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Faculty Hall 304-B, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071 MA, Murray State University | MA, Bethel College | BA, Oregon State UniversityCynthia Barnett
Senior Instructor of Spanish
Global Languages
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Spanish for Agriculture
- Spanish for Occupational Safety and Health
BOOKS:
- Putting Spanish to Work: Spanish for Agriculture, Revised Edition. Kendall Hunt, 2017.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
- Contributor to The World Comes to Tennessee: A Resource Book for Adult Education and ESOL Teachers of Advanced Level ESOL Students. U of Tennessee Center for Literacy Studies, 2004.
- Contributor to Tennessee Adult ESOL Curriculum Resource Book. Edited by Pat Sawyer, U of Tennessee Center for Literacy Studies, 2001.

Robert (Moses) Fritz
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Global Languages
Faculty Hall 4A-3, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071
PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington | MA, Indiana University, Bloomington | MA, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | BA, Hanover College
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Early Modern Spanish Literature
- History of Science
- Cognitive Literary Studies
ARTICLES:
- "Gender and Genre Fiction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, vol. 48, no. 1, 2019, pp. 206-223.
- "Taste, Cognition, and Redemption in Guzmán de Alfarache." Beyond Sight: Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200-1750, edited by Ryan Giles and Steven Wagschal, 2017, pp. 66-93.

Yoko Hatakeyama
Senior Instructor of Japanese
Global Languages
Faculty Hall 4A-1, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071
MAs, Murray State University | BA, Aoyama Gakuin University | ACTFL OPI tester of Japanese | Passed the Japanese Language | Teaching Competency Test (日本語教育能力検定試験合格証)
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Second Language Acquisition
- Study Abroad

Martin Kane
Instructor of Spanish
Global Languages
Faculty Hall 4A-7, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071
MA, Miami University | BA, Miami University
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
- Language Assessment
- Second Language Acquisition

Stephanie Peck
Administrative Assistant
Department of Global Languages and Theatre Arts
Faculty Hall 4A, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071

Elena Picech
Associate Professor of Spanish
Global Languages
Faculty Hall 4A-2, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071
PhD, Johns Hopkins University | MEd, Millersville University | BS, York College of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Latin American Culture
- 20th-Century Literature
- Film
- Modernity
ARTICLES:
- "Un acercamiento fenomenológico al universo cristiano de la novela Adán Buenosayres de Leopoldo Marechal." Hispanófila, vol. 182, enero 2018, pp. 111-126.
- "Resonancia maritainiana en la formación ideológica del justicialismo peronista." Procesos Históricos, no. 33, 2018, pp. 41-51.
- "Leopoldo Marechal: In State of Exile." Hispanófila, vol. 167, enero 2013, pp. 79-94.
Ben Post
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Global Languages
Faculty Hall 4A-4, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison | MA, University of Wisconsin, Madison | BA, Calvin College
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Colonial Latin America
- Early Modern Hispanophone Theatre
- Literature and Religion
ARTICLES:
- "Jewish Debates on the Colonial Mexican Stage: The Case of Fernán González de Eslava." Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 26, issue 3, 2018, pp. 336-354.
- "González de Eslava and the Origins of Mexican Orientalism." Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, vol. 8, iss. 3, 2018, pp. 46-63.
- "Violent Conversions and Warrior-Bureaucrats: Colonial Mexico in the Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón." Hispanófila, vol. 180, junio 2017, pp. 41-57.
- "Eusebio Vela's Mexican Hagiographies: Self-fashioning in Eighteenth-century Theater." Hispania, vol. 99, no. 4, December 2016, pp. 589-599.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
- "Theatre in Latin America." The Theatrical Journey: An Imaginative Process, 2nd ed., Kendall Hunt, 2018.
- Edition and Introduction for "Titu Cusi Yupanqui." Narradores indígenas y mestizos de la época colonial (siglos XVI'XVII): Zonas andina y mesoamericana, edited by Rocío Cortés and Margarita Zamora, Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, 2016.
- Co-Translator of Like Leaven in the Dough: Protestant Social Thought in Latin America, 1920-1950. By Carlos Mondragón, translated by Daniel Miller and Ben Post, Farleigh-Dickenson, 2010.
Roxane Riegler
Associate Professor of French and German
Global Languages
Faculty Hall 4A-8, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071
PhD, University of Maryland | MA, University of Salzburg
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- 20th- and 21st-Century Germanophone Literature
- Holocaust Studies
- Migration Studies
BOOKS:
- Das Verborgene sichtbar machen: Ethnische Minderheiten in der österreichischen Literatur der neunziger Jahre. Peter Lang, 2010.
ARTICLES:
- "An Unlikely Heroine: Fat, Unemployed, and Diseased: Dorris Dörrie's Film Die Friseuse (2010)." The German Quarterly, vol. 91, issue 2, Spring 2018, pp. 170-185.
- "Vladimir Vertlib and Julya Rabinowich: Creating a Heimat of One's Own." Colloquia Germanica, vol. 49, no. 4, 2016, pp. 347-370.
- "Romancing Unsung Heroes: Storytelling in 'Love at First Sight: A Recollection' and The Wedding in Auschwitz by Erich Hackl." The Image of the Outsider III, edited by Will Wright and Steven Kaplan, Colorado SU, 2013, pp. 185-189.
- "'But there is a veil hanging before it ...' Response to Edith Krause." Dialogue and UniversalismE, vol. 2, no. 2, 2011, pp. 48-54.
- "The Necessity of Remembering: Memory, History, and the Representation of the Romani Genocide in Austrian Contemporary Literature." Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 260-84.

Tanya Romero-González
Associate Professor of Spanish, Global Languages Coordinator
Global Languages
Faculty Hall 4A-5, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071
PhD, Yale University | MPhil, Yale University | MA, Miami University | DEA, Universidad de Málaga | BA, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- 19th- through 21st-Century Peninsular Literature and Film
- Spanish Civil War
- Interdisciplinary studies (including film, cultural, and gender studies)
- Teaching Methodology
- Technology-Mediated Teaching and Learning
ARTICLES:
- "'Venid a ver un hombre perseguido': La locura en la Égloga II de Garcilaso de la Vega y la tradición literaria." eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, vol. 42, pp. 185-196.
- "Sexualidad, materialismo y fetichismo en Su único hijo." Decimonónica, vol. 13, num. 1, Winter 2016.
- "La regeneración del 27: Poeta en Nueva York y Un chien andalou." RILCE: Revista de Filología Hispánica, vol. 31, no. 2, 2015, pp. 523-43.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
- Translator of "El coleccionismo, el rescate de las cosas y lo humano." By Noël Valis, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 757/758, Julio/Agosto 2013, pp. 223-44. Reprinted in Letras de Hoje, vol. 48, num. 4, 2013, pp. 559-68.

Thérèse Saint Paul
Associate Professor of French
Global Languages
Faculty Hall 4A-9, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071
PhD, University of Edinburgh | MA, Universite de Liege | BA, Universite de Liege

Akane Shirata
Adjunct in Japanese
Global Languages
M.Ed., George Mason University
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Heritage Language Education
- Cultural Identity Development

Jie Wu
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
Global Languages
Faculty Hall 4A-10, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071
PhD, University of Washington, Seattle | MA, University of Colorado, Boulder | BA, Fudan University
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Traditional Chinese Poetry
- Literary and Textual Criticism
- Philology
- Literary and Cultural History
ARTICLES:
- "A Political Eulogy that Dazzles: Yang Jiong's (650-ca. 694) 'Fu on the Old Man Star.'" Asia Major, vol. 31, no. 1, 2018, pp. 47-89.
- "Vitality and Cohesiveness in the Poetry of Shangguan Wan'er (664-710)." Tang Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, 2016, pp. 40-72.
- "The Stele and the Drunkard: Two Poetic Allusions from Xiangyang." Southern Identity and Southern Estrangement in Medieval Chinese Poetry, edited by Nick Williams and Ping Wang, U of Hong Kong P, 2015, pp. 165-188.
- "Kang Dawei yinxiang" (On David Knechtges). Newsletter for International China Studies, 9, June 2014, pp. 353-356.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
- Contributor to Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature. Volume Two. Edited by David R. Knechtges and Taiping Chang, Brill, 2013, pp. include 1077-1086, 1233-1236, 1309-1312, 1348-1351.
- Translator of "Introduction to Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600," by Scott Pearce, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey, Harvard U Asia Center, 2001, pp. 1-32, 245-253. In Dangdai xifang hanxue yanjiu jicui Zhonggu shi juan (Treasury of Contemporary Western Sinology. Medieval Chinese History), edited by Leo K. Shin, Shanghai Publishing House of Classical Texts, 2012, pp. 117-151.
- Contributor to Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature. Volume One. Edited by David Knechtges and Taiping Chang, Brill, 2010, pp. include 223-226, 239-242, 272-275.
- Contributor to Ta Kung Pao.
- Contributor to Hong Kong Commercial Daily.