Foreign Languages and Literatures

María Acosta Cruz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Dr. Acosta-Cruz specializes in contemporary Latino and Latin American literature and culture, particularly the Hispanic Caribbean islands, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her work focuses on issues around gender, identity, and history. Her special areas of research and teaching include Caribbean fiction, Latino literature in the United States and women's writing. With a degree in Comparative Literature, she has a special interest in issues related to ethnic studies and Hispanic women.
Tel: 1-508-793-7677
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Belén Atienza, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tel: (508) 793-7256
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Paul Burke, Ph.D.
Professor of Classics, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Adjunct Professor, Department of History
Director of Ancient Civilization Program Dr. Burke teaches a wide variety of courses on the Clark campus, including: Introduction to Classical Greek, Jews and Christians in the Ancient World, Classical Mythology, Roman Art and Architecture, and Religious Experience in the Ancient World. He has taught a course on Roman archaeology in Clark's Luxembourg May Term and has directed numerous study-abroad tours of Southern Italy and Sicily. Dr. Burke is past president of the Vergilian Society which offers, through its Classical Summer School, courses on Greek and Roman history, art, and archaeology in Southern Italy, France, Israel, and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
Tel: 1-508-793-7365
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Marvin D'Lugo, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Adjunct Professor, Screen Studies and Literatures
Spanish and Latin American cinema
Tel: 1-508-793-7725
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Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Dr. Ferly's research interests are Caribbean literatures and cultures from a comparative perspective, including the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanic regions. She studies especially contemporary women's writing from the Caribbean and its diaspora. Her work focuses on the issues of race and gender in connection with history, language, and the Caribbean literary tradition. She teaches interdisciplinary courses on literatures and cultures from Francophone countries, on French popular culture, immigration in France and on Caribbean writing from comparative perspective.
Tel: 508-793-7723
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Everett Fox, Ph.D.
Allen M. Glick Chair in Judaic and Biblical Studies, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Director, Jewish Studies Program
Director of Jewish Studies Concentration Dr. Fox's main scholarly focus is the rhetoric and internal coherence of the Hebrew Bible, and how they may be brought out in translation. He is also interested in how the Bible has been transformed at each stage by generations of Israelites, Jews, and Christians. He teaches courses in which texts serve as windows to the attitudes and concerns of Jews through the ages. Dr. Fox's activities in translation have led him to some unexpected places. He was a religious consultant on the animated film Prince of Egypt, and has been collaborating with an American-Israeli artist, Schwebel, who sets the David stories against the backdrop of 1980s Jerusalem.
Tel: 1-508-793-7355
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Beth Gale, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tel: 1-508-421-3781
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Constance Montross, Ph.D.
Director, Language Arts Resource Center
Dr. Montross is located on the 4th floor of Goddard Library. She is also a part-time Lecturer of Spanish.
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Juan Pablo Rivera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tel: 1-508-793-7236
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Robert D. Tobin, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Foreign Languages; Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures
Department Chair: Comparative Literature; Professor of German Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures
Tel: 1-508-793-7353
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Alice Valentine, M.A.
Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Instructor in Japanese

Marcia Butzel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts; Adjunct Associate Professor; Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
International cinema, film criticism and theory, relationships between film and the other arts
Tel: 1-508-793-7235
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Allison Fong, Ph.D.
Tel: 508-793-7239
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Dana Simpson, Ph.D.
Tel: 1-508-793-7236
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Carol D'Lugo, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tel: 1-508-793-7494
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Kenneth Hughes, Ph.D.
Tel: 1-508-793-7354
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Hartmut Kaiser, Ph.D.

Dorothy Kaufmann, Ph.D.

Walter Schatzberg, Ph.D.
Co-director of the Leir Center in Luxembourg;
Tel: 1-508-793-7234
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Michael Spingler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Adjunct Associate Professor of Screen Studies
French cinema
Tel: 1-508-793-7234
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