2. Scholarly and Creative Achievements
5. College Elections Committee
CLASSICS
Gillian McIntosh, assistant professor of Classics. Will teach courses in Latin language and literature and in Greek and Roman culture. Ph.D. in Classics from Ohio State University. Most recent position: assistant professor, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. McIntosh’s research interests include Roman and Greek architecture and topography, the Roman house, and gender and antiquity.
COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Christina Sabee, assistant professor of Communication Studies. Will teach courses quantitative methods in communication research, group decision making, interpersonal communication, and family communication. Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University. Most recent position: assistant professor of Communication Studies, San Jose State University. Sabee’s research interests include conflict resolution, communication and health care, internet health research and its role in doctor-patient communication
ENGLISH
Priyanvada Abeywickrama, assistant professor of English in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Will teach undergraduate courses in composition and second language acquisition, and graduate courses in TESOL theory. Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and TESL from the University of California, Los Angeles. Most recent position: teaching assistant consultant at the University of California, Los Angeles. Abeywickrama's research interests include language assessment and second language education.
Casey Keck, assistant professor of English in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Will teach undergraduate courses in pedagogical grammar and composition, and graduate courses in TESOL theory. Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University. Most recent position: teaching assistant at Northern Arizona University. Keck's research interests include academic literacy, corpus linguistics and pedagogical grammar.
Emily Merriman, assistant professor of English in Literature. Will teach courses in modern poetry. Ph.D. in Religion and Literature from Boston University. Most recent positions: instructor at Boston University and lecturer at Babson College. Merriman's research interests include twentieth-century British and American literature, nineteenth-century British and American poetry, the history of poetry, and world religions.
Jennifer Mylander, assistant professor of English in Literature. Will teach courses in early modern British and American literature. Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Most recent position: lecturer at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Mylander's research interests include Shakespeare, Milton, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, early American literature, and the birth of the English novel.
Gitanjali Shahani, assistant professor of English in Literature. Will teach courses in early modern British and American literature. Ph.D. in English from Emory University. Most recent position: instructor at Emory University. Shahani's research interests include early modern literature and culture, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean drama, travel writing, early modern ethnography, and postcolonial studies.
Jennifer Trainor, associate professor of English in Composition. Will teach courses in composition theory and research. Most recent position: assistant professor at Santa Clara University. Trainor's research interests include composition, rhetoric, race and multicultural literacy education.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
Paola Cortés-Rocca, assistant professor of Spanish. Will teach courses in Spanish American literature and the Spanish language. Ph.D.in Spanish & Portuguese from Princeton University. Most recent position: Mellon fellow at the University of Southern California. Cortés-Rocca’s research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American literatures, modern literary and aesthetic theory, photography, and film criticism and psychoanalysis.
Fermin Adrian Rodriguez, assistant professor of Spanish. Will teach courses in literary criticism and the Spanish language. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. Most recent position: assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Buenos Aires. Rodriguez’s research interests include nineteenth and twentieth Latin American literature, modern literary and aesthetic theory, Psychoanalysis, modern philosophy, and Latin American cultural studies.
Tomoko Takeda, assistant professor of Japanese. Will teach courses in teaching Japanese, materials development, and Japanese language. Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures, with an emphasis on Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy, from the University of Oregon. Most recent position: assistant professor of Japanese at Grinnell College. Takeda’s research interests include discourse analysis, grammar, second language acquisition, and pedagogy.
HUMANTIES
Seth Jacobowitz, assistant professor of Humanities. Will teach courses in classical and modern Japanese culture, contemporary culture, comparative modernism, and critical theory. Ph.D in East Asian Literature from Cornell University. Most Recent Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. Jacobowitz’s research interests include modern Japanese literature and visual culture, Japonisme, Japanese and Brazilian modernities, media history and theory.
JOURNALISM
Cristina L. Azocar, assistant professor of Journalism. Will teach courses in diversity in journalism and careers in journalism. Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Michigan, 2001. Most recent and current position, Director of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism and lecturer in journalism at SF State. Azocar’s research focuses on the intersection of race and journalistic practice.
MUSEUM STUDIES
Yun Shun Susie Chung, associate professor of Museum Studies. Will teach courses in the interpretation of museums and heritage organizations, visitor studies, audience development, public relations & marketing, and volunteer management. Ph.D. In Archaeological Heritage and Museums, from the University of Cambridge, England. Most recent position: assistant professor of Heritage Management, Center for the Advanced Student of Museum Science and Heritage Management, Museum of Texas Tech University. Chung’s research interests include heritage planning, heritage tourism, history and philosophy of heritage management, museology, and material culture.
WOMEN STUDIES
Dr. Nan Alamilla Boyd, associate professor and chair of Women Studies. Will teach courses in feminist and queer theory, gender and sexuality, and women of color and social activism in the U.S. Ph.D. in the Department of American Civilization at Brown University. Most recent position: Chair of Women's and Gender Studies Department at Sonoma State University. Alamilla Body’s research interests include the history of sexuality, gay and lesbian politics, urban tourism and the commodification of race and sex in four San Francisco neighborhoods.
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