Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties	Office Hours Spring 2021
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	Tuesdays 11:20 am–1:20 pm Schedule an appointment with Sophia Beal on Google calendar
Timothy Face Professor	203E Folwell Hall 612-625-1328 facex002@umn.edu	Intonation and prosody, laboratory phonology, phonetics, phonological theory, second language phonology	Please email to schedule an appointment
Ofelia Ferrán Associate Professor on leave Fall 2021	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	Mondays & Wednesdays 11:30 am–noon and Wednesdays 2:15–3:00 pm by Zoom appointment
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	Wednesdays 1:00–2:00 pm by Zoom appointment
Osiris A Gomez Assistant Professor	214N Folwell Hall ogomezve@umn.edu	Contemporary Mexican literature and culture, Indigenous literature, translation studies, linguistic rights.	Thursdays 4:00–5:00 pm by Zoom appointment
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	Please email to schedule an appointment
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	Tuesdays 2:00–3:30 pm
Carol Klee Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	205C Folwell Hall 612-625-9521 klee@umn.edu	Spanish language contact, sociolinguistics, content-based language instruction	Mondays & Wednesdays 3:50–4:50 pm and by Zoom appointment
Raúl Marrero-Fente Professor on leave 2021-2022	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	Tuesdays 3:45–4:45 pm by Zoom appointment
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	Monday 10:00–11:00 am, Wednesday 1:00-2:00 pm Schedule an appointment with Mandy Menke on Google calendar. Email for appointments outside of office hours.
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	Tuesdays 2:15–3:15 pm and by appointment
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	SPAN 3512: Wednesdays 11:00 am–noon. Students need to send an email first to make a zoom appointment. SPAN 5590: Wednesdays 1:00–2:00 pm. Send an email first to make a Zoom appointment.
William Viestenz Associate Professor Department Chair	214L Folwell Hall wviesten@umn.edu	Contemporary Iberian literature and culture, post-secularism and the sacred, film studies, philosophy of history, Catalan studies	Wednesdays 1:00–3:00 pm. Send an email first to make a Zoom appointment.

Academic Staff

Name	Contact	Office Hours Fall 2020
Stephanie Anderson Senior Teaching Specialist	207B Folwell Hall 612-625-0823 ande2901@umn.edu	Fridays 10:00–11:30 am and by appointment Join Stephanie Anderson's Drop-In Student Consultation on Zoom
Michael Arnold Lecturer Supervisor, SPAN 3015/3011	214D Folwell Hall 612-624-5529 arno0055@umn.edu	Mondays & Thursdays 8:00–9:00 am. Contact via Canvas mail or email.
Kristin Beamish-Brown Senior Teaching Specialist	204A Folwell Hall 612-625-6367 beam0018@umn.edu	Tuesdays & Thursdays via Zoom 2:30–3:30 pm. Please email to schedule an appointment.
Cecily Brown Senior Lecturer Coordinator, SPAN 1001 and 1002	214C Folwell Hall 612-625-3391 brown016@umn.edu	Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:30 pm–3:30 pm and by appointment
Cristina Castro Senior Teaching Specialist	205A Folwell Hall 612-625-4317 cast0139@umn.edu	Mondays 2:30–3:30 pm and by appointment
Joy Collman Senior Teaching Specialist	207B Folwell Hall 612-625-0823 jcollman@umn.edu	Thursdays 1:00–1:45 pm and by appointment
Dora Dias Teaching Specialist	204A Folwell Hall 612-625-6367 diasx006@umn.edu	Tuesdays 10–11 am and by appointment
Edward Eiffler Senior Teaching Specialist	207 Folwell Hall 612-624-5529 eiffl002@umn.edu	Tuesdays 1:15–2:15 pm by Zoom meeting drop-in
Sara Finney Lecturer Supervisor, SPAN 1003	214B Folwell Hall 612-626-8713 sfinney@umn.edu	Wednesdays 1:30–2:30 pm
Marisol Galicia Estevez Senior Teaching Specialist	206A Folwell gali0025@umn.edu	Mondays 12:10–1:10 pm and by appointment
Kathleen Ganley Senior Teaching Specialist	214D Folwell Hall 612-625-2459 ganle001@umn.edu	Wednesdays 12:20–2:30 pm and by appointment. Please email to make an appointment.
Anne Hoffman-Gonzalez Senior Lecturer Coordintor, SPAN 3107W	204A Folwell Hall 612-625-6367 hoffm826@umn.edu	Thursdays 10:30–11:30 am or by appointment. Sign up for office hours with Anne Hoffman-Gonzalez on Google Calendar.
Elizabeth Lake Senior Teaching Specialist	214A Folwell Hall 612-625-2840 lake0030@umn.edu	Wednesdays 11:15 am–12:15 pm. Please email to schedule an appointment. Join Elizabeth Lake's office hours on Zoom.
Sara Mack Senior Lecturer Supervisor, SPAN 1004	214B Folwell Hall 612-626-8713 mack@umn.edu	Wednesdays 9:00–10:00 am and all other days and times by appointment. Please email to schedule an appointment.
Erma Nezirevic Lecturer Coordinator, SPAN 3105W	304A Folwell Hall nezir001@umn.edu
Alicia Ocampo Senior Lecturer	204A Folwell Hall 612-625-6367 ocamp001@umn.edu	Wednesday 12:30–2:00 pm. Please email first to make a Zoom appointment.
Begoña Orive-Abad Senior Teaching Specialist	206A Folwell Hall 612-626-1371 orive001@umn.edu	Available Monday through Thursday by appointment
Mary Pogatshnik Senior Teaching Specialist	203A Folwell Hall 612-626-7436 poga0002@umn.edu	Fridays 9:00–11:00 am via appt or schedule an appointment with Mary Pogatshnik on Google Calendar.
Adriana Sanchez-Vargas Senior Teaching Specialist	203A Folwell Hall 612-626-7436 bradf015@umn.edu	Wednesdays 11:30–12:30 pm and by appointment. Please email to schedule an appointment.
Vanessa Santana Senior Teaching Specialist	205A Folwell Hall 612-625-4317 sant0091@umn.edu	Thursdays 8:00–9:00 am and by appointment. Please email to schedule an appointment.
Gustavo Vargas Lecturer	varga181@umn.edu	Thursdays 2:30–3:30 pm
Andrew Wiesinger Senior Teaching Specialist	207 Folwell Hall 612-624-5529 wiesi001@umn.edu
Stewart James-Lejárcegui Lecturer	304A Folwell Hall sjames@umn.edu
Anna Cox Lecturer	205A Folwell Hall coxa@umn.edu
Guiomar Fages Lecturer	203A Folwell Hall gfages@umn.edu
Julia Lujan Instructor	214 Folwell Hall lujan027@umn.edu
Patricia Stoppa Instructor	214 Folwell Hall stoppa@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