Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez
Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Depts. Spanish and Portuguese, African and African Diaspora Studies
jarroyo@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4536 / 512.471.7284 |
BEN 3.120
Education: Ph.D., 1998, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley
Interests: Latin American, Caribbean, Luso-Brazilian & Afro-Diasporic Literatures & Cultures; race, gender & sexuality in colonial & postcolonial societies; Latin American literature, ethnography and sociology.
Jason Borge
Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies
jason.borge@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4542 |
BEN 3.136
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Latin American popular music and sound studies, including Brazil; film and media studies; transnational American Studies; early-to-mid 20th century cultural history; literary and cultural vanguards; new jazz studies
Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante
C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in United States-Mexico Relations #3 Associate Professor; Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) at UT; Advisory Council of the LGBTQ Studies Program at UT
carcamohuechante@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 3.146 (Spanish and Portuguese); SAC 4.132 (NAIS)
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Sound studies, radio, and media ecologies; colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy; decolonizing methodologies; Indigenous aesthetics and politics; Native territories and diasporas; the Mapuche movement and Abiayala. Race, gender & sexuality. Neoliberalism, literature, and market culture. Human rights,, social justice, and the arts. Poetry, urban chronicle and fiction, with emphasis in the Andes and Southern Cone of Latin America
Debbie Cifuentes Ramirez
Assistant Professor of Instruction
d.cifuentesramirez@austin.utexas.edu
Education: MA, The University of Texas at Austin
Boris Corredor
Associate Professor of Instruction
boris.corredor@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 4.142
Interests: Early Modern Peninsular and Latin American literary studies Culinary civilizations in the Hispanic world Adaptation in the Language Classroom
Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
Professor
ruvalcaba@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 3.130
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Interests: Queer Studies, Studies of Violence, Border Studies in Literature, Film, and the Arts.
María Luisa Echavarría
Assistant Professor of Instruction
marialuisa.echavarria@utexas.edu |
BEN 3.102
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: International Business, Language & Culture, Heritage Language Learners, Spanish for Healthcare Providers.
Vivian Flanzer
Associate Professor of Instruction
vflanzer@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4522 |
MEZ 4.138
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Cross-cultural pragmatics; Foreign Language Education; Language teaching, culture and technology; Creation of pedagogical materials; Brazilian culture and society; Language, ethnicity and identity
Joshua Frank
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Business Spanish, heritage language learning, Hispanic linguistics, interpersonal skills, leveraging a liberal arts education
Michael P Harney
Professor
harney@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 3.148
Education: Ph.D.-Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature, Comparative literature, literary theory, cultural theory.
Jae A Johnson
Associate Professor of Instruction
jaejohnson327@utexas.edu |
512.771.8226 |
MEZ 4.114
Education: Ph.D.- Medieval Spanish literature, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Service learning in Foreign Language courses
Orlando R. Kelm
Associate Professor
orkelm@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4534 |
MEZ 4.146
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: The teaching of foreign language for professional purposes, Use of technology in foreign language education, Portuguese and Spanish phonetics, Applied linguistics. Beyond academic interests, here is Prof. Kelm's photo portfolio: https://orlando-kelm.pixpa.com/
Dale A. Koike
Professor Emeritus
d.koike@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4508 |
BEN 3.108
Education: Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Interests: Pragmatics in Native and Non-native Talk; Second and Third Language Acquisition; Interaction in SLA; Heritage Language Learners
Lorraine Leu
Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies
lorraine.leu@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4518 |
BEN 4.146
Education: Ph.D., King's College, University of London
Naomi Lindstrom
Gale Family Foundation Professor in Jewish Arts and Culture; Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Director, Gale Collaborative on Jewish Life in the Americas, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 4.144
Education: Ph. D., Arizona State University
Interests: Gender and the Study of Latin American Literature, Literary Translation, Transnational Studies, Jewish Life in the Americas
Marta E. Luján
Professor Emeritus
dracula@utexas.edu |
BEN 3.138
Interests: Hispanic and Romance Linguistics; Syntactic and Semantic Theories; Bilingualism.
Sean Manning
Assistant Professor of Instruction
s.manning@utexas.edu |
512.232.4521 |
BEN 3.106
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Hispanic Literature, Literary Apprenticeship, Translation Studies
Kelly McDonough
(on leave)
Associate Professor, Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), Director of LLILAS Benson Indigenous Languages Initiative
kelly.mcdonough@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 3.142
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Interests: Critical Indigenous Studies; Nahua Intellectual History; Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society; Digital Humanities
Jocelly G. Meiners
Assistant Professor of Instruction
jocelly@utexas.edu |
512.232.4531 - No voicemail please. Contact me by email if I don't answer the phone. |
BEN 4.128
Education: PhD, Hispanic Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Pragmatics in Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Spanish learners and pedagogy, Creating and promoting Open Educational Resources, Spanish in the US and language maintenance, Spanish for Health Care professionals
Delia L Montesinos
(on leave)
Professor of Instruction
admontesinos@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4526 |
BEN 3.128
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Melissa D Murphy
Associate Professor of Instruction & Spanish Language Program Director
mmurphy@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7126 |
BEN 4.136
Education: Ph.D. Romance Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Diachronic Romance linguistics; grammaticalization; tense, mood and aspect; second-language acquisition
Irma Celina Nevárez
Associate Professor of Instruction
celina@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4541 |
MEZ 4.134
Education: M.Ed. Concentration in Cognitive Development, Instituto Tecnólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México
Chiyo Nishida
Emeritus
cnishida@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4514 |
BEN 3.124
Education: Ph.D.-Linguistics, University of Arizona
Interests: Spanish morphosyntax
Mina Ogando Lavin
Assistant Professor of Instruction
mogando@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4528 |
MEZ 4.140
Education: M.A.-Apllied Linguistic Spanish as a Foreign Language, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija Madrid
Jorge Pérez
Peter T. Flawn Centennial Professor
jorgep@utexas.edu |
512-471-7284 |
BEN 4.130
Education: Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara
Interests: 20th and 21st century Spanish cinema, novel, and popular culture; queer culture and theory; Latin American cinema
Alida Perrine
Assistant Professor of Instruction
alida.perrine@austin.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Black feminisms; race and racism; gender and sexuality; Brazil; cultural studies; social media; visual media; children's literature
Adela Pineda Franco
Professor, Director of The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American studies
adela.pinedafranco@austin.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., UT Austin
Gabriela Polit
(on leave)
Professor
gabriela@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4539 |
BEN 4.118
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Interests: I am committed to promote and enhance the student's creativity and writing skills. I coordinate the Spanish Creative Writing Initiative. My current research interest is the exploration of fantasy in contemporary women's literary and film production. I want to analyze how drive and grief operate in the creation of art.
Lito Elio Porto
Associate Professor of Instruction
leporto@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4530 |
BEN 3.144
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Silvia D Ramírez
Assistant Professor of Instruction
ramirsil@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4520 |
MEZ 4.132
Education: Licenciado en Psicología, UNAM, México
Cory A Reed
Associate Professor
creed@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 4.140
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: Cervantes, Spanish Drama, Early Modern Mediterranean World, Transatlantic Studies, Cognitive Studies, and Comparative Literature
Pablo Reinoso-Andrés
MAEC-AECID Assistant Professor of Instruction
p.reinoso@utexas.edu |
BEN 3.110
Education: MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, UIMP - Instituto Cervantes
Sergio Romero
Associate Professor
sergio.romero@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4532 |
BEN 4.104
Education: Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Language variation and change; language contact; new dialect formation; deixis, discourse and social hierarchies; linguistic anthropology, language and ritual, Mayan languages, Nahuatl.
Sonia Roncador
Associate Professor
roncador@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4525 |
BEN 3.132
Education: Ph. D., New York University
Interests: Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures; gender and race; questions of immigration, domestic servitude, and women’s education; Brazilian and Trans-Atlantic cultural studies.
César A. Salgado
Associate Professor
cslgd@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4517 |
BEN 3.140
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Sandro Sessarego
Associate Professor
sandrosessarego@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.2283 |
BEN 3.138
Education: Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Nicolas Shumway
Professor Emeritus
BEN 2.116
Education: Ph.D.-Spanish Language and Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Spanish-American literature, Intellectual History.
Shelly McCraw Smartt
Assistant Professor of Instruction
shelly.smartt@austin.utexas.edu
Education: MA, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Madeline Sutherland-Meier
Associate Professor
madelinesm@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4513 |
BEN 4.134
Education: Ph.D. Spanish Literature, University of California, San Diego
Interests: The Romancero; Medieval, Golden Age, and eighteenth-century literature, the Spanish periodical press, disability studies
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Professor
toribio@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 3.150
Education: Ph.D., 1993, Linguistics, Cornell University
Interests: Bilingualism and Language Contact, Morphology, Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Caribbean Studies, US Latino and Border Studies, Afro-Latin American and African Studies
Sarah Jey Whitehead
Assistant Professor of Instruction
SarahJey@utexas.edu |
512.232.2227 I don't use my voicemail. Please contact me through email if I don't pick up. |
BEN 4.126
Education: Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Foreign Language Pedagogy, Curriculum Design, Concept-Based Language Instruction, Epistemology, Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Ecology Theory, Critical Theory
