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Faculty

Current Faculty
Emeriti Faculty
Directors of Language Instruction
Director of Instructional Technology
Visiting Faculty
Lecturers

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Maryellen Bieder Professor	Email: bieder Ballantine 877 855-8297	19th-century narrative, especially women authors; Visual Cultural Studies: Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós; 20th- and 21st-century Spanish and Catalan narrative, recovery of historical memory narratives
J. Clancy Clements Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	Email: clements Ballantine 844 855-7447	Contact Linguistics, Lexical Semantics, Functional Syntax, Morphology, Sociolinguistics.
Deborah Cohn Associate Professor	Email: dncohn Ballantine 870 856-5993	Comparative Literature of the Americas, Mexican Intellectual Infrastructure.
Luis Dávila Professor Director of Chicano-Riqueño Studies	Email: davilal Ballantine 849 855-5257	Mexican Literature, Hispanic Culture and Literature in the United States.
Manuel Díaz-Campos Associate Professor Acting Director of Hispanic Linguistics	Email: mdiazcam Ballantine 857 856-5462	Sociolinguistics, Phonological Variation, Child Phonology, Intonation, Second Language Phonology.
Melissa Dinverno Associate Professor	Email: mdinvern Ballantine 869 855-5270	20th-Century Spanish Literature and Film, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Textual/Editorial Theory
Patrick Dove Assistant Professor	Email: pdove Ballantine 874 855-6136	20th-century Spanish-American Narrative, Literary Theory, Philosophy and literature
J. César Félix-Brasdefer Assistant Professor	Email: cfelixbr Ballantine 858 855-9551	Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics, Politeness Theory, Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Variation.
Kimberly L. Geeslin Associate Professor Director of Hispanic Linguistics Program	Email: kgeeslin Ballantine 853 856-5470	Theoretical Linguistics and Second-Language Acquisition, Language Variation.
Carl Good Assistant Professor	Email: carlgood Ballantine 814 856-0309	20th-century Hispanic American Literature (especially poetry), Mexican literature and culture, Theory of Literature
Edgar Illas Assistant Professor	Email: eillas Ballantine 875	Catalan language and literature, 20th-century Spanish literature and culture, architecture and literature
Olga Impey Professor	Email: impey Ballantine 844 855-5732	Spanish Medieval Literature, Renaissance Literature
Catherine Larson Professor Incoming Chair, January 2009	Email: larson Ballantine 852 855-5447	Spanish Golden Age Literature, Contemporary Spanish American Theater.
Alejandro Mejías-López Associate Professor	Email: amejiasl Ballantine 815 856-1059	Latin American Literature.
Kathleen Myers Professor	Email: myersk Ballantine 859 855-6691	Colonial Spanish American Literature, 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic Women Writers.
Luciana Namorato Assistant Professor	Email: lnamorat Ballantine 837 856-1061	Brazilian and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures, Brazilian Modernism, Contermporary Latin American Narrative, Gender Studies
Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo Assistant Professor	Email: migrodri Ballantine 868 855-4878	Syntax, Language Acquisition, Spanish Linguistics.
Darlene J. Sadlier Professor Director of the Portuguese Program	Email: sadlier Ballantine 806 855-1514	Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture, Women's Studies, Film Studies.
Gustavo Sainz Professor	Email: gsainz Ballantine 844 855-6392	Contemporary Spanish American Narrative, Mexican Literature.
Josep M. Sobrer Professor Interim Chair and Acting Director of Graduate Studies	Email: sobrer Ballantine 803 855-8498	Catalan Language and Literature, Translation Theory and Practice.
Estela Vieira Assistant Professor	Email: evieira Ballantine 875 855-8907	Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures, Luso-Hispanic comparative approaches to literature
Reyes Vila-Belda Associate Professor	Email: rvilabel Ballantine 809 856-1057	20th-Century Spanish Poetry; Intellectual History and Cultural Production
Steven Wagschal Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	Email: swagscha Ballantine 862/804 855-1623	Early Modern Spanish literature, Art and Literature, Philosophy and Literature
Erik W. Willis Assistant Professor	Email: ewwillis Ballantine 866 855-8494	Experimental Spanish Phonology, Phonetics, and Variation

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Emeriti Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Consuelo López-Morillas Professor	Email: lopez Ballantine 871 855-1157	Romance Linguistics, Hispano-Arabic Language and Literature.
Juan L. Alborg Professor
Willis Barnstone Distinguished Professor
Luis Beltrán Professor
Mary L. Clayton Professor	Email: clayton Ballantine 868 855-4878	Phonological Theory, Spanish Phonology, Dialectology, Historical Grammar, Lexicography
John Dyson Professor
Heitor Martins Professor
Daniel Quilter (deceased) Professor
Russell Salmon Professor
Merle Simmons (deceased) Professor
Frances Wyers Professor

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Directors of Language Instruction

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS	OFFICE HOURS
Silvana Falconi Senior Lecturer Director of Language Instruction	Email: sfalconi
Terri Greenslade Senior Lecturer Assistant Director of Language Instruction	Email: tgreensl

Director of Instructional Technology

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS	OFFICE HOURS
Juan Manuel Soto-Arriví Senior Lecturer Director of Instructional Technology	Email: jsoto

Visiting Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	EDUCATION	RESEARCH AREAS
Javier Puerto Benito Visiting Assistant Professor	fompedraza@yahoo.com	Ph.D.U of Kentucky, 2008	Medieval literature.
Luis Intersimone Visiting Assistant Professor	lintersi@indiana.edu	Ph.D. Rutgers University, 2006	Research areas - 20th Century Latin American Literature
Alberto D. González Valdés Visiting Assistant Professor	valdes@bard.edu	Ph.D. U Conn , 2006	Contemporary Cuban popular culture.
Anna Witte Visiting Assistant Professor	AnnaWitte@gmx.net	Ph.D. U of Texas , 1991.	Theater, music, children’s literature.
Chrystian Zegarra Visiting Assistant Professor	czegarra@languages.utah.edu	Ph.D. UCLA, 2006.	Contemporary LA poetry and cinema.

Lecturers

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS	OFFICE HOURS
Vania Castro Senior Lecturer	Email: vacastro
Stephanie Goetz Lecturer	Email: swoody
Jennifer O’Daniel Lecturer	Email: jlodanie

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