Chair and Administrative Staff
Luciano Martínez
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Department of Spanish
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Interests: Latin American Cultural Studies, LGBT studies and queer theory, Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures, Latin American cinema.

Suzanne McCarthy
Administrative Assistant
Department of Spanish, and Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
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Faculty and Instructional Staff
María-Luisa Guardiola
Professor
Faculty Advisor for Off-Campus Study
Department of Spanish
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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.

Nanci Buiza
Associate Professor
Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies Program
Peace & Conflict Studies
Department of Spanish
(Professor Buiza is on leave from the Department of Spanish, 2020-2021.)
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Interests: Latin American literature, Central American and Mexican cultural studies, U.S. Latino/a studies, and diasporic and transnational community formations.

Désirée Díaz
Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish
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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.

Eli Cohen
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish
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Interests: Cervantes and Don Quijote, Early Modern Spanish and English literature, Picaresque literature, the visual arts and literature, literature and humor, literature and philosophy.

Beatriz Ramírez Canosa
Visiting Instructor - Spanish
Department of Spanish
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Interests: Second language acquisition, foreign language teaching, foreign language teaching methodologies, Hispanic applied linguistics, Spanish proficiency exams.

Eduardo Martín Macho
Visiting Instructor of Spanish
Department of Spanish
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Interests: Teaching Spanish as a foreign language, English/Spanish translation, Spanish Middle Ages literature and culture, Golden Age literature, Picaresque literature.
