Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Master of Arts for Teachers, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Dámaris M. Otero-Torres, Carpender House, Douglass Campus (732/932-9323)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Portuguese, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Colonial Brazilian literature

Mary Lee Bretz, Professor Emerita of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Maryland
Nineteenth- and 20th-century Spanish literature

José Camacho, Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Southern California Spanish linguistics (syntax, phonology, semantics, and bilingualism)

Frank N. Dauster, Professor Emeritus of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Contemporary Spanish-American literature; drama; poetry

Mary S. Gossy, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Golden-age prose, narrative, feminist theory, reader-response, psychoanalysis

Conrado Guardiola, Professor Emeritus of Spanish, FAS-NB; Doctor en
Filosofía y Letras, Zaragoza Medieval Spanish literature

Yeon-Soo Kim, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale Contemporary Spanish narratives and films

Carl Kirschner, Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Spanish linguistics; syntax; semantics; bilingualism in the United States

Asela Laguna, Professor of Spanish; FAS-N; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana) Puerto Rican literature; comparative Anglo-Hispanic relations; contemporary Hispanic literature

Jorge Marcone, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Texas Latin American literature and environmentalism; theories of literacy; orality, hypermedia

Susan Martin-Márquez, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania Modern peninsular novel; cinema; cultural studies

Tomás Eloy Martínez, Professor of Spanish-American Literature, FAS-NB; M.A., Paris Institute Contemporary Spanish-American narrative; Latin-American studies; film theory; colonial Spanish-American literature

Graciela Montaldo, Professor of Spanish; FAS-NB; Ph.D., Buenos Aires Nineteenth- and 20th-century Latin-American culture

Gabriela Mora, Professor Emerita of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Smith
Nineteenth- and 20th-century Spanish-American literature; literary theory

Carlos Raúl Narváez, Associate Professor of Spanish-American Literature
FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia Twentieth-century Spanish-American and Caribbean literature; poetry; novel; contemporary literary theory

Dámaris M. Otero-Torres, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Golden Age literature and culture; gender studies and literary theory

Margaret H. Persin, Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Indiana
Twentieth-century Hispanic poetry; literary theory

Phillip Rothwell, Associate Professor of Portuguese, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cambridge Interdisciplinary approach to Lusophone cultures; thalassic theory

Liliana Sánchez, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Southern California Second language acquisition; bilingualism; Quechua and Spanish syntax

Marcy Schwartz, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Twentieth-century Spanish-American literature; urban cultural studies; literary theory

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale Twentieth-century Spanish-American literature and cultural studies; gender theory and psychoanalysis; U.S. Latino literature

Adolf Snaidas, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rutgers
Spanish-American literature

Thomas M. Stephens, Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
Hispanic ethno- and sociolinguistics, lexicography

Phyllis Zatlin, Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Florida
Contemporary Spanish film and theater/novel; translation studies

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Assistant Professor of Portuguese, FAS-N; Ph.D., Northwestern Expressive culture in Portugal and Brazil; Twentieth-century Portuguese and Brazilian literature; urban ethnography, immigration and performance studies

Nydia Flores, Assistant Professor of Learning and Teaching and Spanish, GSE/FAS-NB; Ph.D., CUNY Sociolinguistics; bilingualism

Camilla Stevens, Assistant Professor of Spanish, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Kansas Twentieth-century Spanish-American theater; Hispanic-Caribbean literature; literary and cultural studies; theater theory