Faculty Spotlights

Dr. Kinji Ito is an assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Photo submitted

SAFE Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Kinji Ito
Oct 25, 2024

Dr. Kinji Ito, an assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, received a Student and Faculty Excell...

Dr. Beverly Moser, professor emerita in Appalachian State University's Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

SAFE Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Beverly Moser
Apr 23, 2024

Dr. Moser received a Spring 2023 Student and Faculty Excellence (SAFE) grant to organize a three-day campus visit by Shari Moore '13. Moore, an alumna...

Dr. Darci Gardner, associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

SAFE Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Darci Gardner
Jan 30, 2024

Dr. Gardner received a Spring 2023 Student and Faculty Excellence (SAFE) grant to conduct archival research in Paris, France. Gardner used the sources...

The DLLC wishes Dr. James (Jim) Fogelquist a happy retirement
May 8, 2022

Dr. Fogelquist is retiring this year and will be greatly missed as a member of the DLLC faculty. The DLLC would like to wish him a happy retirement wi...

Exposito-Breden, Isabelle

Professor Isabelle Exposito-Breden
Apr 6, 2022

Professor Isabelle Exposito-Breden is originally from l'Hexagone, which is a nickname for France based on its hexagonal shape. She was born in Grenobl...

Miller, Sarah

Professor Sarah Miller
Mar 31, 2022

Professor Miller’s love of languages and cultures began in a 7th grade Spanish class in Minnesota and became a passion of hers after a high school t...

Dr. Kinji Ito

Dr. Kinji Ito
Feb 18, 2022

Growing up in Yamaguchi, Japan, Dr. Kinji Ito has a passion for Japanese language and culture. He enjoys travel, meeting people of different backgroun...

Dr. Salwa Ben Zahra

Dr. Salwa Ben Zahra
Sep 18, 2014

Salwa comes to us from Tunisia. She has worked and traveled back and forth between Tunisia and the United States for many years. At the University of ...

Dr. Jean-François Fournier

Dr. Jean-François Fournier
Sep 18, 2014

Jean-François joins us at Appalachian State to share with students his interest in Literature and Film as productive of landscapes in which we can dw...

Dr. Jean-François Fournier

Dr. Darci L. Gardner
Sep 18, 2014

Darci came to Appalachian from California, where she taught French at Stanford for a year after completeing her PhD there. Having grown up in Raleigh,...