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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 | OFFICE HOURS |
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| Maryellen Bieder Professor |
Email: bieder |
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 |
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| 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 |
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 |
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 |
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| Willis Barnstone Distinguished Professor |
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| Luis Beltrán Professor |
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| Mary L. Clayton Professor |
Email: clayton Ballantine 868 855-4878 |
Phonological Theory, Spanish Phonology, Dialectology, Historical Grammar, Lexicography |
| John Dyson Professor |
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| Heitor Martins Professor |
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| Daniel Quilter
(deceased) Professor |
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| Russell Salmon Professor |
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| Merle Simmons (deceased) Professor |
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| Frances Wyers Professor |
Directors of Language Instruction
| FACULTY MEMBER | CONTACT | RESEARCH AREAS | OFFICE HOURS |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |


