Ciro A. Sandoval*
Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Studies
Director of Modern Languages; casandov@mtu.edu
Professor Sandoval is interested in trans-disciplinary relationships within humanities, science, and technology discourses as perceived in landscape, ecology, and literature. He has parallel interests in Andean culture, intercultural communication, utopia and dystopia, communication of natural hazards, and Spanish for special literacies. He is particularly interested in Latin American authors such as José María Arguedas and French philosophers such as Michel Serres.

Dieter Wolfgang Adolphs*
Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis
Associate Professor of German Language and Literature; dadolph@mtu.edu
Professor Adolphs' work examines German and Austrian literature since 1880, critical theory, and the Frankfurt School. His literary research focuses on Thomas Mann, the Austrian playwright Hermann Bahr, and exile studies. His interests in theoretical issues include intercultural communication, the reception of literature, and the philosophical discourse of modernity.

Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval*
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Latin American Studies; smbosche@mtu.edu
Professor Boschetto-Sandoval's interests focus on contemporary emerging Latin American fiction, narrative, and cultural studies, including testimonials and essays by Latin American women writers. Her recent publications include The Imaginary in the Writing of Latin American Author Amanda Labarca Hubertson (1886-1975): Supplements to a Feminist Critique (Edwin Mellen, 2004), José Maria Arguedas: Reconsiderations for Latin American Cultural Studies (co-edited with Ciro A. Sandoval, Ohio University, 1998), and Claribel Alegría and Central American Literature: Critical Essays (co-edited with Marcia McGowan, Ohio University, 1994).

Heidi Bostic*
Ph.D., Purdue University
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Gender Studies; hlbostic@mtu.edu
Professor Bostic's research focuses on the role of women and representations of women in the history of ideas, from the early modern era to the present. She is particularly interested in feminist approaches to literature and philosophy, including the work of theorists from both France and the U.S. Her interdisciplinary perspective also incorporates narrative semiotics and linguistics.

Diane L. Shoos*
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Associate Professor of Visual Studies and French; dshoos@mtu.edu
Professor Shoos' research is in the area of the practice and theories of visual representation, including advertising, television, and, especially, cinema. Her scholarship focuses on the representation of women and the construction of female subjectivity in visual texts, the evolving formulations of sexual difference and masculinity in these texts, and gender as a factor in their production and reception.