Instructor Teaching Professor of Spanish
Abby Baier, Instructor Teaching Professor of Spanish at Gordon College graduated with a BA in English Literature from Gordon College in 2022, then continued to earn an MA degree in Spanish Literature at Baylor University in 2024. She has tutored English essay writing extensively at both universities and taught several lower-level Spanish courses at Baylor as part of the master’s program. She defended her thesis on representations ... more ➔
Lecturer of Spanish
Denise M. Campoli joined the Gordon faculty in the spring of 2014 as a Spanish adjunct. She has taught Spanish and French at the middle and high school level, led student and adult trips to Spain, France and England, participated in NEASC (now called NECHE) accreditation teams in New England and internationally, and served as Foreign Language Department Chair in Amesbury, MA. Her classroom provides a setting which includes supportive strategies ... more ➔
Lecturer of French
Dr. Celestin was French educated from PK through college. He previously served as a French educator/tutor to high school students in Haiti and in Spring Valley, NY. While he was a student at Alliance Theological Seminary, he joined the faculty of Nyack College as an Adjunct Professor of Foreign Language. He taught French from 1999 to 2000 while he was the leader of the Christian Education and Youth Ministries at the French Speaking ... more ➔
Professor of French
Languages Program Director
The sitter for this self-portrait has a primary interest in Early Modern French Literature and Reformation Studies, with a secondary interest in Italian Renaissance, while indulging an occasional foray into contemporary literature, genealogy, and horological history. His articles have appeared in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, La Nouvelle Revue du Seizième Siècle, Etudes Rabelaisiennes, Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance-Humanisme-Réforme, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, The French Review, French Studies Bulletin, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Romania, The Romanic Review, La Valmasque, Classical and Modern Literature, Iris, The Essex Genealogist, American Ancestors Magazine, National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Bulletin, The Timepiece Journal, Notes & Queries, The Historical Journal of Massachusetts, ... more ➔
Lecturer of Spanish
Professor Figueroa is originally from Chile but has lived in the U.S. for over six years. She joined the Gordon faculty in the fall of 2022 as a Spanish adjunct. She became interested in intercultural communication as a child and later on married an American native, Dr. Jeff Stevenson, with whom she's raising three bilingual children. Her academic interests include bilingualism and cross-cultural competence. Professor Figueroa's teaching ... more ➔
Associate Professor of Spanish
Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
Professor Stevenson’s teaching and research focuses on the development of linguistic and intercultural proficiency with a special interest in ethnographic interview techniques and in-country project-based research in collaboration with local students and faculty during study abroad. He is also the founder of Proyecto Nehemías, a Spanish-language publishing house which produces content on faith and work, whole-life discipleship, ... more ➔