LIS Faculty

Elyse Carter Vosen, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) in Anthropology of Music teaches Ojibwe language and culture, and courses in the expressive arts, including world music, dance and popular culture. She is also the Co-Advisor to Booshke-Giniin, the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) culture club.

Diane Kessler, Ph.D. (Universite Laval, Canada) supervises all French language instruction and teaches LIS and Honors courses. She has extensive travel and work experience in France and in West Africa. She is chair of the LIS Department.

Thomas Morgan, D.A. (Ohio State University) teaches Russian language and is director of The St. Scholastica Center for the Study of Peace and Justice. He also is a member of the Honors faculty and teaches courses in history, literature and international studies.

David Schuettler, David Schuettler completed his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies exploring the relationship between Zapatista folktales and Mayan mythology at Union Institute and University. He currently teaches Spanish and contemporary Latin American culture and society courses. He also coordinates the College's Semestre en Mexico study abroad program and advises students who participate in the HECUA off-campus programs. His academic interests are indigenous issues in Latin America, contemporary Latin American literature, and service-learning in Spanish. Personal interests include wilderness camping, hiking, canoeing, organic gardening, photography, and exploring new landscapes.

Daniel Nolan, M.A. (Northwestern University) is completing his Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies with emphasis in German and Russian at Northwestern University. His work focuses on the intersection of literature and the journalist press in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his dissertation, Baratynksii and Kleist serve as exemplary cases for the study of emerging literary publics. His areas of specialization include Romanticism, German Idealism, Phenomenology, issues dealing with literary publicity and critical theory. Before coming to Duluth, he had recently spent a year studying French literary criticism in Paris and another year teaching courses on Kleist and literary theory at the University of Mannheim in Germany, while also conducting research on the dissertation in Heidelberg.

Martin Pflug completed his Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and a minor in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He currently teaches all levels of Spanish from beginning to advanced. Research interests include Second Language Acquisition, Latin American vanguard, the history of technology and literature, and indigenous literature of Latin America. Personal interests include just about any outdoor activities with family, - winter, spring, summer and fall - travel, and working with wood.