Office Information
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Dr. Felicia Sturzer, Acting Head
Hollie Daugherty, Administrative Assistant
Hollie-Daugherty@utc.edu
208 Brock Hall
Dept 2152
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403
(432)425-4114
(423)425-4097 fax
Faculty and Staff
Richard Apgar
Assistant Professor of German (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Richard Apgar teaches all levels of German language and Literature. His research interests include travel literature, adventure fiction, literature for adolescent readers, and representations of foreign cultures in travel narratives. Currently, his research focuses on the image of Inca society in 18th-century literature. His other teaching and research interests include early German cinema, and print and material culture.
Office: Brock 208A Phone: 425-4450 Email: Richard-Apgar@utc.edu
Hilary Browder
Lecturer in Spanish (M.H.S. - Masters of Hispanic Studies, Auburn University)
Hilary Browder teaches first and second year Spanish. She also organizes the Spanish language film series for the department and assists in organizing the Foreign Language week in March.
Office: Brock 103A Phone: 425-4259 Email: Hilary-Browder@utc.edu
Pedro F. Campa
Professor of Romance Languages (Ph.D.,University of Illinois, Urbana)
Spanish Medieval & Golden Age, Romance Philology, Emblem Studies
Office: Brock 208E Phone: 425-4263 Email: Pedro-Campa@utc.edu
Joshua Davies
Assistant Professor of Classics (Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley)
Joshua Davies specializes in Latin prose authors of Antiquity and Late Antiquity, especially Augustine and Cicero. A number of his articles will appear in upcoming issues of Studia Patristica and Augustinian Studies. He has also held several fellowships, contributed numerous philological articles to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, published reviews, and delivered papers at various scholarly conferences. At present he is at work on a book-length project that analyzes philosophical and theological dimensions of Augustine’s understanding of the human person.
Office: Brock 208C Phone : 425-4257 Email: Joshua-Davies@utc.edu
Lucia Montas
Lecturer of Spanish
(M.A, University of Florida)
Lucia Montas recently graduated with a Masters degree in Spanish literature from the University of Florida where she taught Beginning Spanish courses and coordinated the annual Spanish Graduate colloquium. She currently serves as Lecturer of Spanish at UTC where she teaches Beginning Spanish and Intermediate Spanish. She is also the faculty advisor for the Spanish Club which helps promote the Spanish language and culture. Her research interests include: 19th-20th century Peninsular literature, Dominican literature, Catalan women writers, and topics such as Bildungsroman, Memory and Exile.
Office: Brock 103A Phone: 425-4114 Email: Lucia-Montas@utc.edu
John F. Phillips
Professor of Classics, Greek and Philosophy (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
John Phillips received his undergraduate and masters degrees in philosophy from Ohio University, and his doctorate in classics from the University of Wisconsin. He specializes in ancient philosophy, has published in the areas of Neoplatonism and the history of Platonism, and has presented his work at national and international conferences in the states, Australia, England, and Poland. His book, Order from Disorder; Proclus' Doctrine of Evil and its Roots in Ancient Platonism, was released by Brill Academic Publishers in July 2007. He is currently co-editing, with John Finamore, a volume on Neoplatonism to be published by Academia Verlag. He is also at work on a translation and commentary on the fragments of the Platonist Atticus. Professor Phillips has a joint appointment with the Department of Foreign Languages, through which he teaches ancient Greek.
Office: Holt 232I Phone: 425-4347 Email: John-Phillips@utc.edu
Lynn Purkey
Assistant Professor of Spanish (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley)
Lynn Purkey specializes in 20th and 21st-century Spanish and comparative literatures and European variants of Modernism. Her recent scholarship has centred on Spanish, Russian, and German fiction from the Generation of 1898 to the Spanish Civil War. Publications include articles and book reviews in The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, España Contemporánea, and Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea. In addition to teaching language, literature, and film, she serves as the advisor for Sigma Delta Pi - the Spanish Honor Society, as the Coordinator for first-year Spanish instruction, and as the Director of UTC’s Summer Program in Spain at the Instituto B. Franklin de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
Office: Brock 208B Phone: 425-4147 Email: Lynn-Purkey@utc.edu
Victor Segura
Lecturer of Spanish and Language Lab Director (M.A., University of Arkansas)
Victor Segura teaches beginning and intermediate courses in Spanish. He also manages the Foreign Languages computer lab.
Office: Brock 101 Phone: 425-4642 Email: Victor-Segura@utc.edu
Victoria Steinberg
Associate Professor of French (Ph.D., Ohio State University)
Victoria Steinberg teaches all levels of French courses as well as film studies, for which she's won teaching awards from SGA, Mortar Board, Girls Inc & UTNAA. She leads a program to Paris in June of even years wherein students make a 10-minute movie that reads Paris as a text. She researches film, especially those of Jean Cocteau. She is currently working on romanticism and adaptation in Aigle à deux têtes.
Office: Brock 105 Phone: 425-2309 Email: Victoria-Steinberg@utc.edu
Felicia Sturzer
Acting Department Head and Professor of French (Ph.D., The State University of New York at Buffalo)
In addition to serving as Acting Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Felicia Sturzer specializes in eighteenth-century French literature. Her focus is on the epistolary novel and women writers. She teaches all levels of language and literature courses, has taught women’s studies, and is active in the Women’s Studies program at UTC, which she helped establish. She publishes on Julie de Lespinasse, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, and pursues research interests in Enlightenment sociability. She serves on the Editorial Board of Women in French Studies and XVIII-New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century. She has served on the Executive Board for the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and was President and Vice-President of the Tennessee chapter of the American Association for Teachers of French.
Office: Brock 208D Phone: 425-4267 Email: Felicia-Sturzer@utc.edu
