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!
Camille Braun
Specialties
Contemporary Spanish cultural production; Health Humanities; Societal (mis)understandings of drug use
Yomary Carrillo Tequia
Specialties
Modern and premodern Iberian and Spanish-American history and literature; Archives & public history; Migration; Colonial & postcolonial studies
William Cornejo Moreira
Specialties
Sociolinguistics; Spanish Second Language Phonology; Social Network Analysis; Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences
Giuliana da Veiga
Specialties
Contemporary Indigenous Art in Brazil; Indigenous Art in Brazil; Decolonial Studies
Sabrina Fluegel
Specialties
Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Applied Linguistics; Language Policy & Planning; Media Studies
Sara Gardner
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
Daniel Gonzalez
Specialties
Applied Linguistics; Spanish Second Language Acquisition; Multiliteracies
Yoko Hama
Specialties
Sociolinguistics; Translanguaging; Multilingualism; Diaspora identities and language
Jacky James
Specialties
Gender inclusive language; Neurodivergence and second language acquisition.
Raegeom Lee
Specialties
Spanish Pragmatics; Spanish Second Language Acquisition; Comparative Studies; Verbal Irony
Marie Mangold
Specialties
Second Language Pedagogy; Second Language Acquisition; Global Pronunciation; CAF Analysis
Denisse Mendoza Jaimes
Specialties
Hispanic Literature.; Intellectual Women Writers in Latin America; Memory and exile.; German-Hispanic Poetry.; History of Ideas.; Political Philosophy.
Celeste Morales
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
Specialties
Visual Culture; Gender Studies; Film Studies; Graphic Medicine; Medical Humanities; Feminist Theory; Elder Care
Magaly Ortiz
Specialties
Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures and Cultures; Gender Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Captivity; The veil: dress and symbolism
James Ramsburg
Specialties
Language contact; Sociolinguistics; Language acquisition; Dialectology; Syntax; Corpus linguistics
Kaylee Rasmussen
Specialties
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature; Performance Theory; Dance; Theater; Embodied Pedagogy
Emma Reeder
Specialties
Spanish Second Language Acquisition; Spanish Language Pedagogy; Spanish Phonology
Hannah Riddle
Specialties
Second language acquisition; Aspect Comprehension in Narratives
Alejandra Takahira
Specialties
Asian-Latin American identities and transnational identities; Feminist and gender studies; Critical race studies; Latin American cinema and literature; Inclusive Language
Carlos Villanueva Rodas
Specialties
Central American literature; Memory studies; Family narratives; Colonialism
Leiry Katherine Warren (Cipamocha Moncaleano)
Specialties
Language Policy; Multilingualism; Second Language Acquisition; Sociocultural Theory
Rodrigo Zavala-Cintora
Specialties
U.S.-Mexico immigration policy; Immigrant narratives; Immigrant cultural production; Spanish Immersion education