Faculty

• Dr. Hugo Achugar
  Professor Emeritus
  Contemporary Latin American literature and culture

• Dr. B. Christine Arce
  Assistant Professor                                                                                               19th and 20th century Latin American literature and cultural studies- Mexico, the Caribbean, Brazil, Mexican and Brazilian folklore, Gender and Women’s Studies, Afro-latino studies and Indigeneity
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-04
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7220
• Dr. Suzanne Braswell
  Assistant Professor
  Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century French Literature, Poetry and Poetics, the Arts and Literature, Women's Studies, Fantastic Literature
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-22
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7268
• Dr. Steven F. Butterman
  Associate Professor
  Twentieth-Century Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, Aesthetics and Literary Theory
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 212-07
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7221
• Dr. Christina Civantos
  Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish and Arabic
  19th and 20th-Century Spanish American and Arabic Literary and Cultural Studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-19
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7265
• Dr. Jane Connolly
  Professor
  Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature, Romance Philology
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-03
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7260
• Dr. Anne J. Cruz
  Professor
  Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture, Gender Studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-05
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7225

• Dr. Tracy Devine Guzmán
  Associate Professor
  Latin American literary and cultural studies
  

  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-17
  • 305-284-3239

     Personal Website

• Dr. Viviana Díaz Balsera
  Professor
  Colonial Latin American and Spanish Golden Age Literatures, Postcolonial Cultural Studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-14
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7222

   

   

• Dr. David R. Ellison
  Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in French
  Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Studies, Critical Theory, Philosophy, German Studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 212-02
  • 305-284-5585
• Dr. Yvonne Gavela-Ramos
  Assistant Professor
  Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature, Film Studies, Memory Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Adaptations
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 212-14
  • 305-284-3237
• Dr. Laura Giannetti
  Associate Professor
  Renaissance Italian Literature and Culture, Renaissance Drama, Gender and Sexuality, Women's Studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-23
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7227
• Dr. Elena Grau-Lleveria
  Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
  Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Spanish and Spanish American Literature, Hispanic women writers, theories about literary history, and Transatlantic studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 212-11
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7241
• Dr. Ralph Heyndels
  Professor
  Classical, Modern and Contemporary French and Comparative Literature; Literature from the Maghreb; Postcolonial, Queer and Trans-Arabic Studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-10
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7262
• Dr. Andrew Lynch
  Associate Professor and Associate Chair
  Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, Spanish language and linguistics
  

   

  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 212-10
  • 305-284-3229

     Personal Website

• Dr. Lillian Manzor
  Associate Professor
  Twentieth-Century Latin American Studies, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies, Gender Studies, Performance Studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-07
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7314
• Dr. Eduardo Negueruela-Azarola
  Associate Professor and Director of Spanish Basic Language Program
  Sociocultural Theory, Spanish Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Teaching Methodology, Technology Enhanced Language Learning
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 212-05
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7263
• Dr. Gema Pérez-Sánchez
  Associate Professor
  Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Feminist Theory
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-20
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7313
    • Personal Website
• Dr. Maria Galli Stampino
  Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian
  Italian and French Renaissance and Baroque Literatures and Cultures, Performance Studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-21
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7264
• Dr. George Yudice
  Professor of Latin American Studies and Interim Chair
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-18
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7261
• Dr. Markus Zisselsberger
  Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in German
  Nineteenth and twentieth century and contemporary Austrian and German literature and culture
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-08
  • 305-284-4858 Ext. 7226