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Department Administration

Our department’s administrative offices are located in Withers Hall, Room 310.

Address: 101 Lampe Dr. Raleigh, NC 27695

Phone: 919-515-2475

Administrators

Department Head, Jim Michnowicz
Phone: 919-515-9310
Email: michnowicz@ncsu.edu

Associate Department Head, Scott Despain
Phone: 919-513-1482
Email: despain@ncsu.edu

Assistant Head for Student Affairs, Susan Navey-Davis
Phone: 919-515-9288 
Email: navey@ncsu.edu

Assistant Head for Scheduling, A. Carolyn Wright
Phone: 919-515-9287
Email: carolyn_wright@ncsu.edu

Director of Graduate Programs, Valerie Lambert
Email: vawust@ncsu.edu

Section Coordinators

Arabic Language and Culture, Jodi Khater
Email: jskhater@ncsu.edu

Chinese Studies, Nathaniel Isaacson
Email: nkisaacs@ncsu.edu

Classical Studies, Dustin Heinen
Email: dheinen@ncsu.edu

Foreign Language Education, Emily Sands
Email: edsands@ncsu.edu

French, Laura Call
Email: lkcall@ncsu.edu

German Studies, Helga Braunbeck
Email: hgb@ncsu.edu

Hindi-Urdu, Sujata Mody
Email: ssmody@ncsu.edu

Italian Studies, Anna Rita Bonaduce-Dresler
Email: arbonadu@ncsu.edu

Japanese, Wakako Sera
Email: wsera@ncsu.edu

Persian, Maryam Mohaghegh
Email: mmohagh@ncsu.edu

Portuguese, Karen A. Coachman
Email: kacoachm@ncsu.edu

Russian Studies, Alexei Lalo
Email: alalo@ncsu.edu

Spanish, Mark Darhower
Email: mldarhow@ncsu.edu

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Jennifer Despain
Email: jhdespain@ncsu.edu