Faculty & Staff
Associate Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics
Chair, Department of Latin American, Latino, & Iberian Studies
Specialties:
- Second language acquisition
- Language teaching methods
- Phonetics and pronunciation instruction
(804) 287-6459
Senior Teaching Faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
Director of Luso-Brazilian Studies
Contact: (804) 289-8111
Associate Professor of Spanish
American Studies Advisory Board Member
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
(804) 484-1543
Teaching Faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
Director of the Spanish Language Program
Specialties:
- Narratology
- Early European narrative and folklore
- Literary motifs and symbols
(804) 287-6413
Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino, & Iberian Studies
Contact:
Dr. Sharon G. Feldman
She/Her
Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies
William Judson Gaines Chair of Modern Foreign Languages
Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
- Spanish and Catalan theatre and performance
- Theatre translation and translation theory
(804) 287-6419
Dr. Laura M. Fernández
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Latinx Studies
- Latinx Popular Culture
- Border Studies
(804) 289-8490
Associate Professor of Spanish
Specialties:
- Spanish morphosyntax
- Heritage speaker bilingualism
- Second language acquisition
- Cross-linguistic influence/transfer
- Code-switching
- Third language acquisition
(804) 484-1543
Associate Professor of Spanish
Specialties:
- Medieval and early modern Spanish literature
- Spanish literary historiography (concepts, periodization, canon formation)
(804) 287-6462
Teaching Faculty of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
Director, Global Studio
Specialties:
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Russian literature and culture
- Linguistics
- Intellectual history in the sciences
- Translation
(804) 287-6838
Associate Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Specialties:
- Latin American Performance and/as Activism
- Latin American Periodical Literature 20th Century
- Latin American crónica
- Southern Cone and Brazilian Women Writers
- Decolonial Feminist Theory & Praxis
- Feminist New Materialisms
- Black Feminist Thought & Praxis in Brazil & the US
(804) 287-6043
Associate Professor of Spanish
Specialties:
- Nineteenth-century Spanish Literature
(804) 484-1611
Teaching Faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
Director of the Spanish Language Program
Specialties:
- Spanish language pedagogy
(804) 287-6843
Visiting Lecturer of Latin American, Latino & Iberian Studies
Specialties:
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish and Catalan Literature
- Transatlantic print culture
- Spanish language pedagogy
Teaching Faculty of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
Director of Community-Based Learning for LALIS
Specialties:
- Intersections between Literary and Social Studies
- Latin American XX/XXI Centuries Narrative
- Experiential Learning
- Visual Studies and Literary Theory
(804) 287-6319
Emeriti Faculty
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
(804) 289-8114