2023-2024

Ellen Welch (Chair)
Lola Tasar (Department Manager)
Amy Chambless (Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Italian Language)
Bruno Estigarribia (Director of Graduate Studies)
Anastacia Kohl (Director of Spanish Language)
Valérie Pruvost (Director of French Language)
Richard Vernon and Kristine Taylor (Directors of Portuguese Language)

Amy Chambless, DUS and Italian Advisor (chair)
Elizabeth Bruno, Minor in Spanish for the Professions Advisor
Hélène de Fays, Spanish Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Dorothea Heitsch, French and Francophone Studies Advisor
Gosia Lee, Hispanic Literatures and Cultures Major Advisor, Hispanic Studies Minor Advisor
Martha Ruíz-García, Hispanic Linguistics Advisor
Loida Slate, Minor in Spanish Translation and Interpreting Advisor
Elizabeth Tolman, Hispanic Studies major advisor

Bruno Estigarribia (Director of Graduate Studies & Graduate Admissions) (chair)
Juan Carlos González Espitia (Graduate Advisor for Iberian/Latin American Literatures and Cultures)
Lamar Graham (Graduate Advisor for Hispanic Linguistics)
Serenella Iovino (Graduate Advisor for Italian)
Ellen Welch (Interim Graduate Advisor for French, Fall)/Jessica Tanner (Graduate Advisor for French, Spring)

Faculty Review Committee (Tenure-Stream): Advise chair on appointments to ad-hoc committees for tenure and promotion reviews and post-tenure reviews. Recommend changes to PPP, especially those sections related to tenure-stream faculty.

Lucia Binotti
Hassan Melehy (elected chair)
Alicia Rivero
Jessica Tanner

Personnel Committee (Teaching-Stream) : Conduct a fair, comprehensive evaluation of each teaching-stream faculty member up for reappointment or promotion and prepare a written report and recommendation for the faculty. Recommend any changes to the PPP, especially to the sections relating to teaching-stream faculty.

Salary Committee: Oversee the merit salary increase process (should there be one) by reviewing faculty’s self-reported merit instrument forms, determining merit “tiers,” and recommending equity adjustments. Organize departmental efforts to advocate for salary increases.

Department Recognition: Collect faculty and grad student achievements (awards, publications, projects); contribute to department newsletter and website; organize nominations for distinguished professorships, campus teaching awards, and other relevant campus awards; suggest events or initiatives to promote and celebrate the work happening in the department

Hélène de Fays
Paola Cadena Pardo (co-chair, podcast editor/producer)
Laura Demsey (co-chair)
Juan Carlos González-Espitia
Serenella Iovino
Nilzimar Vieira

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Lead department discussions on creating/maintaining an inclusive and equitable atmosphere for all faculty and grad students; propose changes to ensure equal access to departmental opportunities (funding, summer teaching, leadership positions); advise on website content and resources; lead efforts to recruit Carolina Diversity Post-Docs; work with UNC Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Dr. Karla Slocum) to consider departmental implementation of university initiatives as they arise; highlight ROMS courses related to issues of diversity and equity and encourage curriculum development on these issues

Lorna Avilés
Lucia Binotti
Paola Cadena Pardo
Hosun Kim
Heather Knorr
Sean Matharoo (chair, Diversity Liaison to College)
Martha Ruiz Garcia
Erika Serrato (co-chair, Fall)
Martín Sueldo
Jessica Tanner
Kristine Taylor
Ana María Pozo
Refujio Avalos Reyes

Faculty Development: Distribute conference travel funds; raise awareness about on-campus opportunities for funding and development (such as CFE workshops); organize an annual fellowship application workshop for department faculty

Serenella Iovino
Jo Lindquist (chair)
Rosa Perelmuter
Paulo Ferreira Rodrigues
Erika Serrato

Graduate Placement and Professional Development: Prepare graduate students for the academic job market including organizing mock interviews in person and by video conference; offer workshops on professional-development topics such as publishing, syllabus creation, fellowship application writing, etc.; provide opportunities for graduate students to learn about Alt-Ac careers; communicate with DGS and Grad Advisory Committee to meet students’ professional development needs

Mentoring Advisory Committee (Teaching-Stream): Serve as mentors to Teaching Assistant and Teaching Associate Professors. Advise on mentoring policies and practices for teaching-stream faculty.

Cristina Carrasco
Amy Chambless
Hélène de Fays
Dorothea Heitsch
Anastacia Kohl
Gosia Lee
Jo Lindquist (Mentoring Director, Chair)
Valérie Pruvost
Richard Vernon

Mentoring Committee (Tenure-Stream): Meet as a group with Assistant Professors and post-docs at least once a semester to discuss professional development and provide resources and support in the journey toward tenure. Be available to meet individually with junior colleagues as requested. Advise on mentoring policies and practices for tenure-stream faculty. Senior committee members take the lead in selecting the three prospective mentors for new Assistant Professors.

Senior members:

Lucia Binotti
Carmen Hsu
Rosa Perelmuter (chair)

Junior members:

Adam Cohn
Maggie Fritz-Morkin
Sean Matharoo
Erika Serrato

Sponsored Events: Distribute funds for guest speakers and conferences and virtual events; help to maintain a departmental calendar of events; lead a discussion at last faculty meeting of the year to plan and prioritize events for the following year

Study Abroad Advisory Committee: Assist Study Abroad Academic Directors and Undergraduate Advisors to assess current study abroad programs and review proposals for new programs; ensure that programs serve ROMS majors and minors; help inform faculty about ROMS study abroad opportunities and promote our programs to students

Martha Alexander
Elizabeth Bruno
Amy Chambless (Study abroad advisor for Italian)
Dorothea Heitsch (Chair, Study abroad advisor for French)
Pello Huesa
Gosia Lee
Jo Lindquist (Study Abroad co-advisor for Spanish)
Abel Muñoz-Hermoso (Study Abroad co-advisor for Spanish)
Cécile Ruel
Richard Vernon (Study abroad advisor for Portuguese)
Daniele Meregalli
Angela Gatto

Technology and Innovation: Advise faculty on using technology in teaching and research; advise on the role of online courses in the curriculum; advise on teaching with AR/VR/XR technology; consider holding occasional workshops on online pedagogy, teaching with technology, and/or digital humanities research tools

Undergraduate Research: Promote opportunities for undergraduate research; consider working to increase the number of undergraduate theses in ROMS; assist ROMS majors/minors to fulfill new curriculum research experience requirements; organize presentations/showcases for ROMS undergraduate research

Accessibility Resources Interest Group: Advise and support faculty and graduate teaching fellows on working with students who have ARS accommodations; work with course coordinators to incorporate best practices for teaching students with learning differences; consider piloting language courses specifically adapted for students with learning differences; support graduate students with learning differences.

Working Group – Heritage Learners Curriculum Development:

Community Outreach Liaison: Victoria Martin

Service Learning/APPLES Liaison: Heather Knorr

Publications Advisory Committee

Juan Carlos González-Espitia, ed. NCSRLL (Chair)
Oswaldo Estrada, ed. Hispanófila
Irene Gómez-Castellano, ed. Romance Notes (Fall)
Lukas Palumbo, Managing Editor
R. Dircks, UNC Press

Spanish Course Coordinators:

SPAN 100, 101W-102W: Alicia Shade
SPAN 105: Jo Lindquist
SPAN 203: Heather Knorr, Cristina Carrasco, Hosun Kim
SPAN 204: Elizabeth Tolman and Abel Muñoz-Hermoso
SPAN 255: Abel Muñoz-Hermoso
SPAN 261 and 267: Hélène de Fays and Pello Huesa
Spanish minor for the professions courses, Liz Bruno: 320, 321, 323, 324, 325, 328, 329
Minor in translating and interpreting courses, Loida Slate: 351, 352, 369, 370
School of Public Health Spanish courses: Elizabeth Tolman

French Course Coordinators:

FREN 101/102: Laura Demsey
FREN 105: Valérie Pruvost
FREN 203: Valérie Pruvost with Cécile Ruel
FREN 204: Alex Goldych
FREN 255: Valérie Pruvost

Italian Course Coordinators:

ITAL 101-102: Amy Chambless
ITAL 203: Valentina Graziuso
ITAL 204: Amy Chambless

Portuguese Course Coordinators:

PORT 101-204: Kristine Taylor

Course coordinators play an important role in our department, ensuring curricular consistency across sections of a course and spearheading curricular innovation. Service as course coordinator will be recognized during merit salary assessment processes and in reappointment and promotion reviews. Coordinators of particularly large courses may be eligible for extra compensation. To ensure equity and transparency and to make sure the department stays within its administrative budget, the Executive Committee approved the following schedule for coordinator compensation:

Courses with over 80 sections/year on average: 1 course release if available or stipend equivalent to a 1-course overload
Courses or clusters of courses with 20-80 sections/year on average: $1,000 professional development fund
Courses or clusters of courses with less than 20 sections/year on average: No extra compensation, but service counts toward merit salary increases and promotions

This schedule will apply to new appointments and appointment renewals starting in 2020.

Amy Chambless, Gamma Kappa Alpha
Cristina Carrasco, Lorna Avilés, Sigma Delta Pi
Dorothea Heitsch, Pi Delta Phi
Martha Alexander, Kappa Kappa Gamma

Hélène de Fays
Pedro Lopes de Almeida
Cécile Ruel

President: Alex Goldych
Vice President : Laura Brescane Nicolas
Secretary: Katelyn Smith
Treasurer: Jeonghwan “Javier” Kim
GPSG Senators: Megan Anne Fenrich & Angela Gatto
Mentoring Chair: Lorenzo D’Agostino
Social Chair: Mauricio Cabrera
Daniele, Valentina, and Megan will oversee creating the board for CCRS.

Department Manager (finances, personnel): Lola Tasar
Graduate Student Services Manager (graduate students, foreign exchanges): Lauren Lisinski
Undergraduate Student Services Specialist (grade changes, parking, instructional materials, book orders): Sheena Melton
Accounting Tech (travel, accounting): Takeyelia Rivers
Publications: Lukas Palumbo, Managing Editor
OASIS Liaison: David Joyner

Administrative Board of the Graduate School: Carmen Hsu
Advisory Committee: Valérie Pruvost
Appointments, Tenure, and Promotion Committee: Serenella Iovino
Classroom Modernization Advisory Group: Anastacia Kohl
Educational Policy: Carmen Hsu
Faculty Council: Hélène de Fays
Faculty Grievance: Jessica Tanner
Faculty Honor System Advisory Committee: Jo Lindquist
Faculty Welfare Committee: Hassan Melehy
Financial Exigency and Program Change Committee: Carmen Hsu
Fixed-Term Faculty: Kristine Taylor
General Education Oversight Committee: Amy Chambless
Languages Across the Curriculum Director (College appointment): Michelle Gravatt
Language Exchange Campus Manager (College appointment): Michelle Gravatt
Office of Undergraduate Curriculum Course Substitution Committee: Anastacia Kohl
Robinson Honors Fellowship Selection Committee: Carmen Hsu
Student Fees Advisory Subcommittee: Jo Lindquist
Study Abroad Advisory Board (College): Dorothea Heitsch
Undergraduate Admissions Advisory Committee: Valérie Pruvost

updated 07/21/2022

Administrative Assignments

2023-2024

(+/-) Executive Committee

(+/-) Undergraduate Advisory Committee

(+/-) Graduate Advisory Committee

(+/-) Faculty Review Committee (Tenure-Stream)

(+/-) Personnel Committee (Teaching-Stream)

(+/-) Salary Committee

(+/-) Department Recognition

(+/-) Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

(+/-) Faculty Development

(+/-) Graduate Placement and Professional Development

(+/-) Mentoring Advisory Committee (Teaching-Stream)

(+/-) Mentoring Committee (Tenure-Stream)

(+/-) Sponsored Events

(+/-) Study Abroad Advisory Committee

(+/-) Technology and Innovation

(+/-) Undergraduate Research

(+/-) Accessibility Resource Interest Group

(+/-) Working Group – Heritage Learners Curriculum Development

(+/-) Community Outreach Liaison

(+/-) Service Learning/APPLES Liaison

(+/-) Publications Advisory Committee

(+/-) Language Instruction

(+/-) Advisors for Honors Societies

(+/-) ROMS Film Club

(+/-) GRA Officers & Committee Members

(+/-) Staff & Responsibilities

(+/-) College/University Service (for your reference)