Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialties | Office Hours - Spring 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sophia Beal Associate Professor |
206D Folwell Hall 612-625-2331 sfbeal@umn.edu |
Brazilian literature and cultural studies, Luscophone-African Literature and cultural studies, urban studies, postcolonial studies | Mondays and Wednesdays 12:35-1:35pm |
| Angelique Dwyer Visiting Associate Professor |
214N Folwell Hall 612-625-1837 adwyer@umn.edu |
Visiting from Gustavus Adolphus College | Wednesdays 2:30-3:30pm |
| Timothy Face Professor Chair |
203E Folwell Hall 612-625-1328 facex002@umn.edu |
Intonation and prosody, laboratory phonology, phonetics, phonological theory, second language phonology | Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00-11:00am, and by appointment |
| 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 |
Feminist and gender studies, Portuguese and Brazilian literatures, critical race studies, colonial/postcolonial studies, medieval and renaissance literatures | Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:30-6:30pm and by appointment |
| Ana Forcinito Profesor |
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 | |
| 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 | Tuesdays 10:30-11:14 (209 Folwell) Thursdays 2:45-3:15 (1030 Heller Hall) |
| Jaime Hanneken Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies |
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 |
205C Folwell Hall 612-625-9521 klee@umn.edu |
Spanish language contact, sociolinguistics, content-based language instruction | Wednesdays 2:00-4:00pm, and by appointment |
| Raúl Marrero-Fente Professor on leave Spring 2018 |
203F Folwell Hall 612-626-8029 rmarrero@umn.edu |
Trans-Atlantic studies, colonial Latin American literature and culture, early modern Spanish literature and culture, colonial and post-colonial studies, global studies, feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, human rights, law and literature | |
| Carlos Mejia Visiting Assistant Professor |
214N Folwell Hall 612-625-1837 cmejiasu@umn.edu |
Visiting from Gustavus Adolphus College | Thursdays 2:00-4:00pm |
| Mandy Menke Assistant 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 | By Appointment |
| 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 | Tuesdays 11:00am-1:00pm |
| Nicholas Spadaccini Professor On Leave Spring 2018 |
204C Folwell Hall 612-625-0732 spada001@umn.edu |
Comparative literature, colonial Spanish-American literature, Cervantes' novel and theater, early modern Spanish literature and culture, postcolonial theory, sociohistorical approaches | |
| William Viestenz Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies |
214L Folwell Hall wviesten@umn.edu |
Contemporary Iberian literature and culture, post-secularism and the sacred, film studies, philosophy of history, Catalan studies | Wednesdays 1:00-3:00pm |
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 | Speciality |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Anthony Zahareas Professor Emeritus |
zahar001@umn.edu |