Faculty Credentials

Debra D Andrist (F) - Vita

• Cullen Professor of Spanish--University of St. Thomas/Houston - Associate Professor of Spanish-- Baylor University
• taught university-level Spanish and English classes abroad
• taught in domestic public & private schools at all levels

Tatiana Vyacheslavovna Artamonova (F) - Vita

Caleb Leroy Baker (F) - Vita

Maria Hasler Barker (F) - Vita

• Hasler-Barker, M (Accepted). Pragmatics. In Geeslin, K. (Ed) The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics.
• Hasler-Barker, M. (2016). Effects of metapragmatic instruction on the production of compliments and compliment responses: Learner-learner role-plays in the Foreign Language Classroom. In Bardovi-Harlig, K. and Felix-Brasdefer, C. (Eds.) Pragmatics and Language Learning, Volume 14 (pp. 125-152). Honolulu: University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center.
• Felix-Brasdefer, J.C. & Hasler-Barker, M. (2017). Elicited data. In A. Barron (ed.), Pragmatics Handbook (pp. 27-40). Germany: Mouton De Gruyter.
• Geeslin, K., Garcia-Amaya, L., Hasler-Barker, M., Henriksen, N., & Killam, J. (2009) The SLA of direct object pronouns in a study abroad immersion environment where use is variable. In Borgonovo, C., Espanol-Echevarria, M., and Prevost, P. (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp 246-259). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
• Marshall, K., Venta, A., Henderson, C., Barker, M. & Sharp, C. (2017). Linguistic analysis as a method for assessing symptoms after sexual trauma among female adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.
• Felix-Brasdefer, J.C. & Hasler-Barker, M. (2015). Complimenting in Spanish in a short-term study abroad context. System 48(2015): 75-85
• Geeslin, K., Garcia-Amaya, L., Hasler-Barker, M., Henriksen, N., & Killam, J. (2012) The L2 acquisition of variable perfective past time reference in Spanish in an overseas immersion setting. In Geeslin, K. and Diaz-Campos, M. (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
• Felix-Brasdefer, J.C. & Hasler-Barker, M. (2012). Complimenting and responding to a compliment in the Spanish FL classroom: From empirical evidence to pedagogical intervention. In Ruiz de Zarobe, L. and Ruiz de Zarobe, Y. (Eds.) Speech Acts and Politeness across Languages and Cultures. New York: Peter Lang.

Siham Bouamer (F) - Vita

• The Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence (Washington University in St. Louis)
• The Elizabeth Schreiber Award for Teaching (Washington University in St. Louis)
• Certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (Washington University in St. Louis)

Silke Bugge (P) - Vita

Maria M Feu Lopez (F) - Vita

• University of Houston Certificate, Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies 2009
• Cornell University Certificate, School of Criticism and Theory, with distinction 2009
• Universitat de Barcelona Certificate, Language Teaching Pedagogy 2004

Leif M French (F) - Vita

Raymond Gnanwo Hounfodji (F) - Vita

Vianey Gutierrez (F) - Vita

Joseph Marvin Holmberg (F) - Vita

Silvia Alemany Huntsman (F) - Vita

• Undergraduate department advisor (focus on teacher candidates). Assessment Committee member, College of Education (Fall 2013-Present) Focused Content Observer. Supervise and evaluate Teacher Candidates in Spanish. Conferences with students, mentoring, classroom observation and evaluation of performance during Student Teaching. (Fall 2013-Present)
• Outstanding Non-Tenure Track Faculty, CHSS, Sam Houston State University, 2012. Nominated faculty for Project CONNECT National TRIO Day 2012 (March 1, 2012)
• Preparer of the NCATE/CAEP accreditation reports for B.A. Spanish with Teacher Certification program (September 2013-February 2016). Preparer of the Sam Houston State University Language Core Curriculum proposals for SPAN 2311 and SPAN 2312. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Fall 2014 Texas Core Curriculum. (Fall 2012)
• ACTFL OPI training certification (Philadelphia, PA), 2012. SHSU Online: DELTA certified for online courses (Huntsville, TX), 2011. TAHIT Healthcare Interpreter Training Certification (Houston, TX), 2011. Certification in Pedagogical Methodology and Education. UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE BARCELONA, 1986.

Frieda Cecile Koeninger (F) - Vita

• Frieda Koeninger. "EL NEGRO Y LA BLANCA: La censura de una obra abolicionista en Madrid y M??xico." DIECIOCHO. 37.1 (Spring 2014): 123-138.
• Frieda Koeninger and Raquel Guti??rrez Estupi????n. "SEAFARING NUNS The Journey of Six Capuchin Sisters from Toledo to Mexico City, 1665." 1650-1850 Ideas Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Volume 20 (2013): 147-168.
• Frieda Koeninger. "Female, French, and Alone: The Case of Luisa de Dufressi before the Mexican Inquisition during the Times of Viceroy Bernardo de G??lvez (Hero of the Battle of Baton Rouge and Other Notable Fests)." 1650-1850 Ideas Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Volume 19 (2012): 163-185.
• Frieda Koeninger. "Santos D??ez Gonz??lez, Civil Censor: Balancing the Theory and Practice of Theater Reform in Madrid, 1788-1804." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. Volume 29.2 (Winter 2014): 9-26.
• Frieda Koeninger. "Navigating the Archives Like an Academic???When You're Really in it for the Gossip!" DIECIOCHO. 39.2 (Fall 2016): 322-325.
• Frieda Koeninger. "Race at the Intersection of Religion, Esthetics and Politics: Comella's El negro sensible and the Censors." DIECIOCHO 40.2 (Fall 2017): 217-232.
• Reviewed by Frieda Koeninger in DIECIOCHO 40.1 (Spring, 2017): 173-175. Manuel de Quiroz y Campo Sagrado. La inocencia acrisolada de los pacientes jesuanos. Colecci??n de varias poes??as alusivas a la restauraci??n de la sagrada Compa????a de Jes??s por la piedad del cat??lico y benigno rey de las Espa??as, el se??or don Fernando VII (1816). Edici??n, pr??logo e introducci??n, Mar??a Isabel Ter??n Elizondo; reproducci??n fotogr??fica y dise??o editorial, Juli??n Hugo Guajardo Esparza. Universidad Aut??noma de Zacatecas, 2016.

Ervin Malakaj (F) - Vita

• Graduate Certificate in Film and Media Studies (Washington University in St Louis)
• Teaching Citation Program -- The Teaching Center (Washington University in St. Louis)

Enrique Mallen (F) - Vita

• Teaching Certificate in English and Spanish. Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, May 1982
• Con/figuracion Sintactica: Poesia del Des/lenguaje. Santiago de Chile: Red Internacional del Libro Editores. 2002. 300 pp.
• Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at University of Florida.
• The Body and Control via Artistic Exercise. Pablo Picasso: From Physical To Mental Dissection of the Human Body. pp. 13-54. The Body, Illness, Injury, Treatment & Death in Hispanic Art & Literature. Ed. by Debra D. Andrist. New York: Sussex Academic Press. 2016.
• The Body Control of the Dysfunctional Body. Seeing With Eyes Shut: Representations of Blindness in Pablo Picasso. pp. 95-112. The Body, Illness, Injury, Treatment & Death in Hispanic Art & Literature. Ed. by Debra D. Andrist. New York: Sussex Academic Press. 2016.
• The Dead Body as Catharsis in Art. Death and the Mask in Pablo Picasso. pp. 196-218. The Body, Illness, Injury, Treatment & Death in Hispanic Art & Literature. Ed. by Debra D. Andrist. New York: Sussex Academic Press. 2016.
• The Myth of Narcissus: Themes of Life and Death in Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali. Avant-Garde Studies. The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. Issue 1, Fall 2015.
• Expressionism. 1914-1918-Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Ed. by Oliver Janz & Nicolas Apostolopoulos. Berlin: Freie Universitat, Berlin. 2015.
• Diego Velazquez, Pablo Picasso and the Affirmation of the Artist. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics & Semiotic Analysis. 20.1. pp. 57-79. Spring, 2015.
• La Pulsion del Lenguaje: Dialogos y Poemas de Jose Kozer. Sao Paulo: Lumme Editor. 2015. 577 pp.
• Pablo Picasso and the Truth of Greek Art. Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts. Vol. 1, No. 4. pp. 283-298. October, 2014.
• El Neobarroco Latinoamericano y la Poesia del Lenguaje Estadounidense. Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana. Neobarroco y otras especies. No. 76. pp. 51-80. 2013.
• Sympathetic Poetry in Pablo Picasso. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics & Semiotic Analysis. 17,2. Fall. pp. 1-45. 2012.
• La Poesia Simpatetica de Pablo Picasso. pp. 105-140. Picasso-Poesie-Poetik (Picasso, his Poetry and Poetics). Ed. by Nanette Rissler-Pipka & Gerhard Wild. Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2012.
• Computational Approaches to a Catalogue Raisonne of Pablo Picasso. With Luis Meneses, Carlos Monroy and Richard Furuta. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics & Semiotic Analysis. Volume 16,1. pp. 19-46. Spring, 2011.
• The Colors of Dora Maar: Pablo Picasso and Ancient Aztec Myths. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics & Semiotic Analysis. 21.2. pp. 213-242. Fall. 2016.
• La Linguistica y el Lenguaje Poetico. Enciclopedia de linguistica hispanica. Ed. by Javier Gutierrez Rexach. London: Routledge. pp. 247-256. 2016.
• Poesia del Lenguaje: De T. S. Eliot a Eduardo Espina. Mexico, DF.: Editorial Aldus. 2008. 400 pp.
• Representational Modularity, Synthetic Cubism & Language Poetry. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics & Semiotic Analysis. 12,1. pp. 97-134. Spring, 2007.
• La Sintaxis de la Carne: Pablo Picasso y Marie-Th??r??se Walter. Santiago de Chile: Red Internacional del Libro Editores. 2005. 498 pp.
• The Visual Grammar of Pablo Picasso. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics & Semiotics Series. New York: Peter Lang. 2003. 344 pp.
• Director & General Editor. Online Picasso Project. (1997-present)
• Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Texas A&M University.
• Taught university-level Spanish classes abroad
• Antologia Critica de la Poesia del Lenguaje. Mexico, DF: Editorial Aldus. 2009. 378 pp.
• A Concordance of Pablo Picasso's Spanish Writings. New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 2009. 928 pp.
• A Concordance of Pablo Picasso's French Writings. New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 2010. 1,374 pp.
• The Multilineal Poetry of Pablo Picasso. Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics & Semiotic Analysis 14.2. pp. 163-202. 2009.
• Pablo Picasso: A Critical Chronology. Sao Paulo: Lumme Editor. 2017. 2 vols. 940 pp.
• The Fichtean Anstoss and Pablo Picasso's Poetry. Revista Academica liLETRAd, 1. pp. 251-261. 2015.
• La Muerte y la Mascara en Pablo Picasso. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics & Semiotics Series. New York: Peter Lang. 2013. 238 pp.
• Reaching for Success: Picasso's Rise in the Market (The First Two Decades). Arts (Pablo Picasso Studies). 6.4. pp. 1-20. 2017.
• From Jackendoff's Linear Grammar to Picasso's Multilinear Language. Revista Academica liLETRAd, 2. Vol. 1. pp. 527-546. 2016.

Julio Cesar Medina Lopez (F) - Vita

Sujey C Myers (F) - Vita

Christine Renee Neuville-Taylor (F) - Vita

• Study Abroad Program Director (French) Summer I 2011-2012-2013 Paris, France
• ACTFL certified in IRL for French ( 2013)
• Visiting Lecturer University of Montpellier, France -French-ESL 2002-2003
• MA2 in French University of Montpellier, France

Ray S Renteria (F) - Vita

• Actual laborary "class" content is text-dictated by publishers and controlled by professors teaching lecture portions of classes. Lab instructor of record is simply an administrative/technology access issue and must be the lab director.

Rafael E Saumell-Munoz (F) - Vita

Manuel Triano-Lopez (F) - Vita

Jose O Velasquez (F) - Vita

Samar M Zahrawi (F) - Vita

• Assistant professor of Arabic, Sam Houston State University, 2014-present. Teaching Translation I & II at Al-Baath University, College of Humanities , English Department 1992-2003. Teaching theory of Translation for MA students at King Saud University, Department of English 2004. Supervising MA thesis on comparative literature, including the novels of the Egyptian writer Najib Mahfouz, 2009. Teaching Translation of Literary Texts, theories of Literary translation, translation of political texts at the department of translation, Open University (a branch of Al-Baath University) 2011-2013. Supervising the graduation projects of 30 students who were required to translate substantial parts of recently published books, at the department of Translation and Linguistics, King Saud University 2005-2010.
• Published articles in peer reviewed journals about Arabic theater. They are as follows: "Female Representations in American and Syrian Drama with Particular Reference to Tennessee Williams and Sadallah Wannus", Tishreen University Journal. Latakia: Tishreen University press, 2001. "The Images of Women in the Plays of Sadallah Wannus". Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies. Binghamton: State University of New York, 2002. "Syrian Drama Escaping Censorship: Sa'dallah Wannous's The King's Elephant and The King is King". Arab World English Journal (AWEJ). Vol. 6. No.2. June 2015. Pp 329-336. The Rise of the Underdog: The Anti-Hero in Two Plays by Sadallah Wannous. Arab World English journal (AWEJ) Volume 7. No. 2 June 2016. Pp. 190-200. "The Mirage Epic: Sadalla Wannous' s Allegory of Colonial Globalization". Arab World English Journal (AWEJ). Special Issue on Literature. No. 4 October 2016. pp. 152-161. "Sadallah Wannous: Towards an indigenous Arabic Epic theater: An applied study of An Evening Entertainment and The Adventure of Slave Jaber's Head", AWEJ- trs. Vol. 1 no. 1 2017.
• Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York, Binghamton 2000-2001. I did a comparative study of American and Syrian drama.
• Certificate of Translation from the Syrian Ministry of Justice, 1996. Certificate of Education, from the University of Damascus, 1992. Certificate of completion of the Penn State STARTALK Arabic Academy Summer 2014, A professional development program for teachers, 2014. Certificate of completion of study in STARTALK less commonly taught languages for professional development, the University of Indiana, Bloomington, 2015. Practicing as a certified translator in Homs Syria 1996-2003. Completed M A class (auditing) in teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Department of Modern Arabic Studies, The University of Leeds, 1998