The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics welcomed more than a dozen new faculty members this fall.

They join a group of diverse and talented faculty who author major books and articles, lead externally funded and nationally recognized research projects, and receive national and international awards and fellowships for their scholarship, service, and teaching.

They include as follows:

Azadeh Aghighi, instructor or lecturer, Department of Linguistics

Ozum Arzik Erzurumlu, instructor or lecturer, Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies (start date: August 2024)

Sophie Ben Menni Schuler, instructor or lecturer, Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies (working abroad)

Crystal Bonano, lecturer, Department of Linguistics

Michelle Dutton, instructor or lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Ellen Ericson, instructor, Foreign Language Teacher Education Program

Monica Garcia Blizzard, professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Rosana Gomez Cayapu, lecturer, Department of Linguistics

Walker Horsfall, lecturer, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

Alice Houston, lecturer, Department of Linguistics

Wenyue Ma, linguistics data analytics manager, School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics and Department of Linguistics

Aleksandre "Sandro" Maskharashvili, professor, Department of Linguistics

Eva Miszoglad, lecturer, Department of Linguistics

Alejandro Ramirez Mendez, professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Ali Saeedi, instructor or lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies

Yunwen Su, professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

Stephanie Thurston, professor, Department of Religion

Vieux Alassane Toure, instructor or lecturer, Department of Linguistics

Yuefan Wang, instructor or lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

Kara Yarrington, professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Alexandra Yazeva, lecturer, Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies

Qiusi Zhang, lecturer, Department of Linguistics

Dania De La Hoya Rojas