WLC Faculty and Staff
Department Chair
Staff
Faculty
Michihiro Ama Karashima Tsukasa Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture
Email: michihiro.ama@mso.umt.edu
Maria Jose Bustos-Fernandez Professor, Spanish /Director Latin American Studies
Email: maria.bustos@mso.umt.edu
Clary Loisel Professor, Spanish
Email: clary.loisel@umontana.eduBio:
As a Full Professor of Spanish language, literature, and film, I specialize in gender issues in contemporary Mexican narrative and theater. The major themes of most of my upper-division classes address human rights issues. Since 2001, I have directed seven study abroad programs (five to Mexico and two to Chile). I also teach Latin American Studies and in 2014 attended classes in Portuguese at the Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I completed the equivalent of a BA in Portuguese from the University of Florida. One of my next publications will be an anthology of Brazilian LGBT literature translated into English. I received a Fulbright Scholarship and spent fall 2017 teaching two upper-division human rights courses (in Spanish) at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
