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

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Nuria Sagarra, Rutgers Academic Building-West, Fifth Floor, Room 5177; College Avenue Campus (Phone: 848-932-6954; Fax: 732-932-7126)

Assistant Graduate Director: Professor Thomas Stephens, Rutgers Academic Building-West, Fifth Floor, Room 5177; College Avenue Campus (Phone: 848-932-6903; Fax: 732-932-7126)

Website: http://span-port.rutgers.edu/graduate

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Jennifer Austin, Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, FAS-N; Ph.D., Cornell
Language acquisition; bilingualism; syntax; morphology and language contact

Karen Bishop, Assistant Professor of Spanish, SAS; Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara)
Ethics and aesthetics in literatures of the Southern Cone; postcolonial studies  

José Camacho, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Southern California
Spanish linguistics, syntax, phonology, semantics, and bilingualism

Kimberly DaCosta-Holton, Associate Professor of Portuguese, FAS-N; Ph.D., Northwestern
Expressive culture in Portugal and Brazil; 20th- and 21st-century Portuguese and Brazilian literature; urban ethnography, immigration, and performance studies

Jennifer Duprey-Colon, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-N; Ph.D., Cornell
Iberian literature; theater and culture; transatlantic studies

Nydia Flores, Associate Professor of Spanish, GSE/SAS; Ph.D., CUNY
Sociolinguistics; bilingualism 

Próspero N. García, Assistant Professor of Spanish, FAS-C; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Spanish second-language acquisition; sociocultural theory and teaching; second-language evaluation and assessment

Carla Giaudrone, Associate Professor of Spanish, FAS-C; Ph.D., New York
Latin American fin-de-siècle; modernism; Southern Cone literature; postcolonial; gender studies

Mary S. Gossy, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Golden Age prose; narrative; feminist theory; reader-response; psychoanalysis

Miguel A. Jiménez, Associate Professor of Spanish, SAS; Ph.D., Granada (Spain)
Spanish translation processes; translation theory; Spanish applied linguistics

Yeon-Soo Kim, Associate Professor of Spanish, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Contemporary Spanish narratives and film; Spanish orientalism; immigration; social movements

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

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

Carlos Raúl Narváez, Associate Professor of Spanish-American Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Twentieth- and 21st-century Latin America; history and fiction in Central American and Caribbean literature; avant-garde poetry; literary theory

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

Nuria Sagarra, Associate Professor of Spanish, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Psycholinguistics (morphosyntactic and syntactic processing); working memory; second language acquisition

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

Marcy Schwartz, Associate Professor of Spanish, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Twentieth- and 21st-century Spanish-American literature; urban cultural studies; literary theory

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Twentieth- and 21st-century Spanish-American literature and cultural studies; gender theory and psychoanalysis; U.S.-Latino literature

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

Camilla Stevens, Associate Professor of Spanish, SAS; Ph.D., Kansas
Twentieth- and 21st-century Spanish-American theater; Hispanic-Caribbean literature; literary and cultural studies; theater theory

Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty

Ana Laguna, Associate Professor of World Languages and Culture, FAS-C; Ph.D., Purdue
Literature and culture of 16th- and 17th-century Spain; literature, art, and sociopolitical anxieties

Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty

Karen Sánchez, Assistant, Teaching Professor, SAS; Ed.D., Rutgers
Use of culturally authentic materials in K-12 classroom; 21st-century language learning

Margarita Smishkewych, Adjunct Member, SAS; Ph.D., Oviedo (Spain)
Medical/legal translation and interpreting    

Bonnie Butler, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Literature and culture; women's Hispanic literature; ecofeminism; hybrid Latina identity in America