Erudiel Bernal

Instructor of World Languages

Morganton

Joined NCSSM in July 2022

Erudiel Bernal joined the NCSSM-Morganton team in July 2022. He was born and raised in Mexico, where he began studying foreign languages as a high school student starting with Italian and then English. After graduating from college, he moved to Paris, France, worked as a garçon au-pair and studied French while being immersed in French culture. He also worked as a high school Spanish teacher in Valognes, a small town in the French region of Normandy. In 2007, he traveled to China to study Mandarin and business at the University of Ningbo, also working as a Spanish and English teacher at different levels. From 2015 through 2022, he taught Spanish and global studies at Harris Road Middle School in Cabarrus County, NC. Erudiel loves traveling and has been to more than 30 countries thus far. When he is visiting a new place, he loves exploring and learning about its history, architecture, and culture, especially through the people and the food.

BA, English Language Teaching, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes Mexico
MA, TESOL Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Greensboro College


Humanities

Nadiyah Aamer

Instructor of Spanish

Layla Aldousany

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Carrie Alter

Instructor of Studio Art

Marcelo Aranda

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities; Faculty Senate Chair

Kate Axelrod

Program Associate

Jay Bonner

Instructor of American Studies

Sarah Booker

Instructor of World Languages

Michelle Brenner

Instructor of Humanities

David Cantrell

Instructor of Humanities

Jane Cantwell

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Kristin Connor

Instructor of Spanish

Chad Cygan

Instructor of Choral Music

Christy Davenport

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Katy Doll

Instructor of American Studies

David Dry

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Mark Dubois

Instructor of Humanities

Alexa Garvoille

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Fiona Gillespie

Instructor of Spanish

Neal Keesee

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Chad Keister

Instructor of Economics and Social Science

Jim Kirkpatrick

Instructor of Music

Fayez Kurdi

Instructor of World Languages

Scott Laird

Instructor of Music and Chair of Fine Arts (Durham/Morganton)

Hong Li

Instructor of Chinese

Courtney Long

Instructor of Visual Arts

Blake Madden

Instructor of Photography

Margaret McDowell

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Tatiana McInnis

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Lindsay Metivier

Instructor of Photography

Ormand Moore

Instructor of Humanities

Katie Moulder

Instructor of Humanities

Amanda Moulder

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Meredith Murphy ’02

Instructor and Chair of Humanities (Durham)

William Nessly

Instructor of American Studies and Asian-American Studies

Tess Nielsen

Instructor of Choral Music and Drama

Robert Noffsinger

Instructor of Spanish and Humanities

Javier Pabón

Dean of Humanities

Liz Peeples

Instructor of Humanities

Carolina Perez

Instructor of Music

Martha Regalis

Instructor of Humanities

Stuart Rose

Auditorium Technical Director

Meltem Safak

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Adam Sampieri

Instructor of Drama

Tonya Smith ’89

Instructor of Spanish and Humanities

Marc Sprintz

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities

Keegan Storrs

Instructor of Spanish and Chair of Humanities (Durham)

Natsuko Suwa

Instructor of Japanese

Cecile Tougas

Instructor of Latin

Ying-Hua Tsai

Instructor of Chinese

Qian Wang

Instructor of Chinese

John Woodmansee

Instructor of Humanities

John Zimmerman

Instructor of American Studies and Humanities and Chair of Humanities (Morganton)