 | Barbara Keller
Professor of French; Department Chair
Office: Battelle 244-A
Phone: 614.236.6457
Email: bkeller@capital.edu Ph.D.: French language and literature, The Ohio State University
M.A.: Miami University
B.A.: with Honors, Miami University
Diploma: Tutor Centre de Linguistique, Geneva, Switzerland |
Barbara Keller has developed and offered a wide variety of courses at Capital University, some of which include French Civilization, Contemporary France, Introduction to French Literature, French Theater, the Nouvellistes, French Phonology, French Poetry, the French Novel, and the French Media. Her research interests focus on French and Francophone poetry from the nineteenth century to the present, in particular the poetry of Kama Sywor Kamanda, Nerval, and Baudelaire, on which she has presented papers at international and national conferences. She is the author of The Middle Ages Reconsidered: Attitudes toward the Middle Ages in France from the Eighteenth Century through the Romantic Movement plus a number of articles and book reviews on French and Francophone literature. She has been a member of the Capital faculty since 1988.
 | Germain Guehoada Badang
Instructor of Spanish
Office: Battelle 244-E
Phone: 614.236.6747
Email: gbadang@capital.edu Ph.D. candidate in Social Studies and Global Education, The Ohio State University
M.Ed.: Second Language Acquisition, The Ohio State University
M.A.: Spanish Linguistics, The Ohio State University
A.B.D.: Suficiencia investigadora, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
M.A.: (Licenciatura de filología Española), Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
B.A.: Spanish Literature, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon |
A native of Cameroun, Germain Badang holds the Certificate of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. He taught for seven years in Seville, Spain, before coming to the U.S. to study and teach at the Ohio State University. Currently a doctoral student at The Ohio State University, he has taught Spanish on all levels at Capital University and offers the summer program in Spanish at Capital. His research interests include Global Awareness and Globalization, in particular the challenges of American education in questions of ethics, nationalisms, and cosmopolitan knowledge.
 | Roswitha Daily
Instructor of German
Office: Battelle 244-D
Phone: 614.236.6485
Email: rdaily@capital.edu M.A.: The Ohio State University
B.S. in Ed.: The Ohio State University |
Born in Austria, Roswitha Daily developed the German minor at Capital University. She has taught a variety of German courses at Capital since 1996, including Oral and Written Review, Advanced Conversation and Composition, Introduction to German Literature, Contemporary Germany, Elementary German I and II and Intermediate German I and II. She is the co-author of two editions of Der Weg zum Lesen. Before coming to Capital, she taught German at Grove City High School for 29 years where she also organized and managed the German Exchange Program for High School Students for 23 years.
 | María José Delgado Berlanga
Professor of Spanish
Office: Battelle 244-C
Phone: 614.236.6431
Email: mdelgado@capital.edu Ph.D.: Spanish Peninsular and Latin American Literature, University of Arizona
M.A.: Peninsular and Latin American Literature, UCLA
B.A.: Psychology, with Women's Studies Specialization, UCLA |
A native of El Puerto de Santa María in Cádiz, Spain, María José Delgado joined the Capital faculty in 1999. She teaches a diversity of courses in Spanish, including Spanish Civilization and Culture, Latin American Civilization and Culture, the Spanish Media, Women Writers in the Hispanic Tradition, Spanish Theater, Cervantes, and the Senior Seminar in Spanish. Her research interests center on seventeenth century women playwrights as well as feminist and lesbian/gay approaches to Spanish Golden Age letters and Colonial Latin American Literature. In addition to numerous articles and conference presentations focusing on women writers of Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Latin America, she has published two books. Her first publication, Las Comedias de Ana Caro: Valor, Agravio y Mujer y El Conde Partinuplés, analyzed the plays, life and time of Ana Caro. Currently she is writing a historical novel on Ana Caro and María de Zayas y Sotomayor. Prof. Delgado serves as faculty advisor to Phi Sigma Iota, the international honorary society for language majors and minors, and has sponsored accompanied trips to Spain and Costa Rica for Capital students.
 | Megan Mateer
Instructor of Latin
Office: Battelle 244-E
Phone: 614.236.6747
Email: megmateer@juno.com Ph.D.: Theater, Bowling Green State University
M.A.: Theater and Drama, The Ohio State University
Teaching Certificate: Latin, University of Dayton
B.A.: Liberal Arts in Theater/Classical Studies, Wright State University |
Though her degree focus has always been in the arts, especially theatre, Megan Mateer has had a keen interest in history which led her to learn Latin, allowing her to read original works from Rome including plays. Both her master's thesis and doctoral dissertation focused on historical theatrical research. For her master's, she traced the various ways that the medieval play Everyman had been interpreted during the twentieth century; for her dissertation, Living History as Performance, she examined the ways that history is attempted to be engaged by performing it à la Colonial Williamsburg and Plymouth Plantation. At Capital, she teaches Elementary and Intermediate Latin I and II.
 | Lorinda Nutor
Adjunct Instructor of Spanish
Office: Battelle 244-E
Phone: 614.236.6747
Email: lnutor@capital.edu M.A.: Spanish (Latin American Literature and Culture), The Ohio State University
B.A.: with Honors, Spanish and Sociology, University of Ghana
Diploma in Spanish Proficiency, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba |
A native of Ghana, Lorinda Nutor taught Spanish at The Ohio State University and both Spanish and ESL at Ohio Dominican University before coming to Capital University in fall 2006. At Capital, she teaches Elementary Spanish I and II. Her interests are spending time with her husband and two children, traveling, and making scrapbooks.
 | Ekaterina Bogoslovskaia-Pantsov
Instructor of Russian
Office: Battelle 244-E
Phone: 614.236.6747
Email: epantsov@capital.edu M.A. (equivalent): M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
B.A. (equivalent): M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University |
A native of Moscow, Ekaterina Pantsov taught in the US at Youngstown State University before coming to Capital University in 2005. Her courses include Elementary Russian I and II and Intermediate Russian. She returns to Russia each summer to spend time with family and friends.
 | Marie-Madeleine van Ruymbeke Stey
Professor of French; Lab Director
Office: Battelle 244-B
Phone: 614.236.6556
Lab Phone: 614.236.6147
Email: mstey@capital.edu
Web: http://capital2.capital.edu/faculty/mstey Ph.D.: French language and literature, The Ohio State University
Degree of Specialist in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio State University
Licence en Philologie Romane: University of Louvain, Belgium |
Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, Marie-Madeleine Stey has taught at Capital University since 1999. Keenly interested in Oral Proficiency, she teaches a variety of courses dealing with language and culture, among them French Conversation, Oral and Written Review, Advanced Oral and Written Review, Aspects of the French Language, and the Senior Seminar in French. Through her teaching, she developed an interest in African and Francophone literature that led to the development of her course on Francophone Culture. In her research, she is a medievalist working on Occitan and French literature; she is a member of a number of professional organizations and an officer in the International Marie de France Society. One of her current interests is the short story of Kama Sywor Kamanda. Prof. Stey has delivered papers at numerous conferences in the US, Canada, Europe, and Africa. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she serves as Capital’s Language Lab director. She has sponsored a trip to the province of Québec for her Francophone Culture class.
Saunders, Stephanie
Office: BHSN 244-D
Phone: 236-6485