Language Faculty
Department of Languages and Linguistics
Gordon College
Wenham, MA 01984
Emmanuelle Vanborre
Department Chair, Assistant Professor of French
Languages & Linguistics
B.A. University of Reading, University of Montpellier
M.A. University of Montpellier
M.A., Ph.D. Boston College
Dr. Vanborre joined Gordon College in 2007. She studied English and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Montpellier (France). She then studied French literature at Boston College. Her research in literature is focused on 20th century fiction, literary theory, and Francophone literature. She presented numerous papers and chaired several panels at various conferences. She also published articles and book reviews on French and Francophone literature, especially on Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus and Maryse Condé. Her book entitled Lectures blanchotiennes de Malraux et Camus (Peter Lang Publishing, May 2010) highlights certain aspects of Malraux’s and Camus’s writings which have often been left in the shadow and which tackle essential questions on literature, writing and death.
Graeme D. Bird
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Classics
B.A., M.A. Auckland University
B.D. London University
B.M. Berklee College of Music
M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University
Dr. Bird is a native of New Zealand and has been teaching full-time at Gordon since 2001. His interests include Greek and Latin language and literature, Indo-European linguistics, and early English literature. He is a participant in the Harvard-affiliated Homer Multi-text Project, with a chapter in a book due out in the fall dealing with a celebrated medieval manuscript of Homer's Iliad. He enjoys exploring the connections between such diverse disciplines as Homeric poetry, historical linguistics, Greek mathematics, computer programming, and jazz improvization (he plays piano professionally and for relaxation). He co-directs the Linguistics major and minor and oversees the minor in Classics.
Damon DiMauro
Professor of French
Languages & Linguistics
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B.A. Tulane University
M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison
Leasa Y. Lutes
Professor of Spanish
Languages & Linguistics
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B.A. Wheaton College
M.A., D.M.L. Middlebury College
Moisés Park
Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Dr. Park joined the Gordon College faculty in fall of 2010. He teaches Spanish language, literature and film. Dr. Park's main research projects include contemporary Southern Cone literature and films, poetry, Orientalism, Critical Theory (specifically psychoanalysis, socio-materialist theory and biopolitics) and Cultural Studies. He has presented papers in the US and in Chile, mainly on his dissertational research "Desire and Generational Conflicts in Chilean Post-Dictatorial Narrative and Cinema", but also on other topics such as the politics of martial arts films, religion, Orientalism and Asian American Studies. His latest publications include "Sexualization on the Oriental Ruins: Moreno-Durán's Mambrú, the Colombian Battalion, the Korean War, Picasso and the (Marilyn) Monroe Doctrine", "Post mortem: San Salvador Allende y la autopsia histórica" and the book article "South Reads Western and Eastern East: Second-hand Orientalism in Kiltro, A Chilean Martial Arts Film". His book Desire and Generational Conflicts in Contemporary Chilean Narrative and Cinema will be published in early 2014.
Pilar Pérez Serrano
Associate Professor of Spanish
Languages & Linguistics
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B.A. Gordon College
M.A. Brandeis University
Ph.D. Boston College
Dr. Pérez Serrano is from Córdoba, Spain and joined the Gordon faculty in the fall of 2002. Dr. Pérez Serrano's current research focuses on the creative implications hidden in Spanish contemporary tragedy and its relationship to classical tragedy, trauma studies and the ethics of responsibility. Her interests include 20th and 21st century Spanish theater, novel and film as well as literary theory and cultural studies. Her most recent publication "Mito y función social en el teatro de Raúl Hernández Garrido" serves as an introduction to the volume Los esclavos which includes four plays written by Spanish playwright Raúl Hernández Garrido.
Gregor Thuswaldner
Associate Professor of German and Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
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B.A. University of Salzburg, Austria
M.A. University of Vienna, Austria
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Thuswaldner joined the Gordon faculty in fall of 2003. He heads the German program, co-directs the major and minor in Linguistics, he co-directs the Salzburg Institute of Gordon College and he is a fellow in Gordon's Center for Christian Studies. From 2006 until 2012 he chaired the Department of Languages and Linguistics. His main research projects focus on contemporary Austrian literature and culture, sociolinguistics, and the intersection of theology and literature. He has presented numerous papers in the US and in Europe and has published articles, book chapters, and entries in various encyclopedias. His articles and book reviews have also appeared in German, Austrian and American newspapers, such as Salzburger Nachrichten, Die Furche, Die Zeit, and The Salem News. Dr. Thuswaldner’s third book, a monograph on the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, was recently published with Braumüller in Vienna. In 2006, Dr. Thuswaldner received Gordon’s Distinguished Junior Faculty Award.
ADJUNCT AND PART TIME FACULTY
Pamela Thuswaldner
Adjunct Professor of German
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B.A. Louisiana State University
Universität Mainz-Germersheim, Universität Salzburg
M.A. Bowling Green State University
Pamela Thuswaldner studied German at Louisiana State University, Universität Mainz-Germersheim, Universität Salzburg, and Bowling Green State University. After receiving her M.A., she was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship for two years in Vienna, Austria.
She has taught at universities and companies including Duke University, EMD Pharmaceuticals, Berlitz Language School in Vienna, Volkshochschule Favoriten in Vienna, Bowling Green State University, and BASF. She has over 20 years of teaching experience and was recently awarded the 2011 Academic Service Award for distinguished teaching and service for part-time faculty at Gordon College. Currently she serves not only as adjunct professor of German and as director of the Fulbright Program at Gordon College, but also as an instructor of German and ESL at Osram Sylvania in Danvers, MA.