Modern Languages
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 333
Phone: +1-508-831-5742
ubrisson@wpi.edu
Ulrike Brisson
- Assistant Teaching Professor of German Studies
- Humanities & Arts
Coming from a family with a long teaching tradition, teaching has always been fundamental to Professor Brisson’s well being. Being a German professor at WPI has been a great privilege because the students are motivated, hardworking, and eager to learn. Read more...
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 35
Phone: +1-508-831-5939
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
dbd@wpi.edu
David B. Dollenmayer
- Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Dollenmayer's primary area of scholarly interest is teaching German as a second language and translating contemporary literature of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. He has also written critical books and articles on a number of German writers. Read more...
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 03
Phone: +1-508-831-6587
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
amadan@wpi.edu
Website
Aarti S. Madan
- Assistant Professor, Humanities & Arts
Though Professor Madan’s primary area of research includes Latin American literary and cultural studies, particularly the intersection of literature and geography in 19th-century narrative, at WPI she teaches all things Spanish. Read more...
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 5
Phone: +1-508-831-5356
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
imatos@wpi.edu
Ingrid E. Matos-Nin
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
- Humanities & Arts
WPI students have highly inquisitive minds, making Professor Matos-Nin’s job a rewarding, challenging, and pleasant undertaking. Her classes are small communities of learning, where her role is to guide and facilitate the process. Read more...
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 016
Phone: +1-508-831-5779
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
arivera@wpi.edu
Website
Angel A. Rivera
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Rivera has been conducting research on 19th- and 20th-century Spanish Caribbean literature and theories related to the exploration of limits or borders (i.e., the edges or places where multiple cultures touch or come into contact). Read more...
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 330
Phone: +1-508-831-5215
jgurang@wpi.edu
John Griffith Urang
- Assistant Professor, Humanities & Arts

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