Core Faculty

	Luis Aviles laviles@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Professor of Spanish Interests: Golden Age Literature
	Lillian Jones lilliacj@uci.edu Spanish Language Curriculum Director and Assistant Professor of Teaching Interests: Second language acquisition, applied linguistics, L2 pedagogy and methods, technology-enhanced language learning, mobile-assisted language learning, and text messaging for language learning
	Horacio Legras hlegras@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Department Chair and Professor of Spanish Interests: Latin American Literature
	Viviane Mahieux vmahieux@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Associate Professor of Spanish Interests: Modern and contemporary Latin American Literature
	Santiago Morales-Rivera s.morales@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Associate Professor of Spanish Interests: Contemporary Spanish Intellectual History, Literature and Culture
	Rocío Pichon-Rivière pichonrm@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Assistant Professor of Spanish Interests: Latin American / Latinx literature and visual culture (including graphic novels and other comics), trans and queer theory, feminismo descolonial and Latinx feminism, medical humanities, graphic medicine, transformative justice
	Jacobo Sefamí jsefami@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Graduate Program Director and Professor of Spanish Interests: Latin American Literature, Contemporary Poetry
	Julio Torres torresju@uci.edu View Faculty Profile Undergraduate Program Director and Professor of Spanish Interests: Heritage/Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Cognition, Task-Based Language Learning, Curriculum & Instruction

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