Modern Languages and Literature Faculty

CMC LOGO Fazia Aitel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of French Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York Teaching: French, Comparative Literature,North African Literature, Cinema, and Immigration Research: Immigration in France,African cinema,Nationalism, Postcolonial Theory and Globalization,Francophone literature from Africa and especially North Africa,Berber studies,Women’s writing in France and North Africa
Email: fazia.aitel@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-0477
Bassam Frangieh Bassam Frangieh, Ph.D. Professor of Arabic B.A., Damascus University, Syria; M.S., Ph.D., Georgetown University Research: Modern and Classical Arabic Poetry,Arabic Novel,Arab Culture and Society,Arabic Language   CV
Email: bfrangieh@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-3484
Minju Kim, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Korean B.A., M.A., Yonsei University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Teaching: Korean Language and Literature Research: Language Change, Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender, Language Education
Email: minju.kim@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-2503
Marie-Denise Shelton, Ph.D. Professor of French B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Teaching: Modern French Literature,African & Caribbean Literature and Cinema,Caribbean Society and Culture Research: Caribbean Literature; Haitian Literature; Caribbean Women Writers; Modern French Literature
Email: marie-denise.shelton@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-3456
Norman Valencia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Ph.D., Yale University (Brazilian and Hispanic American Literatures); M.A., New York University (Humanities and Social Thought); B.A., Universidad de los Andes (Magna cum Laude in Literature) Teaching: Spanish and Portuguese Languages Brazilian Literature Political and Social Approaches to Latin American Modern and Contemporary Literatures Research: Comparative approaches to Brazilian and Hispanic American Literatures and Cultures Literary Theory and Criticism in Latin America Paternalism and Politics Psychoanalysis   CV
Email: nvalencia@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 6073334
Salvador Velazco, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Latin American Cinema and Literature B.A., University of Guadalajara, Mexico; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Michigan Teaching: Latin American Cinema,Colonial and Contemporary Latin American Literature,Latin American Documentary Research: The Heirs: Mexican Documentary Cinema of the 21st Century. It presents a series of close readings of a variety of documentary types and formal approaches that exemplify the extraordinary vitality of this genre in Mexico.   CV
Email: svelazco@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-7984

Visiting Faculty

Nicole Altamirano Nicole Altamirano, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Teaching: Hispanic Language and Literature Research: 20th-century Spanish and Latin American literature, Golden Age Literature, women writers, gender studies.   CV
Email: nicole.altamirano@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-0836
Carlos Enrique Gonzales, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Ph.D., University of Southern California, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. M.A., University of Southern California, Department of Spanish and Portuguese   CV
Email: cgonzales@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-3174
Esther Hernandez Esther Hernandez, M.A. Visiting Instructor of Spanish M.A. Dramaturgy, University of Havana, M.A. Literatura & Linguistics, California State University Teaching: Theater, Spanish Language and Literature Research: Contemporary Dramaturgy and Mise en Scene   CV
Email: esther.hernandez@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-1711
Marie-Claude Thomas Marie-Claude Thomas, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic M.A., Université de Paris 2, Assas, Sorbonne. Ph.D., Université of Paris 1, Panthéon, Sorbonne, France. Teaching: Arabic Language, Literature and Culture; Modern Arab thought; Religion, Gender, and Cultural Identity in the Modern Arab World. Research: My book “Women in Lebanon: Living with Christianity, Islam, and Multiculturalism” is situated at the intersection of religion, gender, multiculturalism, and feminism, as it explores the unity of a country through the lens of the evolution of women in different religious communities. I examine and describe the Lebanese “alternative modernities”, a conceptual thesis that has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history and politics in contemporary Arab thought. My work brings together in a unified work the themes of women in Christianity, Islam and multiculturalism as Lebanon signifies a real synthesis of the questions related to Arab modernity. My interests also include the Intercultural Competence in foreign language teaching, and Multiculturalism vs. The Assimilationist theory.
Email: Marie-Claude.Thomas@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-3871