Faculty and Staff
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Josefa Salmón, Ph.D.
Bobet Hall 303, 504.865.2692, Box 229, salmon@loyno.edu
Josefa Salmón (Ph.D., Latin American Literature, University of Maryland) is associate professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. Her research concentrates on the Andean region, and her publications include the books El espejo indígena, Identidad, ciudadanía y participación popular desde la colonia al siglo XX, co-ed. with Guillermo Delgado, as well as many journal articles and book chapters. She has developed interdisciplinary courses such as “Mexico in Film and Fiction” and has been recognized for her excellence in teaching by the Studen Alumni Association in 1994 and the Loyola 1540 Society in 2002 and fall 2003.
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Blanca Anderson, Ph.D.
Bobet Hall 307, 504.865.3687, Box 118, banderso@loynol.edu
Blanca Anderson (Ph.D., Spanish American Literature, Boston University), associate professor and chair of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, specializes in 20th-century Spanish American literature. She has published a critical work on the Argentinean author Julio Cortázar, as well as several books of fiction: a novel, a book of short stories, and three poetry collections. Recognition for her teaching include the College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award in 1993; Loyola nominee for the Carnegie Foundations' National Teaching Award in 1993 and 1994, and inclusion in Who's Who Among America's Teachers in 2004.
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Robert Thomas, Ph.D.
Communications 327, Box 199, rathomas@loyno.edu
Personal Website: http://www.loyno.edu/lucec/chair/chairweb.htm
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Maurice Brungardt, Ph.D.
Bobet Hall, Room 423, Box 096, brungard@loyno.edu
Maurice Brungardt is Professor of Latin American History at Loyola University New Orleans and also Director of Loyola's Study Abroad Program in Mexico City at the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has been a member of Loyola's Department of History since 1971, and was Chair of the Department from 1980 to 1984. He took his Ph.D in Latin American History at the University of Texas at Austin in 1974. He was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia in 1994. He currently has in preparation two book-length manuscripts: One on contemporary Colombia, tentatively entitled "Colombia: The Roots of Its Despair; The Hopes for Its Future" and a second manuscript on the career patterns, income, and wealth of high Spanish bureaucrats during the colonial period, tentatively entitled "All the King's Men: Power and Wealth in the Spanish Empire of the 17th Century." Recently Professor Brungardt has been invited to give public lectures at various U.S. universities on the United States's increasing involvement in Colombia where guerrilla insurgency and drug trafficking have led to a significant deterioration in the ability of the government to govern and maintain public order.
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Alfred Lawrence Lorenz, Ph.D. A. Louis Read Distinguished Professor in Communications
Communications Room 312, Box 201, lorenz@loyno.edu lorenz@loyno.edu
L arry Lorenz has been a member of the Loyola faculty since 1981. He is a former chair of the Department of Communications. Dr. Lorenz specializes in history of American journalism and is the author of Hugh Gaine: A Colonial Printer-Editor’s Odyssey to Loyalism, (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972) and numerous articles, reviews, and research reports which have appeared in such publications as American Journalism, Journalism Quarterly, Journalism History, Journal of Broadcasting, Grassroots Editor, and Milwaukee County Historical Society Messenger. He has also contributed to the "American Newspaper Journalists" volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, the Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism and American National Biography. He is co-author (with John Vivian) of News Reporting and Writing (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1996). Dr. Lorenz is an associate director of the Loyola University Mexico Program and has taught the course “The Mexican Media System” as part of that program. He has also been an exchange professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Jesuit university in Mexico City.A former newsman with United Press International, Dr. Lorenz still works in journalism as a freelance writer and as host of the public affairs program “Informed Sources” on the public broadcasting station WYES-TV. -
Professor Nathan Henne, Assistant Professor, Languages and Cultures, Bobet Hall, Room 311, Box 118, nchenne@loyno.edu
Nathan Henne, from the department of Quezaltenango in Guatemala, recently received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His dissertation, “A Poetics of the Uncertain: Trajectories of the Maya Mind and Tongue in American Literatures”, uses principles derived from K’iche’, a language spoken in the highlands of Guatemala, to problematize translations of the Popol Vuh into Spanish and English. Nathan seeks to invert the traditional hierarchies of academic study in the Americas by applying the meaning making networks of K’iche’ literatures to read the “canonical” texts of literary productions in Latin America and the United States.