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

• Latin American crónica
• Southern Cone and Brazilian women writers
• Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice
• Gender and Sexuality Studies

Director of Portuguese

Associate Professor of Spanish

• 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

• 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

• Spanish and Catalan theatre and performance
• Theatre translation and translation theory

Associate Professor of Latin American and Film Studies, Emerita

• 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

• Latinx Studies
• Latinx popular culture, especially film and television
• Immigration & Border Studies
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Race & Ethnicity

Associate Professor of Spanish

• Spanish morphosyntax
• Heritage speaker bilingualism
• Second language acquisition
• Cross-linguistic influence/transfer
• Code-switching
• Third language acquisition

Associate Professor of Spanish

• Medieval and early modern Spanish literature
• Spanish literary historiography (concepts, periodization, canon formation)

Associate Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics

• Second language acquisition
• Language teaching methods
• Phonetics and pronunciation instruction

Director, Global Studio

• Technology-enhanced learning
• Russian literature and culture
• Linguistics
• Intellectual history in the sciences
• Translation

Associate Professor of Spanish

• Nineteenth-century Spanish Literature

Director, Spanish Intensive Language Program

• Spanish language pedagogy

Visiting Lecturer of Latin American, Latino & Iberian Studies

• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish and Catalan Literature
• Transatlantic print culture
• Spanish language pedagogy

Administrative Coordinator

Director of Community-Based Learning

• Intersections between Literary and Social Studies
• Latin American XX/XXI Centuries Narrative
• Experiential Learning
• Visual Studies and Literary Theory