Experts Guide
Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 319
Karyn Schell received her PhD in Romance Linguistics from the University of Washington. She also serves as the Spanish Language Coordinator. Her areas of interest include Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy, and Theoretical Linguistics. She teaches Spanish language and culture, Spanish conversation, and service-learning.
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
Jill Schepmann earned an MFA in creative writing from Vanderbilt University and a BA in English and psychology from the University of Kansas. In addition to teaching RHET 110 and RHET 120 courses at USF, she has provided adult literacy coaching through San Francisco Public Library's Project Read program, facilitated community and college-level creative writing workshops in Tennessee, taught middle school ELA in the Bay Area, and high school literature courses in Kansas. In her classroom, Jill…
Associate Professor
Harney Science Center 440D
Calla Schmidt received a PhD in Earth Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research spans physical hydrology and biogeochemistry and aims to understand the connection between hydrology and the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients. She has done research on nutrient cycling during groundwater recharge, nitrogen pollution in highway runoff and presently she is working on a project investigating the transfer of nutrients discharged by wastewater treatment plants into the base of…
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 202
Cynthia Schultes has taught at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., and Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama, Japan. At USF, she teaches courses in rhetoric and language as well as historiography.
Faculty Emeritus
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: Public health nursing,
Global health nursing,
Gender studies,
Theology
Dr. Schwartz is a public health nurse, professor, researcher, and theologian. She has taught nursing students at the University of California Los Angeles and West Coast University students. She has years of public health experience leading strategic planning and community coalitions. She recently completed her PhD in Nursing and uncovered a theory about how to Discover Self after adversity that can be used as a framework for corporations, schools, faith-based communities, families, and…
Adjunct Professor
Expertise: California Law and Practice Skills,
Education Law
Lois Schwartz is senior lecturer in law and a member of the full-time faculty at UC Hastings College of the Law. In addition to teaching, she completed a judicial clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2001-2002 and has served as a staff attorney and deputy public defender in Contra Costa County.
Adjunct Professor
Kalmanovitz Hall 481A
Pat Schwieterman earned BS degrees in Environmental Science and Plant Science at UC Riverside, and MA and PhD degrees in medieval English literature at UC Berkeley. At USF, he has taught courses on Middle English literature, children's literature, science fiction, and the Arthurian legend. His research focuses on the use of supernatural beings in constructions of cultural and political identity in medieval Britain. Other interests include medieval Wales, Old Icelandic and Old French, and the…