Hoyt Hall

Faculty and Staff

  • Administration: Joy Landeira, Department Head; Logan Arnold, Business Manager; Gwynn Lemler, Office Associate, Senior; Laszlo Somlyay, Office Associate

  • Chinese: Yan Zhang

  • Classical Civilizations, Greek, & Latin: Laura De Lozier

  • French: Ekaterina Alexandrova, Bénédicte Sohier, Khama-Bassili Tolo (section head)

  • German: Rebecca Steele (section head); Ursula Adelt; Stephanie Schottel

  • Japanese: Noah Miles

  • Spanish: Irene Checa-Garcia, Conxita Domènech, Chelsea Escalante, Joy Landeira, Sonia Rodriguez-Hicks, Adriana Noya

  • Faculty Emeriti

  • Graduate Assistants: Maria Del Carmen Aguirre, Sierra Clark, Julian Delgadillo-Lovato, Tess Fairbanks, Meili Jensen, Shaney Kruse, Rafaella Martins Alves, Domenica Siavichay Gutierrez, Bernardito Tumulak, Jr.

Faculty and Staff

Portrait of Ursula Adelt

Ursula Adelt

Assistant Lecturer

Hoyt Hall 207

uadelt1@uwyo.edu 

Ursula holds a Diplom in Erziehungswissenschaft from the Universität Hamburg and a Master's degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Iowa. She spent most of her childhood and young adulthood in Hamburg, Germany. She moved to the U.S. in 2001 and has lived in Laramie since 2007. What she enjoys most about teaching at the University of Wyoming is nurturing excitement for foreign languages, specifically German, in her students and helping them gain a broader perspective on life through teaching about German/Austrian/Swiss culture.

Ekaterina Alexandrova

Associate Professor of French

Hoyt Hall 114

ealexan5@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Logan Arnold

Logan Arnold

Business Manager

Hoyt Hall 132

(307)766-2867

larnold6@uwyo.edu 

Portrait of Irene Checa-Garcia

Irene Checa-Garcia

Associate Professor of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 205

irene.checa@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Laura De Lozier

Laura De Lozier

Senior Lecturer of Classics, Greek & Latin, Section Head

Hoyt Hall 101

delozier@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Conxita Domenech

Conxita Domènech

Professor of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 202

cdomenec@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Chelsea Escalante

Chelsea Escalante

Associate Professor of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 210

cescalan@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Joy Landeira

Joy Landeira

Professor of Spanish, Department Chair

Hoyt Hall 104

307-766-4852

jlandeir@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Gwynn Lemler

Gwynn Lemler

Office Associate, Senior

Hoyt Hall 134

(307)766-6453

LemlerG@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Noah Miles

Noah Miles

Assistant Lecturer of Japanese, Section Head

Hoyt Hall 203

nmiles1@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Adriana Noya

Adriana Noya

Assistant Lecturer of Spanish

Hoyt 103

anoyasal@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Sonia Rodriguez Hicks

Sonia Rodriguez-Hicks

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 209

soniahr@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Stephanie Schottel

Stephanie Schottel

Assistant Lecturer of German

Online

sschotte@uwyo.edu 

Stephanie Schottel holds Bachelor’s degrees in both Journalism and German from the University of Missouri-Columbia, as well as a Master’s degree in Germanic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She is an online German instructor at the University of Wyoming and Barton Community College. She is a certified Neurolanguage Coach™ and a Ph.D. Candidate in Second Language Acquisition Research at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. Her areas of interest include effective curriculum design for online language learning, as well as machine translation and its effects on second language acquisition.

Portrait of Benedicte Sohier

Bénédicte Sohier

Senior Lecturer of French

Hoyt Hall 201

bsohier@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Laszlo Somlyay

Laszlo Somlyay

Office Associate

Hoyt Hall 126

(307)766-6452

lsomlya1@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Rebecca Steele

Rebecca Steele

Associate Professor of German, Section Head

Hoyt Hall 106

rsteele4@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Khama-Bassili Tolo

Khama Bassili Tolo

Associate Professor of French, Section Head

Hoyt Hall 105

kbtolo@uwyo.edu

Portrait of Yan Zhang

Yan Zhang

Senior Lecturer of Chinese, Section Head

Hoyt Hall 208

yzhang@uwyo.edu

Graduate Assistants

Portrait of Maria Del Carmen Aguirre

Maria Del Carmen Aguirre

Graduate Assistant of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 030

maguirr5@uwyo.edu 

Portrait of Sierra Clark

Sierra Clark

 Graduate Assistant of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 107

sclark28@uwyo.edu 

Portrait of Julian Delgadillo-Lovato

Julian Delgadillo-Lovato

Graduate Assistant of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 043

jdelgad8@uwyo.edu 

Portrait of Tess Fairbanks

Tess Fairbanks

Graduate Assistant of Spanish

Hoyt Hoall 028

tfairba1@uwyo.edu 

Portrait of Meili Jensen

Meili Jensen

Graduate Assistant of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 036

mjense46@uwyo.edu 

Portrait of Shaney Kruse

Shaney Kruse

Graduate Assistant of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 028

skruse3@uwyo.edu 

Portrait of Rafaela Martins Alves

Rafaella Martins Alves

Graduate Assistant of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 028

rmartins@uwyo.edu 

Domenica Siavichay Gutierrez

Graduate Assistant of Spanish

Hoyt Hall 032

dsiavich@uwyo.edu 

Portrait of Bernardito Tumulak, Jr.

Bernardito Tumulak, Jr.

Fulbright Scholar

Hoyt Hall 108

btumulak@uwyo.edu 

Contact Us

Modern & Classical Languages

Hoyt Hall 126

Dept. 3603

1000 E. University Ave

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307-766-4176

Fax: 307-766-2727

Email: languages@uwyo.edu

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