Berkeley
Berkeley
Arteaga, Alfred
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Chicano poetics. Nation, ethnicity, and linguistics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-0796
arteaga@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Azevedo, Milton
Professor of Spanish
Areas of Expertise: Synchronic Hispanic linguistics, applied linguistics,
and literary linguistics. His recent research focuses on the representation
of speech in literary texts.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2116
mazevedo@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Barilli, Amelia
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Post-1700 Spanish literature
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-1236
Berkeley
Bergmann, Emilie
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Spanish and colonial Latin America . Castillian
and Catalan women writers of the 20th century. Representations of
gender and the female body in Sur Juana Inés de la Cruz. Feminist
theory
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2104, 642-0471
elb@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Cascardi, Anthony
Professor - Comparative Literature
Areas of Expertise: Cervantes and theatre; the Spanish Baroque;
the modern novel and theory of the novel; philosophy and literature;
Goya; literary theory; aesthetics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-1205
ajc1@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Clark, Vé Vé
Associate Professor - Department of African American Studies
Areas of Expertise: Francophone and Anglophone. Literature of Africa
and the Caribbean African American women writers
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2699, 642-7084
Berkeley
Craddock, Jerry
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Spanish Philology and Literature of the Middle
Ages; Documents of the Spanish Southwest; Romance Philology: Philological
Study of the Hispanic Southwest.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-8069
jerryc@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Dougherty, Dru
Professor and Chair
Areas of Expertise: Modern Spanish Literature. Spanish Theater 1900
to 1936 and Ramón María del Valle-Inclán. Professor Dougherty's
research is centered on the works of Ramon del Valle-Inclán and
the theater of Federico Garcia Lorca. He is co-director of the research
project "Historia del Teatro Madrileño entre 1900 y 1936: Texto
y Representación" that is uncovering the performance history of
Madrid's theater between 1918 and 1936. He regularly teaches courses
on theater, novel and poetry of the 20th century with special attention
given to Spain's avant-garde.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-4854
jfarmer@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Faulhaber, Charles
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Medieval Spanish and Catalan Literature; Paleography
and Codicology; computer-assisted research techniques. James D.
Hart Director, The Bancroft Library.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3781
cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Hanks, William
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Maya culture. Language in culture. Discourse,
cognition, and communication. Shamanism. Logic in Anthropological
inquiry. Anthropology of literature
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-2651
wfhanks@sscl.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Iarocci, Michael
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Spanish Literature
and Culture. Aesthetics and Ideology. Literary and Cultural Theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-4817
miarocci@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Jimenez-Kerr, Herminia
Director - Lower Division
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642.2109
hermit@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Kirkpatrick, Gwen
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Modern Latin American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2101, 642-0471
gwenk@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Masiello, Francine
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Spanish American literature. Prose and poetry
in Argentina. Literary theory
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-4389, 642-0471, 642-1202
frm@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Navarrete, Ignacio
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Spanish Golden Age Literature, especially poetry,
poetics, and historiography; Literary Theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642.2108
ignacio@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Padilla, Genaro
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: American literature. Minority literature. Chicano
literature. Ethnic autobiography
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-6726, 642-3193, 642-3467
gpadilla@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Passos, José Luiz
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Brazilian literature. Cinema and social thought.
Modern Spanish American literature. Portuguese literature. Sociology
of literature
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-4078, 642-0471
jpassos@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Rabasa, José
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Subaltern studies. Aesthetics of violence. Orality
and literacy Colonial/post-colonial studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2105, 642-0471
jrabasa@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Ramos, Julio
Professor
Areas of Expertise: 19th and 20th century Latin American literature.
Cultural theory. Latin American film.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2112, 642-0471
ramosj@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Saldívar, José
Professor
Areas of Expertise: English
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-5000, 643-0796
saldivar@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Silva, Raquel Rodriguez
Lecturer - Portuguese
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643.2687
eusebio@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Slater, Candace
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Brazilian literature and culture. Latin American
folk and popular traditions
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2114, 642-0471
cslater@socrates.berkeley.edu
Back to top
Davis
Davis
Alarcón, Francisco X.
Spanish Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: A national award-winning bilingual poet, Alarcon
can talk about gay and lesbian Latino poetry and bilingual children's
poetry. He is compiling an anthology titled Boca a Boca / Mouth
to Mouth: A Gay Latino Poetry Anthology to be published by the University
of California Press. Alarcón is the author of 10 volumes of poetry,
including Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (San Francisco: Chronicle
Books, 1992), De amor oscuro / Of Dark Love (Santa Cruz: Moving
Parts Press, 1991 and 2001), Body in Flames / Cuerpo en llamas (Chronicle
Books, l990).
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-1022
fjalarcon@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Egan, Linda
Assistant Professor - Spanish
Areas of Expertise: Expert on Monsivais. UC Davis Spanish assistant
professor and former journalist Linda Egan says Monsiváis has become
Mexico's national conscience. He built a reputation through five
collections of lierary journalism chronicles, beginning with "Dias
de Guardar" in 1970. Mexicans are also familiar with Monsiváis through
a weekly newspaper column he published for decades in the capital's
most prestigious cultural supplements and dailies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-1035
ldegan@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Montejo, Victor
Professor of Native American Studies
Areas of Expertise: Writing bilingual children's stories based on
oral folktales and myths. A former teacher in Guatemala before getting
his anthropology doctorate in Mayan culture, Montejo has collected
Mayan folktales as well as created his own stories. He is the author
of "El Q'anil" ("Man of Lightning"), a story about the legend of
the Mayan hero Jacaltenango written in Spanish, English and Popb'al,
a Mayan dialect. He also wrote the children's book "The Bird Who
Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables."
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-754-6129
vmontejo@ucdavis.edu
Back to top
Irvine
Irvine
Bruce-Novoa, Juan
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese
Areas of Expertise: Chicano Literature and Film. Cultural Production
of Hispanics in the U.S.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-4762
jbruceno@uci.edu
Irvine
Ferreira, Ana Paula
Chair - Spanish/Portuguese
Areas of Expertise: Professor Ferreira is Associate Professor of
Portuguese Studies (Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African
Literatures), Critical Theory and Women's Studies, and presently
Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University
of California Irvine, where she has been teaching since 1989.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7265
apferrei@uci.edu
Irvine
Guerra-Cunningham, Lucia
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Latin American women writers, the Latin American
novel, Feminist Theory, Imaginaries of the city in Latin America
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-5560
lcunning@uci.edu
Irvine
Hamilton, Michelle
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Medieval Span, including writers, poets and
philosophers of the Arabic and Hebrew Golden Age, contemporary Moroccan
culture including women's songs and weddings
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-9451
michellh@uci.edu
Irvine
Morales, Alejandro
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese
Areas of Expertise: Chicano art and culture
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-6901
amorales@uci.edu
Irvine
Sefami, Jacobo
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Latin American Poetry, Latin American Jewish
Writers
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7244
jsefami@uci.edu
Back to top
Los Angeles
UCLA
Arora, Shirley
Professor Emerita - Spanish/Portuguese
Areas of Expertise: Globalization, Labor, Social Movements, Racism,
and Latin American Studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-4757
arora@humnet.ucla.edu
UCLA
Benitez, Ruben
Professor Emeritus - Spanish/Portuguese
Areas of Expertise: Spanish and Spanish-American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-1358
rbenitez@humnet.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Calderón, Hector
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese
Areas of Expertise: Chicano and Latin American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-2194
calderon@humnet.ucla.edu
UCLA
Cortinez, Veronica
Associate Professor - Spanish and Portuguese
Areas of Expertise: Colonial and contemporary Latin American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-3132
cortinez@humnet.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Hernandez, Guillermo
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese; Director - Chicano Studies Research
Center
Areas of Expertise: Chicano/Mexican issues, Mexican Corridos
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-3903, 310-206-1314
gmo@csrc.ucla.edu
UCLA
King, Katherine C.
Associate Professor - Classics
Areas of Expertise: Comparative literature, Greek and Latin epic,
Greek tragedy, French, German, Greek, medieval literature, women's
studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-5071, 825-1101
king@humnet.ucla.edu
UCLA
Monleon, José
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese
Areas of Expertise: Spanish
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-6939
monleon@humnet.ucla.edu
UCLA
Novak, Maximillian
Professor - English
Areas of Expertise: 17th and 18th-century studies, novel restoration
and 18th century literature, Jewish-American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-1975
novak@humnet.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Werner, Stephen D.
Professor - French
Areas of Expertise: 18th century
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-794-8919
werner@humnet.ucla.edu
Back to top
Merced
(Campus to open in Fall 2004)
Back to
top
Riverside
Riverside
Arrizon, Alicia
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Latin American/Chicano literature and culture.
Languages: English
Phone:909-787-4577
alicia@ucrac1.ucr.edu
Riverside
Fagundo, Ana María
Areas of Expertise: Literature, contemporary Spanish, creative writing
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1468
ana.fagundo@ucr.edu
Riverside
Martínez, Eliud
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Literature and history: mainstream, minority,
ethnic.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:
Riverside
Morton, Carlos
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Carlos Morton is a professor and an internationally-recognized
playwright who has worked with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the
New York Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center Theatre, and the
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. He is the author of The Many Deaths
of Danny Rosales and Other Plays, Johnny Tenorio and Other Plays,
Rancho Hollywood, y otras obras del teatro (spanish) and The Fickle
Finger of Lady Death and other plays.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3871
carlos.morton@ucr.edu
Riverside
Ochoa, John
Assistant Professor - Spanish
Areas of Expertise: Interested in the relationship of failure to
literature and to the formation of Latin American national identity.
His current work, an extension of his doctoral research, examines
the work of writers central to Mexican national identity including
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, J.J. Fernández Lizardi, Alexander von
Humboldt, José Vasconcelos, and Carlos Fuentes. His teaching and
research interests include Mexican intellectual and cultural history,
European travel literature of the nineteenth-century, colonial Latin
American literature, and the continuities of Spanish Golden Age
literature within Latin American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1959
Riverside
Oyarzún, Kemy
Areas of Expertise: Literature and culture studies. Latin American.
Feminist criticism.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:
Riverside
Wall, Catherine
Assistant Professor - Spanish
Areas of Expertise: Spanish American lit and Hispanic poetry. Hispanic
culture through art, literature and music. Latino art and Literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1481
cwall@mail.ucr.edu
Riverside
Williams, Raymond
Professor - Spanish
Areas of Expertise: Specialist in Latin American narrative and Colombian
literature. He is a scholar of the Colombian novel and the writings
of Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Much of his teaching and research deals with trends in Latin American
narrative since the 1960s, including postmodern and feminist fiction.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1394
raymond.williams@ucr.edu
Back to top
San Diego
San Diego
Mariscal, Jorge (George)
Associate Professor - Literature; Director - Chicano/a~Latino/a
Arts and Humanities Program
Areas of Expertise: Chicano/Mexican cultures in the United States,
history and role of Latinos in the U.S. military, Spanish and Latin
American concepts of "race," U.S. social movements
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 858 - 534-3210
Web blog: http://jorgemariscal.blogspot.com/
gmariscal@ucsd.edu
Back to top
San Francisco
No entries at this time.
Back to top
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
Herrera-Sobek, María
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Literature, Gender, Cultural Studies, and Oral
Tradition. (Dept. Chair)
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3601
sobek@chicst.ucsb.edu
Santa Barbara
Lomelí, Francisco
Professor
Areas of Expertise: American Studies and Literature, Cultural Theory,
Border Studies, and Literary History.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-5546
lomeli@chicst.ucsb.edu
Back to top
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Barceló, Brenda
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Latin American culture, bilingual studies, Romance
languages, Spanish/English and English/Spanish translation, Hispanic
linguistics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5642
bbarcelo@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Burton-Carvajal, Julianne
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary Latin American visual media, particularly
film; post- and anticolonial cinemas and theories of postcoloniality;
changing paradigms of gender in film and literature; 20th-century
Latin American literature and culture; critical theory; cultural
contextualization and mediation.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4560
julianne@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Font, Jorge Aladro
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Spanish mysticism, theory and historical developments
of imagery in the Middle Ages to the baroque period; Renaissance
and baroque Hispanic literature; Italian ideas in the Spanish Renaissance,
Cervantes.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3832
jaladro@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
González-Pagani, María Victoria
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Language teaching methodology; Spanish syntax;
computer-assisted foreign language learning; Latin American cultural
studies, especially women's contributions.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4262, 459-2855
vgpagani@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Gruesz, Kirsten
Associate Professor - Literature
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Americas studies, Chicano/Latino
literatures and cultures, 19th-century U.S. literature, poetry and
translation, genre theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2225
ksgruesz@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Klahn, Norma
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Latin American literary and cultural studies
(specialization: Mexico), Chicano/Latino literature and culture
from a cross-border perspective, popular culture and the novel,
poetics and politics, fiction and history, nation and narration,
cultural and feminist theories.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3452
nklahn@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Marez, Curtis
Assistant Professor - American Studies
Areas of Expertise: Chicano studies, cultural theory, popular culture,
theories of race and representation, modernism and postmodernism,
modern U.S. literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5223
cfmarez@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Martínez-Echazábal, Lourdes
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Latin American and Caribbean literatures, comparative
Afro-Latin American literatures, Brazilian literature and cultures,
found[n]ational narratives, literatures of the Cuban diaspora, Latin
American women writers, critical race theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2701
lourdes@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Morris, María
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Language learning styles and strategies, culture
and technology in language training.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5172, 459-2855
mcmorris@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Navarro, Marta
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Latin American literature, Mexican/Chicano culture,
Latina/Chicana issues.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3538
martan@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Ortega-Roselló, Irma
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Spanish language acquisition and teaching methodology,
Latin American colonial literature, Caribbean literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4282
iortega@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Poblete, Juan
Assistant Professor - Literature
Areas of Expertise: Latin/a/o American literature, cultural studies,
and critical theory; history of literature and literary pedagogy
as institutions; 19th- century studies, postmodernism and globalization
in Latin America; history of reading practices.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5734
jpoblete@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Ramírez, Frank A. Paco
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Second-language acquisition, bilingual education,
Siglo de Oro Theater, Peninsular medieval literature, Spanish-language
film and theater for linguistic and cultural acquisition.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4442, 459-2657
paco@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Rudesill, Carollyn
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Second-language acquisition, content-based language
pedagogy, Hispanic culture, Italian language.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4265
crudesil@cats.ucsc.edu
