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Department of World Languages and Literatures
Spanish MA Program

Faculty

Regular Graduate Faculty

  • Abreu Mendoza, Carlos, Associate Professor. B.A., University of Seville, M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (modern Latin American literature)
  • Beale-Rivaya, Yasmine, Professor of Spanish and Chair of World Languages and Literatures. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. (historical Hispanic linguistics; Mozarabic; Al-Andalus; language change and contact)
  • Cuadrado, Agustín, Professor. B.A., Universidad de Valladolid; M.A., Bowling Green State University; M.A., Universidad de Valladolid; M.A., Universidad de Alcalá de Henares; Ph.D., University of Arizona (contemporary Spanish narrative; Spanish cinema; literary and cinematic theory)
  • Harney, Lucy Diane, Professor of Spanish.. B.A., B.M., M.A., M.M., Texas Tech University; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin. (19th- and 20th-century Hispanic literature and cultural studies, business Spanish)
  • Intersimone, Luis Alfredo, Professor. B.A., Universidad Nacional de Tucumán; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University. (19th- and 20th-century Spanish American literature; contemporary southern cone studies, and Peronismo)
  • Jaffe, Catherine, University Distinguished Professor. B.A., Georgetown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. (18th- and 19th-century Spanish and comparative literature; gender and reading; women writers)
  • Martínez, Sergio, Professor. B.A., M.A., California State University, Fresno, Ph.D., University of Arizona. (Mexican and Mexican-American literature)
  • Navarro, David, Associate Professor. B.A., University of Valladolid (Spain)/University College Dublin (Republic of Ireland); M.A., Ph.D., Western University (London, Ontario, Canada). (medieval Iberian literature and history; religious minorities of the Iberian peninsula; biblical exegesis; cultural peninsular studies).
  • Perkins, Alexandra Gonzenbach, Associate Professor. B.A., M.A., University of Alabama, Ph.D., University of Miami. (20th- and 21st-century Latin American narrative; theatre; performance)
  • Porras, J. Yuri, Professor. B.A., California State University, Sonoma, M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University. (Spanish literature and theater of the Golden Age; Spanish culture; Zarzuela)
  • Pujalte, Nieves, Associate Professor. B.A., University of Alicante, Spain, M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University. (18th- and 19th-century Spanish literature; Spanish culture; travel literature)
  • Ugalde, Sharon Elizabeth, University Distinguished Professor. B.A., University of California at Davis; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. (20th- and 21st-century poetry of Spain, emphasis on women authors)

Associate Graduate Faculty

  • Bernstein, Beth. Senior Lecturer. B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., Ph.D., University of New Mexico. (17th and 20th-century peninsular theater and poetry)
  • Gragera, Antonio, Associate Professor of Spanish. B.A., University of Extremadura; M.A., Auburn University; Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (Hispanic linguistics and second language acquisition)
  • Juge, Matthew L., Associate Professor of Spanish. B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. (historical linguistics)
  • Locklin, Blake Seana, Associate Professor of Spanish. B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. (Latin American and comparative literature)