Graduate Students

Our diverse student body comes from 11 countries and 8 U.S. states, and many are first-generation graduate students. Learn more below!

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Camille Braun

she/her

Specialties

Contemporary Spanish cultural production; Health Humanities; Societal (mis)understandings of drug use

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Sabrina Fluegel

She/her/ella/ela

Specialties

Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Applied Linguistics; Language Policy & Planning; Media Studies

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Sara Gardner

she/her/ella

Specialties

Culinary heritage & cultural identity of Sephardic Jews in Medieval Iberia; Food Studies; Iberian Studies; Sephardic Studies; Jewish Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Diaspora Studies; Medieval Jewish Women; Medieval and Early Modern Medicine and Health; Medieval Magic

 Raegeom Lee

Raegeom Lee

she/her/her

Specialties

Spanish Pragmatics; Spanish Second Language Acquisition; Comparative Studies; Verbal Irony

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Denisse Mendoza Jaimes

she/her/ella

Specialties

Hispanic Literature.; Intellectual Women Writers in Latin America; Memory and exile.; German-Hispanic Poetry.; History of Ideas.; Political Philosophy.

Celeste Morales

Celeste Morales

She/Her

Specialties

Spanish as a Heritage Language; Sociolinguistics; Language ideology and identity; Content-based language instruction; Spanish SLA; Language immersion education; Second language teaching

Laura Moyneur

Laura Moyneur

She/Her, Ella

Specialties

Visual Culture; Gender Studies; Film Studies; Graphic Medicine; Medical Humanities; Feminist Theory; Elder Care

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Magaly Ortiz

Specialties

Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures and Cultures; Gender Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Captivity; The veil: dress and symbolism

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Alejandra Takahira

she/her/ella

Specialties

Asian-Latin American identities and transnational identities; Feminist and gender studies; Critical race studies; Latin American cinema and literature; Inclusive Language