Judith M. Smythe, Lecturer, M.A. English, Villanova University, teaches English to Students of Other Languages (ESOL). Her experience in ESOL includes tutoring limited English proficient (LEP) children of elementary and secondary school age, and teaching LEP adults in federally subsidized language programs as well as in the workplace. Her ESOL related interests are bilingual education and content based language instruction.

	Dr. Annette Lucas, Professor, is an active member of the Pennsylvania Council for International Education where she has been on the board of directors and contributed to book reviews. She also serves as Associate Dean of the College.

Dr. Frances Novack, Professor, just returned from a year as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of  Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). She also held a Fulbright in Senegal, coordinates Ursinus' programs there, and this year is serving as chair of the Francophone Caucus of the African Literature Association. She also specializes in Economic French, language pedagogy, and 17th to 19th century literature, for which she received grants from the NEH and the French government.

Dr. Colette Trout, Professor, teaches French culture through literature, films and current events. Her latest books, Marie Cardinal and Violette Leduc,la mal-aimée address contemporary French authors. Dr. Trout is the former president and active member of Women in French, an international organization devoted to the study of women in the French-speaking world.

Dr. Robin Clouser, Professor, has received grants from the National Endowment for the humanities and the American Philosophical Society to do research on Weimar Classicism in Weimar and Tübingen, Germany. He has published extensively on Goethe, Kleist, Hauptmann, and Keller, including a book on Goethe's short fiction. He has also developed computer-assisted applications on Grimms' Fairy Tales, German film, and classical and modern works of German literature. He is currently serving as project director for the College's  Andrew W. Mellon Grant and as director of the Ursinus in Tübingen Summer Program.

Benita Lüttcher, Lecturer, is a native speaker of German who teaches elementary and conversation/composition classes in which she incorporates computer-assisted language instruction.

Dr. Matthew Mizenko, Assistant Professor, has published in the U.S. and Japan on the novelist Kawabata Yasunari, and is conducting research on writings in English by Japanese in the late-nineteenth century. He is very interested in learning more about "anime".

Dr. Juan Ramón de Arana, Associate Professor, specializes in Contemporary Peninsular Spanish Literature, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and Instructional Technology. He is continuously developing the Spanish Language Exercises web site.

Dr. Douglas Cameron, Professor, Chair, pursues research in contemporary literary theory and Golden Age Spanish narrative prose —especially Don Quixote— and has published on the rhetoric and structure of the contemporary Latin American novel, the problems of representing the border cultures in Mexican film, and the language of resistance in the Popol Vuh, the Maya book of creation.

Dr. Melissa Hardin, Lecturer, teaches elementary and intermediate Spanish, nineteenth-century peninsular Spanish literature, and Liberal Studies (Common Intellectual Experience). She also serves as Study Abroad Coordinator. She will be in Spain the Spring semester of 2003, with the "Ursinus in Madrid" program.

	Dr. Xochitl Shuru Estrada, Assistant Professor, specializes in Latin American Literature and U.S. Latino poetry. She is teaching elementary, intermediate and culture and literature courses. She is currently coordinating the elementary and intermediate level courses.
	Giovanna C. Steyaert, B.Ed., M.Sc., is a full-time lecturer. She has taught Spanish and other languages internationally. Her main interests are the methodological aspects of teaching a foreign language and the implementation of communicative, student-centered learning materials.