Sony Coráñez Bolton, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dr. Sony Coráñez Bolton received his Ph.D. in American Culture and Ethnic Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2016). He is currently finishing a C3 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Middlebury College in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Rae Dachille, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies
Department of Religious Studies and Classics
Department of East Asian Studies
Dr. Rae Erin Dachille (Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, University of California at Berkeley) specializes in the religious and artistic traditions of Himalayan Buddhism. Her research focuses upon representations of the body in art, ritual, philosophy, and medicine in Tibetan and Sanskrit sources. Dr. Dachille’s work reflects her enduring interest in revealing the many ways in which Tibetan Buddhist sources may enrich our approach to studying the body as an object of knowledge as well as to formulating new theories of representation. She teaches courses in Tibetan Buddhism, South Asian religion, theories and methods for the study of religion, and religion in the medical humanities.
Kristin Doran, Assistant Professor of Spanish & Director of Basic Language Program
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Kristin Doran received her PhD in Spanish and Luso-Brazilian Literature in 2009 from the University of Arizona. She has taught across the undergraduate curriculum in Spanish and Portuguese, including classes in the U of A’s general education curriculum. She worked as an Academic Advisor and Study Abroad Coordinator in the fall of 2016 and as Interim Director of the Basic Language Program in the spring of 2017. Beginning Fall 2017, Kristin will be the new Director of the Basic Language Program.
Julieta Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Julieta Fernandez is an applied linguist joining the College of Humanities from Northern Arizona University. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from The Pennsylvania State University.
Erika Gault, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
Africana Studies Program
Erika Gault graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo, American Studies Department. She taught Religion and History in the Social Sciences Division at Hilbert College and Served as Chair of the Committee on Curriculum, Academic Policy and Procedure (CAPP) at Hilbert College and as a Public Scholar with New York State Council for the Humanities (Humanities New York).
Emily Hellmich, Assistant Professor of French
Department of French and Italian
Emily Hellmich is completing her PhD in Language, Literacy, and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley, and received her MA in French Cultural Studies from Columbia University. Her research interests focus on second language acquisition and pedagogy, digital technology, and discourse analysis.
Joela Jacobs, Assistant Professor of German
Department of German Studies
Dr. Joela Jacobs is Assistant Professor of German Studies, and she is affiliated with the Institute of the Environment, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, and her research focuses on 19th-21st century German literature and film, Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Jewish Studies, the History of Sexuality, and the History of Science. She has published on monstrosity, multilingualism, literary censorship, biopolitics, animal epistemology, zoopoetics, critical plant studies, cultural environmentalism, and contemporary German Jewish identity.
Sarah McCallum, Assistant Professor of Classics
Department of Religious Studies and Classics
Since receiving her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Toronto, Sarah has taught Latin and Greek language and literature, as well as Classics courses in translation, at Brock University, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, the Harvard Extension School, and Dartmouth College.
Aurélia Mouzet, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Department of French and Italian
Dr. Aurélia Mouzet received her PhD in Francophone Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research focuses upon the intersection of myths, religion, and politics in literature, theatre, and cinema of the Black Atlantic. She is affiliated with the University of Western Paris research institute “Littérature et poétique comparée”. Dr Mouzet is revising her dissertation into a monograph that investigates female figurations of Christ in twentieth and twenty-first century Black Atlantic literature, theatre, and cinema.
Colleen Lucey, Assistant Professor of Russian
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
Colleen Lucey holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on the commodification of marginal women in Russian literature and art. Currently Dr. Lucey is expanding her dissertation into a monograph that investigates the portrayal of prostitutes, courtesans, and dowerless brides in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian works.
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