Faculty & Staff Information
Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures
208 Brock Hall | Dept. 2152
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone: 423.425.4114
Fax: 423.425.4097
Hours: 8am - 5pm | M-F
Dr. Felicia Sturzer, Department Head
Email: Felicia-Sturzer@utc.edu
Hollie Daugherty, Department Administrator
Email: Hollie-Daugherty@utc.edu
Ashley Galloway, Office Assistant
Alexis Grigsby, Lab Assistant
Carlos Salinas, Lab Assistant/Spanish Tutor
Foreign Language TUTORS and TRANSLATORS
FACULTY & STAFF
RICHARD APGAR, Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: Brock 208A Phone: 425-4450 Email: Richard-Apgar@utc.edu
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.
HILARY BROWDER, Lecturer of Spanish
M.H.S. (Master of Hispanic Studies), Auburn University
Office: Brock 103 Phone: 425-4273 Email: Hilary-Browder@utc.edu
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.
PEDRO F. CAMPA, Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana
Office: Brock 208E Phone: 425-4263 Email: Pedro-Campa@utc.edu
Pedro Campa has taught at UTC since 1970. He specializes in the Spanish Medieval & Golden Age, Romance Philology, and Emblem Studies. In 2011, he was awarded a lifetime research award at The Universidad Complutense in Madrid, where he was also presented with a book of eighteen essays, written by North American and European scholars published in his honor.
Dr. Campa has previously served three terms as UTC Faculty Senate president.
JOSHUA DAVIES, Assistant Professor of Classics
Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley
Office: Brock 208C Phone : 425-4257 Email: Joshua-Davies@utc.edu
Joshua Davies specializes in Latin prose authors of Antiquity and Late Antiquity, especially Augustine and Cicero. His articles have appeared in Studia Patristica and Augustinian Studies. He has contributed philological articles to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, published reviews, and delivered papers at international conferences. At present he is at work on a book that analyzes philosophical and theological dimensions of Augustine’s understanding of the human person.
LUCIA MONTAS, Lecturer of Spanish
M.A., University of Florida
Office: Brock 103 Phone: 425-4273 Email: Lucia-Montas@utc.edu
Lucia Montas is a Lecturer of Spanish who 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- and 20th-century Peninsular literature, Dominican literature, Catalan women writers, and topics such as Bildungsroman and Memory and Exile.
JOHN F. PHILLIPS, Professor of Classics, Greek and Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Office: Holt 232I Phone: 425-4347 Email: John-Phillips@utc.edu
John Phillips specializes in ancient philosophy, has published in the areas of Neoplatonism and the history of Platonism, and has presented at national and international conferences. His book, Order from Disorder: Proclus' Doctrine of Evil and its Roots in Ancient Platonism, was published in 2007. He is currently co-editing a volume on Neoplatonism and working on a translation and commentary on the fragments of Atticus. Through a joint appointment, Dr. Phillips teaches ancient Greek and serves as Head of the Philosophy and Religion Department.
LYNN C. PURKEY, UC Foundation Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Office: Brock 208B Phone: 425-4147 Email: Lynn-Purkey@utc.edu
Lynn Purkey specializes in 20th- and 21st-century Spanish and comparative literatures and European variants of Modernism. Her recent scholarship centers on Spanish, Russian, and German fiction from 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. Dr. Purkey advises the Spanish Honor Society (Sigma Delta Pi), coordinates first-year Spanish instruction, and directs UTC’s Summer Program in Spain at the Instituto B. Franklin de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
VICTORIA STEINBERG, Associate Professor of French
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Office: Brock 105 Phone: 425-2309 Email: Victoria-Steinberg@utc.edu
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., and 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. She currently serves as UTC Faculty Senate president.
MATTHEW STUCKWISCH, Lecturer of Spanish
M.A., Auburn University
Office: Brock 101 Phone: 425-4642 Email: Matthew-Stuckwisch@utc.edu
Matthew Stuckwisch joined the Foreign Languages department in Fall 2011. In addition to teaching Elementary Spanish and Intermediate Spanish for Reading courses, he also supervises the language lab.
Prof. Stuckwisch is also the faculty sponsor of the new UTC Water Polo team.
FELICIA STURZER, Department Head and Professor of French
Ph.D., The State University of New York at Buffalo
Office: Brock 208D Phone: 425-4267 Email: Felicia-Sturzer@utc.edu
In addition to serving as Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Felicia Sturzer specializes in 18th-century French literature, with a focus 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 has published 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.
ROBERT WELLS, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Office: Brock 103A Phone: 425-4259 Email: Robert-Wells@utc.edu
Robert Wells joined the Foreign Languages department in Fall 2011. He specializes in 20th-century Latin American literature and culture, particularly that of the Southern Cone. His dissertation work analyzed the figure of the human in Argentine and Spanish avant-garde literature and philosophy, along with the ways in which this transatlantic avant-garde assemblage was influenced by German humanist and anti-humanist thought. His current research explores literary and philosophical expressions of the human in the Latin American avant-gardes, along with socio-political notions of masses, minorities, and multitudes.
ADJUNCT FACULTY | Spring 2012
- Kathy Behling, Spanish
- Karen Buntin, French
- Claryce Caviness, French
- Veronica Herrera, Spanish
- Leslie Morrow, Italian
- Eiko Namiki, Japanese
- Dr. Steve Walden, Spanish
- Limei Xu, Chinese
