Ms. Monika Hill

Monika has a Bachelor's in German Education and a Master's in Secondary Education with emphasis in German and a minor in Spanish.  She teaches German at Edmond North High School for all levels and for the last 7 semesters she has been teaching German I and German II at UCO.

Dr. A.S. Vedala

Dr. Vedala has been an instructor of Sanskrit and Philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma since 1993, teaching Hindu Philosophy and Humanities as well as Sanskrit. He has lectured in these subjects at various other institutions in both the United States and India. Modern Languages Office: Thatcher Hall Room 204 Phone: (405) 974-5647 Email: avedala@uco.edu Education: 2000 Ph.D. from Andhra University Waltair, India 1999-2000 Graduate courses on Philosophies at OSU, Stillwater 1983 Received the Certificate of "Bhasha Praveen" in the Teluga language (equivalent to Master of Arts in Philosophy) and placed in First Division 1981-1982 M.A. in Sanskrit & Philosophy from Andhra University (focus grammar and literature) Waltair, India 1979-1981 Sahitya Vidya Praveena Equivalent of Master Degree in Philosophy in Second Division 1979 Received the certificate for Proficiency in oriental learning in First Division

Professor Yajun Zhang

 Mr. Yajun Zhang is from Beijing, China. He has been a professor and has taught Chinese language for 30 years at a wide number of institutions including: Beijing Language and Culture University, Rome University, Vienna University and Osaka University of Foreign Language Studies.

In addition, he served as the Secretary-General of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching from 1987 to 1990 and has published over 30 books and articles on Chinese language, Culture and language teaching.

Professor Zhang has has taught Chinese for the UCO Modern Languages Department since 1998.

Office: Thatcher Hall Room 207

Phone: (405) 974-5647 to leave a message with Department Secretary

Email: yzhang@uco.edu

Dr. Stacy Southerland

Professor of Spanish

Assistant Chair of Modern Languages

Publications:

Publications:

• "Elena Garro." The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. Columbia UP: 2007.

• "La señora en su balcón." Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. Columbia UP: 2007.

• "Spanish for Health Care Providers." A Rural Health Care Project. On-line curriculum for the Oklahoma State Department of Career and Technology Education, Spring 2004.
• "Once Again I Awaken at Dawn." Translation into English of "Amanecí otra vez" by Rosa Julia Bird. Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (2003): 44.
• "Subverting the Silence of Desire: Sacrificial Acts in Estela Portillo-Trambley's ‘The Day of the Swallows." Romance Languages Annual 9 (1998).
• "Elusive Dreams, Shattered Illusions: The Theater of Elena Garro." Latin American Women Dramatists: Theater, Texts, and Theories. Eds. Catherine Larson and Margarita Vargas. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP,1998.
• "Azul." New Plains Review 3.1 (1997): 83. Translation into Spanish of "Blue" by Marybeth McCauley.

Conference Presentations:

• "Creating the Self through Self-Destruction: The Paradox of Suicide in Spanish American Women's Writing." 106^th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Claremont, CA, November 7-8, 2008.
• Shock Effect 2001: Moving from Data to Goals. Co-presenter with Dr. Gary Steward, Dr. David Macey, and Ms. Karen Henderson. Regional NSSE User Conference. Edmond, OK, Oct, 2005.
• "Teaching Caribbean Literature Through Music: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of French and Hispanic Commonalities." Co-presenter with Marco Roman of Mt. St. Mary's, MD. 76th American Association of Teachers of French, Martinique, West Indies, July 2003.
• "Service-Learning in Spanish: Cooperative Education Initiatives for Uniting Universities and Public Schools," Second Annual Statewide Service-Learning Network Conference, Stillwater, OK, April, 2000.
• "The Erotic Sublime in La regenta," Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, April 1995.
• "Gender Trouble: The Confusions of Role-Reversal in Pascual Duarte," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 1993.

Grants and Awards:

• Oklahoma Humanities Council, Scholar Research Grant, $1000, Mar 08-Oct08
• University of Central Oklahoma, Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant, $3,000, Jan 08-Jun08
• Interdisciplinary Grant, Spanish for Funeral Service Providers, with Dr. C. Burkey, $10,000, AY 2006-07
• Vanderford Teaching Award, Liberal Arts: 2005
• College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award: 2004-2005
• Title III Grant: Increasing Student Engagement in Modern Languages, 2004-05
• Title III Grant: WebCT for Elementary Spanish, Spring 2004
• Faculty Merit Credit Award for Service, August 2000
• UCO Chapter of the AAUP and UCO's Faculty Enhancement Center Award for Creative & Innovative Course Design, Fall 2000

Teaching Interests:

• Contemporary Latin American Drama, Latin American Women Authors

Dr. Rudi Nollert

Johns Hopkins, Ph.D. 1991; Johns Hopkins MA 1985; J. W. Goethe Universität (Frankfurt/M, Germany) 1980-1983; University of Virginia, BA 1980.

Employment and Teaching

• University of Central Oklahoma (Associate Professor, Chair of Foreign Languages Aug. 1998)
• 1992-1998 Modern German Short Fiction; Modern German Drama; German Literature Survey: the Beginnings to 1800; German Literature from the Enlightenment to the 20th-Century; Skills for German Teachers; German Culture and Civilization; Business German; Advanced Grammar; Intermediate German; Elementary German; German Summer Immersion Institute, Problems of Twentieth-Century German Culture: Technology and Modernity; Early German Culture and Civilization: From Tacitus to Tulips.
• University of Missouri (Adjunct Instructor)
• 1989-1991 German Classics; German Short Fiction; Conversation and Composition; Elementary German
• Johns Hopkins University (Teaching Assistant)
• 1983-1988 Introduction to German Literature; Elementary German; Conversation; Intermediate German; German for Reading Knowledge

Dissertation

• Comedy, Language and Modes of Argument: Problems of Example in 18th-Century German Drama and Poetic Theory. Rainer Nägele, first reader; Werner Hamacher, second reader. Defended 24 September 1991.

Papers

• "Lessing's Philotas and the Invention of Terrorism," South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Edmond, OK March 1997.
• "Nathan der Weise and the Enlightenment's Fear of Movable Signs," invited talk, Leser Lecture, University of Indiana, Feb. 1997.
• "Current Issues in American German Studies," panel discussion, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Austin, TX March 1996.
• "Sampling Miß Sampson: Lessing's Rejection of Bio-Semiotics and the Modernization of Dramaturgy," Group for Early Modern Culture Studies, Rochester, NY November 1994
• "'Immer schweb ich ums Haus herum:' Cash Flow and the Spook of the Theatrical Household" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Charleston, SC March 1994.
• "Lessing's Nathan der Weise and the Ends of Enlightenment," invited talk, Rice University, February 1994.
• "Can Dead Greeks Laugh? Johann Elias Schlegel's 'Demokritus: ein Todtengespräch" and the Emancipation from Classicistic Mannerism;" Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. October 1993.
• "A Question of Tone: J. M. R. Lenz' "Wertherbriefe" in Defense of Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers;" invited talk, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, January 1993.
• "Zerbin and the 'Adam Smith Problem': Making the Moral Subject out of Economy" International J. M. R. Lenz Symposium, University of Oklahoma, October 1991.
• "Lessing's Odyssean Cunning and the Limits of Mimesis" German Studies Association Meeting, Los Angeles, September 1991.
• "'Im Gestöber der Lettern': Walter Benjamin's Concept of Recollection" University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1990.
• "Response" to the session "New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Drama" Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Minneapolis, November 1989.
• "J. M. R. Lenz' 'Der Hofmeister': 'unvernehmliches Krachen' and Dramatic Affect" University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1989.

Conferences

• Session Organizer--"Making the Image of the King: Representations of Frederick the Great" American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Charleston, SC March 1994.
• Program Chair--South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Edmond. OK March 1997.

Publications

• Book review: "Barbara Gerken, Die sprachtheoretische Differenz zwischen Gottsched und Gellert," in German Studies Review Vol. XV, November 1992.

Training

• ACTFL Oral Proficiency Training Institute, Brandeis University March 1996.
• Prüferschulung for the "Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache" and the "Zentrale Mittelstufeprüfung" at the Houston Goethe-Institute, March 1993.
• Played 'Franz Liebkind' in the 1984 Broadway production of Mel Brooks' The Producers.

Grants

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar 1992 "The Problem of Language and Human Nature" with Prof. Hans Aarsleff, Princeton University.
• University of Central Oklahoma Junior Faculty Research Grant, 1993.
• University of Central Oklahoma Junior Faculty Travel Grant, 1993, 1994.

Service (at UCO)

• Academic Affairs Council
• Faculty Senate
• Faculty Welfare and Development Committee
• Liberal Arts College Technology/ Telecommunications Committee
• German Club Faculty Advisor
• Foreign Studies Committee
• Committee on Honors Courses
• Globalization Task Force

Professional Organizations

• Modern Language Association
• German Studies Association
• American Association of Teachers of German
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• J.M.R. Lenz Circle
• Lessing Society

Maria-Teresa B. Moinette, PhD

Dr. Moinette in Chiang Mai, Thailand. 2010.

I have travelled and seen more than most people will in a life-time. Yet, I still have half of my life left... (if not more)  I encourage all to make an effort to see the world and experience a different way of life, if only for a short period. 

• 1989- Summer course Madrid, Spain
• BA- UCO 1990  (Spanish)
• MA- OU 1997 (Spanish Literature)
• 1996/1997- One academic year in Santiago de Compostela, Spain working on the Masters.
• PhD- OU 2011 (Adult & Higher Education, emphasis: Short-term study abroad, transformative & experiential learning.)

Other experiences:

• Lived in Panama for four years.
• Travelled all of Central America & Mexico in a 1976 Blue Dodge Van
• Did the Eurorail across Europe when there was no Euro.
• Taught English for a year in Madrid, Spain.
• Lived in Montreux, Switzerland for 6 months learning French.
• Travelled in North & South Vietnam.
• Had a brief experience in Shanghai, China.
• Take students to Andalucía, Spain for a Study tour.
• Have been to almost every State...
• Lived in New Jersey, on the shore.  Wildwood, to be specific.
• Travelled and slept through Canada in a 1989 Ford Escort with two other people. 

Dr. Alix Mazuet

Dr. Alix Mazuet

Alix is now an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma. In her research, she is particularly interested in French cultural history, with a focus on the transformational process of the space of knowledge, from the 1789 Revolution period to the late-19th century. For the early-19^th century period, Alix concentrates on the community of French bibliophile-writers-Charles Nodier, Paul Lacroix, Gérard de Nerval, to name but a few. For the later part of the 19^th century, she conducts multidisciplinary research that merges literary criticism, postcolonial theory and sound studies.

Another of her strong interests is African literatures of French expression with a focus on the politics and cultural histories of sub-Saharan countries previously colonized by France.

Alix regularly presents her work, organizes discussion series, and chairs panels on postcolonial theory, sub-Saharan literary criticism, and French cultural history. She has published articles and reviews in academic journals, including an article on cultural recycling practices in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature (2007). She is editor and contributor of a collection of articles entitled, Imaginary Spaces of Power in Sub-Saharan Literatures and Films (2012). She is currently finishing her book, The Murmur of Books and the Writing of Sounds: Aurality and Sonorous Palimpsest in Nineteenth-Century French Literature.

Dra. Rosa Bird

UCO Tel. 405-974-5846

LANGUAGES

Spanish, native speaker; English, second language; Italian, third language. Some reading ability in Catalan, French and Portuguese.


EDUCATION

1988-1991 Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Spanish Literature of the Golden Age.

1987-1988 Master in Arts. Spanish. University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

1983-1987 Bachelor in Arts. Hispanic Studies. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

May, 1991 "La oscuridad en la teoría poética española de la Edad de Oro" ("Obscurity in Spanish Poetic Theory of the Golden Age"). Advisor: Dr. Alberto Porqueras Mayo. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

BUSINESS TRAINING

June-July, 1995 AT&T, Business Translations, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Formal training in Project and Resources Management.

Aug.-Sept., 1995 Microsoft Office, V. 4.2, Excel 5.0, Power Point 4.0, Word 6.0. Global Information Services de México, S.A., Mexico City.

Oct., 1995 "Project Leadership, Management & Communications". Customer Education & Training. AT&T (George Washington University). Mexico City.

HONORS

Spring 2002-Outstanding Junior Faculty Member, Liberal Arts College, University of Central Oklahoma.

Spring 2002- Selected as favorite professor in the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society annual "Vote for your favorite professor booth."

April, 1998 Outstanding Professor Award, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Oklahoma.