Faculty Member		Research/Teaching Interests
		Mark Anderson Assistant Professor of Spanish		Latin American literatre and culture, Mexican literature.
		Francis B. Assaf Distinguished Research Professor of French		17th and early 18th century French prose fiction, histoires comiques, picaresque novels, kingship, representation of royal power, death of Louis XIV, travel accounts
		Sarah Blackwell Associate Professor of Spanish		Spanish pragmatics and semantics, conversation and discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, dialectology, applied linguistics
		Dana Bultman Associate Professor of Spanish		Early Modern peninsular literature, poetry, theology, literary theory, early Spanish humanism, women's intellectual history
		Stacey D. Casado Professor of Spanish		Spanish prose fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries
		Luis Correa-Díaz Professor of Spanish		Latin American and Spanish poetry, cultural studies, Cervantes in the Americas, science and literature, literature in the age of the Internet
		Noel Fallows Professor of Spanish		Spanish language and literature of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance
		Lesley Feracho Associate Professor of Spanish		Contemporary Latin American narrative, women's narrative of the Caribbean, Afro-Latin American narrative and poetry
		Rachel Gabara Associate Professor of French		Francophone African literature and film, literary and film theory, postcolonial studies
		José Luis Gómez-Martínez Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish		Hypertext, theory of the essay, Hispanic non-fiction prose, Latin American thought, Latin American fiction
		Steven Grossvogel Associate Professor of Italian		Medieval Italian literature, Italian culture and civilization, Italian theater and cinema, Italian narrative prose
		Nina S. Hellerstein Professor of French		Modern French literature, twentieth century novel, modern women writers, modern poetry
		Chad Howe Assistant Professor of Spanish		Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and semantics in Spanish, Portuguese, and Quechua
		Catherine M. Jones Associate Professor of French		French medieval epic, romance, allegory
		Doris Y. Kadish Distinguished Research Professor of French and Women's Studies		19th and 20th century Francophone literature, slavery studies, literary and feminist theory, gender and race studies
		Betina Kaplan Associate Professor of Spanish		Contemporary Latin American literature
		Jonathan F. Krell Associate Professor of French		Business French, 20th century French literature, contemporary French novel and its relationship to myth
		Nicolás Lucero Assistant Professor of Spanish		19th and 20th Century Latin American literature and culture. Literary theory.
		Robert Moser Associate Professor of Portuguese		Figure of the dead and related expressions of haunting and mourning in Luso-Brazilian literature
		Jan Pendergrass Professor of French		Renaissance humanism, humanist pedagogy, epistolography, paleography
		Thomas Erling Peterson Professor of Italian		Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, 19th and 20th century Italian literature, film studies, contemporary critical theory, translation studies
		Jean-Pierre J. Piriou Professor of French		20th century French literature and civilization, contemporary francophone literature
		Margaret Lubbers Quesada Director LRC Associate Professor of Spanish		Spanish as a second/foreign language, corpus-based data analysis, language learning/teaching and technology
		Susan Canty Quinlan Associate Professor of Portuguese		Luso-Brazilian literature, contemporary Brazilian women's literature, literary theory
		Diana L. Ranson Associate Professor of Spanish/French		Language change, variation in the Romance languages, Spanish historical linguistics
		Timothy Raser Professor of French		19th century French poetry and ‘sthetics, relation of literature and the visual arts
		Hildebrando Ruiz Associate Professor of Spanish		Spanish linguistics, applied linguistics, foreign language teacher development
		Elizabeth Wright Associate Professor of Spanish		Early Modern Spain, history of the book, social history of reading

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