Faculty & Staff

Chair and Professor
PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004

History and Theory of the Novel, Representations and Discourses of the University, Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Office: Rarick Hall 344
Phone: 628-4285
E-mail: edleuschner@fhsu.edu

Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor, Spanish and French
Ph.D., Romance Studies, University of Miami
Phone: (785) 628-5380
Email:  eclangley@fhsu.edu

Scholarly interests: literature and visual art of the Americas; translation, memory, monster, and resistance studies; second language acquisition and pedagogy

Courses taught at FHSU: Latin American Literature, Latin American Civilization, Translating & Interpreting sequence, Beginning French I and II, Business Spanish sequence, Spanish teaching courses, beginning and intermediate Spanish courses

Senior Administrative Assistant
B.A., Business Administration, Fort Hays State University, 2010

Office: Rarick Hall 343
Phone: 628-4285
E-mail: ajrichecky@fhsu.edu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Germanic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
Director, Honors College
Office: Forsyth Library 074
Phone: (785) 628-4748
Email: ksamidon@fhsu.edu

Scholarly and teaching interests: 19^th and 20^th century cultural history, social theory, cultural diversity, science studies, musical studies

Associate Professor of Spanish
PhD Applied linguistics, University of Florida
2015-16 Fellow at Texas Center for Health Disparities, University of North Texas Health Science Center.
Office: Rarick Hall, Room 350
Phone: (785) 628-5695
Email: rmcastaneda@fhsu.edu

Scholarly interest: Language barriers and health; heritage learners; language variation and change; sociolinguistics; Spanish and Portuguese linguistics.

Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Peninsular Spanish Literature (18th, 19th & early 20th centuries), Cultural Studies, and Feminist Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Office: Rarick Hall, Room 345
Phone: (785) 628-4263
Email: c_espinobravo@fhsu.edu 

Advisor of the Spanish Club FHSU and Barn Hoppers Club. Like us on FB https://www.facebook.com/SpanishClubFHSU

Assistant Professor, Spanish and German
Ph.D., Romance Languages: Spanish, University of Alabama
Email:  g_lopezlopez@fhsu.edu

Research interests:  Spanish Forms of address, Language Policy and Planning, and Variation in the Spanish Language.

Courses I teach or have taught at FHSU: Spanish (elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels), German, and Translating and Interpreting.

Adjunct Professor, Spanish
Ph.D., Romance Languages: Spanish, University of Alabama
Email: pmartinezfranco@fhsu.edu

Dr. Martinez has taught English as a foreign language in Bogotá and Spanish and English as a second language in the United States. At FHSU, she has taught Beginning and Intermediate Spanish courses and Medical Spanish. 

Her research interests focus on Spanish regional varieties and foreign language learning and teaching. She has presented her research at several national and international conferences.

Instructor of French
Email: rmpatrick2@fhsu.edu

Instructor of Spanish
Email: psiegrist@fhsu.edu

Instructor of Spanish
Email: etoft@fhsu.edu

Instructor of Chinese
Email: gzseo@fhsu.edu