Core Faculty

Luis Aviles Professor of Spanish
Professor of Spanish
Luis F. Avilés
Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Golden Age Literature, Cervantes, hospitality, liberality, generosity, forgiveness, friendship, trust

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
Research 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 - PC Micherlange Hemsley
Department Chair and Professor of Spanish
Horacio Legrás
Department Chair and Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Latin American Culture. Psychoanalysis. Philosophy. Political Theory. Popular Culture and Insurgency. Photography

Viviane Mahieux Spanish Professor
Associate Professor of Spanish
Viviane Mahieux
Associate Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Latin American and European avant-gardes, Urban theory, Chronicle in the 19th and 20th centuries, Journalism and Media theory

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

Modern and contemporary Spanish narrative; humor; sound studies; songwriting.

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Assistant Professor of Spanish
Rocío Pichon-Rivière
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Research 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

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Professor of Spanish
Jacobo Sefamí
Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Modern and Contemporary Latin American Poetry/ Mexican Literature/ Spanish American Literature

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

Heritage/Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Cognition, Task-Based Language Learning, Curriculum & Instruction

Affiliated Faculty

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Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Adriana M. Johnson
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Research Interests

Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, subaltern studies, infrastructure studies, media and power, coloniality, Blue Humanities, ecocriticism

Professor Colmenares
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
David H. Colmenares
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests

Colonial Mexico, Mesoamerican Studies, Visual Culture, Antiquarianism, Early Modern Iberia

Mercedes Trigos, Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Professor of English
Mercedes Trigos
Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests

Twentieth-century literatures and cultures of the Americas; Chicanx, Latinx, and Mexican studies; racialization; sex and sexuality; feminisms

Emeriti Faculty

Ana Amar Sanchez - Emeriti Spanish
Professor of Spanish
Ana María Amar Sánchez
Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Latin American Literature, Literary Theory

Lucia Guerra Cunningham Emeriti Spanish
Professor of Spanish
Lucía Guerra Cunningham
Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Latin American literature, Literary Theory, Women's Studies

Ivetter Hernandez Emeriti Spanish
Professor of Spanish
Ivette N. Hernández Torres
Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Latin American Colonial Literature and Caribbean Literature

Gonzalo Navajas Emeriti Spanish
Distinguished Professor of Spanish
Gonzalo Navajas
Distinguished Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Film, 18th - 21st Century Spanish Literature & Intellectual History, Catalan Literature, Theory of Culture, Creative Writing

Armin Schwegler
Professor of Spanish
Armin Schwegler
Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

History of Spanish, Dialectology, Historical Linguistics, Typology, Creoles

Juan Villegas Emeriti Spanish
Research Professor of Spanish
Juan Villegas
Research Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Literary Theory, Modern Spanish Literature, Latin American Theater and Poetry