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hispanic studies

Graduate Students

Raquel Albarrán


Larissa Brewer-García

Rachel Burk

  • Early modern and transatlantic cultural studies
  • Dissertation title - "Salus erat in sanguine" Discourses of Blood in Early Modern Spain"

Bryan Cameron

  • 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature; cine de autor; gender and sexuality; melodrama; literature and fashion; critical theory

Nelson Cárdenas


Francisco Carrillo

  • 19th-century and contemporary Latin American literature and culture

Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno

  • Latin American and Caribbean contemporary literature, theatre and performance

Laura Catelli

  • Colonial studies, fifteenth-eighteenth centuries

Andrea Cote Botero


Anna Cox

  • 19th- and 20th-century Peninsular and European avant-garde literature, photography and film; photographic tropes in literature; critical theory and philosophy, especially of aesthetics, space and memory; Catalan Studies

Lara Dotson-Renta

  • Contemporary Latin American literature, cultural production and migration, the exchange between Hispanic and Francophone texts, and African literature and society.

Craig Epplin

  • Contemporary and 20th-century Latin American literary culture, particularly Argentina and Mexico; critical theory; the visual arts; media studies and the history of the book.
  • Dissertation title: "Relational Literatures: An Actor-Network of Latin American Writing"

Selma Feliciano-Arroyo

  • Contemporary Latin American literature and culture (focusing on the Caribbean); postcolonial and gender theory; cultural studies

Matthew Goldmark


David Gómez-Barreto

  • 20th and 21st century transatlantic lyric poetry; ethics, aesthetics, and politics; contemporary continental and American philosophy; critical theory

Aaron Ilika

  • Early modern Iberia; comedia studies and performance; Catalan studies; decadence; Baroque and Neobaroque poetry; materiality; auteurist cinema

Javier Irigoyen-García


Elena Lahr-Vivaz

  • 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature and film

Antonio Martin Ledesma


Consuelo Martínez-Reyes

  • Colonial and contemporary Caribbean literatures; Gender studies

Noble Novitzki

  • Contemporary Latin American narrative, performance and film, especially of the Southern Cone; South American indigenous peoples; the novel

Joan Pérez-Rodríguez

  • Early Modern Iberian Atlantic; Postcolonial Studies; Cultural Studies; History of Material Text, Literature and Medicine; History of Ideas; Ekphrasis

Gerardo Pignatiello


Javier Sampedro


Christopher Schaefer


Elizabeth Spragins


Judith Sierra-Rivera

  • 19th- and 20th-century Latin American and Caribbean literatures

Samuel Steinberg

  • Contemporary Latin American literature and visual culture; critical theory 
  • Dissertation title: "Memory, Counter-Memory, Invariance: Mexico, 1968"
  • Article: “Franco’s Kids: Geopolitics and Postdictatorship in ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 7.1 (2006):23-36.
  • Article: "After Macondo: Latin American Literature and the 1960s.”  Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural  Studies (forthcoming). 
  • Article: “Resistances of Latin Americanism.” CR: New Centennial Review (forthcoming). 

Laura Torres


Carmen Valache

 

 

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