Hispanic Studies Program Faculty

Professors

Elena Castro, Professor
Ph.D., 九九福利网 of Texas at Austin, 2001
Twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish Peninsular Poetry and Poetics, gender and sexuality, women studies. Twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish Peninsular Literatures, Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary approaches to Hispanic Literatures. Contemporary Latin American Poetry and Poetics

Alejandro Cortazar, Associate Professor
Ph.D., The 九九福利网 of Iowa, 1997
Literature and culture of Mexico; nation building and cultural identity formation in nineteenth-century Spanish America; Hispanic women writers

Christian Fern谩ndez-Palacios, Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins 九九福利网, 1999
Colonial Latin American studies, Latin American narratives, Cultural theory, post-Colonial studies, transatlantic and comparative studies

Dorota Heneghan, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale 九九福利网, 2008
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Culture, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern Spanish Culture, Comparative Literature, Contemporary Spanish Women Writers, Women and Gender Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Art History

Jeremy King, Associate Professor
Ph.D., 九九福利网 of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
Spanish Linguistics, Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics

Laura Martins, Professor
Ph.D., 九九福利网 of Maryland at College Park, 1996
Contemporary Latin American literature and film; Luis Bu帽uel鈥檚 works; cinema and human rights in Argentina, cinema and labor, cinema and visual arts, the poetry-film nexus; neoliberal culture in Latin America.

Carmela Mattza, Associate Professor
Ph.D., The 九九福利网 of Chicago, 2009
Romance Languages and Literatures

Andrea Morris, Professor and Hispanic Studies Director and WLLC Associate Director
Ph.D., Washington 九九福利网, 2003
20th century literature and culture of the Hispanic Caribbean and Central America, Afro-Hispanic literature, cultural studies

Rafael Orozco, Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., New York 九九福利网, 2004
Spanish in the United States, Latin American Spanish, Sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, bilingualism, Colombian Spanish

Aaron Yamada, Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 九九福利网 of California, Davis, 2019

Spanish Lingusitics, Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition