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Foreign Languages and Literatures: Faculty
Roser Caminals-Heath, Ph.D.,
Professor of Spanish
rheath@hood.edu, (301) 696-3474
Web site: http://www.escriptors.com/autors/caminalsr/pagina.php?id_sec=891#top
Roser Caminals-Heath earned her M. A. and Ph.D. at the University of Barcelona. A native of Spain, she is the author of five novels, some of which have appeared in three languages, and one non-fiction book. Her literary work is annually displayed at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, and has earned a fiction award and critical acclaim in the Spanish media, as well as commentary in the national Mexican newspaper La Jornada and in some English language publications. Her first novel, Once Remembered, Twice Lived, was published in the U.S.; her turn-of-the-century Barcelona trilogy and a book of memoirs of her life in America, in Spain.
She also has a special interest in literary translation and in nineteenth-century Spanish fiction. Her English translation of a classic Spanish novel, The House of Ulloa, published by The University of Georgia Press, won a grant-award from the Spanish Embassy. Her book entitled A Matter of Self-Esteem and Other Stories, published in 2001 in collaboration with Hood alum Holly Cashman, is a translation of stories by contemporary Catalan writer Carme Riera. Dr. Caminals-Heath has also served as a consultant panelist and reviewer of grant applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities and has worked with students on numerous research projects. Under her supervision and with the assistance of a Summer Institute Research grant, Hood alum Deirdre Blakemore completed an English translation of a nineteenth-century Spanish short story. Both instructor and student traveled to Chicago, where the translation was presented at the national conference of the American Literary Translators Association.
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Donald Wright, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Arabic and French
wright@hood.edu,
(301) 696-3890
Donald Wright was awarded his Ph.D. in 2003 from the Sorbonne in Paris and his M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. He has taught at various universities in France and in the United States. He also has a DEA in art history and archeology from the Sorbonne and has worked in many museums including the Louvre in Paris. His primary focus of study is the intertextual relationship between the sciences and the arts, especially in the establishment of the institutions of the late 19th century in France and in North Africa. His book on Proust and medicine, Du discours medical dans A la recherche du temps perdu, was released in 2007 with an introduction by Antoine Compagnon from the Collège de France. He has been invited to give lectures at various conferences in the United States and in Europe. Wright has studies Arabic at the University of Mohammed V in Rabat and at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris. He has travelled extensively throughout North Africa and the Middle East and brings his experiences to the classroom. He is the director of the minor in Middle Eastern studies at Hood. In 2009 he was awarded the Multicultural Award. His courses include identity studies of North Africa and a seminar on science and fiction.
Maria Griselda Zuffi, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
gzuffi@hood.edu, (301) 696-3472
Griselda Zuffi received her Ph.D in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. At present she directs the Latin American Studies program and teaches several courses in Spanish language and civilization and Latin American literature and culture. Her research focuses on Postdictatorship testimonial narratives of the Southern Cone that denounce the effects of authoritarian discourses. She has received summer grants to conduct research projects in Argentina and Chile on such topics as discursive representations of Peronism through fiction, the uses of history in Chilean women writers of the XIXth and XXth century, and the relationship of human rights groups, journalists and women writers to the government. She has published articles, reviews and interviews in books, literary journals and actas, such as, "Atravesando géneros: cuerpo y nación en Santa Evita," "Identitdad/Otredad: algunas estrategias conceptuales," and "La cruz invertida en el campo cultural de los sesenta." She has published short stories and poems in Confluencia and Osamayor and has presented papers at many national and international conferences on questions of border culture, identity, testimonio and postmodern biographies. Her areas of interest are feminist writing and theory and film studies. Maria Zuffi was awarded a Beneficial Hodson Faculty Fellowship to conduct research in Argentina in the fall of 2003.
Scott Pincikowski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of German
pincikowski@hood.edu, (301) 696-3475
Pincikowski received his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 2000. His research interests include medieval German culture and literature, comparative literature, gender and body studies, critical theory, and modern reception of the Middle Ages. Dr. Pincikowski specializes in representations of pain and suffering in the Middle Ages. His book, Bodies of Pain: Suffering in the Works of Hartmann von Aue, was published by Routledge in 2002. He also has a forthcoming book review for the Society for German Medieval Studies as well as a chapter for the upcoming Hartmann Companion by Camden House. Scott Pincikowski's current research focuses on the depiction of violence in twelfth-century German epics and Arthurian romances. As associate director for the Institute on the American Dream at Penn State Erie, he authored a successful Pennsylvania Humanities Council Humanities-and-the-Arts Initiative grant for the spring 2001 conference, “Working for What? Winners and Losers in the American Dream.”
Lisa Algazi, Ph.D.,
Professor of French
lalgazi@hood.edu, (301) 696-3476
Algazi received her B.A. from Hollins College in 1986 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992 and came to Hood in 1994. Her research interests center on the representation of the mother in nineteenth-century French narrative, with a focus on feminist psychoanalytic theory. Dr. Algazi has published articles in prestigious journals such as L’année stendhalienne and Nineteenth-Century French Studies [http://www.unl.edu/ncfs/ ] and has contributed chapters to several collections of essays. Her first book, Maternal Subjectivity in the Works of Stendhal [http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=555&pc=9 ], was published by the Edwin Mellen Press in 2001. Her current project is a study of representations of breast-feeding in nineteenth-century France. Dr. Algazi received the Hood Mortar Board award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998. She enjoys teaching both language and literature courses as well as courses for the Honors program. Lisa Algazi also serves as a freshman advisor and the faculty advisor to the French House and to the Hood chapter of Pi Delta Phi, the French national honors society.
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Didier Course, Ph.D.
Professor of French, Department Chair
dcourse@hood.edu, (301) 696-3478
Didier Course received his M.A. from the Université de Nancy II-France and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. His research has focused primarily on the relashionship between literature and the visual arts. He is a specialist in early modern French literature and culture and his field of research includes religious literature of the Counter-Reformation and the politics of appearances in the French court. He has published numerous articles on these subjects and was invited to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar at Harvard University. He also received a NEH summer grant to continue his research on images of power in sixteenth and seventeenth century France. He has published two books; the first one, D’Or et de pierres précieuses. Les Paradis artificiels de la Contre Réforme en France (Payot: Lausanne, 2205), is a study on the representation of the Catholic Church in the early modern period. The second one is a critical edition of the French writing of Queen of France and Scotland, Marie Stuart, En ma Fin est mon Commencement (L’Harmattan: Paris, 2008). He teaches a variety of courses at Hood College, ranging from intermediate French to upper-level literature. Dr. Course received twice the “Hood College Faculty adviser of the year award” (in 1997 and in 2006) and in 2009 he was awarded the “Dr Henry P. and Page Laughin Faculty Professional Achievement Award” for his significant contribution to Hood College through scholarship.
He teaches a variety of courses at Hood College, ranging from intermediate French to upper-level literature. Dr. Course received twice the “Hood College Faculty adviser of the year award” (in 1997 and in 2006) and in 2009 he was awarded the “Dr Henry P. and Page Laughin Faculty Professional Achievement Award” for his significant contribution to Hood College through scholarship.