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The Department's rich academic program reflects the composition of its faculty, which includes historians of literature and art, theoretical and applied linguists, and social scientists. The faculty are committed to bringing into the classroom their knowledge and research experience in their respective fields and offering students a solidly grounded yet innovative curriculum centered on the most significant features of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds.

		HISPANIC STUDIES FACULTY

		Luis Alonso-Ovalle Ph.D., UMass Amherst, Linguistics, 2006. Areas of Special Interest: Theoretical Linguistics: Formal Semantics, Pragmatics, and Psycholinguistics.

Patricia Anderson

Ph.D., Boston College.
Areas of Special Interest: Medieval Castilian literature.

Jean-Philippe Belleau

Ph.D., Institut des Hautes Etudes d'Amérique Latine, Université Paris-III Sorbone Nouvelle.

Areas of Special Interest: Brazilian Amazon; Haiti; human rights.

Juliana Berte

M.A., University of Minnesota.

Areas of Special Interest: On-line teaching.

Ann Blum

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Areas of Special Interest: family history and examine child abandonment, adoption, maternal-child health, and domestic service in late 19th- and early 20th- century Mexico City.

Patty Chouinard

M.Ed. University of Massachusetts Boston.

Areas of Special Interest: online language teaching.

María Inés Cisterna Gold

Ph.D., NYU.

Areas of Special Interest: 20th-century South American Literature, particularly that of the River Plate region (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay).

Chaiwut Chittkusol (Joe)

Ph.D., Boston University.

Areas of Special Interest: Don Juan as a Spanish political symbol before the Civil War.

Reyes Coll-Tellechea

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1993.

Areas of Special Interest: Spanish literature, history and society; translation.

Ildefonso Manso

M.Ed., Escuela Universitaria de Profesorado Pablo Montesino.

Diego Mansilla

M.S., Escuela Nacional de Náutica. Areas of Special Interest: translation, South American literature.

Susan Mraz, Language Coordinator

M.A. (Foreign Languages: Spanish & ESL), West Virginia University.

Areas of Special Interest: Teaching Methodologies and Technology in the Language Classroom.

David Nieto

M.A. (Applied Linguistics), University of Massachusetts Boston

Areas of Special Interest: Education Policy, Language Policy, Language rights, Immigration.

Wanda Rivera-Rivera

Ph.D. Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures.

Areas of Special Interest: 20th-century Latin American literature and cultural studies with special interest in the Hispanic Caribbean Basin; Intersection between Literary Studies and Political Philosophy, and U.S. Latino literatures and cultures.

Mark Schafer

M.A., Boston University.

Areas of Special Interest: Translation, Spanish Instruction, Contemporary Latin American Literature.

Mónica Simal

Ph.D. candidate, Boston University.

Areas of Special Interest: contemporary Peninsular and Cuban literature.

Esther Torrego

Ph.D. (Romance Philology), Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Areas of Special Interest: Spanish Theoretical Linguistics. She has published extensively in this field, including a book, The Dependencies of Objects (MIT Press, 1998).

Caetano Valadao Serpa

Ph.D. Gregorian Pontifical University.

Areas of Special Interest: Portuguese in the United States, immigration and human rights, non-sexist language in Portuguese, politics and religion, social justice and accessibility.

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Clara Estow

Ph.D., Brandeis University.

Areas of Special Interest: Spanish medieval culture and institutions.