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Language House People

Find faculty, staff, and mentors in the Language House.

Language House Staff

Charlee Bezilla

Associate Director, Language House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

0107A St. Mary's Hall
College Park MD, 20742

Marilyn Matar

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Assistant Clinical Professor, French
Director, Language House
Honors Humanities Faculty Fellow, College of Arts and Humanities

3106F Jimenez Hall
College Park MD, 20742

Additional Contacts

Language House Mentors

Spring 2025

  • Arabic: Kimberli Muñoz 
  • Chinese: Congyao Wu
  • French: Fatima Kirkland-El
  • Italian: Sokun Bagni
  • Japanese: Allison Parrish
  • Korean: Hyeran Ryu
  • Persian: Maryam Rezaei Zadeh
  • Russian: Daniel Golzari
  • Spanish: Isadora Quintana

Residential Life Support

  • Community Director - Erin Schlegel
  • Resident Director -  Theo Nichols
  • Resident Assistants - Keon Abasi and Ariana Paulino

Faculty Liaisons

Nahal Akbari

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Director, Persian Flagship Program, Persian
Member, Maryland Language Science Center

3110 H.J. Patterson Hall
College Park MD, 20742

(301) 405-9910

Giuseppe Falvo

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Program Director and Associate Professor, Romance Languages, Italian

4106 Jiménez Hall
College Park MD, 20742

(301) 405-4031

Regina Haag

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Clinical Professor, UG Advisor, German Studies

3224 Jiménez Hall
College Park MD, 20742

(301) 405-4096

Ahmed Hanafy

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Faculty Language Partner Program Coordinator, Arabic
Member, Maryland Language Science Center

3126 H.J. Patterson Hall
College Park MD, 20742

(301) 405-3015

Makiko Inoue

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Senior Lecturer and Advisor, Japanese

4218 Jiménez Hall
College Park MD, 20742

(301) 405-0495

Bahareh Jaleh

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Lecturer, Persian Flagship

3139 H.J. Patterson Hall
College Park MD, 20742

Seong Minne Koh

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Lecturer, Korean

2103 Jiménez Hall
College Park MD, 20742

Michael Lavery

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Assistant Professor, Russian

4224 Jiménez Hall
College Park MD, 20742

Jungjung Lee-Heitz

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Senior Lecturer, Chinese

4223 Jiménez Hall
College Park MD, 20742

Christopher Lewis

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Assistant Clinical Professor, Advisor, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

2211 Jiménez Hall
College Park MD, 20742

(301) 405-6556

Hannah Wegmann

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Assistant Clinical Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, French

3106G Jiménez Hall
College Park MD, 20742

(301) 405-4032