Luis Aviles Professor of Spanish
Professor of Spanish
Luis Avilés
Professor of Spanish

Interests: Golden Age Literature
laviles@uci.edu

 

Lillian Jones Assistant Professor of Spanish Teaching
Spanish Language Curriculum Director and Assistant Professor of Teaching
Lillian Jones
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
lilliacj@uci.edu


 

Horacio Legras, Professor of Spanish
Department Chair and Professor of Spanish
Horacio Legrás
Department Chair and Professor of Spanish

Interests: Latin American Literature
hlegras@uci.edu

 

Viviane Mahieux Spanish Professor
Associate Professor of Spanish
Viviane Mahieux
Associate Professor of Spanish

Interests: Modern and contemporary Latin American Literature
vmahieux@uci.edu


 

Professor of Spanish
Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Spanish
Santiago Morales-Rivera
Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Spanish

Interests: Contemporary Spanish Intellectual History, Literature and Culture
s.morales@uci.edu

 

Rocio Pichon Riviere Assistant Professor of Spanish
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Rocío Pichon-Rivière
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
pichonrm@uci.edu

 

Jacobo Sefami Professor of Spanish
Professor of Spanish
Jacobo Sefamí
Professor of Spanish

Interest: Latin American Literature, Contemporary Poetry.
jsefami@uci.edu

 

Julio Torres Professor of Spanish
Undergraduate Program Director and Professor of Spanish
Julio Torres
Undergraduate Program Director and Professor of Spanish

Interests: Heritage/Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Cognition, Task-Based Language Learning, Curriculum & Instruction
torresju@uci.edu