Graduate Studies Faculty

  • María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis: 19th-century Latin American, Caribbean, and Brazilian literature; Gender Studies; and Afro-Latin American Diaspora Studies. 
  • Prisca Augustyn, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Linguistics, German, Comparative Studies, Semiotics.
  • Julia R. Brown, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara: Latin American Literature, Film, and Visual Cultures.
  • Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilín, Ph.D. Yale University: Comparative Literature (French and Spanish), Literature from the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
  • Yolanda Gamboa, Ph.D., Purdue University: Spanish Peninsular, Golden Age, Women Writers.
  • Jan Walsh Hokenson, Ph.D.,University of California at Santa Cruz: Modern and Postmodern French Literature, Comparative Modern European Literature, East-West Poetics, Comedy, Literary History, Translation Studies.
  • Michael J. Horswell, Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park: Colonial Latin American Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Andean Studies.
  • Martha Mendoza, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley: Hispanic Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Bilingualism, Semantics, 20th-Century Mexican Literature.
  • Marcella Munson, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles: Medieval French and Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Poetics, Women Writers.
  • Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Ph.D., University of Birmingham (U.K.): Roman Love Poetry; Sexuality, Gender, and the Body in Classical Antiquity; Reception of Ancient Greece in Latin Literature.
  • Myriam Ruthenberg, Ph.D., New York University: Italian Literature and Culture, Italian Renaissance, and Modern Fiction.
  • Namascar Shaktini, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz: Modern French Literature, Women Writers, Critical Theory.
  • Robert L. Trammell, Ph.D., Cornell University. Applied Linguistics, ESL, French Linguistics, Linguistics and Reading, African American English.
  • Miguel Angel Vázquez, Ph.D. Indiana University: Aljamiado literature, Arabic literature, the Spanish Golden Age, Federico García Lorca and Juan Goytisolo.

Recent Visiting Faculty and Lecturers

  • Djelal Kadir, The Pennsylvania State University
  • José Rabasa, University of California, Berkeley
  • Regina Harrison, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Wolfgang Holdheim, Cornell University
  • Elena Poniatowska, Mexico City
  • Dominique Desanti, Paris
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Moscow
  • Daniel Grojnowski, University of Paris 7
  • Sabina Berman, Mexico City