SPANISH PROFESSORS

Dr. Eugenia Afinoguénova

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1999; Georgetown University

• 20th-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Cultural Studies
• European Intellectual History
• Film Studies
• Literature and Visual Arts

Dr. Raquel Aguilú de Murphy

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1984; University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 20th Century Latin American Drama
• 20th Century Latin American Short Story

Dr. Pilar Bellver

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1997; University of Pittsburgh

• Hispanic Languages and Literatures
• Certificate in Cultural Studies 20th Century Latin American Literature
• First person narratives by US Latina writers
• Contemporary Mexican border narrative

Dr. Germán Carrillo

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1969; University of Illinois, Urbana

• 20th-Century Literature in general (Peninsular and Latin American)
• Specific Studies on some of the writers of "the boom" and "post-boom": the 80's and the 90's
• Gabriel García Márquez as special topic
• Colonial Latin American Literature
• Poetry and Short Story
• REALISMO E IRREALIDAD EN LA NARRATIVA HISPANOAMERICANA
• Sigma Delta Pi

Dr. Belén Castañeda

Associate Professor, Chair
Ph.D. 1987; University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 20th Century - Spanish American Narrative
• Mario Vargas Llosa
• Spanish and Spanish American Civilization
• Generalist

Dr. Dinorah Cortes-Velez

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2006; University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Colonial Latin American Literature
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
• New Spain Baroque of Indies and Spanish Renaissance and Baroque
• Female Writing

Dr. Scott Dale

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1997; University of Pennsylvania

• 18th and 19th-Century Literature of Spain
• Epistolary and Travel Literature
• Modern Peninsular Novel

Books:

• La Pensadora Gaditana (2005)
• Novela Innovadora en las "Cartas Marruecas" de Cadalso (1998)

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Dr. Armando González-Pérez

Professor
Ph.D. 1970; Michigan State University

• Medieval & Renaissance Spanish Literature
• Spanish & Spanish American Poetry
• Afro-Hispanic Literature
• Caribbean Literature
• Latino Literature
• Language and Culture
• Language for the Professions
• Presencia Negra: Teatro Cubano de la Diáspora (Anthlogía Crítica). Madrid: Betania, 1999.

Dr. Todd Hernández

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2004; University of Kansas

• Foreign Language Education
• Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Methodology
• Classroom-based Second Language Acquisition
• Language Assessment

Dr. Jason Meyler

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2006; State University of New York - Stony Brook

• US Latino Literature
• Latin American Modernismo
• Music and Film emphasizing a pan-American perspective
• Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry with an Andean concentration
• Twenty-First and Twentieth Century Latin American, Latino and Chicano Theatre

Dr. Anne Pasero

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1979; University of Southern California

• Golden Age Spanish Literature
• 20th-Century Spanish Literature
• Hispanic Poetry

Dr. Julia Paulk

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2003; Indiana University - Bloomington

• 19th Century Spanish American Narrative
• Inter-American Studies
• Antislavery Literature of the Americas

Dr. Eufemia Sánchez de la Calle

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1990; Michigan State University

• 20th-Century Narrative of Spain
• "Spanish cinema and cultural studies"
• "Women and Literature in Spain"

Dr. Barry Velleman

Professor
Ph.D. 1974; University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Descriptive Spanish Linguistics (Morphology and Syntax)
• Development of Hispanic Grammatical Tradition and Intellectual History
• Pedagogy

SPANISH ADJUNCTS

Ms. Janet Banhidi

Adjunct Instructor
M.A. in Spanish, 2003: Marquette University

Dr. Omega Burchhardt

Adjunct Instructor
M.A. in Hispanic Literature, 1999: University of Kansas
A.B.D. in Hispanic Literature, 2003: University of Kansas

Mrs. Consuelo Carrillo

Adjunct Instructor
M.A. in Spanish, 1985; Marquette University

Ms. Colleen Coffey

Adjunct Instructor
M.A. in Spanish, 1996; Marquette University

Ms. Ana Escudero

Adjunct Instructor
M.A. in Spanish, 1996; Marquette University

Ms. Jessica Martin

Adjunct Instructor
M.A. in Spanish; 2006; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ms. Maria Teresa Pares-Toral

Adjunct Instructor
M.A. in Spanish, 2005; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ms. Amalia Petrusha

Adjunct Instructor
M.A. in Spanish, 2002; Marquette University

SPANISH TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Ms. Myriem Bennani-Cazco

Teaching Assistant

Ms. Kaitlyn Branchaw

Teaching Assistant

Ms. Alexis Cazco

Teaching Assistant

Mr. Omar Guillén Molina

Teaching Assistant

Mr. Phillip Losey

Teaching Assistant

Ms. Allison Kerfeld

Teaching Assistant

Ms. Katherine Powers

Teaching Assistant

Mr. Luis Rodríguez Cortés

Teaching Assistant