D-TALE Faculty
Profiles and contact information listed by subject area
- Educational Leadership
Educational Leadership
- English
English
Thomas Mangano
Lecturer and Director of Field Experience and Clinical Practice (631) 632-7400
Timothy August
Professor of English
Graduate Program Director, Department of English
- Foreign Language
Foreign Language
Sarah Jourdain, PhD
Department Chair
Associate Professor
Director, World Language Teacher Preparation
LLRC Director
(631) 632-7440
Kathleen Vernon, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature
(631) 632-9668
Irene Marchegiani, PhD
Provost's Outstanding Lecturer and Director of Field Experience and Clinical Practice, Undergraduate and Graduate Teacher Education Advisor in Italian 
Nicholas Rzhevsky, PhD
Graduate Director of European Languages (631) 632-7359
Daniela Flesler, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Undergraduate Teacher Education Advisor in Spanish (631) 632-6031
Andrea Fedi, PhD
Associate Professor: Italian Renaissance literature, and historiography and Director, Language Learning and Research Center (LLRC) (631) 632-7013
Jiwon Hwang, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies: Undergraduate Chinese, Japanese and Korean Advisor 
Madeline Turan, MS
Lecturer, Foreign Language Teacher Education Program and Co-Director of the ELLC ACE Program (631) 632-7440
Timothy C. Westphalen, PhD
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Advisor in Russian (631) 632-7387
Aurelie Vialette, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty Advisor in Spanish (631) 632-7387
- Mathematics
Mathematics
Lisa Berger, PhD
Director of Mathematics Education and Associate Professor of Mathematics (631) 632-8278
Jason Starr, PhD
Advisor for Mathematics Education and Professor of Mathematics (631) 632-8270
Alaa Karem Abd-El-Hafez
Acting Director of Field Experience and Clinical Practice Alexander Kirillov, PhD
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Interim Department Chair (631) 632-8289
Raanan Schul, PhD
Professor of Mathematics and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies (631) 632-8995
- Science
Science
Keith Sheppard, EdD
Director of Science Education and Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Director, Institute for STEM Education(631) 632-2989
Linda Padwa, PhD
Provost's Outstanding Lecturer, Associate Director for Science Education and Director of Field Experience and Clinical Practice
Co-director of the Long Island New York State Master Teacher Program(631) 632-7075
Zuzana Zachar, PhD
Research Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor, Biology (631) 632-8970
Susan Oatis, PhD
Lecturer and Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor, Chemistry (631) 632-1571
Robert McCarthy
Professor and Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor, Physics (631) 632-8086
mccarthy@sbhep1.physics.sunysb.edurobert.mccarthy@stonybrook.edu
Caren Gough, PhD
Lecturer, Co-director of the Long Island New York State Master Teacher Program (631) 632-7075
Angela Kelly, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy Institute for STEM Education (631) 632-7075
Deanna Rogers, PhD
Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor, Geosciences (631) 632-1509
- Social Studies
Social Studies
Charles Backfish, MA
Program Director, Provost's Outstanding Lecturer and Director of Field Experience and Clinical Practice (631) 632-1093
- TESOL
TESOL
Mariann Coogan, MA
Director of TESOL Teacher Preparation and Certification 
Dorit Kaufman, PhD
Professor of Linguistics and TESOL Teacher Education (631) 632-7783
Marie K. Huffman
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies - Core Education Faculty
Core Education Faculty
Georges Fouron, EdD
Professor, Africana Studies (631) 632-6924
Nicholas J. Ullrich III, MA
Lecturer, Human Development (631) 632-7800
Natalie Lukas, MS, TEP
Director SUNY Urban Teacher Education Center (SUTEC) 917-346-2932
