Faculty Directory
Professors
Arias Arturo
Research Interests: Latin American Studies; Central American literature; Indigenous literatures; social and critical theory; race, gender and sexuality in postcolonial societies; cultural studies, ethnographic approaches.Frederick Hensey
Research Interests: Spanish and Portuguese linguistics, comparative Romance linguistics, translation studies, Catalan studies.Dale Koike
Research Interests: Spanish and Portuguese linguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.Naomi Lindstrom
Research Interests: Latin American Narrative, Latin American Jewish Studies. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/scjs/Lily Litvak
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature, Latin American literature, comparative European literature.Marta Lujan
Research Interests: Hispanic and Romance Linguistics; Syntactic and Semantic Theories; Bilingualism.Maximo Rafael Salaberry
Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Tense-Aspect development, Language Teaching Methodology, Second Language Testing, Technology-based second language learningNicolas Shumway
Research Interests: Spanish-American literature, Intellectual History.Ivan Teixeira
Research Interests: Brazilian Literature, Poetics of Culture, Rhetoric applied to Literature.Stanislav Zimic
Research Interests: Golden Age literature
Associate Professors
Jossianna Arroyo Martinez
Research Interests: Latin American, Caribbean, Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Diasporic Literatures and Cultures; race, gender and sexuality in colonial and postcolonial societies; Latin American discourses in literature, ethnography and sociologyMatthew Bailey
Research Interests: Literature and culture of medieval Spain; epic narrative; orality and literacy in medieval thought and expression.Patricia Cordova
Research Interests: Gender and Discourse, Oral expressions, Spanish Variation, Discourse in Newspapers, Relation between Language and Discourse.Enrique Fierro
Research Interests: Introduction to Spanish American Literature Since Modernism; Topics in Spanish and Spanish American Literature. Spanish American Poetry since Modernism; Spanish American Literature and Cinema, Music, Visual Arts; Comparative Literature (Latin American, English, French, Italian); Cultural History (Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay).Michael Harney
Research Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature, Comparative literature, literary theory, cultural theory.Vance Holloway
Research Interests: 20th-century Spanish literature.Orlando Kelm
Research Interests: Hispanic linguistics, phonetics, phonology. Professor Kelm's Wiki pageJames Nicolopulos
Research Interests: Colonial Spanish-American literature, Hispanic narrative poetry.Chiyo Nishida
Research Interests: Spanish linguistics, syntax, applied linguistics.Cory Reed
Research Interests: Golden Age literature, comparative literature, drama.Jill Robbins
Research Interests: 20th Century Spanish Culture, Spanish Poetry,Trans-Atlantic Studies, Ethics, Gender and Queer TheoryCesar Salgado
Research Interests: Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean fiction, modernism from a comparative perspective.Madeline Sutherland - Meier
Research Interests: The Romancero, Medieval, and Golden Age literature
Assistant Professors
Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba
Research Interests: Mexican Literature and Culture, Border Studies, Latin American Gender and Queer Studies, Cultural Studies (film, media and the arts)Marta Ortega - Llebaria
Research Interests: Phonetics and Phonology of Spanish, English and Catalan; Second LanguageJose Pereiro - Otero
Research Interests: "Modern Penunsular Literature: 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries;Romanticism, Modernism, Ramón del Valle-InclánSonia Roncador
Research Interests: Brazilian literature and cultural studies in Brazil, feminist approaches in literature, Latin American film and visual arts.
Lecturers
Beth Bernstein
Research Interests: Golden Age Drama, 20th Century Drama, Identity in Peninsular LiteratureMaria Brucato
Research Interests: 20th Century Peninsular Research; Generation '27 Latino/a LiteratureVivian Flanzer
Research Interests: Acquisition of Portuguese as an L2 and L3Delia L. Montesinos
Research Interests: Popular Theater, Mexican American Literature,Lito Porto
Research Interests: 20th-century Latin American Literature, Comparative Literature (Latin American, Russian, French, Italian), Cultural StudiesAnna Pyeatt
Research Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Literature, Picaresque Novel, European Frametale, Storytelling in Literature