Chair and Administrative Staff
Nanci Buiza
Associate Professor of Spanish and Department Chair
Peace & Conflict Studies
Latin American & Latino Studies
Department of Spanish
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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.
Jessica Bawgus
Spanish
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.
Désirée Díaz
Associate Professor of Spanish
Program Coordinator, Black Studies Program
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.
Luciano Martínez
Associate Professor of Spanish
Chair, Arts & Humanities Academic Division
Department of Spanish
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Interests: Latin American literatures and cultures; higher education administration; literary theory; second language pedagogy; LGBTQ+ studies
Jaime Hernández
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish
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Interests: Spanish Middle Ages; Early Modern literature and culture; Colonial Latin American literature; Transatlantic, Mediterranean, and Lusophone studies.
Beatriz Ramírez Canosa
Instructor of 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
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.
