Graduate School Bulletin

Faculty of Hispanic Languages and Literature Program

Professors

Roncero-López, Victoriano, Ph.D., 1988, University of Illinois, Champaign, 1987 Universidad Complutense de Madrid: 15th- to 17th-century literature of Spain, historiography, European humanism, modern theory.

Charnon-Deutsch, Lou^{1,3, 4}, Emeritus Ph.D., 1978, University of Chicago: 18th- and 19th-century Peninsular literature, feminist theory, women writers.

De la Campa, Román, Emeritus, Ph.D., 1976 , University of Minnesota: Latin American and Caribbean literature, contemporary critical theory.

Flesler, Daniela³, Ph.D., 2001, Tulane University: Contemporary Spanish literature, postcolonial theory, cultural studies.

Lastra, Pedro, Emeritus, Ph.D., 1967, Universidad de Chile: Modern and contemporary Spanish-American literature.

Read, Malcolm K., Emeritus, Ph.D., 1978, University of Wales: Sociology of literature, literary theory, marxism and psychoanalysis.

Vasvari, Louise. Emeritus¹, Ph.D., 1969, University of California, Berkeley: Medieval literature, translation theory; literature and linguistics, romance philology.

Vernon, Kathleen M.^{3, 4, 5}, Ph.D., 1982, University of Chicago: 20th-century Spanish and Latin American literature, cinema and popular culture, gender and cultural studies.

Associate Professors

Burgos-Lafuente, Lena5, Ph.D., 2011, New York University: Latin American and Caribbean literature, poetry, literary politics, Transatlantic literature.

Flesler, Daniela³, Ph.D., 2001, Tulane University: Contemporary Spanish literature, postcolonial theory, cultural studies.

Firbas, Paul ⁵,Ph.D., 2001, PrincetonUniversity: Colonial Latin American Literature, Modernity in Perú, Textual Criticism.

Pérez-Melgosa, Adrián3, 4, 5, Ph.D.,1995, University of Rochester: Film and literature in the Americas, cultural studies, film studies.

McKenna, James B., Emeritus. Ph.D., 1965, Harvard University: 20th-century Hispanic culture and literature.

Pierce, Joseph M., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 19^th and early 20^th-century Latin American literature, queer theory, kinship studies.

Uriarte, Javier, Ph.D. 2012, New York University: 19th century Latin American literature and culture; travel writing, war and state-sponsored violence.

Vernon, Kathleen M.^{3, 4, 5}, Ph.D., 1982, University of Chicago: 20th-century Spanish and Latin American literature, cinema and popular culture, gender and cultural studies.

Vialette, Aurelie, 6 Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 19th century Iberian Cultures, Working class Culture, Catalan Studies, Gender Studies, Transatlantic Studies (Mexico, the Philippines).

Assistant Professor

Loffredo, Fernando, Ph.D., 2010:   History of Art, University of Naples Federico II: Spanish and Latin American Visual Culture

Director of the Spanish Language Program and Senior Lecturer

Ruiz-Debbe, Lilia, Ph.D., 1997, University of Geneva, Switzerland: Applied linguistics, second language research, and language pedagogy.

Lecturers

Colón, Aura, MA, University of Puerto Rico and Stony Brook: Caribbean and Latin American Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Migration

Corniel, Zaida, Ph.D., 2015, Stony Brook University: Caribbean literature and culture, Tourism Studies, Theater.

Davidiak, Elena, Ph.D., 2010, University of Iowa: Spanish Linguistics, bilingualism and multilingualism, language acquisition.

 

Number of teaching, graduate, and research assistants, Fall 2024: 17

 

• Recipient of the State University Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

• Recipient of the State University Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research

• Comparative Literature

• Women and Gender Studies

• Latin American and Caribbean Studies

• Affiliated Faculty, Center for the Study of Inequalities, Social Justice and Policy