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Faculty profiles:

 

Kenneth Gordon

Dr. Kenneth Gordon

 Position

Professor and Chair of Modern Languages

 Degrees

B.S./Ed., Kent State University (Majors:  French, Spanish; Minor:  German)

A.M., University of Michigan (Major:  French; Minor:  Spanish)

M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara (Major:  Spanish)

Ph.D., The Ohio State University (Major:  French; Minor:  Spanish)

 Recent
 Publications
Developing a Contemporary French Civilization Course: An Annotated

Review of Internet Resources. in: Cherry, C. M. (Ed.) (2006).

Languages for Today’s World: Dimension 2006. Valdosta, GA: Southern Conference on Language Teaching.

 Languages French, German, Latin, Russian, Spanish and bits and pieces of a few more
 Interests Travel
 Favorite Quotes

Pour digérer le savoir il faut l'avoir avalé avec appétit."}

Estamos tan seguros ahora que la tierra es redonda, que cuando creíamos que era plana.

Favorite Links

Go to this link for my favorites--

http://faculty.cmsu.edu/gordon

 

E-mail gordonk@winthrop.edu
Website http://faculty.winthrop.edu/gordonk

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lene Hegel

Darlene Montes Hegel

 Position  Lecturer in Spanish
 Degrees  B.S. in Psychology, Bradley University
 M.A. in Education, Illinois State University
 NC Teacher Certification in Spanish (K-12)
 Specialty  Spanish Language
 Languages  Spanish, English, some French
 E-Mail  hegeld@winthrop.edu

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Barbara Heinemann

Dr. Bárbara P.
Esquival-Heinemann

 Position  Associate Professor of Spanish
 Degrees  Ph.D.
 Specialty  Spanish Literature and Linguistics
 Selected
 Publications
 "Don Quijote's Sally into the World of Opera" (Peter Lang)
 "El Curioso Impertinente returns to Italy" (American Cervantes Society)
 Languages  German, Spanish, English, French, Catalan, Russian, Yiddish, Catawba.
 Interests  Music, especially Folk & Opera, Languages, History, Cooking, Kayaking,Translation.
 Favorite Quotes  Yo sé quien soy ... -- Cervantes (Don Quijote)
 Das Ding an sich
  -- Kant
 E-Mail  heinemannb@winthrop.edu

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Sheila Hill-Carter

Sheila Hill-Carter

 Position  Lecturer in Spanish
 Degrees  BA, MA
 Specialty  Spanish Language
 Languages  English, Spanish, Jamaican Creole
 Favorite quote  "En la boca cerrada no entran moscas"
 E-mail  carterhills@winthrop.edu

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David Kleinberg, Ph.D

 Position  Language Lab Director, Instructor of German
 Degrees  B.A. from the Ohio State University (German and Psychology)
 M.A. in Germanic Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
 Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 Languages  English, German, Dutch, Medieval German, Old Icelandic, Old English
 Favorite quotes  "Haribo macht Kinder froh, und Erwachsene ebenso."
 E-mail  kleinbergd@winthrop.edu
 Web address  http://www.kleinberg.net

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Nan Landsman

 Position  Lecturer in Spanish
 Degrees  BA from The American University
 MA in Spanish Pedagogy, Montana State University
 Languages  English, Spanish, Greek, French
 Favorite quotes  "We shall not cease from exploration; the end of all our exploring shall be to arrive where we started; know the place for the first time."
 E-mail  landsmann@winthrop.edu
 Web address  http://faculty.winthrop.edu/landsmann

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Dr. Cécile Leung

Dr. Cécile Leung

 Position  Associate Professor of French
 Degrees  Ph.D., University of Chicago
 Specialty  18th Century French Literature, Encounter Between East and West, Francophone
 Literature.
 Selected
 Publications

 Etienne Fourmont (1683-1745), Oriental and Chinese Languages in 18th- Century
 France.
 Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2002.   

 This work was awarded  the Prix Ikuo Hirayama by the Académie des Inscriptions et
 Belles-Lettres, Institut de France, Paris, June 2003.

 “Le Modèle ambigu de l'interaction sociale au sein du microcosme mauricien dans 'La
 Maison qui marchait vers le large' de Carl de Souza, in
L’Océan Indien dans les
 littératures francophones.
Editions Karthala, Paris. Réduit: Presses Universitaires de
 Maurice, 2001.

  “The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Secular Approach to
  Chinese Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century France,” Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert,
  25:1(2001):  14-24.

 "L'Identité mauricienne en voie de maturation: de Marie-Thérèse Humbert à Carl de
 Souza" Identités postcoloniales et discours dans la culture francophone.
 Ed. Marie-Ange Somdah. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003.
 Vol. 1: 11-22.

 “Etienne Fourmont (1683-1745):  The Birth of Sinology in the Context of the
 Institutions of Learning in Eighteenth-Century France.”  Sino-Western Cultural
 Relations Journal,
XVII (1995): 38-56.

 “Voltaire’s Jewish friend – Cardos.”  Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century,
 319(1994).

 Languages  French, English, Mandarin, Mauritian Creole, Hakka (a Chinese dialect).
 Favorite Quote  On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. -- St. Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)
 E-Mail  leungc@winthrop.edu

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