Faculty

  • Dr. B. Christine Arce
    Assistant Professor                                                                                                 19th and 20th century Latin America literature and cultural studies- Mexico, Caribbean, Brazil, Mexican and Brazilian Folklore, Gender and Women’s Studies, Afro-llatino studies and Indigeneity
  • Dr. Suzanne Braswell
    Assistant Professor
    Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century French Literature, Poetry and Poetics, the Arts and Literature, Women's Studies, Fantastic Literature
  • steven Dr. Steven F. Butterman
    Associate Professor
    Twentieth-Century Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, Aesthetics and Literary Theory
  • Dr. Christina Civantos
    Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish
    19th and 20th-Century Spanish American and Arabic Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Dr. Jane Connolly
    Professor
    Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature, Romance Philology
  • Dr. Anne J. Cruz
    Professor
    Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture, Gender Studies
  • tracy Dr. Tracy Devine Guzmán
    Assistant Professor
    Latin American literary and cultural studies

  • Dr. Viviana Díaz Balsera
    Professor
    Colonial Latin American and Spanish Golden Age Literatures, Postcolonial Cultural Studies
  • david Dr. David R. Ellison
    Professor
    Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Studies, Critical Theory, Philosophy, German Studies
  • Dr. Yvonne Gavela-Ramos
    Assistant Professor
    Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature, Film Studies, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Adaptations
  • Dr. Laura Giannetti
    Associate Professor
    Renaissance Italian Literature and Culture, Renaissance Drama, Gender and Sexuality, Women's Studies
  • elena Dr. Elena Grau-Lleveria
    Associate Professor
    Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Spanish and Spanish American Literature, Hispanic women writers, theories about literary history, and transatlantic studies.
  • Dr. Ralph Heyndels
    Professor
    Classical, Modern and Contemporary French and Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Philosophy, Postcolonial Cultural Studies, Gay Studies
  • Dr. Andrew Lynch
    Associate Professor and Associate Chair
    Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, Spanish language and linguistics
  • lillian Dr. Lillian Manzor
    Associate Professor
    Twentieth-Century Latin American Studies, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies, Gender Studies, Performance Studies
  • Dr. Eduardo Negueruela-Azarola
    Assistant Professor
    Sociocultural Theory, Spanish Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Teaching Methodology, Technology Enhanced Language Learning
  • gema Dr. Gema Pérez-Sánchez
    Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
    Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Feminist Theory
  • maria Dr. Maria Galli Stampino
    Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in French and Italian
    Italian and French Renaissance and Baroque Literatures and Cultures, Performance Studies
  • Dr. Subha Xavier
    Assistant Professor
    Migrant Literature, Francophone African Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies
  • Dr. George Yudice
    Professor of Latin American Studies and Interim Chair
  • Dr. Markus Zisselsberger
    Assistant Professor
    Nineteenth and twentieth century and contemporary Austrian and German literature and culture