Molly Borowitz
Assistant Professor
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Interests: Critical Theory, Religious Literature, Colonial Historiography, Subject Formation, Baroque, Early Capitalism, Early Modern Institutions, Maps
Graduate Programs Faculty
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Nicolás Campisi
Assistant Professor
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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
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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
Víctor Fernández-Mallat
Associate Professor
Pronouns: he/ele/él
Interests: Sociolinguistics, Language and Identities, Language Attitudes, Spanish in the US, Form of Address, Linguistic Landscapes
Michael J. Ferreira
Associate Professor | Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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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
Elena Herburger
Associate Professor
Pronouns: she/ella
Interests: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Spanish, German
Francisco LaRubia-Prado
Professor
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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
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
Director of the Quito Summer Program
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Interests: Spanish Phonology, Second Language Acquisition of Phonetics and Phonology, Study Abroad, and Constraint-Based Approaches to Linguistics
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
Alejandro Yarza
Professor
Interests: Spanish Film, Contemporary Spanish Literature and Spanish Film, Contemporary Spanish Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural History