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Faculty & Staff

Chair and Administrative Staff

María Luisa Guardiola

Professor

Department Chair, Spanish

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8164
  2. Kohlberg Hall 342
  3. Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30 - 4:30 PM or by appointment. Please make an appointment here.

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

Jessica Bawgus

Administrative Assistant II, Modern Languages; Administrative Assistant, Division Chair Support, Modern Languages

Spanish

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Modern Languages & Literatures-Arabic

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8143
  2. Kohlberg Hall 316

Faculty and Instructional Staff

Luciano Martinez

Professor

Arts and Humanities

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8016
  2. Kohlberg Hall 343
  3. Office Hours: Tuesdays, 3:15-4:15 pm / Wednesdays, 4:30 - 5:30 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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Nanci Buiza

Associate Professor

Spanish

Latin American & Latino Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8163
  2. Kohlberg Hall 339
  3. Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.On Leave Spring 2025.Please make an appointment for office hours here.

Interests: Latin American literature, Central American and Mexican cultural studies, U.S. Latino/a studies, and diasporic and transnational community formations.

Nanci Buiza

Desiree Diaz

Associate Professor

Comparative Literature

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7682
  2. Kohlberg Hall 338
  3. Office Hours: On Leave 24-25

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. 

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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

Instructor of Spanish

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8682
  2. Kohlberg Hall 336
  3. Office Hours: Wednesdays: 2:15 - 4:15 p.m., sign up in advance here.

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.

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