Austin College faculty in August 2001. She received her Doctoral degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Kansas in 2002. She earned her M.A. in Spanish Literature at New York University in Madrid and her B.A. in Political Science/ Spanish from Texas A&M University in 1991. She specializes in contemporary Spanish poetry with an emphasis on the 1980s generation. She also has a special interest in women writers and in the relationship between Hispanic literature and film. She has served as Chair of the Classical and Modern Languages Department at Austin College and has been Director of the Spanish Language House several times. She has also taught in Spain as Visiting Professor at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and has many experiences with study abroad programs. |
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Dr. Lourdes Bueno Lourdes Bueno received her M.A. from M.S.U. in East Lansing, MI and her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She joined the CML Dept. in the Fall 2000. Her main research deals with Spanish Golden Age Drama, Spanish Contemporary Drama, and the female character in Spanish Drama. She has published 3 books and more than 30 articles and reviews in prestigious professional journals, and has delivered many lectures in national as well as international Conferences. Also, she has published some creative works (a short play and some poems), and has participated in different stage readings of contemporary Spanish plays. She is Editor of Estreno, Cuadernos del teatro español contemporáneo (a bi-annual journal devoted to the most contemporary Peninsular drama), Editor of En sentido figurado (an electronic journal devoted to Spanish contemporary literature), and a frequent reviewer of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies. In addition, she has organized several visits of different Spanish playwrights to Austin College and is organizing an International Conference in Spanish Contemporary Drama that will be held at AC on October 13-15, 2011. Finally, she has received the Research and Teaching Awards at Vanderbilt University, and the Research Award and the Faculty of the Month Award at Austin College. |
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Dr. Robert Cape Professor Cape's research areas include Roman politics and political speech, Cicero, women in antiquity, ethnicity in Latin literature, and Latin pedagogy. He teaches courses on these subjects as well as the ancient world in film, classics and science fiction, and medieval Latin and manuscript studies. He teaches a January term course in Rome every other year. |
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Dr. Ruth Cape Ruth I. Cape completed graduate work in history and Latin at the University of Münster in Germany and at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Germanic languages from UCLA and has published books both in German and English. She is the author of a monograph about 18th century literature, entitled Das französische Ungewitter. Goethes Bildersprache zur Französischen Revolution (Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1991), and the editor of the bilingual and annotated edition Youth at War. Feldpost Letters of a German Boy to his Family 1943–1945 (New York: Peter Lang, 2010), as well as a bilingual and annotated edition of an early 16th century pamphlet entitled The Jews’ Mirror (Der Juden Spiegel,) by Johannes Pfefferkorn (2011). She regularly offers courses in German language and literatures of all centuries, and German film and culture, with a focus on the question of identity formation. |
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Jesús Carrasco |
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Dr. Truett Cates |
Dr. Osvaldo de la Torre |
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Dr. Patrick Duffey Patrick Duffey (PhD, UT-Austin, 1994) joined Austin College in the fall of 1994. One of his primary areas of research has been 20th-century Mexican prose fiction and the relationship between film and Hispanic literature. Currently, he is writing about the impact of silent film on Hispanic writers of the 20s and 30s. He is also interested in Latin American poetry, Vanguard literature, and women's writing. He teaches a wide variety of courses in both language and Latin American literature (e.g., "Cinelandia: El impacto del cine mudo en las literaturas española y latinoamericana de los años veinte y treinta," "Cinematic and Literary Narrative in Contemporary Latin America," "Introduction to Latin American Music and Dance," "History, Literature, and Revolution in Contemporary Mexico," "La Poesía Hispanoamericana del Siglo XX," "La voz indígena."). |
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Dr. Julie Hempel Julie Hempel (B.A.-Eastern Michigan U., M.A.-U. of Arizona, Ph.D.-U. of Michigan) joined the Austin College faculty in the fall of 2002. She has taught Spanish language courses, as well as a variety of topics courses on Latin American Literature and Popular culture. Her dissertation, entitled Faces, Bodies, and Spaces: Differential Identity Construction in Mexicana and Chicana Narrative, offers a transnational analysis of works by seven contemporary writers: Carmen Boullosa, Ethel Krauze, Guadalupe Loaeza, Silvia Molina, Rosamaría Roffiel, Sandra Cisneros, and Erlinda González Berry. Currently, Julie is working on two research projects. One focuses on manifestations of ethnic and cultural mestizaje in the Chinese and Japanese immigrant communities of Perú. In conjunction with this research, she is translating Siu Kam Wen’s award winning collection of stories El tramo final. In addition to this project, Julie is researching the history and evolution of the pop culture images from the game of Lotería, along with their thematic and structural use in recent Mexican and Chicano literary works. She recently translated Mexican artist and Kriter Erik de Luna’s work titled La muerte, puros cuentos, a Collection of prose and poetry based on de Luna’s “Lotería de los 100 nombres que los mexicanos le dan a la muerte.” |
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Dede Hosek DeDe Hosek received her Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and her B.S. degree from U.T. Austin. Her graduate degree in French has been complemented by post-graduate studies in second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy. Her current teaching interest lies in La France Contemporaine – modern-day French society and culture. DeDe has been teaching French courses on the Austin College campus since 1991. She has also directed French language and culture courses in France during January-Terms 2007, 2010 and will do so again in 2012. She has co-taught the French section of the Richardson Summer Institute for High School Language Teachers since 2006. DeDe has also taught French at Grayson County College and Midwestern State University as well as ESL to international students at Austin College and to NATO pilots at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls. |
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Ida Hudgins Ida Hudgins has a B.A. from Baylor University and M.A. from University of North Texas. She is retired from Sherman Independent School District after 25 years of service at Sherman High School. She currently serves as an adjunct instructor in Spanish. |
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Dr. James Johnson Jim Johnson's primary interests are Greek drama and epic, Greek social values and critical theory, Roman poetry, classical mythology, and language teaching. His personal webpage is located at: http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/cml/jjohnson/. |
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Dr. Jennifer Thackston Johnson Jennifer Thackston Johnson joined the faculty of Austin College in 2010, after receiving her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2008, she worked at Fudan University in Shanghai as a Fulbright Scholar. Her dissertation was entitled Creating Gender in the Interregnum: Women's Literature and Social Change in Twentieth Century China. Other research interests include fantasy and horror in Mandarin, modern retellings of classical Chinese myth, and island culture in the Pacific Rim. At AC, she teaches courses on Chinese language, as well as Chinese literature and culture from over 2000 years ago to what’s in today’s news. She leads a Janterm to Beijing and directs the Chinese language house. |
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Dr. Scott Langton |
Xiaoxiang Liu |
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Dr. Wolfgang Lueckel |
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Dr. Bernice Melvin |
Dr. Andrew Pigott |