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