Modern Languages Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Yuly Asención, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

(B.A., Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador; M.A., Universidad Simón Bolivar; M.A., Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertado; Ph.D., Northern Arizona University 2004)

Second language assessment, reading and writing in a second language

NAU 2004

Stephen J. Clark, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., St. Mary’s of California; M.A., Middlebury College in Madrid; Ph.D., University of Colorado–Boulder 1996)

Latin American literature, Cuban narrative

NAU 1998

Joseph Collentine, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., M.A., Arizona State University; Ph.D., University of Texas–Austin 1993)

Foreign language acquisition, Spanish morphology and syntax

NAU 1995

Bernd Conrad, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(M.A., University of Kansas; Ph.D., University of Texas–Austin 1991)

Computer-assisted language learning

NAU 1992

Patricia Davison, M.A., Lecturer

(B.A., Centro Internacional de Capacitacion e Idiomas; M.A., University of the Americas, Mexico 1970)

Spanish language, bilingual proficiency certification

NAU 1995

Patricia E. Frederick, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(C.B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D., Rice University 1988)

French language and literature

NAU 1989

Juanita Heredia, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Juanita.Heredia@nau.edu

(B.A., University of California–Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California–Los Angeles 1998)

Chicano/a cultural and literary studies, comparative Latin American narrative

NAU 2002

Edward W. Hood, Ph.D., Professor, Department Chair

(B.A., M.A., Western Illinois University; M.A., San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of California–Irvine 1990)

Latin American literature, Central American narrative

NAU 1991

Robert Johnston, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Oregon 1980)

Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature

NAU 1989

Joe Kee, B.S., Lecturer

(B.S., Northern Arizona University 1995)

Navajo language and culture

NAU 1993

Astrid Klocke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Astrid.Klocke@nau.edu

(B.A., Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Germany; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University 2000)

German literature and film

NAU 2002

Karen Melissa Marcus, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., University of California–Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University 1990)

Nineteenth century French literature, translation

NAU 1990

Nicholas J. Meyerhofer, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., St. Joseph’s College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California–Berkeley 1978)

Modern German and Austrian literature, holocaust studies

NAU 1990

Robert A. Neustadt, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Oregon 1995)

Spanish American narrative, Latino literature, critical theory

NAU 1998

Cecilia Ojeda, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., Universidad Católica de Valparaíso; M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona 1994)

Literature of Latin American and Spain, women’s contemporary narrative

NAU 1993

Evangeline Parsons-Yazzie, Ed. D., Associate Professor

(Ed.D., Northern Arizona University 1995)

Navajo language and culture

NAU 1990

Florence Riegelhaupt, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., State University of New York–Albany; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York–Buffalo 1976)

Spanish language, bilingualism

NAU 1993

Susana Rivera-Mills, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of New Mexico 1998)

Sociolinguistics: Spanish in the United States

NAU 1994

Elisa Rosales, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(Licenciatura, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Ph.D., Syracuse University 1990)

Spanish literature

NAU 1998

Karen E. Schairer, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., Willamette University; M.A., Ph.D., University of New Mexico 1990)

Spanish linguistics

NAU 1990

Anne E. Slobodchikoff, M.A., Senior Lecturer

(B.A., M.A., University of California–Berkeley 1974)

Russian and French language and civilization

NAU 1993

Marilya Veteto-Conrad, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., Austin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas–Austin 1990)

Twentieth century minority and modern German literature, foreign language pedagogy, translation

NAU 1990

Faculty Emeriti

Barbara N. Gantt, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Florida State University 1977)

Spanish language and literature

NAU 1977 (retired 2003)

Orazio Giusti, Dott., Professor

(Maturita Classica, Doctorate, University of Padua; Cert. Institut Phonetique, Paris; Dipl. Litt. Sorbonne)

NAU 1960 (retired 1983)

Richard C. Helt, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., Pittsburg State University; M.A., University of Wyoming; Ph.D., Washington University 1973)

Nineteenth and twentieth century German literature, German cinema

NAU 1988

(retired 2001)

Ekkehart Malotki, Ph.D., Professor

(Ph.D., Westfälische Wilhelms–Universität Münster, Germany 1976)

Latin and German, Hopi language and culture, rock art

NAU 1977 (retired 2004)

Karl E. Webb, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., Brigham Young University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1969)

German and Austrian literature and art, humanities of central Europe

NAU 1984 (retired 2003)