Faculty and Staff

Dr. Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Chair, Department of Foreign Language Studies

Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Language Studies. Ph.D., Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania. Spanish and Italian Linguistics and Latin American women writers.
mbarrea@monmouth.edu

Professor Gisela Cordero-Cinko. B.A. University of Puerto Rico; M.A., New York University; MAT. in Spanish, Rutgers State University. Areas of interest: All levels of Spanish language (Communicative method); Hispanic film; Print and Radio/TV journalism in Spanish language medi
gcordero@monmouth.edu  

Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Professor of Foreign Languages. Ph.D., University of Franche-Comte, France. Latin American literature, culture and civilization, and contemporary Latin American women writers and Latino writers in the United States. New research area: how to develop writing proficiency in Spanish: mastering the mechanics of the writing process.
pgacarti@monmouth.edu  

Alison Maginn, Associate Professor of Spanish. Proficiency-oriented language, contemporary Spanish literature and culture, the narrative, poetry, and film of twentieth century Spain.
amaginn@monmouth.edu  

Julia Riordan-Goncalves, Assistant Professor. B.A., Dickinson College; M.A., ABD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2001). Twentieth century Spanish novel; sociological theory and the novel; Spanish Civil War literature; and the novel written under dictatorship. Currently completing Ph.D. dissertation.
jriordan@monmouth.edu  

Maria Simonelli, Lecturer of Italian and Latin. Laurea di DOTTORE in Fiosofia, Universita' di Napoli, Italy; Maturia' Classica, Istituto Carducci, Nola, Italy. Italian Literature and culture, and the socio-cultural evolution of the woman in the Neapolitan Hinterland during the Twentieth Century.
msimonel@monmouth.edu  

Laura Valenzuela, Lecturer. B.A., Kean University; M.A., University de Salamanca, Spain.
lvalenzu@monmouth.edu