ISU Languages and Literatures Faculty and Staff
French Faculty// German Faculty// Spanish Faculty// Japanese Faculty// Latin Faculty// Shoshoni Faculty// Office Staff
Contact Information
French Faculty
Pamela
Park, Professor
Ph.D. French Literature (CUNY 1979), Licence in French (University of Nancy 1974) B.A. French (Fordham University 1972). Prof. Park teaches all levels of French language, as well as upper-level courses in French literature and civilization. Her research focuses on France's literary Golden Age with an emphasis on the 17th-century writer and theologian Fénelon. Prof. Park is currently the Executive Director of the national French Honor Society, Pi Delta Phi.
Valia
Tatarova, Adjunct Instructor
M.A. French Literature (University of Notre
Dame, 2000)
Valia Tatarova teaches beginning and intermediate French including the
300 level Business French. She is the Advisor of the French Club and a
member of the National French Honor Society Pi Delta Phi.
Anne
Stringfellow-Brookman, Adjunct Instructor
Honors B.A. French and Secondary Education (University of Utah, 1988) M.A. French Literature (University of Oregon, 1991). Anne spent her university junior year studying in Angers, France. Later, she completed her first year of graduate study as a Rotary scholar at L'université Laval in Quebéc, Canada and a few years later participated in a 4-week Fulbright teacher exchange in Morocco, Africa (1996). Anne taught high school French for seven years before coming to ISU.
German
Faculty
Sandra Dillon, Visiting Instructor
A.B.D. German (University of Oregon 2007), M.A. German (University of Colorado, Boulder 2002), B.A. Spanish and German (Idaho State University 2000). Sandra Dillon was born in Berlin Germany. Because of her father’s occupation she lived for six years in Venezuela and for nine years in Mexico. Sandra grew up in a bilingual environment and, when she came to Pocatello in 1994, pursued her interest in languages, literatures, and cultures at Idaho State University. She graduated with a B.A. in German and Spanish from ISU, and then received her M.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Lisa Coffield, Adjunct Instructor
Professor Coffield has been teaching at ISU since the Fall of 2010, and teaches first-year German. She is certified to teach both German and French, and is currently studying for her Master's Degree in Linguistic Anthropology, which she hopes to finish during the 2013/14 school year.
Craig Nickisch, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Nebraska.Spanish Faculty
Sharon
Sieber, Professor
Ph.D. Comparative Literature (Indiana University 1992), M.A. Spanish (Indiana University 1982), B.A. English and Journalism (Indiana University 1977)
Professor Sieber first came to ISU in 1993 and teaches all levels of Spanish and Latin American Literature as well as 20th Century Spanish literature. She is currently editor of Rendezvous, ISU’s Journal of Arts and Letters, and she is the Campus Fulbright Program Adviser.
Daniel
Hunt, Associate Professor
D.A. English (Idaho State University 1990), M.A. English (Idaho State University 1987), B.A. Spanish and Anthropology (Idaho State University 1980)
Dr. Hunt teaches all levels of Spanish language, as well as courses in Spanish American Literature, Business Spanish, Literature in Translation, and Honors Humanities. Recent research includes humor, politics, and history in the novela negra and in the Spanish American chronicle, and teaching the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Founder and director of the weekly Tertulia.
H.
Cathleen Tarp, Associate Professor
Ph.D Romance Languages (University of New Mexico 1999); M.A. Hispanic Literature, (University of New Mexico 1996); B.A. English Literature (University of Idaho 1992)
Dr. Tarp’s areas of specialization are the Spanish Middle Ages and Baroque. Current research interests include the grotesque, the Spanish prose romance, and narratology in the context of the development of prose fiction. Dr.Tarp is a certified medical interpreter and a qualified legal interpreter. She is also faculty advisor for Sigma Delta Pi, the National Spanish Honor Society, and the ISU student organization, Entrepeneurs of America.
David
Heath, Senior Lecturer
David Heath, Senior Lecturer MA Latin American Studies (University of Kansas), BA Spanish (Idaho State University)
Mr. Heath teaches first and second year Spanish, and has taught Spanish for Health Care. He is also an Early College Program liaison for several area high schools and is the coordinator for Spanish 101-102. Mr. Heath lived in Puerto Rico for two years and has an interest in the Spanish-speaking cultures of the Carribean.
Sarah McCurry, Assistant Lecturer and Language Lab Supervisor
Sarah did her undergraduate work at University of Massachusetts at Boston and her graduate work at University of California at Los Angeles. She studied in Mexico and lived in Santiago, Chile for six and a half months.
Marta Izquierdo Robredo, Assistant Lecturer
M.A.
Spanish Literature (Washington State
University 2003), B.A. Philosophy and Education, major in Psychology
(University of Oviedo, Spain, 1994), First Certificate in English
(University of Cambridge, England 1992)
Mrs. Izquierdo Robredo is originally from Oviedo, Spain and has been living in the United States of America for ten years. While obtaining her M.A. in Spanish Literature, she was a Spanish instructor at Washington State University. She has been a lecturer in Spanish at Idaho State University since the fall of 2004.
Tamra
Bassett, Visiting Instructor
Neva
Eldridge, Adjunct Instructor
Sarah did her undergraduate work at University of Massachusetts at Boston and her graduate work at University of California at Los Angeles. She studied in Mexico and lived in Santiago, Chile for six and a half months.
Anna Hiller
Japanese Faculty
Sachiko Fukuoka, Assistant Lecturer
M.Ed. Instructional Technology (Idaho
State
University 2003), B.A. American Studies (Idaho State University 1999)
Ms. Fukuoka received her MA in Education in 2003, began teaching Japanese in 2004. Programs she has created provide students various opportunities to go to Japan every year including as participants in a yearly study tour, study abroad programs, JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching Program), and service projects in Japan. She is also working with a local Board of Education in Japan to reform English education. Her interests are Educational leadership in Doctor of Education degree program, international exchange program, and practical and stress-free Japanese language teaching and learning methods. She teaches all levels of Japanese. Ms. Fukuoka is a faculty advisor of ISU Japanese Club and directs Sakura Daiko, a Japanese drum group.
Sanae Johnsen, Adjunct Instructor
M.
Ed. in Education (Idaho State University 1995). B.S. in Business
Administration and Accounting (California State University, Chico 1990)
Ms. Johnsen developed and implemented a Japanese program in the fall of 1996 at ISU. In the fall of 2004, she established a minor program in Japanese. A native of Japan, Ms. Johnsen teaches all levels of Japanese and has been an active participant in Japanese activities at ISU and in the surrounding community.
Latin
Faculty
Arthur Dolsen, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Classics (Trinity College, Dublin 1978), B.A. (University of British Columbia 1968)
Dr. Dolsen teaches all levels of Latin offered by the university. He has also taught French and Russian extensively. His research interests include questions of ancient Greek history and rhetoric, in particular in the works of Thucydides.