Faculty & Staff Directory

Administration

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Dr. David Posner	Department Chair Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature	CC217D	773.508.2866 dposner@luc.edu
Dr. D. Scott Hendrickson, S.J.	Associate Provost for Global and Community Engagement Associate Professor of Spanish	Sullivan Center 219	773.508-2551 dhendrickson@luc.edu
Dr. Ana Rodriguez Navas	Hispanic Studies Graduate Program Director Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture	CC468	773.508.2171 arodrigueznavas@luc.edu
Paulina Dzieza	LLRC Manager	CC208B	773.508.2846 pdzieza@luc.edu
Aurora Castañeda	Administrative Assistant	CC 217E	773.508.2859 acastaneda3@luc.edu

 

American Sign Language Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Malinda Tran	Part-Time Instructor		mtran14@luc.edu

 

Arabic Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Dr. Sawsan Abbadi	Director Arabic Minor Senior Lecturer	CC215	sabbadi@luc.edu
Omer Mozaffar	Lecturer, Muslim Chaplain	Damen 217	omozaffar@luc.edu

 

Chinese Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Hong Chen	Director of Chinese Language and Literature Program Senior Lecturer	CC107	773.508.7362 hchen4@luc.edu
Ryan Nowack	Part-Time Instructor	CC447	rnowack@luc.edu
Alexa Welch	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	awelch1@luc.edu
Dr. John Trowbridge	Part-Time Instructor	CC206	jtrowbridge@luc.edu
Dr. Jie Wang	Part-Time Instructor	Lewis Towers 915C	jwang37@luc.edu

 

French Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Dr. David Posner	Department Chair Associate Professor	CC217D	773.508.2866 dposner@luc.edu
Dr. Eliana Vagalau	Associate Professor Undergraduate Program Director	CC471	773.508.7604 evagalau@luc.edu
Dr. Julia Elsky	Associate Professor	CC214	773.508.2703 jelsky@luc.edu
Dr. Gorgui Tall (Ibou)	Lecturer, French Language courses Coordinator Specialty Area: Francophone African Literature	Crown Center 207	773-403-0185 gtall@luc.edu
Dr. Mary Angelo	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	mangelo@luc.edu
Dr. Svetlana Dembovskaya	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	sdembov@luc.edu
Dr. Andrew McKenna	Professor Emeritus	CC204	amckenn@luc.edu
Linda McGowan	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	lmcgowan3@luc.edu

 

German Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Dr. Reinhard Andress	Director of German Studies Minor Professor	CC212	773.508.7365 randress@luc.edu
Lorena Batiston	Part-Time Instructor	CC212	lbatiston@luc.edu
Veronika Roth	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	vroth@luc.edu

 

Hebrew Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail

Dana Rubin-Abahel Part-Time Instructor drubinabahel@luc.edu

 

Italian Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Dr. Cristina Lombardi-Diop	Undergraduate Program Director Assistant Professor of Italian	CC202	773.508.2379 clombardidiop@luc.edu
Dr. Wiley Feinstein	Professor Emeritus		773.508.2868 wfeinst@luc.edu
Anna Clara Ionta	Senior Lecturer	CC203	773.508.2858 aionta@luc.edu
Dennis Martinez	Lecturer	CC108A	dmartinez2@luc.edu
Dr. Corie Marshall	Lecture of Italian Language Program Coordinator ITAL 101-104	CC108	cmarshall9@luc.edu
Claudia Defraia	Part-Time Instructor	Crown Center 206	cdefraia@luc.edu
Antonio Romano	Part-Time Instructor	CC206	aromano1@luc.edu
Elena Spilioti	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	773-508-2850 espilio@luc.edu

 

Japanese Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Dr. Janet Fair	Director of Japanese Studies	Crown Center 206D	773-508-8553 jfair@luc.edu
Linda Chessick	Part-Time Instructor	CC206	lchessick@luc.edu
Rika Kinoshita	Part-time instructor	CC206	rkinoshita@luc.edu

 

Polish Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Bozena Nowicka McLees	Director of Polish Studies	CC217F	773.508.2864 bmclees@luc.edu
Dr. John Merchant	Advanced Lecturer	CC109	773.508.2991 jmerchant@luc.edu
Zbigniew Banas	Part-Time Instructor	CC206	zbanas@luc.edu
Dr. Jack Hutchens	Part-Time Instructor	CC206	773.508.7368 jhutchens@luc.edu
Aleksandra Majkowska Smith	Part-Time Instructor Polish Language	Crown Center 206C	773.508.7363 amajkowskasmith@luc.edu
Marta Ochyra-Olchawa, Ph.D.	Part-Time Instructor - Polish and European Literature	Crown Center 206C	773.508.7368 mochyraolchawa@luc.edu

 

Russian Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
Nadezhda Vinogradova	Part-Time Instructor	CC206	nvinogradova@luc.edu

 

Spanish Faculty

Name	Title	Office #	Phone/E-mail
David Beltran	Lecturer	CC206A	773.508.2861 dbeltran@luc.edu
Dr. Clara Burgo	Undergraduate Program Director Associate Professor	CC217B	773.508.8296 cburgo@luc.edu
Cynthia Carrasco	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	ccarras@luc.edu
Dr. Susana Cavallo	Professor Professor	CC217C	773.508.2870 scavall@luc.edu
Adriana Diaz Lewis	Advanced Lecturer	CC216	adiazlewis@luc.edu
Dr. Héctor García Chávez	Director of Graduate Program in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Senior Lecturer of Spanish	CC206B	773.508.2863 hgarci1@luc.edu
Dr. Olympia Gonzalez	Associate Professor Emerita		ogonzal@luc.edu
Dr. D. Scott Hendrickson, S.J.	Associate Provost for Global and Community Engagement Associate Professor of Spanish	CC 207	773-508-7364 dhendrickson@luc.edu
Dr. Denis Heyck	Professor Emerita	CC204	773.508.2867 dheyck@luc.edu
Dr. Alrick Knight	Associate Professor	CC217A	773.508.2855 aknigh4@luc.edu
Elizabeth Maldonado	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	emaldonado@luc.edu
Miguel Mendez	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	mmendez4@luc.edu
Sarah Obrist	Instructor of Spanish	CC213	sobrist@luc.edu
Neringa Pukelis	Part-Time Instructor	CC213	npukelis@luc.edu
Dr. Ana Rodriguez Navas	Hispanic Studies Graduate Program Director Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture	CC468	773.508.2171 arodrigueznavas@luc.edu
Dr. Natalia Valencia	Advanced Lecturer	CC467	773.508.3947 nvalencia@luc.edu
Dr. Gabriela Buitrón Vera	Lecturer	Crown 106	gbuitronvera@luc.edu
Jose Tuesta	Teaching Assistant	CC 213	jtuesta@luc.edu
Sarah Cummins	Teaching Assistant	CC 213	scummins1@luc.edu
Lucia Pereyra	Teaching Assistant	CC213	lpereyra@luc.edu