Faculty & Staff

Associate Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Chair, Department of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Latin American crónica
- Southern Cone and Brazilian women writers
- Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice
- Gender and Sexuality Studies

Associate Professor of Spanish
Specialties:
- 16th and 17th century Hispanic colonial literatures and cultures
- Visual studies and Mesoamerican cultural productions and manuscripts
- Literary and cultural theory; (Post)colonial studies
- Queer theory and seventeenth-century Spanish peninsular drama and poetry

Assistant Director, Spanish Intensive Language Program
Specialties:
- Narratology
- Early European narrative and folklore
- Literary motifs and symbols

Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies
William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages
Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
- Spanish and Catalan theatre and performance
- Theatre translation and translation theory

Associate Professor of Latin American and Film Studies, Emerita
Specialties:
- Twentieth/Twenty-First Centuries Latin American Literature and Film
- Humanities Research with Digital Technology
- Documentary film
- Community film
- Postcolonial/Decolonial theories

Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
Specialties:
- Latinx Studies
- Latinx popular culture, especially film and television
- Immigration & Border Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Race & Ethnicity

Associate Professor of Spanish
Specialties:
- Spanish morphosyntax
- Heritage speaker bilingualism
- Second language acquisition
- Cross-linguistic influence/transfer
- Code-switching
- Third language acquisition

Associate Professor of Spanish
Specialties:
- Medieval and early modern Spanish literature
- Spanish literary historiography (concepts, periodization, canon formation)

Associate Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics
Specialties:
- Second language acquisition
- Language teaching methods
- Phonetics and pronunciation instruction

Director, Global Studio
Specialties:
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Russian literature and culture
- Linguistics
- Intellectual history in the sciences
- Translation

Associate Professor of Spanish
Specialties:
- Nineteenth-century Spanish Literature

Director, Spanish Intensive Language Program
Specialties:
- Spanish language pedagogy

Visiting Lecturer of Latin American, Latino & Iberian Studies
Specialties:
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish and Catalan Literature
- Transatlantic print culture
- Spanish language pedagogy

Director of Community-Based Learning
Specialties:
- Intersections between Literary and Social Studies
- Latin American XX/XXI Centuries Narrative
- Experiential Learning
- Visual Studies and Literary Theory