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

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Timothy Face

Professor

Specialties

Spanish Second Language Phonology; Laboratory Phonology; Phonetics; Spanish Prosody; Spanish Intonation; Phonological Theory; Spanish Grammar and Language Structure

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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

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Ana Paula Ferreira

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Professor

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

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

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Osiris Aníbal Gómez

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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

Michelle Hamilton

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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

Raúl Marrero-Fente

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

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Mandy Menke

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Director of Language Programs

Specialties

second language acquisition; multiliteracies instruction; bilingual and immersion education; second language phonology; L2 syntactic complexity

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Francisco Ocampo

Specialties

language and ideology; language variation; relationship between syntax, cognition and discourse; word order in spoken Spanish; language and humor

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Luis Ramos-Garcia

Director of Graduate Studies

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

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William Viestenz

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Department Chair

Specialties

Contemporary Iberian Literature and Culture; Post-Secularism and the Sacred; Environmental Humanities; Neo-Ruralism; Iberian Studies; Political Theory

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Michael Arnold

He/Him
Coordinator, SPAN 3015W, 3011W & 3015V

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

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Sara Finney

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Coordinator, SPAN 1003

Specialties

Foreign language pedagogy, multiliteracies pedagogy, social justice pedagogies, experiential learning, second language acquisition, and learner agency

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Satty Flaherty-Echeverria

Specialties

Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literary and cultural studies; Black/African Diaspora Studies; Postcolonial and transnational approaches to literary and cultural texts; Latin American cultural theory and intellectual history

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Kathleen Ganley

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Specialties

pedagogy & curriculum development; civic engagement; Chicano/Latino culture & community life; service learning; global studies

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Sara Mack

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Coordinator, SPAN 1004

Specialties

Second Language Acquisition; Sociophonetics; Career Readiness; Internationalized Teaching and Learning

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Erma Nezirevic

Coordinator, SPAN 3105W

Specialties

Contemporary Iberian Literature and Culture; Critical Genocide Studies; Memory studies; Biopolitics

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Eva Palma Zúñiga

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Lecturer / Coordinator SPAN 3104W

Specialties

Latin American, Indigenous and Environmental Literature; Memory Studies and Human Rights; Ecocriticism