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Faculty and Instructional Staff

María Luisa Guardiola

Professor

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8164
  2. Kohlberg Hall 342
  3. Office Hours:

    On Leave 2023-2024

Interests: Nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first century Iberian Literature; women writers; turn of the century (19th to 20th) literature and cultural developments; Iberian cinema; urban studies; Catalan women writers. 

Maria Luisa Guardiola

Luciano Martinez

Professor

Division Chair, Arts and Humanities

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8016
  2. Kohlberg Hall 343
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:15-5:15 pm, sign up in advance here.

     

Interests: Latin American literatures and cultures; higher education administration; literary theory; second language pedagogy; LGBTQ+ studies 

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Desiree Diaz

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature

Spanish

Comparative Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7682
  2. Kohlberg Hall 338
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays and Thursdays

    10:30 am - 12:00 pm (or by appointment)

Interests: Latin American literature and cultural studies, Caribbean literature and visual culture, US Latino/a studies, film studies, performance studies, popular and material culture, urban studies. 

Jaime Hernandez

Visiting Assistant Professor

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6099
  2. Kohlberg Hall 323
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays & Thursdays: 1:50 - 3:30 p.m.

Interests: Spanish Middle Ages; Early Modern literature and culture; Colonial Latin American literature; Transatlantic, Mediterranean, and Lusophone studies.

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Beatriz Ramirez Canosa

Instructor of Spanish

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8682
  2. Kohlberg Hall 336
  3. Office Hours:

    Wednesdays: 2:15 - 4:15 p.m.

Interests: Second language acquisition, foreign language teaching, foreign language teaching methodologies, Hispanic applied linguistics, Spanish proficiency exams.

Beatriz Ramírez Canosa

Eduardo Martin Macho

Instructor of Spanish

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8191
  2. Kohlberg Hall 342
  3. Office Hours:

    Wednesdays: 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Interests: Teaching Spanish as a foreign language, English/Spanish translation, Spanish Middle Ages literature and culture, Golden Age literature, Picaresque literature.