Faculty and Staff Directory

Chair

Joseph Mai

Department Chair; Professor of French
Email: jmai@clemson.edu
Office: 716 Strode

American Sign Language

Bo Clements, M.S., Certified ASLTA - Professional/Master

Section Head, Senior Lecturer of American Sign Language
Email: wrcleme@clemson.edu
Office: 361-D Humanities Hall

Assistant Professor of ASL
American Sign Language 1-5; Linguistics of American Sign Language; Development of Signed Language and Reading Skills with Deaf Children; Deaf History; Literature, Music, and Film in the Deaf Community
Universal Design, Signed Music, Signed Language Pathology, Language and Literacy Acquisition for Deaf Children
Email: jcripps@clemson.edu
Office: 309 Strode
Phone: 864-642-1786

Anthony Fattibene, M.S.

Lecturer of American Sign Language
Email: afattib@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall
Phone: 8645588687

Stephen Fitzmaurice, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Interpreting: ASL
Email: sfitzma@clemson.edu
Office: 705 Strode Tower
Phone: 864-431-7778

Tasha Goodrich

Lecturer of ASL
Email: tashag@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Jason Hurdich, M.Ed.; CDI

Senior Lecturer of American Sign Language (ASL)
American Sign Language, American Deaf Culture, and Signed Language Interpreting
Email: jhurdic@g.clemson.edu
Office: 361-C Humanities Hall

Chinese

Yanming An, Ph.D.

Professor of Chinese & Philosophy
Email: yanming@clemson.edu
Office: 614 Strode

Su-I Chen, Ph.D.

Principal Lecturer of Chinese; Director of Language Lab
Email: schen@clemson.edu
Office: 230A Daniel Hall

Ling Rao, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Chinese
Email: lingr@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Yanhua Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chinese
Email: yhzhang@clemson.edu
Office: 304 Strode

French

Kobel Dubique

Adjunct Professor of French
Email: kdubiqu@clemson.edu

Kelly Digby Peebles, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of French
Email: kpeeble@clemson.edu
Office: 710 Strode
Phone: (864) 656-8922

Anne Salces y Nedeo

Senior Lecturer of French
Rhetorics, Feminism, Hermeneutics, Philosophy, History
Email: asalces@clemson.edu
Office: Daniel Hall 330C

Amy Griffin Sawyer, M.A.

Senior Lecturer of French
Email: agriff2@clemson.edu
Office: 230C Daniel Hall
Phone: 864-656-3393

Pauline De Tholozany, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of French
Email: pdethol@clemson.edu
Office: 512 Strode

Eric Touya de Marenne, Ph.D.

Professor of French; Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
20th-21st century French/Francophone Literature, Women's Studies, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Ethics, and Social Studies
Email: etouya@clemson.edu
Office: 505 Strode

Kenneth Widgren, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of French
Email: kwidgre@clemson.edu
Office: 501 Strode

German

J Lee Ferrell, M.A.

BMW Senior Lecturer of German
Email: ferrell@clemson.edu
Office: 501 Strode
Phone: 864-656-3421

Johannes Schmidt, Ph.D.

Professor of German; Director of ML Program
Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 18th century, German philosophy; Holocaust / Shoah studies
Email: schmidj@clemson.edu
Office: 704 Strode

Gabriela Stoicea, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of German and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty Representative on the CU Women's Commission

Science & Culture in the European Context; Body Studies; Gender & Sexuality Studies; History & Theory of the Novel; Epic Theater; German & East European Cinemas; Translation Studies

Email: stoicea@clemson.edu
Office: 513 Strode

Italian

Roberto Risso, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Italian
Email: rrisso@clemson.edu
Office: 301 Strode

Julia Schmidt, M.A.

Senior Lecturer of Italian
Email: schmid3@clemson.edu
Office: 704 Strode

Japanese

Kumiko Saito, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor of Japanese
Email: ksaito@clemson.edu
Office: 308 Strode

Satomi Saito, Ph.D.

Lecturer of Japanese
Email: ssaito@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Latin

Kenneth Tuite, Ph.D.

Lecturer
Email: ktuite@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Russian

Stephanie Morris, M.A.

Lecturer of Russian
Email: semrrs@clemson.edu
Office: 706 Strode

Olga Volkova, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Russian
Email: ovolkov@clemson.edu
Office: 706 Strode

Spanish

Raquel Anido, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Spanish Film and Women Directors, Music in Film
Email: ranido@clemson.edu
Office: 510 Strode

Zenia Cruz Valderramos, M.A.

Lecturer of Spanish
Email: zcruzva@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

Yezid Flores, M.Ed.

Lecturer of Spanish
Email: yflores@clemson.edu
Office: 361-5 Humanities Hall

Alma Garcia-Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish, Coordinator for Spanish 1000/2000 Levels
Email: aygarci@clemson.edu
Office: 310 Strode

Daniel Garcia-Vieyra, M.Ed.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish
Email: ddgarci@clemson.edu
Office: 310 Strode

Arantza Gil Recalde, MS, MEd

Lecturer of Spanish
SPAN 3150 Spanish for Health Professionals, SPAN 3010 Spanish Composition for Health Professionals (Public Health)
Email: mgilrec@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities

Emily Goebelt, M.A.

Lecturer of Spanish
Elementary Spanish 1 & 2, Intermediate Spanish 1
Email: egoebel@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities

Nora Logue, M.A.

Lecturer of Spanish
Intermediate Spanish (2010 and 2020 levels)
Email: nlogue@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall
Phone: Languages - Office Number: 864-656-3393

Magdaléna Matušková, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish
SPAN 4160, LAIB 4000
Latin American history, culture, and literature with special emphasis on the Caribbean, Latin American–Eastern Europe relations, translation studies, film studies, service-learning
Email: mmatusk@clemson.edu
Office: 313 Strode

Ana Paula Miller, M.A.

Senior Lecturer of Spanish; Schedule Coordinator
Email: ana2@clemson.edu
Office: 715 Strode
Phone: (864)656-1670

Arelis Moore, MD, PhD, MPH, MEd.

Associate Professor of Spanish and Community Health
Community Health and Well-being; Social Determinants of Health; Community-Based Participatory Research; Health Disparities; Health Equity; Health Promotion; Underrepresented communities; Latinx.
Email: ared@clemson.edu
Office: 504 Strode Tower

Salvador A. Oropesa, Ph.D.

Professor of Spanish
Email: oropesa@clemson.edu
Office: 603 Strode Tower
Phone: 864-656-3544

José Luis Ortiz-Rosario, M.A.

Lecturer of Spanish
Email: jlortiz@clemson.edu
Office: 361 Humanities Hall

George Palacios, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Introduction to Hispanic Literary Texts, The Hispanic World: Latin America, Hispanic Narrative Fiction, Intermediate Grammar & Composition, Spanish through Culture, Spanish Language Immersion in Seville, Spain.
Afro-Latin America, Latin America, Colombian and Brazilian Literatures and Cultures, US-Latin American Relations, Literary and Cultural Relations of the Global South.
Email: gpalaci@clemson.edu
Office: 515 Strode
Phone: 864-656-3393