Administration & Staff
Meet the Spanish & Portuguese Studies Administration & Staff
Department Leadership
William Viestenz
Specialties
Contemporary Iberian Literature and Culture; Post-Secularism and the Sacred; Environmental Humanities; Neo-Ruralism; Iberian Studies; Political Theory
Mandy Menke
Specialties
second language acquisition; multiliteracies instruction; bilingual and immersion education; second language phonology; L2 syntactic complexity
Timothy Face
Specialties
Spanish Second Language Phonology; Laboratory Phonology; Phonetics; Spanish Prosody; Spanish Intonation; Phonological Theory; Spanish Grammar and Language Structure
Ofelia Ferrán
Specialties
autobiography; contemporary Spanish peninsular literature; contemporay Spanish women writers; exile literature; feminist theory; literary theory and criticism; narrative constructions and representations of memory
Department Staff
Alison Hribar
Specialties
Advising; Event production; Project managment; Design & communications; Resume & cv writing
Maryanne Williams Smoczyk
Specialties
Academic Advising; Career Exploration; Study abroad
Course Coordinators
Michael Arnold
Specialties
Contemporary Spanish peninsular literature; Film and cultural history; Contemporary Portuguese culture; Iberian Musics (popular, urban folk, indie); Hybridity; Cultural Musicology of Flamenco and Fado; Transatlantic studies; Subcultural studies
Sara Finney
Specialties
Foreign language pedagogy, multiliteracies pedagogy, social justice pedagogies, experiential learning, second language acquisition, and learner agency
Erma Nezirevic
Specialties
Contemporary Iberian Literature and Culture; Critical Genocide Studies; Memory studies; Biopolitics
Eva Palma Zúñiga
Specialties
Latin American, Indigenous and Environmental Literature; Memory Studies and Human Rights; Ecocriticism
Hernán Matzkevich
Specialties
Early Modern Peninsular and Transatlantic Hispanic Literature; Jewish Studies; Early Modern Sephardic Intellectual Culture; Discourses of dehumanization and exclusion across Early Modern, modern, and contemporary literature; History of Science; Medical Humanities