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Professors

Arturo Arias

Professor

arturo_arias@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4549 | BEN 4.130

Interests

Latin American Studies; Central American lit.; Indigenous literatures; social and critical theory; race, gender and sexuality in postcolonial societies; cultural studies, ethnographic approaches.

Frederick G Hensey

Professor

f.hensey@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4531 | BEN 4.128

Interests

Language contact, codeswitching, translation and interpretation theory.

Dale A. Koike

Professor

d.koike@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4508 | BEN 3.108

Interests

Pragmatics in Native and Non-native Talk; Second and Third Language Acquisition; Interaction in SLA

Naomi E. Lindstrom

Professor

lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4527 | BEN 4.116

Interests

Latin American Jewish Studies; 19C and 20C Latin American literature

Marta E. Lujan

Professor

dracula@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4524 | BEN 3.138

Interests

Hispanic and Romance Linguistics; Syntactic and Semantic Theories; Bilingualism.

Maximo R Salaberry

Professor

salaberry@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.7126 | BEN 4.136

Education

Ph.D.-Spanish Applied Linguistics, Cornell University

Interests

Second Language Acquisition, Tense-Aspect development, Language Teaching Methodology, Second Language Testing, Technology-based second language learning.

Nicolas Shumway

Professor

shumway@austin.utexas.edu | 512.471.4936 | BEN 2.116

Interests

Spanish-American literature, Intellectual History.

Ivan P. Teixeira

Professor

iteixeira@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4518 | BEN 4.146

Interests

Brazilian Literature, Poetics of Culture, Rhetoric applied to Literature.

Jacqueline Toribio

Full Professor

toribio@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4523 | BEN 3.150

Stanislav Zimic

Professor

nszim@aol.com | 512-232-4526 | BEN 3.128

Education

Ph.D.-Romance Languages, Duke University

Interests

Golden Age literature.

Associate Professors

Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez

Associate Professor

jarroyo@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4536 | BEN 3.120

Education

Ph.D., 1998, University of California at Berkeley

Interests

Latin American, Caribbean, Luso-Brazilian & Afro-Diasporic Literatures & Cultures; race, gender & sexuality in colonial & postcolonial societies; Latin American literature, ethnography and sociology.

Jason Borge

Associate Professor

jason.borge@austin.utexas.edu | 232-4535 | BEN 4.142

Education

Ph.D.-Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley

Interests

Latin American Literature and Film; Inter-American Cultural Studies

Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba

Associate Professor

hectordominguez@mail.utexas.edu | 512.471.2780 | BEN 3.130

Interests

Queer studies, studies of violence, border studies, through the analysis of literature, film, and art.

Enrique H. Fierro

Associate Professor

efierro@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4521 | BEN 3.106

Interests

Intro to Spanish Am. Lit Since Modernism; Topics in Spanish & Spanish Am. Lit Spanish Am. Poetry since Modernism; Spanish American Lit & Cinema, Music, Visual Arts; Comp Lit; Cultural History.

Michael P Harney

Associate Professor

harney@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-7143 | BEN 3.148

Education

Ph.D.-Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Interests

Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature, Comparative literature, literary theory, cultural theory.

Vance R Holloway

Associate Professor

vhollow@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-4515 | BEN 4.126

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests

20th-century Spanish literature.

Orlando R. Kelm

Associate Professor

orkelm@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4534 | MEZ 4.146

Interests

Language for Professional Purposes

James R. Nicolopulos

Associate Professor

ixtabay@uts.cc.utexas.edu | 512.232.4532 | BEN 4.104

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests

Colonial Spanish-American literature, Hispanic narrative poetry.

Chiyo Nishida

Associate Professor

cnishida@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-4511 | BEN 4.106

Education

Ph.D.-Linguistics, University of Arizona

Interests

Spanish linguistics, syntax, applied linguistics.

Cory A Reed

Associate Professor

creed@mail.utexas.edu | 512232-4512 | BEN 4.140

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University

Interests

Don Quijote, Golden Age Drama, Comparative Literature.

Jill Robbins

Associate Professor

jillrobbins@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-4516 | BEN 2.116

Education

Ph.D.-Spanish Literature, University of Kansas

Interests

20th Century Spanish Culture, Spanish Poetry, Trans-Atlantic Studies, Ethics, Gender

Cesar A. Salgado

Associate Professor

cslgd@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4517 | BEN 3.140

Madelin Sutherland-Meier

Department Chair

madelinesm@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-4513 | BEN 4.134

Education

Ph.D.-Spanish Literature, University of California, San Diego

Interests

The Romancero, Medieval, and Golden Age literature

Assistant Professors

Omoniyi Afolabi

Assistant Professor

afolabi@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4510 | BEN 3.110

Interests

Lusophone Atlantic Triangle;Yoruba Diaspora Studies;Afro-Brazilian Cultural Studies;Lusophone African Literature ;Comparative African Diaspora Studies;Latin American Cultural Studies

Luis Carcamo-Huechante

Assistant Professor

carcamohuechante@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4519 | BEN 3.146

Education

Ph.D., Cornell University

Interests

Indigenous media and cultures in the Americas, with a focus on the movement of contemporary Mapuche poetry, the role of Indigenous voices on radio as well as the revitalization of Indigenous languages and cultures in the current global era; intersections between economics, literature, and cultural imagination; poetry, economics, and politics; gender and sexualities; and cultural theory in modern and contemporary Latin America.

Marta Ortega-Llebaria

Asst Professor

moll@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-4514 | BEN 3.124

Education

Ph.D.-Linguistics, Indiana University

Interests

Laboratory approaches to the phonology of Spanish, Catalan and English, Intonation, prosody. Relations between speech perception and production, Acquisition of the sound system of a second language

Jose Manuel Pereiro-Otero

Assistant Professor

pereiro-otero@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-4542 | BEN 3.136

Education

Ph.D.-Spanish and Spanish American Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

Interests

Modern Penunsular Literature: 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries;Romanticism, Modernism, Ramón del Valle-Inclán

Gabriela Polit

Assistant Professor

gabriela@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4539 | BEN 4118

Education

Ph.D., New York University

Interests

Her specialization is contemporary Latin American narrative. She has worked on gender and the politics of literary writing. Currently her work is on the representation of the traffic of illegal drugs in literary works from Culiacan, Medellin and La Paz.