Faculty List
Omoniyi Afolabi
Associate Professor
afolabi@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4510 | BEN 3.110
Education
Ph.D., Luso-Brazilian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests
Afro-Brazilian Cultural Studies, Afro-Latin American and African Studies;Yoruba Diaspora Studies;Lusophone African Literature ;Comparative African Diaspora Studies;Latin American Cultural StudiesCarlos M Amador
Lecturer
carlosamador@utexas.edu | BEN 3.102
Education
Ph.D., Program in Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at AustinArturo Arias
Professor
arturo_arias@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4518 | BEN 4.146
Education
Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Interests
Latin American Studies; Central American lit.; Indigenous literatures; social and critical theory; race, gender and sexuality in postcolonial societies; cultural studies, ethnographic approaches.Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez
Associate Professor
jarroyo@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4536 | BEN 3.120
Education
Ph.D., 1998, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 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 | 232-4542 | BEN 3.136
Education
Ph.D.-Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
Interests
Latin American Literature and Film; Inter-American Cultural Studies; Focus on early 20th century, avant-gardeCristina Cabello De Martinez
Senior Lecturer
cabellodemartinez@austin.utexas.edu | 512.471.4936 | BEN 3.122
Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Pre-Colonial México; Mariology; Philosophical EssayLuis Carcamo-Huechante
Associate Professor
carcamohuechante@austin.utexas.edu | BEN 3.146
Education
PhD, 2001, Cornell University
Interests
Sound Studies; Indigenous Studies; Market Economics, Literature and Culture; Urban Chronicle; Poetry and Poetics in Contemporary and Modern Latin AmericaJuan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Lecturer
Colomina-Alminana_Juan@austin.utexas.edu | WAG 414
Education
Ph.D., University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain)
Interests
Semantics and Pragmatics boundaries, Intercultural Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics, Philosophy of Language, Spanish Literature of twentieth century, and History, Language, and Literature of Catalonia.Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba
Associate Professor
ruvalcaba@austin.utexas.edu | 512.471.4936 | BEN 3.130
Education
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Interests
Queer Studies, Studies of Violence, Border Studies in Literature, Film, and the Arts.Carolyn Dunlap
Lecturer
c.dunlap@austin.utexas.edu | BEN 3.102
Education
Ph.D. Ibero-Romance philology and linguistics, The University of Texas at AustinZachary T Erwin
Visiting Assistant Professor
zerwin@austin.utexas.edu | 232-4511 | BEN 4.106
Education
Ph.D., Duke University
Interests
Modern Peninsular Literature, The Realist Novel, Gender and Masculinity Studies, Galician StudiesEnrique H. Fierro
Associate Professor Emeritus
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.Vivian Flanzer
Senior Lecturer
vflanzer@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4522 | MEZ 4.138
Interests
Teaching of Culture in the Foreign Language classroom, Language Teaching & Technology, Creation of Pedagogical Materials, Foreign Language Education Methodologies, Second Language AcquisitionJorge M Gomez-Bocanegra
Lecturer
jgomez@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-4535 | BEN 4.142
Education
Ph.d., University of Guadalajara
Interests
Language and Latin American LiteratureMichael P Harney
Associate Professor
harney@austin.utexas.edu | 512.471.4936 | BEN 3.148
Education
Ph.D.-Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Interests
Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature, Comparative literature, literary theory, cultural theory.Frederick G Hensey
Professor Emeritus
Interests
Language contact, codeswitching, translation and interpretation theory.Jane A Johnson
Lecturer
jane.span@gmail.com | MEZ 4.114
Education
Ph.D.- Medieval Spanish literature, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Service learning in Foreign Language courses; death and related issues in literature.Orlando R. Kelm
Associate Professor
orkelm@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4534 | MEZ 4.146
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests
The teaching of foreign language for professional purposes, Use of technology in foreign language education, Portuguese and Spanish phonetics, Applied linguistics.Dale A. Koike
Professor
d.koike@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4508 | BEN 3.108
Education
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Interests
Pragmatics in Native and Non-native Talk; Second and Third Language Acquisition; Interaction in SLALorraine Marina Leu
Associate Professor
lorraine.leu@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4549 | SRH 1.327
Education
Ph.D., King's College, University of LondonNaomi E. Lindstrom
Professor
lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu | 512.471.4936 | BEN 4.144
Education
Ph. D., Arizona State University
Interests
Gender and the Study of Latin American Literature, Latin American Jewish Studies, On-Line Scholarly Resources, and Sociology of the Arts.Marta E. Lujan
Professor Emeritus
dracula@mail.utexas.edu | 512.471.4936 | BEN 3.138
Interests
Hispanic and Romance Linguistics; Syntactic and Semantic Theories; Bilingualism.Kelly McDonough
Assistant Professor
kelly.mcdonough@austin.utexas.edu | BEN 3.142
Education
Ph.D. Hispanic Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, University of Minnesota
Interests
Latin American Colonial Literatures and Cultures; Mexican and Indigenous Studies; Colonial and Contemporary Nahuatl Language and CultureDelia L Montesinos
Sr Lecturer
admontesinos@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4541 | MEZ 4.134
Education
PhD, University of Texas at AustinMelissa D Murphy
Lecturer
mmurphy@mail.utexas.edu | 512.232.4540 | MEZ 4.142
Education
Ph.D. Romance Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Diachronic Romance linguistics; grammaticalization; tense, mood and aspect; second-language acquisitionI. Celina Nevarez
Lecturer
celina@austin.utexas.edu | 512.471.1686 | MEZ 4.108
Education
M.Ed. Concentration in Cognitive Development, Instituto Tecnólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, MéxicoChiyo Nishida
Associate Professor
cnishida@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-4514 | BEN 3.124
Education
Ph.D.-Linguistics, University of Arizona
Interests
Spanish morphosyntaxMina Ogando Lavin
Lecturer
mogando@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4528 | MEZ 4.140
Education
M.A.-Apllied Linguistic Spanish as a Foreign Language, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija MadridIrma Orozco
Lecturer
irma.orozco@austin.utexas.edu | 232-5726 | BEN 3.102A
Education
M.A. Spanish, The University of Texas at San AntonioGabriela Polit
Associate Professor
gabriela@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4539 | BEN 4.118
Education
Ph.D., New York University
Interests
Contemporary Latin American narrative. Gender and the politics of literary writing. The representation of the traffic of Illegal drugs, and violence in the region.Anna Pyeatt
Lecturer
apyeatt@austin.utexas.edu | 232-5726 | BEN 3.102A
Education
Ph.D. Spanish, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Middle Ages, Renaissance, Early Modern & Golden Age, Storytelling in Literature, FrametaleMartí Quixal-Martinez
Faculty
marti.quixal@gmail.com | 512-232-4531 | BEN 4.128
Education
Ph.D., Eberhard-Karls Universit ̈at Tu ̈bingen, Baden-Wu ̈rttemberg, Germany. / Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.
Interests
Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Intelligent CALL, Natural Language Processing, Learner MotivationSilvia D Ramirez
Lecturer
ramirsil@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4520 | MEZ 4.132
Education
Licenciado en Psicología, UNAM, MéxicoCory A Reed
Associate Professor
creed@austin.utexas.edu | 512.471.4936 | BEN 4.140
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests
Cervantes, Early Modern Spanish Drama, Transatlantic Studies, and Comparative LiteratureJill Robbins
Professor
jillrobbins@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-7284 | BEN 2.116
Education
Ph.D.-Spanish Literature, University of Kansas
Interests
20th Century Spanish Culture, Spanish Poetry, Trans-Atlantic Studies, Ethics, GenderSergio Romero
Assistant Professor
sergio.romero@austin.utexas.edu | 232-4532 | BEN 4.104
Education
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Interests
Language variation and change; morphosyntax; deixis, discourse and social hierarchies; linguistic anthropology, Christian registers in indigenous languages, Mayan languages, Nahuatl, Quechua.Sonia Roncador
Associate Professor
roncador@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4525 | BEN 3.132
Education
Ph. D., New York University
Interests
Lusophone literatures and cultures; gender and race; questions of servitude, domesticity, and women’s education; Brazilian and transatlantic cultural studies.M. Rafael Salaberry
Professor
salaberry@austin.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.Cesar A. Salgado
Associate Professor
cslgd@austin.utexas.edu | 512.232.4517 | BEN 3.140
Education
PhD in Comparative Literature 1993, Yale UniversityNicolas Shumway
Professor Emeritus
512.471.4936 | BEN 2.116
Education
Ph.D.-Spanish Language and Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Interests
Spanish-American literature, Intellectual History.Madeline Sutherland-Meier
Associate Professor
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, the Spanish periodical press, disability studiesJacqueline Toribio
Professor
toribio@austin.utexas.edu | 512.471.4936 | BEN 3.150
Education
Ph.D., 1993, Cornell University
Interests
Bilingualism and Language Contact, Morphology, Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Caribbean Studies, US Latino and Border Studies, Afro-Latin American and African StudiesStanislav Zimic
Professor
nszim@aol.com | 512.232.4526 | BEN 3.128
Education
Ph.D.-Romance Languages, Duke University
