Faculty and Staff Directory

Research and professional interests: Pentecostalism; Charismatic Christianity; Religion in America

Research and Professional Interests: Spanish Gothic fiction, neo-Gothic literary representations of the Franco dictatorship, Spanish women writers, comparative literature

Research and professional interests : second/foreign language pedagogy, bi-/multilingualism, language contact and borrowing, language policies and politics, language attitudes, ideologies, and endangerment; education abroad and pro-active advising

Research and professional interests: Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity; New Testament; Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature; Enoch; Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity and literature; C. S. Lewis

Research and professional interests: Buddhist studies; Theravada Buddhism; Sinhala and Pali literature; South Asian religions; religion and colonialism

Research and professional interests: Biblical Studies; Early Christian History and Literature; Paul; Apocalypticism; Greco-Roman Philosophy and Rhetoric; Postmodern Biblical Criticism

Research and professional interests: Spanish American Literature, additional language pedagogy, translation and machine translation, and self-directed learning.

Religion in America, Religion and Medicine, Religion and Sexuality, Early American Religion and Culture, History of Christianity, German Pietism

Professional interests: Spanish as Second/Foreign Language; Spanish Conversational and Writing Skills; Hispanic Contemporary Issues; ACTFL´s Oral Proficiency Interview and Writing Proficiency Test; Education Abroad programs for Spanish; Service Learning for Spanish.

Research and Professional Interests: Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition; Recruitment and Retention of Language Teachers; Multilingualism and Multiliteracy; Home Language Use for Content Learning and Language Development.

Research and professional interests: Philosophy of religion especially continental thought, theodicy and meaning construction; gender studies with attention given to women and fundamentalism

Research and professional interests: Judaism; Jewish Philosophy; Jewish Mysticism; Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History; Science Fiction and Religion

Research and professional interests: Religion and American culture, Evangelicalism, religion in higher education, popular culture and religion, campus ministry, Ozarks religion

Research and professional interests: South Asian Religions, Contemporary Hinduism, Women and Gender, Ethnography of Religion

Research and professional interests: Prophetic literature of the Hebrew bible; Syro/Palestinian archaeology

Research and professional interests: Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Poetry in the Hebrew Bible

Research and Professional Interests: Articulation between K-12 and Higher Education in Languages; Language Proficiency Development and Assessment; Recruitment and Retention of Language Teachers; 20th-century French Prose.

Research and professional interests: Women and religion, Religion and politics, World religions and mythologies, Classical studies, Global studies, Languages and cultures