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Abdelnour, George Anthony
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT
Lecturing and Research: The Cedar Revolution Revisited: Impediments to Democratization and Reform
Notre Dame University, Keserouan, Lebanon
September 2008 - July 2009

Accilien, Cecile
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
Lecturing and Research: Language and Literature; Contemporary Women Filmmakers: Challenges and Contributions
University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
September 2008 - July 2009

Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo A.
Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Film and Women's Studies Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Lecturing and Research: American Literature; Globalization in Local Contexts: Impacts, Challenges and Cultural Representations
Gaston Berger University, Saint Louis, Senegal
November 2008 - September 2009

Alvarez, David P.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Lecturing: The Aesthetics of Tolerance in the English Enlightenment
University of Delhi, Delhi, India
January 2009 - May 2009

Batten, Guinn
Associate Professor, Department of English, Arts and Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Lecturing and Research: English Romanticism and the Ethics of Contemporary Irish Poetry
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
September 2008 - June 2009

Beard, Laura Jean
Associate Professor, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Research: Killing the Indian in the Child: Narratives of the Indian Residential School Experience
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
August 2008 - December 2008

Bernstein, Neil W.
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University--Athens, Athens, OH
Lecturing: Ancient Greek and Latin Language, Literature, Greco-Roman Civilization, History, Mythology, Classical Tradition
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
September 2008 - July 2009

Black, John Casey
Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Communications, College of Arts and Sciences, Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD
Lecturing and Research: American Language and Culture and Creating Virtual Exchanges Through the Innovative Use of New Technologies
People's Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia
January 2009 - June 2009

Coria-Sanchez, Carlos M.
Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, University of North Carolina--Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Research: Mexico-U.S. Business and Cultural Awareness
University of Xalapa, Xalapa, Mexico
August 2008 - May 2009

Gallo, Ruben
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Lecturing and Research: Freud in Mexico
Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
October 2009 - February 2010

Gauch, Suzanne
Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Lecturing: Post-Independence, English-Language Literature and Film
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
September 2008 - July 2009

Kapczynski, Jennifer M.
Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
Junior Research: Leading Men: Reconstructing Masculinity in 1950s West German Cinema
Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
September 2008 - January 2009

Krause, Kathy Maria
Associate Professor and Director, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri--Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Research: Female Lordship and Literary Production in Flanders and Picardy in the 13th and Early 14th Centuries
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
August 2008 - January 2009

Lathers, Marie
Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Lecturing and Research: Women's Studies; Batoula, Life in a Cameroon Village
University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon
September 2008 - July 2009

McGuire, Thomas George
Lieutenant Colonel and Associate Professor, Department of English and Fine Arts, United States Air Force Academy, United States Air Force Academy, CO
Lecturing and Research: National Self-Fashioning and Violence in the United States and Ireland; The Poetics of Violence: Seamus Heaney and Irish Decolonization
University of Limerick--Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
August 2008 - February 2009

Miller, Martha LaFollette
Professor, Department of Languages and Culture Studies, University of North Carolina--Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Lecturing and Research: Introduction to Chicano/Latino Literature; A Study of Self-Representation in Chico Buarque
Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
March 2009 - July 2009

Mitrovici, Liliana Cristina
Independent Scholar, Fargo, ND
Lecturing and Research: Saints Cosmas and Damian in Romanian Folk Literature and Painting
Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania
October 2008 - July 2009

Odin, Jaishree Kak
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Research: Sufi Rishis of Kashmir: Origins, History and Contemporary Significance
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
August 2008 - May 2009

Olson, Christa Lee
Associate Director, Center for International Initiatives, American Council on Education, Washington, DC
Research: Making the Link: An Exploration of the Relationship Between International Educational Partnerships and Campus Internationalization
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
March 2009 - June 2009

Rodriguez-Arenas, Flor Maria
Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Colorado State University--Pueblo, Pueblo, CO
Research: Loja at the Crossroads of Literary Ecuadorian Modernization: Riofrio, Palacio and Rojas
Technical University of Loja, Loja, Ecuador
May 2008 - September 2008

Seda, Laurietz
Associate Professor, Modern and Classical Languages Department, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut--Storrs, Storrs, CT
Lecturing and Research: Trans/Acting the Nation: Globalization and New Discourses of Identity in Peru
National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru
August 2008 - December 2008

Sprenger, Scott Mitchell
Associate Professor and Coordinator of European Studies, Department of European Studies, College of Humanities, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Research: Learning to Be European: A Comparative Analysis of National Language Policy
National Center for Scientific Research--Paris, Paris, France
February 2009 - June 2009
(European Union Affairs Research Program)

Taylor, Romy Elyse
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Research: Black Moscow: African-American Expatriates in the 1930s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
January 2009 - July 2009

Tchaicha, Jane D.
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Bentley College, Waltham, MA
Lecturing and Research: Bbest Practices in the Implementation and Application of New Technologies as a (Re)source of Empowerment among Disenfranchised Moroccan Women
Al-Akhawayn University, Ifran, Morocco
September 2008 - January 2009

Tierney, Suzanne
Instructor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Lecturing: Enhancing the Instruction of English
Technological University of Panama, Panama City, Panama
September 2008 - June 2009

Znayenko, Myroslava Tomorug
Associate Professor and Director, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Central and East European Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--Newark, Newark, NJ
Research: The Polish-Ukrainian Encounter in the Ideology of Taras Shevchenko
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Literature, Kyiv, Ukraine
September 2008 - June 2009