Faculty
Ivan Allen College has more than 140 permanent faculty members. All have PhDs and many are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields. All permanent faculty teach undergraduate courses.
(Listings for temporary faculty and academic professionals are maintained on the individual school websites which may be accessed from the home page)
Modern Languages Faculty
Rajaa Aquil
Assistant Professor - Arabic
Professor Rajaa Aquil has been teaching foreign languages for over twenty years. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University. Her research is in the processing of connected spoken language and second language acquisition. She is also interested in understanding cultures through the study of metaphors. (continues)
Barbara Blackbourn-Jansma
Associate Professor - French
Dr. Barbara Blackbourn-Jansma is an Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages. She has been active in Children's Programs since 1989 when she filmed Terrains de jeux: le français pour enfants. Nominated by her students for the Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology and the Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Awards in 2001 and 2002, Dr. Blackbourn-Jansma received the Georgia Tech Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (2002). (continues)
Stéphanie Boulard
Assistant Professor - French
Stéphanie Boulard began as Assistant Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech in January 2007. She received her BA and MA in French at the Université de Charles de Gaulle, Lille III, France, her DEA (pre-doctoral degree) in Modern French Literature at the Université de Vincennes Saint-Denis, Paris VIII, France, and her PhD in French Literature from Emory University, Atlanta. (continues)
Osvaldo Cleger
Assistant Professor
Osvaldo Cleger is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages, with a doctorate from the University of Arizona. From 2009-2011, he worked as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Lafayette College, where he conducted research on Latin American cyberculture, and taught courses on digital culture and Latin American film. (continues)
Kelly Comfort
Associate Professor - Spanish
Dr. Kelly Comfort received her PhD in Comparative Literature with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory from the University of California, Davis. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages in 2005 and became Associate Professor in 2012. (continues)
Bettina F. Cothran
Professor - German
Dr. Bettina F. Cothran is a Professor of German in the School of Modern Languages. She received her PhD from the University of Wuppertal. She serves as Director of the German LBAT program, as Director of the International Plan for Modern Languages, and advisor for the German group. She is the editor of the "Handbook for German in Business and Technology" and "The Global Connection: Issues in Business German," as well as co-editor of the volume "Languages and Culture Out of Bounds: Discipline-Blurred Perspectives on the Foreign Language Classroom." (continues)
Nora Cottille-Foley
Associate Professor - French
Dr. Nora Cottille-Foley is an Associate Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages. She received her PhDfrom Northwestern University, Evanston. She joined the Faculty at Georgia Tech in 1998. She serves as director for the LBAT Paris program, an intensive summer study program taught in French with an emphasis on business and technology. (continues)
Paul Foster
Associate Professor
Dr. Paul B. Foster received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the Ohio State University (1996). His specialty is the study of Lu Xun 鲁迅, the icon of Modern Chinese Literature. Dr. Foster's current research is on kungfu fiction, film and popular culture, with a special focus on the martial art fiction master, Jin Yong 金庸. (continues)
Vicki B. Galloway
Professor - Spanish
Vicki Galloway is Professor of Spanish and Associate Chair for Research and Assessment in the School of Modern Languages. She received her PhD from the University of South Carolina. She serves as Director of the LBAT-Mexico summer immersion program in Spanish for Business and Technology and the Peru Study Abroad program in Sustainable Development and teaches a wide variety of courses in language, literature, business, and culture studies. (continues)
Stuart H. Goldberg
Associate Professor - Russian
Dr. Stuart H. Goldberg received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages, he joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2003. His expertise lies in Russian and Polish literature and culture, with a focus on the poetry of Russian Modernism. (continues)
Christophe Ippolito
Assistant Professor - French
Dr. Christophe Ippolito joined the School of Modern Languages in the Ivan Allen College at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 2007. He earned his PhD in French from Columbia University.
Ippolito is the author of Narrative Memory in Flaubert’s Works (Lang, 2001), and the editor of Nadia Tuéni’s Lebanon: Poems of Love and War (Syracuse University Press, 2006), reviewed in journals including The Romanic Review and Arab Studies Quarterly. He has contributed book chapters and essays in professional journals including Romantisme, Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, and Romance Studies. (continues)
Britta Kallin
Associate Professor
Dr. Britta Kallin received her PhD in German Literature from the University of Cincinnati. She joined the School of Modern Languages faculty at Georgia Tech in 2000. A specialist in contemporary German and Austrian women's literature and theater, she is the author of "The Role of the Roma in Elfriede Jelinek's Stecken, Stab und Stangl?" (continues)
Masato Kikuchi
Associate Professor
Dr. Masato Kikuchi is Associate Professor of Japanese in the School of Modern Languages. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh where his research focused on the areas of application of natural language processing techniques such as development and evaluation of intelligent computer-assisted language instruction, discourse/pragmatics processing, and psycholinguistics. (continues)
Angela Labarca
Professor - Spanish
Dr. Angela Labarca came to GT in 1991 as a Professor in the School of Modern Languages to create the Spanish LBAT program. At present, she directs the Madrid portion of LBAT and the Health Care Spanish programs in Madrid and Cádiz, Spain. Dr. Labarca is GT's only Hispanic female Full Professor. (continues)
Xiaoliang Li
Associate Professor - Chinese
Dr. Xiaoliang Li received her PhD from the University of Virginia. In 1995 joined the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she established a Chinese language and cultural studies program. Her research and publications have delved into utilizing multimedia in Chinese language instruction, second-language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and cultural perspectives in language learning and communications. (continues)
Jin Liu
Assistant Professor
Jin Liu received her Ph.D. in East Asian Literature from Cornell University (2008) and her M.A. in Chinese Linguistics (2000) and B.A. (1997) in Chinese Language and Literature from Peking University in China. She joined the faculty in the School of Modern Languages in 2008. Her interdisciplinary research studies contemporary Chinese popular culture through the lens of (local) language. (continues)
Kyoko Masuda
Associate Professor - Japanese
Dr. Kyoko Masuda received her Ph.D in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 2002. She joined Georgia Tech in 2004 and has been promoted to Associate Professor of Japanese and Linguistics in 2010. A specialist in Discourse, Second Language Acquisition, and Cognitive Linguistics, she has published serveral articles in the journals such as Modern Language Journal, New Directions in Applied Linguistics of Japanese, Japanese Language and Literature, Nihongo Kyooiku, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, CLS, and Japanese/Korean Linguistics. (continues)
Cecilia Montes-Alcala
Associate Professor - Spanish
Dr. Cecilia Montes-Alcalá received her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2004 as an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages. A specialist in sociolinguistics, bilingualism and languages in contact, she has published several articles and book chapters including “Las keys vs. (continues)
Frank H. Pilipp
Professor
Dr. Frank Pilipp received his PhD in German Literature from the University of North Carolina. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor of German in 1995 and in 2003 was promoted to Professor in the School of Modern Languages. His main areas of research are Contemporary German and Austrian literature and film. (continues)
Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Assistant Professor - Spanish
Juan Carlos Rodriguez received a PhD in literature from Duke University. He has taught Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras and at Rice University, where he coordinated the Transnational Caribbean Cultures conference series. His research and teaching areas are cinema, documentary, urban culture, and literature from Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean. (continues)
Rumiko S. Shinzato
Professor
Dr. Rumiko Shinzato received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor of Japanese in 19 91 and in 2004 was promoted to Professor in the School of Modern Languages. A specialist in pragmatics, historical linguistics (grammaticalization), cognitive linguistics and Japanese and Okinawan linguistics, she has published numerous articles in such refereed journals as Journal of Pragmatics, Linguistics, Language Sciences, and Gengo Kenkyu. (continues)
David J. Shook
Associate Professor - Spanish
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Dr. David J. Shook is Associate Professor of Spanish, and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Modern Languages. He advises for the ALIS degree and co-advises on language issues for the GEML and IAML degrees. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. (continues)
Jan Uelzmann
Assistant Professor - German
Jan Uelzmann is Assistant Professor of German in the School of Modern Languages. He received his Ph.D. in German studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of the 2011 Texas Foreign Language Teaching Excellence Award, which is awarded by the Texas Language Center at the University of Texas. (continues)
Michael Wiedorn
Assistant Professor - French
Michael Wiedorn is Assistant Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages. Previously he served as an Assistant Professor at St. Edward’s University and as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University, after receiving his Ph.D. from the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. (continues)
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