People
Faculty
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Laura Bass
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and History of Art and ArchitectureOffice Hours W 2 - 4pm & Th 4 - 5pm -
Michelle Clayton
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of Graduate StudiesOffice Hours M 1:30 - 3:30pm -
Erica Durante
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Director of Undergraduate StudiesOffice Hours By appointment via Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/8236381037 -
Eva Gómez García
Senior Lecturer in Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours Mondays from 3 to 5pm (virtual) and by appointment -
Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French Studies and Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours On sabbatical, meet by appointment -
Andrew Laird
John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities and Professor of Hispanic Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World -
Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
Associate Professor of Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours On sabbatical, meet by appointment -
Iris Montero
Assistant Professor of Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours On sabbatical, meet by appointment -
Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro
Assistant Professor of Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours F 2 - 4pm -
Silvia Sobral
Senior Lecturer in Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours M 10 - 11am & Tue 1:30 - 2:30pm -
Sarah Thomas
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Departmental ChairOffice Hours Th 3 - 5pm via Zoom or in office -
Mercedes Vaquero
Professor of Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours Tue & Th 1 - 2pm -
Esther Whitfield
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours Th 2:30 - 4pm and by appointment, Prospect House 302
Visiting/Affiliated Faculty
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Sebastian Antezana Quiroga
Postdoctoral Fellowships in International HumanitiesOffice Hours Tue 2 - 3pm & Th 11am - 12:30pm -
Marta García Balsas
Visiting Teaching AssociateOffice Hours M 2 - 4pm or by appointment -
Jill Kuhnheim
Visiting Professor of Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours On leave Fall 2023 -
Jeremy Lehnen
Visiting Associate Professor of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Executive Director of Pembroke CenterOffice Hours Wednesday 12:30 - 2:30pm -
Leila Lehnen
Associate Professor, Chair of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies -
Laura Pensa
Postdoctoral Fellow -
Ralph Rodríguez
Professor of American Studies and EnglishOffice Hours On Leave Fall 2023 -
Neil Safier
Associate Professor of History -
Neus Vila
Visiting Lecturer in Hispanic StudiesOffice Hours Th 12 - 2pm and by appointment
Emeriti Faculty
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Beth Bauer
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Antonio Carreño
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Frank Durand
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Stephanie Merrim
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Tori Smith
In Memoriam
Graduate Students
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Sara Buitrago Montero
Ph.D Student from ColombiaSara Buitrago Montero holds a BA in Comparative Literature from CUNY, Hunter College and an MA in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her current research interests include early modern Spanish theater, Italian Renaissance, textual scholarship, digital humanities, feminism, and art history.
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Sebastian Cadavid
Ph.D Student from Bogotá, ColombiaSebas Cadavid Rojas holds a B.A. in Literary Studies and an M.A. from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Their undergraduate thesis explored the novelistic project of La Comédie Humaine by Balzac, while their master's research delved into the interplay of fiction and reality in Ricardo Piglia's Los diarios de Emilio Renzi. Sebas specializes in the transformations of the novel in 20th-century Latin America, with a particular focus on "monstrous" forms such as diaries and intimate letters.
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Samuele Campanna
Ph.D. Student from Sestri Levante, ItaliaSamuele Capanna is a Ph.D. student in Italian Studies from Sestri Levante, Italia. He holds a BA and an MA in Literature from the Università degli Studi di Genova. His current research interests include 20th and 21st-century Italian poetry, disability studies, and the phenomenology of breathing in literary texts.
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Abel Castaño Bravo
Ph.D. Student from Córdoba, SpainAbel Castaño holds a Bachelor's degree in Translation and Interpreting from University of Córdoba as well as a postgraduate in American Studies from Smith College and a postgraduate in Teaching Modern Foreign Languages from University of Chichester, UK. He is interested in literature of the Venezuelan diaspora.
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Florencia Coelho
Ph.D Student from Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFlorencia Coelho is a Ph.D. student from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Florencia received her B.A. and teaching degree in Literature (Letras) from the University of Buenos Aires in 2020. For her M.A. dissertation in Argentine Literature at the National University of Rosario, she has translated the first version of a travel memoir from English to Spanish, which includes an introduction and research notes. She is interested in nineteenth century cultural studies, nation building narratives and geographical imaginations. She also enjoys arts and crafts.
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Ben Easton
Ph.D. Student from Akron, OhioBen Easton received his BA in Spanish and English Literature from the University of Notre Dame in 2018 and an MA in Iberian and Latin American Literatures in 2019. His research deals primarily with the institutional construction of imperial subjects as represented in Early Modern Iberian Literature, with a special interest in the picaresque novel.
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Ana Garriga
Ph.D. Student from SpainAna Garriga received her BA in Spanish Philology from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and completed her Masters in Hispanic Literature at the same university. After her masters, she spent six months at UC Berkeley as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Her current interests include the crisis of representation of the Baroque (both in Spain and Spanish America), early modern notions of truth and falsehood, the economic crisis of Spain in the seventeenth century, alchemy, and material culture. She has also worked on Saint Teresa of Avila and the practice of letter-writing in the early modern period.
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araújo
Ph.D. Student from São Paulo, BrazilGiovanna Gobbi Alves Araújo holds a B.A. and a B.Ed. in Languages and Literatures from the Universidade de São Paulo, where she also got her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Brazilian Literature. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2018-2019, and a scholar-in-residence at the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita and José Mindlin between 2019 and 2022. Her current research interests include 19th- and 20th-century Hispanic American literature and iconography, (counter)hegemonic aesthetic paradigms, the representation of nature and the observation of environmental change, and the impact of extractive capitalism and imperialism in Latin America.
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Alba Lara Granero
Ph.D. Student from SpainAlba Lara Granero holds both a BA in Spanish philology (2011) and an MAT (2012) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. After three years dedicated to secondary education, she was awarded an Iowa Arts Fellowship to pursue an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing (2016) at the University of Iowa. Her current research interests include women's writing, feminism, critical theory, medieval and early modern female authors, and contemporary literature.
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Jamila Medina Ríos
Ph.D. Student from Holguín, CubaJamila Medina Ríos received both her BA in Hispanic Philology and MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Havana. Her graduate thesis, Diseminaciones de Calvert Casey (Letras Cubana, 2011), addresses the work of this American-Cuban in a genetic context, as a mythical rewriting between eros and thanatos. In her master's thesis, she proposes the existence of a Cuban revolutionary sociolect, its hybridization with the chronotope of the French Revolution, and its presentation in the poetry and theater of Nara Mansur. She currently explores the reenactment of the mambí corpus in Cuban art and literature today.
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Yasmin Murray
Ph.D. student from Devon, EnglandYaz Murray received her M.A. in Spanish and History from the University of Edinburgh in 2018 and completed her M.Phil. in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2019. She is currently interested in disability studies, ecocriticism, and conceptualizations of the non-human in contemporary Latin American literature and cultural production.
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David Parsard
Ph.D. Student from New York CityDavid Parsard received both his BA and MA in Spanish language and literature from CUNY Hunter College. His master’s thesis discussed expressions of identity and neoplatonic notions of love in Feliciano de Silva’s romance of chivalry Amadís de Grecia. His current interests include 16 th century Spanish chivalric romances, early modern conceptions of identity, self-fashioning, and visions of the Conquest of the Americas.
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Irene Rihuete Varea
Ph.D. Student from SpainIrene Rihuete Varea completed her BA in Film and Media Studies in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, with a minor in Political Science. She then received an MA in Film Studies from King's College London. Her interests include Latin American and Spanish cinemas, postcolonial studies, public memory and affect.
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Roberto Rodríguez Reyes
Ph.D. Student from CubaRoberto Rodríguez Reyes received his BA from the University of Havana in 2010, and an MA in Hispanic American Literature from El Colegio de San Luis (Mexico). His undergraduate thesis discussed the idea of the “total novel”, theorized and practiced by Latin American Boom authors, within the work of Roberto Bolaño. His master’s thesis was on the conception of evil in the novels of the Mexican writer José Revueltas. His most recent book is the critical texts compilation of Roberto Bolaño (Casa de las Américas, 2019). He is co-founder and editor of the project Rialta. He manages and edits the Rialta Archive.
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Carmen Urbita Ibarreta
Ph.D. Student from SpainCarmen Urbita Ibarreta holds a BA in Comparative Literature from King's College London and completed her MSt in Modern Languages (Spanish & French) at Oxford University. Among her research interests are early modern peninsular and colonial culture, early modern women's writing, reading and writing practices and the body.
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Luz Velasco Oropeza
Ph.D. Student from Mexico CityLuz Velasco Oropeza holds a B.A. from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Latin American Literature. She is interested in 20th and 21st century Latin American poetry; particularly in exile poetry written by Latin American female writers living in the United States. She is also interested in performance art, intermediality, literary theory, the concept of body, and the questioning of artistic and political borders.
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María Victoria Taborelli
Ph.D. Student from Buenos Aires, ArgentinaMaría Victoria Taborelli holds a BA in Letras and a BA in Literary Teaching from Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her current interests include intertextualities present in Post-dictatorship Latin American narratives and performing arts, women's writing, memory of collective traumas, literary theory and literary education.
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Molly Wagschal
Ph.D. student from Bloomington, IndianaMolly Wagschal received her BA in Comparative Literature & Society from Columbia University in 2022, and has since worked as an in-house translator and copywriter in Barcelona. Her academic interests include the poetry of exiled Republicans (specifically women) during and after the Spanish Civil War, as well as Catalan studies, literary translation, and the relationships between exile, translation, and gender.
Teaching Assistants
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Abel Castaño Bravo
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Andrés Emil González
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araújo
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Alba Lara Granero
Rockefeller Library LobbyOffice Hours M 8 - 8:45am & 10 - 11am and by appointment -
Jamila Medina Ríos
Sciences Library (SciLi) lobbyOffice Hours M 1-2 pm and by appointment -
Yasmin Murray
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David Parsard
Office Hours Monday 2-3pm -
Roberto Rodríguez Reyes
via zoom or at Rochambeau (with previous appointment)Office Hours M 3 - 4pm -
Molly Wagschal
3rd Floor Graduate Student Cluster, Rochambeau HouseOffice Hours M 2:30 - 3:30pm
Staff
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Corlyn Key
Finance Coordinator -
Candace Laning
84 Prospect Street, 116 -
Olivia Urciuoli
Administrative and Event Coordinator84 Prospect Street, 102