Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties
Sophia Beal Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies	206D Folwell Hall 612-625-2331 sfbeal@umn.edu	Brazilian literature and cultural studies, Lusophone-African Literature and cultural studies, urban studies, postcolonial studies
Collin Diver Visiting Assistant Professor	214C Folwell Hall diver035@umn.edu
Timothy Face Professor	203E Folwell Hall 612-625-1328 facex002@umn.edu	Intonation and prosody, laboratory phonology, phonetics, phonological theory, second language phonology
Ofelia Ferrán Associate Professor	203D Folwell Hall 612-625-6883 ferra007@umn.edu	Autobiography, contemporary Spanish peninsular literature, contemporary Spanish women writers, exile literature, feminist theory, literary theory and criticism, narrative constructions and representations of memory
Ana Paula Ferreira Professor	206C Folwell Hall 612-626-6909 apferrei@umn.edu	Decolonial Studies of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures “Race” and Coloniality in the Global Portuguese and Spanish South Women, Feminisms and Late Empire/Post empire
Ana Forcinito Professor	205D Folwell Hall 612-625-1014 aforcini@umn.edu	19th and 20th century Latin American literature with an emphasis on the Southern Cone, testimonial practices, Latin American film, gender studies and feminist theory, cultural theory and critica cultural, memory studies and human rights
Osiris A Gomez Assistant Professor	214N Folwell Hall ogomezve@umn.edu	Contemporary Mexican literature and culture, Indigenous literature, translation studies, linguistic rights.
Michelle Hamilton Professor	209 Folwell Hall 612-625-6661 hamilton@umn.edu	Cultural contact in medieval Iberia, literary theory and cultural studies, Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe, the medieval Mediterranean and its legacy, Sephardic traditions, Mediterranean studies
Jaime Hanneken Associate Professor	214M Folwell Hall 612-625-1837 hanne045@umn.edu	Contemporary Latin American literature, culture Francophone literature, culture postcolonial studies, globalization, Latin American vanguardias, discursive appropriations of Paris in Caribbean, Latin American, and African contexts, uses and limitation of metropolitan literary, cultural theory in peripheral contexts
Carol Klee Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies	205C Folwell Hall 612-625-9521 klee@umn.edu	Spanish language contact, sociolinguistics, content-based language instruction
Raúl Marrero-Fente Professor	203F Folwell Hall 612-626-8029 rmarrero@umn.edu	Colonial Latin America Literature and Culture, Early Modern Hispanic Epic Poetry, Latin American literature, Early Modern Spanish literature, Cuban literature, Legal History, Human Rights
Mandy Menke Associate Professor & Director of Language Programs	214K Folwell Hall 612-626-6889 menkem@umn.edu	Spanish second language acquisition, second language phonology, language immersion education, second language teaching
Francisco Ocampo Associate Professor	203C Folwell Hall 612-625-5822 focampo@umn.edu	Language and ideology, language variation, relationship between syntax, cognition and discourse, word order in spoken Spanish
Luis Ramos-Garcia Associate Professor	211 Folwell Hall 612-625-3039 laramosg@umn.edu	Human rights and politics: Latin America and Spain; human rights across the disciplines: theater, art, political science and literature; United States Latino theater and cultures; contemporary Latin American and peninsular theaters; Latin American shantytown cultural manifestations: music, literature and popular discourse; Latin American popular music; cultural studies: Spain and Latin America; contemporary Latin American and peninsular literature: novel, poetry, cultural discourses; Andean studies and Indigenous literature: concentration in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia; gender and women studies; Caribbean Spanish studies: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
William Viestenz Associate Professor & Department Chair	204C Folwell Hall wviesten@umn.edu	Contemporary Iberian literature and culture, post-secularism and the sacred, film studies, philosophy of history, Catalan studies

Academic Staff

Name	Contact
Stephanie Anderson Senior Teaching Specialist Remote Instruction Coordinator	207B Folwell Hall 612-625-0823 ande2901@umn.edu
Michael Arnold Lecturer Supervisor, SPAN 3015/3011	214D Folwell Hall 612-624-5529 arno0055@umn.edu
Kristin Beamish-Brown Senior Teaching Specialist	204A Folwell Hall 612-625-6367 beam0018@umn.edu
Cecily Brown Senior Lecturer Coordinator, SPAN 1001 and 1002	214C Folwell Hall 612-625-3391 brown016@umn.edu
Cristina Castro Senior Teaching Specialist	205A Folwell Hall 612-625-4317 cast0139@umn.edu
Joy Collman Senior Teaching Specialist on leave 2022-2023 academic year	207B Folwell Hall 612-625-0823 jcollman@umn.edu
Dora Dias Senior Teaching Specialist	204A Folwell Hall 612-625-6367 diasx006@umn.edu
Edward Eiffler Senior Teaching Specialist	207 Folwell Hall 612-624-5529 eiffl002@umn.edu
Sara Finney Senior Lecturer Supervisor, SPAN 1003	214B Folwell Hall 612-626-8713 sfinney@umn.edu
Marisol Galicia Estevez Senior Teaching Specialist	206A Folwell gali0025@umn.edu
Kathleen Ganley Senior Teaching Specialist	214D Folwell Hall 612-625-2459 ganle001@umn.edu
Anne Hoffman-González Senior Lecturer Coordinator, SPAN 3107W	204A Folwell Hall 612-625-6367 hoffm826@umn.edu	.
Elizabeth Lake Senior Teaching Specialist	205A Folwell Hall 612-625-2840 lake0030@umn.edu
Julia Luján Lecturer Supervisor, SPAN 1022	214A Folwell Hall lujan027@umn.edu
Sara Mack Senior Lecturer Supervisor, SPAN 1004	214B Folwell Hall 612-626-8713 mack@umn.edu
Elsa Maxwell Lecturer	206A Folwell Hall maxw0034@umn.edu
Erma Nezirevic Lecturer Coordinator, SPAN 3105W	205A Folwell Hall nezir001@umn.edu
Alicia Ocampo Senior Lecturer	ocamp001@umn.edu
Begoña Orive-Abad Senior Teaching Specialist	206A Folwell Hall 612-626-1371 orive001@umn.edu
Eva Palma Lecturer	304A Folwell Hall palma045@umn.edu
Mary Pogatshnik Senior Teaching Specialist	203A Folwell Hall 612-626-7436 poga0002@umn.edu
Kaylee Rasmussen Teaching Specialist	207B Folwell Hall rasmu528@umn.edu
Adriana Sanchez-Vargas Senior Teaching Specialist	203A Folwell Hall 612-626-7436 bradf015@umn.edu
Vanessa Santana Senior Teaching Specialist	sant0091@umn.edu
Gustavo Vargas Lecturer Coordinator, SPAN 3104W	varga181@umn.edu
Andrew Wiesinger Senior Teaching Specialist	207 Folwell Hall 612-624-5529 wiesi001@umn.edu
Sandra Winpea-Rellier Lecturer	304A Folwell Hall rell0017@umn.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Name	Contact
Alejandro Baer Associate Professor Department of Sociology	113 Social Sciences Building 612-624-7548 abaer@umn.edu
Martha Bigelow Professor Department of Curriculum & Instruction (CEHD)	125 Peik Hall 612-624-787 mbigelow@umn.edu
Sarah Chambers Professor Department of History	1218 Heller Hall 612-625-6376 chambers@umn.edu
Barbara Frey Senior Lecturer Institute for Global Studies	214 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9007 freyx001@umn.edu
Amy Kaminsky Professor Emerita Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies	kamin001@umn.edu
Kendall King Professor Department of Curriculum & Instruction (CEHD)	125 Peik Hall 612-625-3692 kendall@umn.edu
Patrick McNamara Associate Professor Department of History	1212 Heller Hall 612-624-6531 pjm@umn.edu
Elaine Tarone Director Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)	140 University International Center 612-625-8882 etarone@umn.edu

Faculty Emeriti

Name	Contact	Specialty
Joanna O'Connell Professor Emerita	oconn001@umn.edu	Latin-American literature and culture, issues of colonialism, race, and nationalism, women's writing, feminism and feminist theory, Mexico, indigenous revitalization movements and writing, the Caribbean, African and Caribbean writing in French and English
Antonio Ramos-Gascon Professor Emeritus	ramos006@umn.edu
Constance Sullivan Professor Emerita	sulli002@umn.edu
Barbara Weissberger Professor Emerita	weiss046@umn.edu	Ethnicity, gender, Isabella the Catholic, Spanish literature, Spanish romance
Nicholas Spadaccini Professor Emeritus	spada001@umn.edu	Comparative literature, colonial Spanish-American literature, Cervantes' novel and theater, early modern Spanish literature and culture, postcolonial theory, sociohistorical approaches
Anthony Zahareas Professor Emeritus	zahar001@umn.edu