Faculty

Glória Alhinho
^(she/ela)
Lecturer in Portuguese
_{20th-century Portuguese literature and culture}

Molly Borowitz
^(she/ella)
Assistant Professor
_{Critical theory, religious literature, colonial historiography, subject formation, the Baroque, early capitalism, early modern institutions, maps}

Nicolás Campisi
_(he/ele/él)
Assistant Professor and Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow

_{Contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts, ecocriticism and environmental humanities, trauma and memory studies, US Latinx literature, Indigenous literatures, Latin American popular culture}

Héctor Campos
^(he/él)
Associate Professor
_{Theoretical and comparative syntax, structure of the Noun Phrase in Balkan Romance as well as in Greek and Albanian, left periphery in Spanish}

Francisco Cornejo
^(he/él)
Associate Teaching Professor
_{Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Teaching.}

Michael J. Ferreira
^(he/ele/él)
Associate Professor
Director, Portuguese Language Program; Co-Director Rio de Janeiro Summer Program
_{Corpus Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Historical Lexicography, Paleography and Textual Transcription and Edition, Portuguese as a Foreign Language, Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, Telecollaboration/Teletandem}

Emily C. Francomano
^{(she/ela/ella)}
Professor & Chair
_{Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Comparative Literature, Manuscript Cultures, Book History, Medievalisms, Translation, Critical Theory, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities}

Tania Gentic
^(she/ella)
Associate Professor
_{Contemporary transatlantic literature and culture; sound studies; literary
journalism and new media; critical theory; nation and globalization; immigration and
travel}

Sophie Heller
^(she/ella)
Assistant Professor of Teaching
_{Contemporary Spanish film and literature, Spanish horror film, transatlantic literature, critical theory}

Elena Herburger
^(she/ella)
Associate professor
_{Semantics, pragmatics, syntax semantics interface, Spanish, German}

 Tatevik Gevorgyan
^(she/ella)
Assistant Professor of Teaching
_{Comparative linguistics, Hispanic Linguistics, Language and Identity, Second language acquisition, Bilingualism/multilingualism}

Gwen Kirkpatrick
^{(she/ela/ella)}
Professor, Emerita
 _{Latin American literature and culture, with special emphasis in poetry, gender studies, and visual culture.}

Francisco LaRubia-Prado
^(he/él)
Professor
_{Intellectual history, literary theory, animal studies, and Spanish and comparative literature (mainly from the Enlightenment to 21st-Century)}

Ronald P. Leow
Professor
_{Language curriculum development, teacher education, Instructed Language Learning, psycholinguistics, cognitive processes in language learning, research methodology, and CALL}

Ana Levenson
^(she/ella)
Associate Professor
of Teaching
_{Second language acquisition by adult learners, teaching methodologies that enhance the learning of culture, and the use and impact of Spanglish}

Adam Lifshey
Professor
_{Taiwan and the Spanish-speaking world, Asian literature/culture in Spanish, African literature/culture in Spanish, modern Latin American literature, comparative literary studies}.

Sarah Lucena
^{(she/ela/ella)}
Assistant Teaching Professor
_{Contemporary Brazilian literature and cinema, the Brazilian Northeast, Portuguese as a foreign language, Portuguese for Spanish speakers, intercultural education}

Alfonso Morales-Front
^(he/él)
Associate Professor
_{Spanish phonology, second language acquisition of phonetics and phonology, study abroad, and constraint-based approaches to linguistics}

María Moreno González
^(she/ella)
Professor of Teaching
_{Sociolinguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Language and Identity (national identity and the Other), Latinx Identity, Spanish in the US, Bilingualism, Spanish in contact}

Ximena Suarez
^(she/ellla)
Teaching Faculty

Anne Thinglum
^(she/ellla)
Assistant Professor
of Teaching
_{Second language acquisition, Spanish linguistics}

Alejandro Yarza

Professor
_{Spanish film, contemporary Spanish literature and Spanish film, contemporary Spanish literature, critical theory and cultural history.}