MLL Faculty

Chinese Full-Time Faculty

 Jinghui "Jack" Liu, Ph.D
Title: Professor of Chinese
Office: H 710-A
Phone:(657)278-2183
Email: jinghuiliu@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Wednesday 12:45pm - 1:45pm via Zoom, Thursday 9:30am - 11:30am In-Person
All Chinese Advising

 

 

 

Biography

Dr. Jack Liu is a Professor of Chinese Studies and the Coordinator of the Chinese Program in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at California State University, Fullerton.  He earned his Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from Purdue University.  He directed the Summer Language Intensive Program (SLIP), a California State University consortium program (2012 ~ 2015).  Dr. Liu has also served as an affiliated faculty of the National Resource Center for Asian Languages (NRCAL) since 2014, one of 16 language resource centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Liu has received numerous awards including the University Outstanding Service-Learning Instructor Award in 2007 and the Wang Faculty Fellow Award ($10,000) for conducting intercultural management research in 2010 in China.  He has served as a reviewer for international conferences and academic publishers such as Yale University Press.

Degrees

2005, Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2004, Certificate in Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Research Areas

• Chinese Studies
• Curriculum and Assessment
• International Education
• Intercultural Management

Courses Regularly Taught
Language and Culture: CHIN 101, CHIN 102
Chinese Civilization and Society: CHIN 315, CHIN 325
Intercultural Management and Business: CHIN 310, CHIN 311

Publications Curriculum and Assessment

• Liu, J. (2016). Word-Processor or Pencil-and-Paper ? A Comparison of Students’ Writing in Chinese as a Foreign Language (Co-authored with Zhu, Y., Shum, S.M., Tse, S. B., and Liu, J.. Computer Assisted Language  Learning, 29 (3), 596-617. Routledge Publications. 
• Liu, J. (2011). Placement Test Development for Chinese Heritage Language Learners.  Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 10, 169-192.
• Liu, J. (2010). Chinese Through Film: A Content-Based Instruction for Students at Intermediate and Advanced Levels.  Journal of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, 2,146-152.  
• Liu, J. & Shibata, S. (2008). Why college students want to learn Asian languages: A comparative  study of motivational factors for the selection of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 5, 33-55.  

Publications International Education

• Liu, J. (2015). Three Concentric Circles: Young Chinese English Learners’ Perceptions of Purposeful Audiences. International Journal of Language Studies, 9  (3) 83-100.
• Liu, J. (2012). Creating Community Service Learning: Using Successful Experiences of College Advanced Heritage Language Learners to help Young Heritage Language Learners of Chinese. Journal of Chinese Studies, 1, 9-19
• Liu, J. (2010). Assessing Students’ Language Proficiency: A New Model of Study Abroad Program in China. Journal of Studies in International Education, 14(5), 528-544. Sage

Publications Intercultural Management

• Liu, J. (2012). Chinese for International Business and Curriculum Development: International Executive’s Perceptions. Journal of Global Business Languages, 17, 106-121.

Chinese Part-Time Faculty

Anyi Hsieh, Ed.D.
Email: anhsieh@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : Tuesday 1:00pm - 2:15pm, Hybrid

 

 French Full-Time Faculty

Fanny Daubigny, PhD.

Title: Professor of French
Office: H 835-I
Phone:(657)278-3570
Email: fdaubigny@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: On Sabbatical Spring 2025
French advising for students with last names beginning with: A-M

 

 

Degrees

2007, Ph.D. Romance Literatures, University of Miami, FL
1997, Master Arts Management, University of Paris X- Dauphine
1996, Master Public Law, University of Paris II- Assas
1995, Master English Literature, University of Paris III- Sorbonne

Research Areas
 

Proust studies, Marthe Bibesco, Literary and Art History,  Intellectual History, Geo-poetics, Gesture studies and Creative writing
Dr. Daubigny is currently completing a book-length manuscript on literary ecologies in urban landscapes.

Websites   SDSU Press     Green Humanities 

 

Hélène Domon, PhD.

Title: French Program Coordinator, Professor of French
Office: H 835-E
Phone:(657)278-3498
Email: hdomon@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Monday 11:00am - 2:00pm, Online
French advising for students with last names beginning with: N-Z

 

 

 

Biography
I am a professor of French Studies at CSU Fullerton. Since I joined CSUF in 1991, I have taught numerous courses in French language, culture, cinema, philosophy, poetry, theater, linguistics and stylistics. My publications include books and articles on French literature, modern poetry, philosophy and epistemology. I serve as advisor for two student associations on campus, the French Club and the Left Bank. I edit Œuvres Titanesques, CSUF's French literary journal, and organized the "World Workshops," a series of campus forums on current global issues. I love hiking in the wilderness, camping, music (I play flutes and saxophone), karate, yoga, traveling to France and Switzerland where I spend each summer. I grew up in Eastern France and came to the US at age 20 to complete my graduate studies in philosophy and literature at Rice University in Texas. I love to teach and share French culture at all levels and in all forms. Our great little French program at CSUF feels like family!

Degrees
1992, Ph.D in French Literature and Philosopy, Rice University
1986, MA in French Studies, University of Houston
1986, MA and DEA in Philosophy and Literature, Université de Strasbourg
1984, BA in Classics, Université de Strasbourg

Research Areas
French literature, philosophy, film studies, global issues, higher education.
I have taught courses in French language, culture, cinema, philosophy, literature and linguistics. 

Publications
• Nature and Culture in French Cinema (in preparation).
• “Citoyens du Monde: Sentiers vers l'écocitoyenneté dans l'enseignement supérieur,” in Recherche et transmission des cultures étrangères: quelle utilité dans l'université d'aujourd'hui? Presses Universitaires de Rennes, France, 2020.
• “World Citizens:  Pathways for the Development of Eco-Citizenship in Higher Education,” in Humanities, September 2018.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/4/93
• “Amongst Voices and Silence: Gérard Bucher’s Epiphanies of Meaning” in Death, Language, Thought. Birmingham: Summa Publications, 2005.
• “Recycler l’Offrande” in Recyclages culturels/ Recycling Culture. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003.
• Le Livre imaginaire. Birmingham: Summa Publications, 2000.
• “Black Fire On White Fire: Kabbalah and Modernity” in Trajectories of Mysticism in Contemporary Theory. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000.
• “La Muse et la Chimère,” Figures Modernes de la Muse, Presses Universitaires de Paris-Nanterre, 2003.
• “La Métaphore Panurgique: Petite Etude sur la Fabrique de l’Ecriture de Rabelais à Valéry,” Bulletin des Etudes Valéryennes (November 1997).
• “Xiphos l’îlisible,” Bulletin des Etudes Valéryennes, 62, (March 1993).
• “Médée ou l'Autre,” Cahiers du Dix-Septième Siècle, I, 2 (Fall 1987).

Oral Presentations
• “Agnès Varda: A Retrospective,” World Workshops, California State University Fullerton, April 2019.
• “Vers le Monde: Réconcilier Identités et Communauté dans les Humanités,” Journée des Humanités Environnementales, Université d’Orléans, Juin 2018.
• “And Joy Without Ceasing: William Blake, Literature as Vibrance Principle for the Humanities,” REMELICE Research Center, Université d’Orléans, France, June 2017.
• “La Poésie Cosmique comme Pratique Citoyenne,” REMELICE Research Center, Université d’Orléans, France, October 2016.
• “Citoyens du Monde: Forger une Citoyenneté Globale dans l’Enseignement des Cultures Etrangères,” Colloque International: Recherche et transmission des cultures étrangères : Quelle utilité dans l’université d’aujourd’hui?, Université d’Orléans, France, June 2015.
• “In Praise of Real Faces, Warm Bodies and Hot Minds,” INTE International Conference on New Horizons, Paris, June 2014.
• “Another Look at Prisons and Asylums,” World Workshops (Locked Up), California State University Fullerton, April 2014.
• “On Consumerism,” World Workshops (Do you really need it?), CSUF, April 2014.
• “Living with Earth,” World Workshops (Living with Earth), CSUF, April 2014.
• “The Privatization of Higher Education,” World Workshops (Higher Ed in Crisis, Part 2), CSUF, April 2014.
• “What is Fair Trade?” World Workshops (Go Bananas for Fair Trade), CSUF, March 2014.
• “Cinema of Love: France, Vietnam, Italy, Iran,” Modern Languages and Literatures Department's Valentine Movie Night, CSUF, February 2014.
• “Introduction to Drone Warfare," World Workshops (The Rise of the Drones), CSUF, February 2014.
• “What's Money’s Worth?” World Workshops (A World Without Money), CSUF, October 2013.
• "The Middle East:  Empires and Post WWI Division,” World Workshops (Focus on the Middle East), CSUF, September 2013.
• “Film as an Act of Gleaning:  An Introduction to French Filmmaker Agnès Varda,” World Workshops (Gleaners and Recyclers), CSUF, September 2013..
• “An Introduction to Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media,” World Workshops: Media Control and Propaganda, CSUF, May 2013.
• “In Praise of Real Faces, Warm Bodies and Hot Minds,” World Workshops (Online Degrees: A Face-to-Face Critique), CSUF, December 2012 and May 2013.
• “Art Degree Zero,” World Workshops (Artists Can Change the World), CSUF, February 2013.
• “A Border-Free Planet,” World Workshops (The World's Greatest Taboos), CSUF, December 2012.
• "A New French Revolution?," Faculty and Student Forum (Revolt in Europe), CSUF, April 2012.
• "Myths of the Book from the Bible to the 20th Century, " Saddleback College, February 2010.
• “The Imaginary Web: Political and Epistemological Implications of the Revival of the Great Work,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Freiburg, Germany, June 2006.
• “‘L’honneur de renaître chez nous:’ Arts martiaux, arts poétiques de Victor Segalen,” Twenty-first Century French Studies Conference, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, March 2002.
• “Amongst Voices and Silence: Gérard Bucher’s Epiphanies of Meaning,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature (Origins), Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2001.
• “Que t’offrir encore?” Twenty-first Century French Studies Conference, UC Davis, California, March 2001.
• “Muses et autres chimères,” Colloque International de l’ENS (La Muse), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, Paris, March 2000.
• “Sept nouvelles fables,” French Poetry Night, Titan Theater, CSUF, November 2000.
• “Sept fables,” French Poetry Night, Titan Theater, CSUF, December 1999.
• “The Book: Preface to the Encyclopedia,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature (Virtual Incorporations, Textual Spaces), Villanova University, Pennsylvania, May 1995.
• “Sept fables,” French Poetry Night, Titan Theater, CSUF, December 1999.
• “The Book: Preface to the Encyclopedia,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature (Virtual Incorporations, Textual Spaces), Villanova University, Pennsylvania, May 1995.
• “La Métaphore panurgique,” Twentieth Century French Studies Conference (Imaginaires de la Métaphore), Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, March 1993.
• “Valéry et la Mort du Livre,” Twentieth Century French Studies Conference (Poétiques du XXème siècle), Boulder, Colorado, March 1993.
• “Image, Stage, and Video as Pedagogical Techniques in the French Classroom,” Region IV Education Service Center, Houston, Texas, November 1990.
• “La Littérature et le Livre,” South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1989. Abstract in SCMLA Publication, VI, 3 (Fall 1989): 50

French Part-Time Faculty

Anne Lavalle-Sheptson
Email: alavalle-shepston@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : Monday and Wednesday 1:00pm - 2:00pm In-Person, Friday 11:00am - 12:00pm Hybrid/Zoom

Ghada Mourad, PhD.

Email: ghmourad@fullerton.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 4:00pm - 5:00pm Hybrid

Japanese Full-Time Faculty

Satako Kakihara, Ph.D

Title: Japanese Program Coordinator

Associate Professor of Japanese
Office: H 830-H
Phone:(657)278-5347
Email: skakihara@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Mondays 11:30 AM–12:50 PM, in person, in Hum 835D, Tuesdays 11:25 AM–12:45 PM, via Zoom, by appointment (Please sign up for a 20-minute slot, before 12:00 PM on the Monday prior, through your Titan Apps Google Calendar using the following link:https://bit.lyKakiharaSP25OH
Other days/times, by appointment.
Japanese Advising for students with last names: R-Z

 

Biography

Satoko Kakihara teaches in the Japanese program of CSU Fullerton's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. She was born in Japan but grew up in Riverside, California, and she has spent her adult life in various earthquake-prone regions within California and Japan. In her spare time she likes to read manga and call it "research".

Degrees

2014, Ph.D. in Literature (East Asian Comparative Literature), University of California, San Diego
2005, M.A. in Linguistics, Stanford University
2005, B.A. in English Literature and Linguistics, Stanford University

Research Areas

Modern Japanese literature, imperialism, gender, migration

Courses Regularly Taught

Japanese literature, language, and popular culture

Publications

• Bloom, Michelle, and Satoko Kakihara. "Beyond Taiwan-Japan Co-Production: Intertextuality and Elliptical Figures in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Café Lumière." Asia-Pacific Film Co-productions: Theory, Industry and Aesthetics, edited by Dal Yong Jin and Wendy Su, Routledge, 2019, pp. 237–254.
• Kakihara, Satoko. “I Like You’: Desire for the Alien Other in FLCL.” electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2017,
  http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol17/iss2/kakihara.html.
•  Kakihara, Satoko. “Happiness Unattained: Colonial Modernity Under Japanese Imperialism in Writings by Ōsako Rinko and Yang Qianhe.” Japanese Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 191–208.
• Kakihara, Satoko. “Family Desires: Kinship and Intimacy among Japanese Immigrants in America.” Migrant Identities of “Creole Cosmopolitans”: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality, edited by Nirmala Menon and Marika Preziuso, Peter Lang Publishing, 2014, pp. 143–158.
• Kakihara, Satoko. “Influence of Attitudes and Strategies on English Acquisition by Japanese Women.” CATESOL Journal, vol. 18, 2008, pp. 109–121.

 

Hiromi Tobaru, Ph.D

Title: Assistant Professor of Japanese
Office: H 830-F
Phone:(657)278-2577
Email: htobaru@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Monday 1:00-2:00pm via Zoom (97833083307), Tuesday and Thursday 11:30am - 12:30pm In-Person
All Japanese Advising for students with last names: I-Q

 

 

 

Biography

Dr. Hiromi Tobaru received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University with a focus on Japanese language pedagogy. Her research interests include pedagogical material development for study abroad students, social network development during study abroad, intercultural communication, and Japanese style shifting by foreign language learners.

Degrees

2019, Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University
2014, M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages/Bilingual Education, University of Findlay
2012, B.A. in Foreign Language Studies, University of Kitakyushu

Courses Regularly Taught

Japanese Language Pedagogy, Business Japanese, Japanese Behavioral culture.

Publications

• Tobaru, H. (forthcoming). Style shifting as a measurement of linguistic and cultural gain during study abroad in Japan. Buckeye East Asian Linguistics vol. 5
• Tobaru, H. (2019). Understanding the Difficulties in Building Intercultural Relationships from Perspectives of American Students and Japanese Students during a Short-term Study Abroad in Japan.  Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 25(1), pp. 109-131.

 

Kazuha Watanabe, Ph.D

Title: Professor of Japanese
Office: H 835-F
Phone:(657)278-3907
Email: kwatanabe@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30am - 11:20am and 12:50pm - 1:20pm. Please sign up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lyZgU7AnUpX-bPjlKGne0r-7XkZ3ZJDDw04tSJIExfI/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Japanese Advising for students with last names: A-H (+ IB Students)

 

 

 

Degrees
2008, Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Cornell
2000, M.S. in Linguistics, University of California, Davis
1998, B.A. in Communication Studies: International and Intercultural  Communications, California State University, Sacramento
1995, B.A. in French Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Research Areas
Historical Linguistics, Typology, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Dialectology, Dialect Documentation, Japanese Linguistics, Romance Linguistics

Publications

• 2013 Perfect to Perfective: A Comparative Study. In Fleischer, Jürg. and Simon Horst J. (eds.) Sprachwandelvergleich - Comparing Diachronies. De gruyter publishers: Berlin/Boston.
• 2012 Tense and Aspect Systems of Western and Eastern Dialects in Japan: Split Paths of Diachronic Development.  In G. De Vogelaer & G. Seiler (eds.) The Dialect Lab: Dialects as a Testing Ground for Theories of Language Change. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.
• 2005 The Development of the Continuous Aspect: A missing link. In Historical Linguistics 2003 Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003. John Benjamins: Amsterdam

Presentations & Lectures

• 2011a     International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) XX; Osaka, Japan. Organizer for workshop “The Diachrony of TAM System as a Paradigm”. Paper presented: “A Holistic and Typological Approach to Tense, Aspect, and Modality Systems”.
• 2011b     11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference; Xi’an, China. “Markedness as a Continuum: The Synchrony and Diachrony of Tense-Aspect System”.
• 2009a     Current Change in Japanese Pronoun: a Case of Degrammaticalization” was accepted to a conference called Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research, which was held in October 2009 at Groningen, the Netherlands
• 2009a     International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) XIV; Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Organizer for workshop “Grammaticalization in East Asia”. Paper presented: “Present Tense Paradigm Equilibrium.”
• 2009b     10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference; Berkeley, CA. “Markedness as a Continuum: The Synchrony and Diachrony of Tense-Aspect System”.
• 2008a     Dialect as testing ground at Methods IX; Leeds, UK. “Quantitative Analysis of a Current Change in Japanese Aspect”.
• 2008b     New Reflection or Grammaticalization 4; Leuven, “Belgium Tense and Aspect Systems of Western and Eastern Dialects in Japan”.
• 2008c     Comparing Diachronies at 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics; Bamberg, Germany. ‘Perfect to Perfective: A Comparative Study’.
• 2007a     Arizona Linguistics Circle; Tucson, AZ, ‘Verb Inflection and Glide Formation in Japanese’.
• 2007b     International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) XVIII; Montreal, Canada. Current Change in a Japanese particle--A development of new pronoun?’
• 2006       The 16th Japanese / Korean Linguistics Conference; Kyoto, Japan. ‘Synchrony of the 8th century Japanese-imperfective vs. perfective’
• 2005       Tense/Aspect/Aktionsart; Lisbon, Portugal. ‘The Link between Perfective and Imperfective’2004a     International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) XVI; Copenhagen, Denmark, ‘The Development of the Continuous Aspect: A missing link’
• 2004b     Conference on Diachronic Comparative Syntax; Leiden, the Netherlands. ‘The Development of the Continuative Aspect: A Comparative Study’
• 2003       Conference on Diachronic Syntax; Joensuu, Finland, ‘The Development of Aspect Markers in Japanese’
• 2001       Conference on Romance Studies; Ithaca, NY, ‘The development of Verbal Periphrastics in Spanish’
• 2000       Symposium for MA theses; Davis, CA, ‘The Grammaticalization of Aspect’

Japanese Part-Time Faculty

Yui Carerra, M.A.
Email: ycarrera@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : Tuesday & Thursday 10am - 10:30am, Hybrid

Saori Houston Email: shouston@fullerton.edu

Office Hours : Monday and Wednesday 1:00pm - 1:30pm, In-Person

Aiko Ishii, M.A.

Email: aishii@fullerton.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00pm - 2:00pm In-Person, Wednesday 8:30am - 9:30am via Zoom or by Appointment

Mariko Koike, M.A
Email :mkoike@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : Monday and Wednesday 2:30pm - 3:00pm or by Appointment

Richi Kroupa

Email: rkroupa@fullerton.edu

Office Hours: TBA

Mutsumi Nobuhara, M.A.
Email : mnobuhara@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : Tuesday 10:00am - 11:15am via Zoom

 

 

 

Spanish Full-Time Faculty

Eric Carbajal, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Spanish
Office: H 810-B
Phone:(657)278-2272
Email: ecarbajal@fullerton.edu
Spanish 2025 Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00pm - 6:00pm In-Person and by Appointment
Spanish Advising for students with the last name: A-D

 

 

 

Degrees
2015,  Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures, Indiana University
2009,  M.A. in Hispanic Literatures, Indiana University
2007,  B.M. in Music Performance & B.A. in Spanish, Montclair State University

Research Areas
Contemporary Spanish American Narrative
Political Violence in Latin America
Quechua and Andean Studies

Publications
Selected articles:
“‘Contarlo todo, con pelos y olores’: Aisthesis y alienación en Insensatez de Horacio Castellanos Moya.” The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 77.1 (2023): 11-30.   “Justicia transicional y la figura del fantasma en Criba de Julián Pérez.” Partera de la historia: violencia en literatura, performance y medios audiovisuales en Latinoamérica. Eds., Osvaldo Sandoval León and Chrystian Zegarra. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Editora Nómada: Mexico, 2022. 67-82.
“La ruralización de lo neopolicíaco en Abril rojo de Santiago Roncagliolo.” Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos 44.2 (2021): 297-318.

Fiction:
Los materos y otros relatos. Hipocampo Editores: Lima, 2018.
Cabezas negras. Grupo Editorial Mesa Redonda: Lima, 2012. 

 

 

Reyes Fidalgo, Ph.D.

Title: Professor of Spanish, Spanish Coordinator Spring  2025
Office: H 810-C
Phone:(657)278-2183
Email: rfidalgo@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Monday 2:30pm - 4:00pm In-Person, Tuesday 2:30pm - 4:00pm Online

 

 

 

 

Degrees
1994, Ph. D. in Hispanic Linguistics.  Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Massachussetts at Amherst.  Bilingualism; Language Variation and Change. History of the Spanish Language.
1993, M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Univeristy of Massachussetts at Amherst.
1992, Curso de Adaptación Pedagógica.  University of Oviedo, Spain.
1990, Licenciatura in English Philology. University of Oviedo, Spain.
1989-1990, University of Oviedo's Scholarship: Translation Studies. University of Glasgow, Scotland.  

Research Areas
Morpho-syntax.  Bilingualism. Language variation and change. Translation

 

 

 Montserrat Fuente-Camacho, Ph.D.

Title: Assitant Professor of Spanish, MA Spanish Guadte Advisor, Study Abroad Advisor
Office: H 830-D
Phone:(657)278-5329
Email: mfuente-camcho@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 1:00pm - 2:30pm Hybrid
Spanish Advising for students with the last name: E-G

 

 

 

Biography

Montserrat Fuente-Camacho is an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton, with a PhD in Hispanic Studies. Her expertise lies in Spanish and Latin American literature and culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her research interests encompass Disability Studies, Gender Studies, and Social Justice Pedagogies. She has published numerous articles in prestigious academic journals such as Hispania, Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Sancho el Sabio, and Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 

Montserrat Fuente Camacho-Teaching & Research e-Portfolio

Degrees

2016 – 2021: PhD in Hispanic Studies, Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dissertation: Repensando la discapacidad en España y Latinoamérica: La producción cultural hispánica de autores/as con diversidad funcional en los siglos XX y XXI. Dissertation Director: Iker González-Allende. Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, Graduate Minor in Women’s & Gender Studies, and Graduate Minor in Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education
2019 – 2021: Endorsement Teaching Certificate Initial World Language: Spanish (7-12)
2016 – 2021: M.A. in Teaching Learning and Teacher Education. Final Project: Inclusive Socio-Emotional Education: The Social Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Functional Diversity in Children and Youth Literature. Project Director: Theresa Catalano.
2014 – 2016: M.A. in Hispanic Studies, Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Master Thesis: La violencia terrorista en la narrativa vasca del siglo XXI. Master Thesis Director: Iker González-Allende.
2010 – 2014: B.A. in Modern Languages, University of Deusto-Bilbao, Spain. Honors Program, Minor in Hispanic Studies and Literatures. Thesis: El ‘realismo trágico’ en Los peces de la amargura. Estrategias posmodernas en la narrativa de Fernando Aramburu. Thesis Director: Mercedes Acillona.

Research Areas

20th - 21st Centuries Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultures; Disability Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies; Second Language and Heritage Language Pedagogies and Education; Digital Humanities; Spanish Cinema, Urban Studies, Migration, Terrorism in Spain and Graphic Novel. 

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “El humor como método de crítica social y política: Estudiando Ávidas pretensiones (2014), de Fernando Aramburu.” Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 2, no. 1, 2024, pp. 18-31.
• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat and Iker González-Allende. “Entre la Humillación y la lucha: Masculinidad y discapacidad en Cartas desde el infierno (1996), de Ramón Sampedro.” Hispania, vol. 106, no. 4, 2023, pp. 579-592.
• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “Eliminando invisibilidades: La sexualidad de las mujeres crip en Yes, we fuck!.” Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, vol. 45, no. 1, 2019, pp. 11-32. Special issue on Re-imagining Female Disabilities in Luso-Hispanic Women’s Cultural Production, edited by Esther Fernández and Victoria Ketz.
• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “Sobrevivir en la zona muerta: La voz de las víctimas en El ángulo ciego, de Luisa Etxenike.” Sancho el Sabio: Revista de cultura e investigación vasca, no. 42, 2019, pp. 119-140.  
• González, José E., Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat & Barbosa, Marcus. “Detecting Modernismo’s Fingerprint: A Digital Humanities Approach to the Turn of the Century Spanish American Novel.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 51, no. 2, 2018, pp. 195-204. doi: 10.1080/08905762.2018.1540577.

Book Chapters

• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “Revolviendo armarios: La masculinidad queer y crip en Manual básico de lengua de signos para romper corazones, de Roberto Pérez Toledo.” Masculinidades gays y maricas en la cultura española contemporánea, edited by Iker González-Allende, Barcelona-Madrid, Egales, 2024, pp. 265-86. 
• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “Educación socioemocional inclusiva de los jóvenes con diversidad funcional en Experiencias desde otro punto de vista, de Jessica Martín.” Lo que segrega también nos conecta, coordinated by Romina Grana, Dykinson, 2022, pp. 414-34.
•  Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “La voz femenina en el exilio: trauma, memoria y resiliencia en Un barco cargado de…, de Cecilia G. de Guilarte.” Agencia, historia y empoderamiento femenino, edited by Diane Marting, Eva Paris and Yamile Silva, República Dominicana: Ministerio de la Mujer, Crítica Dominicana Literaria sobre Escritoras Hispanoamericanas (CDLEH), 2018, pp. 143-58. 

Interview

• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “‘Mi lector ideal es alguien que no piense como yo, pero con el que pueda encontrarme en lo que nos une y no en lo que nos separa’. Entrevista a Javier de Isusi.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 20, 2016, pp. 139-55.

Book Review Essay

• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. Rev. of La niña algodón, by David Sánchez y Raúl Aguirre. El Guiniguada: Revista de investigaciones y experiencias en Ciencias de la Educación, vol. 29, 2020, pp. 180-85. Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. Rev. of La niña algodón, by David Sánchez y Raúl Aguirre. El Guiniguada: Revista de investigaciones y experiencias en Ciencias de la Educación, vol. 29, 2020, pp. 180-85.  

Book Reviews

• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “Bulman, Gail A. Feeling the Gaze. Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance. Chapel Hill: North Carolina P, 2022. Pp. 350. ISBN 978- 1-4696-6743-0.” Hispania, vol. 106, no. 3, 2023, pp. 496-498. doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2023.a906578
• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. Rev. of Los niños, by Carolina Sanín. Letras Femeninas, vol. 43, no. 2, 2018, pp. 222-24.

Other Publications

• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “La universidad y el empleo.” Revista Deusto, no. 123, 2014, pp. 20-21. 
• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “El perfil de los universitarios.” Revista Deusto, no. 122, 2014, pp. 16-17. 
• Fuente-Camacho, Montserrat. “La transmisión del conocimiento.” Revista Deusto, no. 121, 2013, pp. 22-23. 

 

 Juan R. Ishikawa, Ph.D.

Title: Professor of Spanish
Office: H 820-C
Phone:(657)278-4584
Email: jishikawa@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 8:30am - 9:30am In-Person or by Appointment
Spanish Advising for students with the last name: H-K

 

 

 

Biography
“No se puede amar lo que tan rápido fuga.
Ama rápido, me dijo el sol.
Y así aprendí, en su ardiente y perverso reino,
a cumplir con la vida:
yo soy el guardián del hielo.” (“El guardián del hielo” José Watanabe)

Degrees
2005, Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages & Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
1999 , M.A. in Hispanic Languages & Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
1997, B.A in Spanish and Political Science with a concentration in Latin American Studies, Swarthmore College

Research Areas
Transpacific Studies, Asians in the Americas, Contemporary Latin American Literature, Latin American Culture, Translation

Courses Regularly Taught
Latin American Literature, Latin American Civilization and Culture, Spanish, Portuguese

Publications
a) Ishikawa, Juan Ryusuke. “Fruits of culture: the Japanese haicai/haiku transplanted to Brazil.”Peripheral Transmodernities: South-to-South intercultural dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient”. ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
b) Ustariz Arze, Reginaldo. Che Guevara: vida, muerte y resurrección de un mito.Trans. Ayano Hattori and Juan Ryusuke Ishikawa.  Tokyo: Takeda Random House Japan, 2011.
c) Falck, Melba y Héctor Palacios. El japonés que conquistó Guadalajara: La historia de Juan de Páez en la Guadalajara del siglo XVII. Trans. Ayano Hattori and Juan Ryusuke Ishikawa.  Tokyo: Gendaikikakushitsu, 2010.
d) Ishikawa, Juan Ryusuke. “Echoes from a Distance: José Juan Tablada’s Haikai.”One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
e) Monterroso, Augusto. Obras completas (y otros cuentos). Trans. Ayano Hattori and Juan Ryusuke Ishikawa. Tokyo: Shoshi-Yamada, 2008.
f) Monterroso, Augusto. La oveja negra y demás fábulas. Trans. Ayano Hattori and Juan Ryusuke Ishikawa. Tokyo: Shoshi-Yamada, 2006.

 

 

Emily Kuffner, Ph.D.

Title: Associate Professor of Spanish,
Office: H 830-I
Phone:(657)278-4186
Email: ekuffner@fullerton.edu
  Office Hours: On Sabbatical Spring 2025
Spanish Advising for students with the last name: L-N

 

 

 

Biography

Dr. Emily Kuffner is an Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the California State University, Fullerton. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in Early Modern Spanish Literature with a secondary focus in Gender Studies. Dr. Kuffner's research investigates the history of sexuality and women's writing in Golden Age Spain through the lens of cultural studies. She is the author of Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque: Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).

Degrees
2014 Ph.D. in Spanish Literature, University of California, Davis
2009 M.A. in Romance Languages, University of New Orleans
2007 B.A. in Spanish, University of New Orleans

Research Areas
The picaresque novel
Literary prostitution
Early modern and modern Spanish female authors 
Gender studies and feminist theory 
History of sexuality 
Medical humanities 
Cultural studies of pre-modern Spain 
Plant and animal studies
Courses Regularly Taught
Early modern Spanish literature, Spanish female authors, Spanish culture and civilization, gender and sexuality in literature.

Publications
Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque: Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean.  Amsterdam University Press (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Series). 2019.
“‘Sweet Chains and Happy Prisons:’ Collective Rituals of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Occasional Poetry and Domestic Remedy Manuals.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 15.1 (Fall 2020).
 “Mandrake and Monarchy in Early Modern Spain.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 29.3 (September 2020).
“En el tocar está la virtud: The Eros of Healing in La Lozana andaluza.” La corónica Vol. 45.2 (Spring 2017). 

For Future Students
Emily Kuffner studied abroad in Denia, Spain as a sophomore in college, an experience that sparked a lasting love of Spanish culture, history and literature. After living in Spain for another six years, she pursued a PhD in Golden Age (sixteenth- and seventeenth-century) Spanish Literature. She is delighted to share her love of Spanish culture, literature and language with the students of California State University, Fullerton. 

 

 

 Judit Palencia Gutierrez, Ph.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: H 830-G
Phone:(657)278-2510
Email: jpalenciagutierrez@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30pm - 2:30pm In-Person, Wednesday 2:00pm - 4:00pm Online
Spanish Advising for students with the last name: O-R

 

 

Biography

Judit R. Palencia Gutiérrez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at California State University, Fullerton. She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies at University of California, Riverside in 2022, with a focus on contemporary Spanish peninsular cultural studies. Her research interests include political philosophy, psychoanalysis, historical memory, transitional justice, and trauma and memory. Her latest publications focus on the politics of space, public art and transgenerational trauma. In her free time, she enjoys night photography, sports, playing the drums and spending time with her pets Noam and Agustín.

Degrees

2022 Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, University of California-Riverside.
2018 M.A. in Hispanic Studies, University of California-Riverside.
2016 M.A. in Education, University of Oviedo, Spain.
2016 M.A. in Teaching, Western New Mexico University.
2015 B.A. in (Hons) European Studies, Institute of Technology Tallaght (now Technological University Dublin), Ireland.
2015 B.A. in English, University of Oviedo, Spain.

Research Areas
- Historical Memory
- Transitional Justice
- Trauma studies
- Public Art

Publications

 -Palencia Gutiérrez, Judit. “Mujeres en la calle: Arte público como herramienta feminista”. Mujer, voz y representación. Edited by Edurne Beltrán de Heredia. 2025, pp. 203-233. Hacienda Heights: Argus-a.
 -Palencia Gutierrez, Judit R. “Why didn’t we know this before? Challenging the Culture of the Transition through the concentration camp at Castuera”. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies,Vol. 25:1, 2024, pp. 77-91
 -Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “Committed Pedagogy: Intersectionality in the Spanish Classroom”. Proceedings of IHSES 2023 – International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences. Edited by Mack Shelley, Mevlut Unal, and Sabri Turgut. 2023, pp. 481-488
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit R. “Rinconete and Cortadillo: Outside of the Outside of Law”. International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. 01, Issue 06, 2023, pp. 47-57
-Cardona, Elena, Judit R. Palencia Gutiérrez, Gwendolen Pare, and Isabella Vergara. “Performance in the wake. Cuerpas ante lo político. An introduction”. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Issue 18, No. 3, 2022, pp. 1-10
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit R. “La política del arte público: Una entrevista con Paula Calavera”. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Issue 18, No. 3, 2022, pp. 1-14
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “Digital Humanities and Colonial Literature: The Reinvention of Space”. The International Journal of Humanities Education, Issue 20.1, 2022, pp. 53-66
- Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “Rafael Chirbes’ En la orilla: Allegories of Cryptic Transgenerational Trauma”. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Issue 74.2, 2020, pp. 156-173
- Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “Clavileño: Sub Specie Aeternitatis”. Reshaping Hispanic Cultures 2018. Instituto Cervantes Symposium on Recent Scholarship. Vol I. Literature. Rosana Hernández y Francisco Moreno-Fernández (eds.) 2019, pp. 53-65
-Palencia Gutierrez, Judit. “Speak Up! Fostering Oral Communication in the English Classroom Through Dialogic Musical Meetings”. Sino-US English Teaching. Volume 16, 4, 2019, pp. 143-152

 

 

 Luis Miguel Toquero, Ph.D.

Title: Assitant Professor of Spanish
Office: H 830-E
Phone:(657)278-1733
Email: ltoqueroperez@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00pm - 2:30pm via Zoom or by Appointment
Spanish Advising for students with the last name: S-V

 

 

 

Biography
Luis Miguel’s work focuses on probing the properties that all languages share in common (i.e. language universals) and the limits on the possible (language-specific) variation. He does so by looking at the syntax, semantics and morphology of natural languages with a particular emphasis on measure words (e.g. more, many, most), number markers (e.g. plural vs. singular) and cardinal numeral expressions (e.g. 2 jewels, 2 pieces of jewelry). He has a strong commitment to studying underrepresented languages by conducting in-situ and ex-situ fieldwork. He has done fieldwork on Alasha Mongolian (Mongolic), rural Iberian Spanishes (Romance), and Ch'ol (Mayan).

Degrees

2024, Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Southern California
2020, M.A. in Linguistics, University of Southern California
2018, M.A. in World Languages, West Virginia University
2016, B.A. in English Studies, Universidad de Valladolid

Research areas

Linguistics, syntax, morphology, semantics

Publications

2024 Toquero-Pérez, L.M.. Superlatives, partitives and apparent ϕ-feature mismatch in Spanish. Isogloss 10: 1-33. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.277.
2023 Toquero-Pérez, L.M.. There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 42: 701–765. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09590-5.
2023 Toquero-Pérez, L.M.. The syntax of individuating and measuring pseudo-partitives in Alasha Mongolian. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 32: 551-593. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-023-09267-5.
2021 Toquero-Pérez, L.M.. Revisiting extraction and subextraction patterns from arguments. Linguistic Variation 22: 113-207. https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.20002.toq.
2020 Toquero-Pérez, L.M.. The semantics of Spanish compounding: an analysis of NN compounds in the Parallel Architecture. Glossa 5: 1-31. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.901

 

 

Carlos Yebra Lopez,

Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: H 830-H
Phone:(657)278-5019
Email: cyebralopez@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Monday 1:00pm - 3:00pm In-Person, Wednesday 2:30pm - 3:30pm Online
Spanish Advising for students with the last name: W-Z

 

 

 

Biography

I am passionate about critical sociolinguistics as applied to language ideologies, (hyper)polyglossia and the revitalization of endangered languages of the Global Hispanophone by digital means. My research focuses on Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), i.e., the language spoken by the Jews who were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492. At CSU Fullerton, I teach courses on Spanish-English bilingualism, the Global Hispanophone and language ideologies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. 

Degrees
2020  Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, New York University (NYU)
Dissertation Title: Metaphors We Kill By: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Spanish Mass Press Discourse on Jihadist Terrorist Resistance (2004/2017)
Dissertation Adviser: Professor Jo Labanyi.
2019  M.Phil. in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, NYU
2015  Pg.Dip. in Translation Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK
2012  M.A. in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
2011  M.A. in Education, University of Zaragoza, Spain
2010  B.A. in Philosophy, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Research Areas
The Global Hispanophone. Endangered Languages (Judeo-Spanish). Language Ideologies (nativespeakerism) Polyglossia (hyperpolyglossia).

Teaching Interests
Bilingualism. The Global Hispanophone. Language Ideologies.

Publications

Books
Yebra López, Carlos, and Usman Chohan. 2025. Critical Polyglot Studies. London/New York: Routledge.
Yebra López, Carlos. 2024. Ladino on the Internet: Sepharad 4. London/New York: Routledge.

Articles
2023 “Specters of Ladino: The Case for Ladino as a Partial Overlap of Idiolects shared by People of Sephardic Culture.” Journal of Jewish Languages 11 (invited contribution): 82-114. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-bja10030
2022 “Decolonizing Spanish: Ladino and Chavacano as Sites of Global Hispanophonia.” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 9 (8): 69-92. https://doi.org/10.5070/T49857562
2022 “‘Terrorism’, ‘democracy’ and the Spanish 1978 ‘Constitution’: Transitional Concepts, Post-Transitional Metaphors.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 15 (4): 782-804. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2054122
2021 “The Digital (De)territorialization of Ladino in the 21st century.” WORD, Journal of the International Linguistic Association 67 (invited contribution for a special issue on Language and Territory): 94-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2021.1880065
2019 “El Hachmi’s Postcolonial Narrative of Language Migration in L’últim patriarca (2008): A Close Reading of the Use of the Catalan Dictionary as a Literary Device.” LL Journal (CUNY) 13.2.

Book Chapters
2024 “The Fetishizing Language Behind the NFT Craze: A Semiotic-cum-semantic Critique.” In Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Multidisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Usman Chohan. London/New York: Routledge. 125-38.
2023 “Islamophobia, Orientalism and ‘Jihadist Radicalization’ in the TV Series El Príncipe (2014-6)” Europe’s Islamic Legacy: 1900 to the Present, ed. Elizabeth Drayson. Leiden: Brill. 48-65.
2021 “Medievalist Passports: Contested Rights of Return for the Descendants of Medieval Iberian Jews and Muslims.” in Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-cultural Contexts, eds. Rachel Scott, Abdoolkarim Vakil and Julian Weiss. London: Boydell & Brewer. 227-51.
2019 “El problema de la unidad lingüística del significado. De la teoría de conjuntos a la lingüística generativa de matriz chomskiana.” in Cuestiones de la filosofía del lenguaje, ed. David Pérez Chico. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias. 107-26.
2018 “مقبرة : Espectros del exilio sexual hispano-árabe en la metrópoli franquista.” in Españoles en Europa: Identidad y exilio desde la edad moderna hasta nuestros días, eds. Yolanda Rodríguez and Pablo Valdivia Martín. Leiden: Brill. 105-13.

Spanish Part-Time Faculty

Heidi Alcala, M.A.
Email: halcala@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : Tuesday and Thursday 7:30am - 8:00am In Person by Appointment / 11:30am - 12:30pm Hybrid

 

Natalia Lyon, M.A.

Email: nlyon@fullerton.edu

Office Hours: Thursday 3:00pm - 4:00pm

 

Claudia Mendoza-Diaz, M.A
Email :cmendozad@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : Monday and Wednesday 7:45am - 8:15am

 

Michael Ray, Ph.D.
Email : mray@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : Friday 10:30am - 11:30am Online

 

Marisa Sherb, C.Phil.
Email : msherb@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : Friday 9:00am - 10:00am via Zoom and by Appointment

 

Cristina Tiernes Cruz, Ph.D.
Email : ctiernescruz@fullerton.edu
Office Hours : TBA

 

TESOL Full-Time Faculty

Nathan T. Carr, Ph.D.

Title: Professor of TESOL , MLL Department Chair

Office: H 710-B
Phone:(657)278-4410
Email: ncarr@fullerton.edu

Spring 2025 Office Hours: Drop-In - Monday and Tuesday 3:00pm - 4:00pm, Appointments Tuesday 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Heritage Advisor (Arabic, German, Italian, Korean, and Persian)

 

 

 

Biography
Dr. Nathan Carr is Professor of TESOL at California State University, Fullerton. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at UCLA with a focus on language assessment. Professor Carr’s research interests are eclectic but focus on language assessment, particularly validation, computer-based testing and automated scoring, and rating scale use and development. He is the author of Designing and Analyzing Language Tests, published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. During the Spring 2022 semester, Dr. Carr is serving as the faculty sponsor for a visiting scholar, Nurtang Assilbek, a Ph.D. student from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Dr. Carr is also serving on his dissertation committee as a foreign scientific advisor. Mr. Assilbek is researching critical thinking dispositions in EFL students, and is at CSUF for two months.

Websites

https://fullerton.academica.edu/NathanCarrFullerton
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-carr-09379049

Degrees
2003, Ph.D in Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
1996, M.Ed. in TESOL, Oklahoma City University
1991, B.A. in Russian Studies and Russian, University of Oklahoma

Research Areas
Test validation
Assessment literacy training
Automated scoring
Rating scale use and development
Computer-based testing
Test task characteristics

Publications

• Carr, N. T. (2020). Consistency of computer-automated scoring keys across authors and authoring teams. In G. J. Ockey & B. A. Green (Eds.), Another generation of fundamental considerations in language assessment: A festschrift in honor of Lyle F. Bachman, pp. 173-199. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8952-2
• Sadykova, L., Abramavičius, S., Maimakov, T., Berikova, E., Kurakbayev, K., Carr, N. T., Padaiga, Ž., Naudžiūnas, A., & Stankevičius, E. (2019). A retrospective analysis of treatment outcomes of drug-susceptible TB in Kazakhstan, 2013–2016. Medicine 98(26), pp. 1-14. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000016071
• Kunnan, A. J., & Carr, N. T. (2017). A comparability study between the General English Proficiency Test - Advanced and the Internet-Based Test of English as a Foreign Language. Language Testing in Asia 7:17. DOI: 10.1186/s40468-017-0048-x
• Carr, N. T., & Karbozova, G. K. (2017). An innovative strategy for effective teaching with limited resources through Padlet. In Proceedings of the International Forum of Teachers-Innovators “Modern Education in a Global Competitive Environment” (vol. 1, pp. 59-63).
• Kunnan, A. J., & Carr, N. T. (2015). A comparability study between the General English Proficiency Test - Advanced and the Internet-Based Test of English as a Foreign Language (iBT TOEFL) (LTTC-GEPT Research Report RG-06). Retrieved from The Language Training and Testing Center website: https://www.lttc.ntu.edu.tw/lttc-gept-grants/RReport/RG06.pdf
• Carr, N. T. (2013). Computer-automated scoring of written responses. In A. J. Kunnan (Ed.), The companion to language assessment. John Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1002/9781118411360.wbcla124
• Carr, N. T. (2013). Improving motivation by preparing students for real world language use. In Y.-N. Leung, W.-T. Lee, & S.-Y. Hwang (Eds.), Selected Papers from the Twenty-second International Symposium on English Teaching (pp. 1-15). Taipei, Taiwan: English Teachers’ Association-ROC.
• Kunnan, A. J., & Carr, N. T. (2012). Statistical analysis of test results. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (Vol. 2, pp. 5396-5403). Blackwell Publishing Ltd. DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1115
• Carr, N. T. (2011). Designing and analyzing language tests. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Carr, N. T. (2011). Computer-based language assessment: Prospects for innovative assessment. In N. Arnold & L. Ducate (Eds.), Present and future promises of CALL: From theory and research to new directions in language teaching (2nd ed., pp. 337-373). San Marcos, TX: Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO).
• Carr, N. T., Crocco, K., Eyring, J. L., & Gallego, J. C. (2011). Perceived benefits of technology enhanced language learning in beginning language classes. The IALLT Journal for Language Learning Technologies, 41(1), 1-32.
• Carr, N. T., & Xi, X. (2010). Automated scoring of short answer reading items: Implications for constructs. Language Assessment Quarterly 7, 205-218.
• Carr, N. T. (2010). Computer-automated scoring of English writing: Advantages, disadvantages, and alternatives. In M.-H. Tsai, S.-W. Chen, R.-C. Shih, T.-H. Hsin, I. F. Chung, C.-C. Lee,… S.-Y. Lin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on ELT Technological Industry and Book Fair: Computer-Scoring English Writing (pp. 16-28). Pingtung, Taiwan: Department of Modern Languages, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology.
• Carr, N. T. (2008). Decisions about automated scoring: What they mean for our constructs. In C. A. Chapelle, Y. R. Chung, & J. Xu (Eds.), Towards adaptive CALL: Natural language processing for diagnostic language assessment (pp. 82-101). Ames, IA: Iowa State University.
• Carr, N. T. (2008). Using Microsoft Excel to calculate descriptive statistics and create graphs. Language Assessment Quarterly, 5(1), 43-62.
• Carr, N. T., Eyring, J. L., & Gallego, J. C. (2007). What is the value of service-learning for ESL teacher preparation? CATESOL Journal, 18(1), 66-80.
• Carr, N. T. (2006). The Factor Structure of Test Task Characteristics and Examinee Performance. Language Testing, 23(2), 1-21.
• Carr, N. T. (2006). Computer-based testing: Prospects for innovative assessment? In L. Ducate & N. Arnold (Eds.), Calling on CALL: From theory and research to new directions in foreign language teaching (pp. 289-313). San Marcos, TX: CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium).
• Carr, N. T. (2005). Greater than lambda [Review of the book Criterion-referenced language testing]. Language Assessment Quarterly 2, 227-230.
• Carr, N. T. (2004). A review of Lertap (Laboratory of Educational Research Test Analysis Package) 5.2 [Review of the program Lertap]. International Journal of Testing 4(2), 189-195.
• Carr, N. T. (2004). Assessment practices [Review of the book Assessment practices]. TESL Reporter 37(2), 77-78.
• Carr, N. T., & Vongpumivitch, V. (2001). An interview with Dorry M. Kenyon. Issues in Applied Linguistics 12, 111-126.
• Vongpumivitch, V., & Carr, N. T. (2001). An interview with J. Charles Alderson. Issues in Applied Linguistics 12, 91-109.
• Carr, N. T. (2000). A comparison of the effects of analytic and holistic rating scale types in the context of composition tests. Issues in Applied Linguistics 11, 207-241.
• Carr, N. T. (1998). Tolstoy as a Taoist sage. In D. D. Milivojevic (Ed.), Leo Tolstoy and the Oriental religious heritage (pp. 61-76). New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press.

Presentations & Lectures
Language assessment development
Analysis of language test data
Speaking and listening methods
Research methods
Teaching English overseas
Curriculum development
Pedagogical grammar
General ESOL methodology
Teacher training

 

 

Daniel Rueckert, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor of TESOL, TESOL Coordinator
Office: H 835-D
Phone:(657)278-2268
Email: drueckert@fullerton.edu
Spring 2025 Office Hours:

Monday 1:00pm - 2:00pm, Thursday 1:00pm - 3:00pm or by Appointment
TESOL Advising for students 

 

 

 

Biography
Dr. Daniel Rueckert is an Assistant Professor of TESOL at California State University Fullerton.  He earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction and Media Technology with an emphasis on Language Education from Indiana State University.  He has served as associate professor and program director of the TESOL program at Oklahoma City University and as president of Oklahoma TESOL.

Degrees
2008, Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction and Media Technology, Indiana State University
2002, B.A. in Spanish with an ESL Teaching minor and a secondary teaching certification, University of Utah

Research Areas
Dr. Rueckert’s research interests include technology and language learning, curriculum development, and English for Specific Purposes especially related to language and sports.

Courses Regularly Taught
Methods of Teaching Speaking and Listening, Methods of Teaching Reading and Writing, TESOL Teaching Practicum, Second Language Acquisition

Publications

• Rueckert, D., Gokpinar-Shelton, E., (TBD) Development of an English for specific purposes (ESP) program for Latino parents of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
• Kim, D, Rueckert, D, Kim, DJ. (2017) Mobile learning experiences. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 9(1)
• Rueckert, D., Kim, T. (2014) VoiceThread: Practical oral language assessment in the cloud. Journal for Computing Teachers, (Summer) 18-27
• Kim, D, Rueckert, D, Seo, D, Kim, DJ. (2013) Student’s perceptions and experiences of mobile learning. Language Learning & Technology, 17(3) 52-73
• Rueckert, D. (2013) Fostering confidence and risk taking in MA TESOL students via community English teaching, TESOL Journal, 4(3) 514-533
• Rueckert, D. (2011) The need for need: What we can learn from professional baseball.  Journal for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 16(3)