Department Faculty

The Department of Modern Languages (MODL) currently comprises 20 full-time faculty members, teaching in five language areas and representing diverse nationalities and cultures. The expertise of each faculty member contributes to a well-rounded coverage of linguistic, cultural, and literary topics, with a focus on interdisciplinary linkage among them. Graduate faculty members regularly engage in research and publishing on original subjects at the national and international levels, and the Department prides itself on the quality and diversity of its collective research output.

French & Francophone Studies
Spanish
German
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
Adjunct Faculty
Affiliated Faculty

French & Francophone Studies

Barry Jean Ancelet, Professor and Granger & Debaillon Endowed Professor in Francophone Studies
Doctorat de troisième cycle, Université de Provence [Aix-Marseille I]
French Louisiana Folklore, Literature, Oral Tradition, and Music; Ethnolinguistics; Francophone North America
Phone: (337) 482-5447
email: bja8149@louisiana.edu

A. David Barry, Professor and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
20th-Century French Philosophy and Critical Theory; Literatures from Québec, the Antilles, and Sub-Saharan Africa
Phone: (337) 482-6219
email: dbarry@louisiana.edu

Vincent Bouchard, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Université de Montréal; Doctorat Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III
Media Studies (Cinema, Literature, Reception); Technical and Cultural Aspects of Filmmaking; Francophone Cultures in West Africa and North America
Phone: (337) 482-6816
email: v.bouchard@louisiana.edu

Zan Kocher, Associate Professor and Department Head; the College of Liberal Arts/BORSF Professor in Francophone Studies
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Critical Theory; Gender Studies; Latin
Phone: (337) 482-6811
email: skocher@louisiana.edu

Fabrice Leroy, Professor and BORSF Endowed Professor in Foreign Languages
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
19th and 20th Century French Literature; Belgian Francophone Literature; Bande Dessinée; Detective Fiction
Phone: (337) 482-5452
email: fleroy@louisiana.edu
website: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~fil2777/

Tamara Lindner, Assistant Professor and French Language Program Director
Ph.D., Indiana University
Second Language Acquisition; Teaching Methodology; Dialectology and Linguistics
Phone: (337) 482-5442
email: thl1479@louisiana.edu

Amadou Ouédraogo, Assistant Professor and UL Federal Credit Union II/BORSF Endowed Professor of Francophone Studies
Ph.D., University of Iowa; Doctorat de troisième cycle, Université de Grenoble
Sub-Saharan African Literature and Film; Caribbean Studies
Phone: (337) 482-5440
email: axo0149@louisiana.edu

Abdelhak Serhane, Professor and Writer-in-Residence; Granger & Debaillon Endowed Professor in Francophone Studies
Doctorat d’Etat ès Lettres, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail
Literature and Culture from the Maghreb; 20th Century French Literature; Creative Writing; Psychology
Phone: (337) 482-6815
email: aserhane@louisiana.edu

May Gwin Waggoner, Associate Professor; Laborde & Neuner Endowed Professor in Francophone Studies
Ph.D., Tulane University
19th Century French Literature; Louisiana Francophone Literature; Poetry and Creative Writing
Phone: (337) 482-5451
email: mwagg@louisiana.edu
website: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mgw2704/

Monica Wright, Associate Professor and Joseph P. Montiel Endowed Professor in Languages
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Medieval Studies; Arthurian Literature; Material Culture; 17th Century Studies; French Civilization
Phone: (337) 482-5436
email: mlw8881@louisiana.edu

Spanish

Francisca Alonso, Instructor
M.A., University of Southwestern Louisiana
Second Language Acquisition; Hispanic Cultures
Phone: (337) 482-5435
email: francisca@louisiana.edu

Leslie Bary, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Modern Latin American Literature; Comparative Literature
Phone: (337) 482-6814
email: lbary@louisiana.edu
website: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~lxb1801/

Francisco García Rubio, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Spanish Golden Age Prose and Drama
Phone: (337) 482-5453
email: francisco.garcia-rubio@louisiana.edu

Heather Hornsby, Instructor
M.A., University of Madrid
Second Language Acquisition
Phone: (337) 482-5444
email: hih7942@louisiana.edu

Julio Jarillo, Visiting Fulbright Lecturer (Mexico)
Second Language Acquisition
Phone: (337) 482-5449
email: jcj3399@louisiana.edu

Anthony Musacchia, Instructor
M.A., University of New Orleans
Second Language Acquisition
Phone: (337) 482-5715
email:axm2547@louisiana.edu

Nicholas Person, Instructor
M.A., Louisiana State University (On Leave AY2009-2010)
Second Language Acquisition
Phone: (337) 482-5449
email: npp3938@louisiana.edu

Rosalinda Silva-Alemañy, Instructor and Coordinator of Spanish Language Program
M.A., University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Second Language Acquisition; Language Pedagogy
Phone: (337) 482-5443
email: alemany@louisiana.edu

Richard Winters, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Spanish Section Coordinator
Ph.D., Indiana University
General, Romance, and Hispanic linguistics
Phone: (337) 482-5439
email: rwinters@louisiana.edu
website: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~rxw1111/


German

Caroline Huey, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Early Modern Studies; Literary Theory; Cinema
Phone: (337) 482-5450
email:  chuey@louisiana.edu

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

Denise Marceaux, Instructor
M.A., Georgia State University; M.B.A., American Graduate School of International Management
Applied Linguistics; Teaching of English as a Second Language
Phone: (337) 482-5441
email: marceaux@louisiana.edu


Adjunct Faculty

Deborah Clifton, Adjunct Instructor
Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
French-Speaking North America; Vernacular Healing Systems; Library and Archival Science
Phone: (337) 482-5437
email: djc1800@louisiana.edu


Affiliated Faculty

Carl Brasseaux
Department of History and Geography
email: brasseaux@louisiana.edu

C. Ray Brassieur
Department of Anthropology
email: brassieur@louisiana.edu

Marcia Gaudet
Department of English
email: mgaudet@louisiana.edu

Jacques Henry
Department of Sociology
email: jhenry@louisiana.edu

Jordan Kellman
Department of History
email: kellman@louisiana.edu

John Laudun
Department of English
email: laudun@louisiana.edu