Senior Lecturers

• Mabel Basterrechea
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-25
  • 305-284-3207

  Mabel Basterrechea received her Ph.D. in Spanish and Spanish-American literature from the University of Miami in 2001, her M.A. in Spanish from the University of Miami, her M.A. in French from New York University and her B.A. in English from Montclair State University. Her interests are Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. Her teaching focuses on Heritage Speakers and Bilingualism. She is presently working on identity and violence in the novels of Rodrigo Rey Rosa.

• Maria Negrin
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-26
  • 305-284-3208

  María Luisa Negrín received her Ph.D. from the University of Miami in 1995. Her research focuses mostly on Literature of Exile, and she is the author of Exilio y enajenación en la obra de Reinaldo Arenas. Currently, she is working on a book entitled: Identidad y nacionalidad en la pintura cubana de la Republica. She also researches on Cuban women writers of the Republican period. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish.

• Rachida Primov
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 202
  • 305-284-8592

  I received my Doctorat de Troisième Cycle from the Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I) in 1981. My dissertation was on "Le Cinéma Américain de 1968 à Nos Jours: Du Rêve au Cauchemar". I am the director of the Eleonore Graves Tripp Foreign Languages Laboratory. I manage the Lab and I am responsible for regularly upgrading its capabilities as new technologies emerge. I am also in charge of a community outreach program which helps teachers of foreign languages in the Miami-Dade International Magnet Schools to improve their curricula and incorporate new technologies in their classrooms.

  The experience of learning technology practitioners has been rather like climbing a mountain. A peak appears in sight but when it is reached it turns out to have been just a foothill and a higher peak becomes visible. When this is reached however the new vistas reveals a further higher peak. (Darby 2002-2)

Lecturers

• Maria Alvarez, M.A.
  University of St. Thomas, 2001, Spanish
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9313

   

• Eugenio A. Angulo, M.A.
  Florida International University, 1987, Spanish
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9313

   

• Irene Beibe, Ph.D.
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2005, Modern Languages and Literatures
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-29
  • 305-284-4858  ext: 3209

  
  
  

• Leila Da Costa, M.A.
  
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9313

• Michael Davidson-Schmich, M.A.
  West Virginia University, 1986, German
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9312

   

• Ofelia Delgado
  M.S. University of Houston-Clear Lake, 1990
  M.A. Louisiana State University, 1999, Spanish
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9312

   

• Kevin Finn, Ph.D.
  University of Miami, 2005, Romance Studies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 210-06
  • 305-284-3217

   

• Manuel M. Garcia-Rossi, M.A.
  Florida State University, 2002, Italian and Literary Theory
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9312

   

• Henie Hajdenberg, M.A.
  Tel Aviv University, 1997, Hebrew Language & Literature and Teaching Methodologies
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9312

   

• Jamil Istifan, M.A.
  Florida International University, 2001, Modern Languages, Arabic, Spanish, French, and ESL
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-4858

   

• Elisabeth Llaveria-Powell, M.A.
  Florida International University, 2000, Spanish
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9312

   

• Michael Paulson, Ph.D.
  Florida State University, 1973. French and Spanish
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9312

   

• Guillermo Rivera,
  
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9312

• Cecilia Vazquez, M.A.
  New Mexico State University, 1997, Spanish
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9312

   

• Eiko Isogai Williams, M.A.
  Middlebury College, 1997, Japanese
  
  • Email
  • Merrick Bldg. 276
  • 305-284-9312