Spanish Faculty

Mary Addis - Associate Professor of Spanish
(330) 263-2381 / maddis@wooster.edu

B.A. St. Mary's 1971; M.A., Ph.D. California (San Diego), 1977, 1984.

Mary Addis is an associate professor of Spanish at The College of Wooster. She joined the faculty in 1984 and has served as chair of the department as well as for the Programs in Women's Studies, Comparative Literature, and Cultural Area Studies. Her primary research focuses on Central American Literature. Currently, she is working on a monograph on Lizandro Chávez Alfaro (1928-2006), who is considered the founder of the modern Nicaraguan novel. This project focuses on his historical novels and short stories and examines the texts' revisionist versions of national history and nationalist movements. Questions relating to definitions of masculinity, father-son relationships, and procreation recur throughout his opus.

Addis received her B.A. from St. Mary’s College [Notre Dame] (1971) and her M.A. (1977) and Ph.D. (1984) from the University of California at San Diego.

She is a member of the Latin American Studies Association, the Modern Language Association, the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, and the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. She is also co-founder and managing editor of the electronic journal Istmo Revista del Estudio de las Culturas Centroamericanas (http://www.denison.edu/istmo).

Brian J. Cope - Assistant Professor of Spanish
(330) 263-2203 / bcope@wooster.edu

B.A. Washington, St. Louis 1995; M.A., Ph.D. California, Irvine 1998, 2004.

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Brian Cope is an assistant professor of Spanish at The College of Wooster, where he joined the faculty in 2006. He holds a B.A. from Washington University in Saint Louis (1995), and a master’s (1998) and Ph.D. (2004) from the University of California, Irvine.

Cope’s area of specialization is 20th Century Spanish literature, particularly the philosophical novel, film, and contemporary culture. He teaches Introduction to Spanish Language, as well as special topics in literature, culture and film.

A member of the Modern Language Association and the Latin American Studies Association, Cope has presented papers at several professional meetings, including the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Conference on Hispanic Film.

John P. Gabriele - Professor of Spanish
(330) 263-2468 / jgabriele@wooster.edu

B.A. M.A. Connecticut 1975, 1977; Ph.D. North Carolina 198l. Diploma de Filología Superior. Salamanca, Spain. 1983.

John P. Gabriele is a professor of Spanish at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 1986. He specializes in 19th and 20th century Spanish peninsular culture and literature, particularly Spanish Romanticism, avant-garde theater, Spanish feminist theater, exilic literature, and the theater of Democratic Spain.

A graduate of the University of Connecticut (1975), Gabriele also earned his M.A. at Connecticut (1977). He went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1981) and a Diploma de Filología Superior from the University of Salamanca, Spain.

Gabriele, who also is a professor of comparative literature at Wooster, has published books and articles on modern Spanish literature and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals. Most recently, he published Jerónimo López Mozo: Forma y contenido de un teatro español experimental.

Gabriele is a member of several professional organizations, among them the Modern Language Association of America and the International Association of Hispanists.

Cynthia Palmer - Associate Professor of Spanish
(330) 263-2405 / cpalmer@wooster.edu

B.S. Northern Arizona University 1987; M.A., Ph.D. Arizona 1993, 2000.

Cynthia L. Palmer is an associate professor of Spanish at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 2000. She specializes in U.S.-Latino Literature, 19th and 20th-Century Latin American Literature, women’s writing, and critical theory.

Palmer received her B.S. in political science at Northern Arizona University (1987). She earned an M.A. in Latin American Studies (1993) and a Ph.D. in Spanish (2000) from the University of Arizona.

Palmer has presented papers at several conferences, and published two book reviews. Her dissertation was on the topic of “Restoring Presence, Reconstructing History: Investigative Narratives by Argentine Women Novelists.”

Palmer is also the faculty liaison to La Casa Hispánica, a member of the Spanish suite in Luce Hall, and faculty advisor for Pueblo de Esperanza.

Diane R. Uber - Professor of Spanish
(330) 263-2382 / duber@wooster.edu

B.A. Wooster 1974; M.A. Pennsylvania State 1977; Ph.D. Wisconsin 1981.

Diane Ringer Uber is a professor of Spanish at The College of Wooster, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1989. She specializes in Spanish linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, phonetics, semantics, bilingualism, syntax, morphology, business Spanish, and language teaching methodology. Her current research project is on forms of address in the workplace in Spanish-speaking countries.

A graduate of The College of Wooster (1974), Uber received her M.A. from the Pennsylvania State University (1977) and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1981).

Her memberships and affiliations include the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and  Portuguese (AATSP), Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina (ALFAL), Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS), Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), and Sigma Delta Pi (national Spanish honorary society). She has published more than 30 articles in various academic journals, and is also conversant in Portuguese.

Before coming to Wooster, Uber was a consultant in linguistics and dialectology in the State of New Jersey's Administrative Office of the Courts. Prior to that, she spent seven years as an assistant professor of Spanish at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.