Glória Alhinho
Lecturer in Portuguese
Pronouns: she/ela
Interests: 20th-Century Portuguese Literature and Culture
Faculty
Meet Our Faculty
Our faculty consists of a global community of leading scholars who bring real-life experience to the classrooms to engage and inspire students to be the next generation of leaders and scholars while having an impact on their communities.
Molly Borowitz
Assistant Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Critical Theory, Religious Literature, Colonial Historiography, Subject Formation, Baroque, Early Capitalism, Early Modern Institutions, Maps
Nicolás Campisi
Assistant Professor
Pronouns: he/él
Interests: Contemporary Latin American literature and Visual Arts, Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, Gothic and Horror Literature, Trauma and Memory Studies, US Latinx Literature, Indigenous Literature, Latin American Soccer Culture
Héctor Campos
Associate Professor
Pronouns: he/él
Interest: Theoretical and Comparative Syntax, The Structure of the Noun Phrase in Balkan Romance as well as in Greek and Albanian, Left Periphery in Spanish
Francisco Cornejo
Associate Teaching Professor
Pronouns: he/él
Interests: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Teaching
Víctor Fernández-Mallat
Associate Professor
Pronouns: he/ele/él
Interests: Sociolinguistics, Language and Identities, Language Attitudes, Spanish in the US, Forms of Address, Linguistic Landscapes
Michael J. Ferreira
Associate Professor & Chair – Director, Portuguese Language Program
Pronouns: he/ele/él
Interests: Corpus Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Historical Lexicography, Paleography and Textual Transcription and Edition, Portuguese as a Foreign Language, Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, Tele-collaboration/Tele-tandem
Emily C. Francomano
Professor
Pronouns: she/ela/ella
Interests: Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Comparative Literature, Manuscript Cultures, Book History, Medievalism, Translation, Critical Theory, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities
Tania Gentic
Associate Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Contemporary Transatlantic Literature and Culture, Sound Studies, Literary Journalism and New Media, Critical Theory, Nation and Globalization, Immigration and Travel
Tatevik Gevorgyan
Assistant Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Comparative Linguistics, Hispanic Linguistics, Language and Identity, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism/Multilingualism
Sophie Heller
Assistant Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Contemporary Spanish Film and Literature, Spanish Horror Film, Transatlantic Literature, Critical Theory
Elena Herburger
Associate Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Spanish, German
Francisco LaRubia-Prado
Professor
Pronouns: he/él
Interests: Intellectual History, Literary Theory, Animal Studies, Spanish and Comparative Literature (from the Enlightenment to 21st-Century)
Ronald P. Leow
Professor
Interests: Language Curriculum Development, Teacher Education, Instructed Language Learning, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Processes in Language Learning, Research Methodology, and CALL
Ana Levenson
Associate Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Second Language Acquisition by Adult Learners, Teaching Methodologies that enhance the Learning of Culture, and the Use and Impact of Spanglish
Adam Lifshey
Professor
Interests: Taiwan and the Spanish-Speaking World, Asian Literature and Culture in Spanish, African Literature and Culture in Spanish, Modern Latin American Literature, Comparative Literary Studies
Alfonso Morales-Front
Associate Professor
Pronouns: he/él
Interests: Spanish Phonology, Second Language Acquisition of Phonetics and Phonology, Study Abroad, and Constraint-Based Approaches to Linguistics
María Moreno González
Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Sociolinguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Language and Identity (National Identity/Others), Latinx Identity, Spanish in the US, Bilingualism, Spanish in Contact
Sebastián Patrón Saade
Assistant Teaching Professor
Pronouns: él/ele/he
Interests: Transpacific Exchanges between East Asia and Latin America, World Literature, Portuguese Literature, Contemporary Latin American Literature
Tess Renker
Assistant Professor
Pronouns: she/her/ella
Interests: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature; Andean Studies; Indigenous Studies; Border and Migration Studies; Post-Conflict Studies; Rural Studies; Quechua Language; Film Studies; Performance Studies
Jéssica Rodrigues Poletti
Assistant Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/ella/ela
Interests: Spanish and Latin American Cinema Directed by Women, Film Studies, Feminist Studies, Women Writers in the Hispanic World, Transnational Studies, LGBT+ and Queer Studies, Second Language Acquisition
Sacramento Roselló-Martínez
Assistant Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/her/ella
Interest: Migration, Medievalism, and Living Heritage
Vivaldo Santos
Associate Professor
Director of the Portuguese program
Pronouns: he/ele
Interests: Brazilian Literature and Culture, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Latin American Avant-Garde, Latin American Literature, Brazilian Cinema, Brazilian Popular Music, Literature and Economics, Soccer and Culture, the Enlightenment, Luxury and Material Culture
Cristina Sanz
Professor
Interests: Multilingualism and Cognition across the Lifespan, Individual Differences, Learning Context and their Interaction, Study Abroad and at Home Institution Language Program Design and Administration, Technology for Second Language Research and Teaching
Monica Simorangkir
Assistant Teaching Professor
Director of Graduate Studies for Literature and Cultural Studies
Pronouns: she/ella/ela/elle
Interests: Comparative and World Literature, Film Studies, Gender Studies, and Minority Representation in Pop Culture and New Media
Bohumira Smidakova
Assistant Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Spanish Literature and Film, National Identity, Romanian Studies
Ximena Suarez
Teaching Faculty
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Linguistics
Anne Thinglum
Associate Teaching Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Spanish Linguistics
Alejandro Yarza
Professor
Interests: Spanish Film, Contemporary Spanish Literature and Spanish Film, Contemporary Spanish Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural History
Emerita
Gwen Kirkpatrick
Professor, Emerita
Pronouns: she/ela/ella
Interests: Latin American Literature and Culture, Special Emphasis on Poetry, Gender Studies, Visual Culture
Barbara Mujica
Professor, Emerita
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Early Modern Spanish Literature, Theater, Mysticism, Women’s Writing, Historical Fiction, Student Veterans and Transition from Military to Civilian Life
Veronica Salles-Reese
Associate Professor, Emerita
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Colonial Latin America, Andean Region, Cultural Hybridization Daily Life in Colonial Peru
Joanne Rappaport
Professor, Emerita
Pronouns: she/ela/ella
Interests: Collaborative Research Methodologies, Ethnographic History in Colombia