1. American Sign Language
  2. Arabic (Not Offered Winter 2025)
  3. Mandarin Chinese
  4. German
  5. Italian
  6. Japanese
  7. Korean
  8. Portuguese (Not Offered 2024-2025)
  9. Russian
  10. Spanish

School Director: Geoff Pinchbeck (Interim)
Assistant Director (Modern Languages): Carlos Valdez (Interim)

Below, you will find a list of our faculty and contract instructors currently teaching courses in the Modern Languages.

American Sign Language

Coordinator: Denise DeShaw (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream)

Ari Black (Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream)

Josee-Sarah Bower (ASL Interpreter)

Jane Lalonde (Contract Instructor)

David Morton (Lecturer, Teaching Stream)

Marina Petrova (Contract Instructor)

Todd Tobin (Contract Instructor)

Arabic (Not Offered Winter 2025)

Mandarin Chinese

Coordinator: Laura Luo (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream)

Bin Li (Contract Instructor)

German

Coordinator: Gillian Bose (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream)

Cristina Finger (Contract Instructor)

Italian

Coordinator: Cristina Trevisan (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream)

Marcella Marceddu (Italian Lettrice

Claudia Rocca (Contract Instructor)

Japanese

Coordinator: Mami Sasaki (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream)

Yoriko Aizu (Contract Instructor)

Ando, Orie (Contract Instructor)

Yoko Azuma-Prikryl (Contract Instructor)

Elizabeth Sowka (Associate Professor, Teaching Professor)

Kaori Sugimura (Contract Instructor)

Korean

Coordinator: Hyounjeong Yoo (Contract Instructor)

Seunghee Chung (Contract Instructor)

Soyoung Kang (Contract Instructor)

Portuguese (Not Offered 2024-2025)

Russian

Coordinator: Marina Sabanadze (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream)

Spanish

Coordinator: Janett Martinez-Amador (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream)

Margarita Alfonso (Contract Instructor)

Ioana Dimitriu (Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream; Assistant Director of Modern Languages; On Leave)

Martha Quijano (Contract Instructor)

Margaret Sikorska (Contract Instructor)

Carlos Valdez (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream; Interim Associate Director of Modern Languages)