Chair and Administrative Staff
María Luisa Guardiola
Professor
Department Chair, Spanish
Spanish
Contact
Links
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.
Jessica Bawgus
Administrative Assistant II
Spanish
Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies
Modern Languages & Literatures-Arabic
Contact
Faculty and Instructional Staff
Luciano Martinez
Professor
Division Chair, Arts and Humanities
Spanish
Contact
Links
Interests: Latin American literatures and cultures; higher education administration; literary theory; second language pedagogy; LGBTQ+ studies
Nanci Buiza
Associate Professor
On Leave - Spring
Spanish
Latin American & Latino Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies
Contact
Links
Interests: Latin American literature, Central American and Mexican cultural studies, U.S. Latino/a studies, and diasporic and transnational community formations.
Desiree Diaz
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator, Latin American & Latinx Studies
On Leave - Academic Year
Spanish
Contact
Links
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
Links
Interests: Spanish Middle Ages; Early Modern literature and culture; Colonial Latin American literature; Transatlantic, Mediterranean, and Lusophone studies.
Beatriz Ramirez
Lecturer
Spanish
Contact
Links
Interests: Second language acquisition, foreign language teaching, foreign language teaching methodologies, Hispanic applied linguistics, Spanish proficiency exams.
Eduardo Martin Macho
Lecturer
Spanish
Contact
Links
Interests: Teaching Spanish as a foreign language, English/Spanish translation, Spanish Middle Ages literature and culture, Golden Age literature, Picaresque literature.
