Faculty
David Dollenmayer
Professor Dollenmayer (Ph.D., Princeton University) has been teaching German language, literature, and culture at WPI since 1988. He is the author of The Berlin Novels of Alfred Düblin (University of California Press), and co-author (with Thomas Hansen of Wellesley College) of the first-year college German textbook Neue Horizonte (Houghton Mifflin). His research interests include German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, second-language pedagogy, and literary translation. His translation of Anna Mitgutsch's novel Haus der Kindheit will be published in the spring of 2006 by Other Press, New York. For more information, visit his Web page.
Ángel A. Rivera
Professor Rivera obtained his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Puerto Rico (Mayagüez Campus) and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He has published several articles and a book (Avatares de una modernidad Caribeña, 2000) on nineteenth and twentieth-century Spanish Caribbean literature and its connection to Modernity and modernization processes. He explores how modes of representation in Caribbean literature have been shattered and later restructured in response to significant changes in cultural, literary, and historical landscapes. His focus is on studying how marginal groups viewed themselves within those changing contexts, and devised new representational structures for their enfranchisement. He has been teaching at WPI since 1994. For more information, visit his Web page.
Ingrid E. Matos-Nin
Professor Matos-Nin has a Ph.D. in Hispanic Language and Literatures from Boston University. She is Administrator of Hispanic Studies Activities/Adjunct Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Humanities and Arts at WPI. She has taught Spanish at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Boston University, Metropolitan College of Boston, Clark University and Assumption College. She also teaches Spanish American Literature in the Twentieth Century at WPI. Her research interests deal with feminist issues and the supernatural in Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature, as well as the Colonial Latin America. She has published articles in various prestigious scholarly journals and has attended and read conferences all over the United States. She is involved in the organization of the annual Worcester Latino Film Festival. Prof. Matos-Nin is presently writing a book on the supernatural in the novels of María de Zayas y Sotomayor. For more information, visit her Web page.
Ulrike Brisson
Professor Ulrike Brisson has a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor/German Administrator in the Department of Humanities & Arts. Prof. Brisson has been teaching German as a foreign language for over 10 years in the U.S. She has presented papers nationally and internationally and given teaching workshops on a wide range of topics. Her current research and publications focus on nineteenth-century women’s travel writing and language pedagogy. She has been at WPI since 2006, teaching all levels of undergraduate German language classes.
Margarita Halpine
Professor Margarita Halpine has taught Spanish language and literature for twenty years.
As a literary comparatist, she has researched the Picaresque, the nineteenth century novel and the Italian Renaissance. She has published articles, stories and translations.
Her education comprises an ABD from Columbia University in Spanish literature, and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in comparative literature.
Inmaculada Alvarez
Professor Alvarez has a Ph.D. in Spanish & Transatlantic Studies, Tulane University. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Spanish. Alvarez has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Prior to joining Clark University, she was an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carols, Madrid (Spain) for the Semester Abroad and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside in the Hispanic Studies Department. Her areas of specialization are Contemporary Spanish, Latin American Literature, Cinema and Transatlantic Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture and Film Studies. Her recent publication is a coauthored book, 100 Years of Hispanic Cinema (Blackwell, 2008). She is working on a chapter about Mexican and Spanish film co-productions during the Francoist regime in Spain.
Maria Warren
Professor Warren obtained her BS in Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus, her MS in Computer Science from the University at Amherst, and a Certificate de Specialisation in Computational Linguistics, postgraduate program, at the Universite de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland. She is an Adjunct Instructor of Spanish. She has taught at Assumption College, and at the Unversity of Texas in Austin, where she taught at the Computer Science department. She has worked on software engineering and translation projects. Currently she is the owner of Spanish for All, a small business located in Action, that does translation work between English and Spanish, and Spanish training for corporations and individuals.
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