Faculty and Staff

Yamile Silva
Professor, Spanish; Department Chair (On Sabbatical Leave AY 2021-2022)
316 O'Hara Hall
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Faculty

Marzia Caporale
Professor, French and Italian
319 O'Hara Hall
Ph.D., University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2004
Current research: Francophone women writers; French and Francophone film.

Roxana Curiel
Assistant Professor, Spanish
317 O'Hara Hall
Ph.D., University of California, 2016
Teaching and research interests: Pedagogies for language-minoritized students, raciolinguistics, film theory, Indigenous sovereignty, migrations across the Americas, and forced displacement.
Jaime Meilán del Río
Faculty Specialist, Spanish
jaime.meilandelrio@scranton.edu
321 O'Hara Hall
Law degree, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain (1986)

Virginia Picchietti
Associate Professor, Italian
virginia.picchietti@scranton.edu
320 O'Hara Hall
Ph.D., Indiana University
Joseph Wilson
Professor, Latin and Greek
322 O'Hara Hall
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1982

Habib Zanzana
Professor, Spanish and Arabic
318 O'Hara Hall
Ph.D., Indiana University

Hannah Jackson
Director, Language Learning Center
308 O'Hara Hall
M.A., Biola University
Staff
JoAnne Jurkiewicz
Secretary
World Languages and Cultures
joanne.jurkiewicz@scranton.edu
O'Hara 301 | (570) 941-4014