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Faculty By Area | Faculty

Catalan
Hispanic Linguistics
Portuguese/Luso-Brazilian
Peninsular Literature
Spanish-American Literature

Catalan

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Maryellen Bieder Professor	Email: bieder Ballantine Hall 877 855-8297	19th-century narrative, especially women authors; Visual Cultural Studies: Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós; 20th- and 21st-century Spanish and Catalan narrative, recovery of historical memory narratives.
Edgar Illas Assistant Professor Director of Catalan	Email: eillas Ballantine 875 855-8907	Catalan language and literature, 20th-century Spanish literature and culture, architecture and literature.

Hispanic Linguistics

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
J. Clancy Clements Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	Email: clements Memorial Hall 329 855-7447	Contact Linguistics, Lexical Semantics, Functional Syntax, Morphology, Sociolinguistics.
Manuel Díaz-Campos Associate Professor	Email: mdiazcam Ballantine Hall 857 856-5462	Sociolinguistics, Phonological Variation, Child Phonology, Intonation, Second Language Phonology.
J. César Félix-Brasdefer Associate Professor	Email: cfelixbr Ballantine Hall 858 855-9551	Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics, Politeness Theory, Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Variation.
Kimberly L. Geeslin Associate Professor Director of Hispanic Linguistics Program	Email: kgeeslin Ballantine Hall 853 856-5470	Theoretical Linguistics and Second-Language Acquisition, Language Variation.
Laura Gurzynski-Weiss Assistant Professor	Email: lgurzyns Ballantine Hall 871	Interaction- and task-based classroom research, Instructor individual differencefactors, In-class feedback provision
Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo Assistant Professor	Email: migrodri Ballantine Hall 868 855-4878	Syntax, Language Acquisition, Spanish Linguistics.
Erik W. Willis Assistant Professor	Email: ewwillis Ballantine Hall 866 855-8494	Experimental Spanish Phonology, Phonetics, and Variation.

Portuguese/Luso-Brazilian

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Luciana Namorato Assistant Professor	Email: lnamorat Ballantine Hall 837 856-1061	Brazilian and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures, Brazilian Modernism, Contermporary Latin American Narrative, Gender Studies.
Darlene J. Sadlier Professor Director of the Portuguese Program	Email: sadlier Ballantine Hall 806 855-1514	Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture, Women's Studies, Film Studies.
Estela Vieira Assistant Professor	Email: evieira Ballantine Hall 875 855-8907	Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures, Luso-Hispanic comparative approaches to literature.

Peninsular Literature

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Maryellen Bieder Professor	Email: bieder Ballantine Hall 877 855-8297	19th- and 20th-century Spanish Narrative, Gender Studies, Catalan Literature.
Melissa Dinverno Associate Professor	Email: mdinvern Ballantine Hall 869 855-5270	20th-Century Spanish Literature and Film, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Textual/Editorial Theory.
Edgar Illas Assistant Professor Director of Catalan	Email: eillas Ballantine 875 855-8907	Catalan language and literature, 20th-century Spanish literature and culture, architecture and literature.
Olga Impey Professor	Email: impey Ballantine 844 855-5732	Spanish Medieval Literature, Renaissance Literature
Catherine Larson Professor Chair	Email: larson Ballantine Hall 802 855-8498	Spanish Golden Age Literature, Contemporary Spanish American Theater.
Reyes Vila-Belda Associate Professor	Email: rvilabel Ballantine Hall 809 856-1057	20th-Century Spanish Poetry.
Steven Wagschal Associate Professor Associate Chair	Email: swagscha Ballantine Hall 862/804 855-1623/855-9194	Early Modern Spanish literature, Art and Literature, Philosophy and Literature.

Spanish-American Literature

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Deborah Cohn Associate Professor	Email: dncohn Ballantine Hall 870 856-5993	Comparative Literature of the Americas, Mexican Intellectual Infrastructure.
Luis Dávila Professor Director of Chicano-Riqueño Studies	Email: davilal Ballantine Hall 849 855-5257	Mexican Literature, Hispanic Culture and Literature in the United States.
Patrick Dove Director of Graduate Studies Associate Professor	Email: pdove Ballantine Hall 804 855-9194 Ballantine Hall 877 855-6136	20th-century Spanish-American Narrative, Literary Theory, Philosophy, political thought and literature
Catherine Larson Professor Chair	Email: larson Ballantine Hall 802 855-8498	Spanish Golden Age Literature, Contemporary Spanish American Theater.
Alejandro Mejías-López Associate Professor	Email: amejiasl Ballantine Hall 815 856-1059	Latin American Literature.
Kathleen Myers Professor	Email: myersk Ballantine Hall 859 855-6691	Colonial Spanish American Literature, 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic Women Writers.