Modern Languages and Literature Faculty

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

Phone: (909) 607-0477

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

Phone: (909) 607-3484

Website: modern-languages/arabic-language-program-claremont-mckenna-college

Minju Kim,

Ph.D.

Professor of Korean

B.A., M.A., Yonsei University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching:

Korean Language and Culture

Research:

Language Change, Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender, Language Education

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

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

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.

Phone: (909) 607-7984

Website: https://publicacionesvelazco.blogspot.com/

Visiting Faculty

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.

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

Phone: (909) 607-3174

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

Phone: (909) 607-1711

Sooran Pak,

Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean

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.

Phone: (909) 607-3871