Our Faculty
The faculty of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese are passionate researchers and teachers of subjects including Global Portuguese, Hispanic Linguistics, and Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies.
Faculty
Elvira Aballí Morell
Specialties
Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Latinx Studies; Black Diaspora; Caribbean Studies; Public and Digital Humanities; Theories of the Archive; Second Language Acquisition
Sophia Beal
Specialties
Brazilian Literature and Cultural Studies; Urban Studies
Timothy Face
Specialties
Spanish Second Language Phonology; Laboratory Phonology; Phonetics; Spanish Prosody; Spanish Intonation; Phonological Theory; Spanish Grammar and Language Structure
Ofelia Ferran
Specialties
autobiography; contemporary Spanish peninsular literature; contemporay Spanish women writers; exile literature; feminist theory; literary theory and criticism; narrative constructions and representations of memory
Ana Paula Ferreira
Specialties
Decolonial Studies of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures; "Race" and Racial Mixings in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking South; Women Writers, Feminisms, and Portuguese Colonialism in Africa (1890-1975)
Ana Forcinito
Specialties
20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature and film, with focus on the Southern Cone; 19th-century literature with emphasis on the Southern Cone; Latin American and Latinx feminist theory about gender violence; Latin American cultural and visual studies; Interdisciplinary approaches to testimonial narratives, memory and trauma studies; Literary and audio-visual practices anchored in the promotion of human rights, the reconstruction of memory in post-authoritarian regimes, and the eradication of gender violence; Transdisciplinary Humanities
Osiris Aníbal Gómez
Specialties
Contemporary Mexican Indigenous literature, 21st century Mexican literature and cinema, with a focus on marginalized communities, Chicano literature and culture, and translation studies.
Michelle Hamilton
Specialties
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; Religious Studies & Philosophies
Jaime Hanneken
Specialties
Theories of race in Latin American and Francophone contexts, 19th and 20th centuries; Critical Theory of the Global South
Carol Klee
Specialties
Spanish language and dialect contact; Spanish sociolinguistics; Content-based language instruction
Raúl Marrero-Fente
Specialties
Colonial Latin America Literature and Culture; Early Modern Hispanic Epic Poetry; Latin American literature; Early Modern Spanish literature; Cuban literature; Legal History; Human Rights
Mandy Menke
Specialties
second language acquisition; multiliteracies instruction; bilingual and immersion education; second language phonology; L2 syntactic complexity
Francisco Ocampo
Specialties
language and ideology; language variation; relationship between syntax, cognition and discourse; word order in spoken Spanish; language and humor
Luis Ramos-Garcia
Specialties
Human Rights and Politics: Latin America and Spain; Human Rights Across the Disciplines: Theater, Art, Political Science, Literature.; Contemporary Latin American and Peninsular Theaters; United States Latino Theater and Cultures; Latin American Shantytown cultural manifestations: music, literature and popular discourse; 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; Caribbean Spanish Studies: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic; Gender studies; Latin American popular music; Women's studies
William Viestenz
Specialties
Contemporary Iberian Literature and Culture; Post-Secularism and the Sacred; Environmental Humanities; Neo-Ruralism; Iberian Studies; Political Theory
Associate Faculty
Michael Arnold
Specialties
Contemporary Spanish peninsular literature; Film and cultural history; Contemporary Portuguese culture; Iberian Musics (popular, urban folk, indie); Hybridity; Cultural Musicology of Flamenco and Fado; Transatlantic studies; Subcultural studies
Sara Finney
Specialties
Foreign language pedagogy, multiliteracies pedagogy, social justice pedagogies, experiential learning, second language acquisition, and learner agency
Kathleen Ganley
Specialties
pedagogy & curriculum development; civic engagement; Chicano/Latino culture & community life; service learning; global studies
Sara Mack
Specialties
Second Language Acquisition; Sociophonetics; Career Readiness; Internationalized Teaching and Learning
Erma Nezirevic
Specialties
Contemporary Iberian Literature and Culture; Critical Genocide Studies; Memory studies; Biopolitics
Eva Palma Zúñiga
Specialties
Latin American, Indigenous and Environmental Literature; Memory Studies and Human Rights; Ecocriticism
Gustavo Vargas-Mori
Specialties
Medical Humanities; Literary and visual cultures of HIV/AIDS; Queer Literary Studies in Latin America
