HISPANIC STUDIES FACULTY

Hispanic Linguistics Faculty | Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies Faculty

HISPANIC LINGUISTICS FACULTY

Richard Cameron, Associate Professor of Linguistics. 

Variationist Sociolinguistics; Language Change, Gender, Age, Social Class, Applications to Education; Discourse Analysis / Pragmatics; Functional Syntax, Anaphora, Inference, Medical Discourse; Phonology & Phonetics; Acoustic Analysis 

Kay E. González-Vilbazo, Assistant Professor. 

Bilingualism, Code-Switching in syntax, morphology and phonology, syntax-semantics-interface, compositional semantics, Romance and Germanic languages. Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Language

Luis López, Professor

Syntactic theory, including syntactic interfaces with other linguistic modules. Romance linguistics. Language ideologies in Spain.

Kara Morgan-Short, Assistant Professor

Issues in adult second language acquisition, including the neurocognition of second languages, the role of explicit and implicit knowledge in second languages, the effects of explicit and implicit conditions, the effects of types of practice and the use of verbal protocols. 

Kim Potowski, Associate Professor, Director of Heritage Language Program; Director of Spanish Undergraduate Studies Program
Heritage language development; Spanish in the U.S.; language & identity; dual immersion education.

Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Professor. Co-Editor, Probus

Spanish phonology, morphology, dialectology, and the acquisition of Spanish phonology. 

HISPANIC LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES FACULTY

Frances Aparicio, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies

Zero-Time Appointment, Spanish

U.S. Latino/a Literatures and Cultures, Cultural studies in Latino & Latin America; popular music; language and cultural identity; literary translation; teaching Spanish to heritage language learners.

Olivia Maciel Edelman, Clinical Assistant Professor

Modern and contemporary Latin American literature; Poetics; Narrative; Hermeneutics; Literary Theory; Philosophy; Philology; Trans-American and Trans-Atlantic studies.

Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro, Associate Professor and Department Head

16th and 17th Century Spanish Literature; Cervantes; Gender Studies and Women Writers.

Steven Marsh, Assistant Professor of Spanish

19, 20^th and 21^st Century Peninsular Literature; Film Studies

Dianna Niebylski, Professor

20th-21st Century Latin American Literature and Culture; Globalization and New Aesthetics in Latin American Literature; Trans-American Studies; Gender Studies

Gabriel Riera, Assistant Professor

Twentieth-century Latin American Literature, Literary Theory, Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature 

Cristián A. Roa-de-la-Carrera, Associate Professor

16th-century Spanish American colonial writing, ethics and politics

Margarita Saona, Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies for Spanish

Contemporary Latin American Literature; national identities, family, and gender; modernity and posmodernity in Latin America; utopian and dystopian narratives; trauma studies.