Faculty
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Fernando Arenas Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Fall 2009 Office Hours: THURS: 4:00pm-5:30pm Office: 31 Folwell Phone: 612-625-2331 Email: arena002@umn.edu Scholarly Interests:• Lusophone Africa • Brazil • Portugal • comparative interdisciplinary studies in the Lusophone world (including literature, film, popular music, history, critical theory) • globalization • (post)colonialism • nationhood • modernities • sexuality and gender. |
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Timothy Face Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Fall 2009 Office Hours: MON & WED: 12:15-1:15pm and by appointment Office: 35 Folwell Phone: 612-625-1328 Email: facex002@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • intonation and prosody • laboratory phonology • phonetics • phonological theory • Spanish • second language phonology |
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Ofelia Ferrán Associate Professor On Leave Fall 2009 Office: 5D Folwell Phone: 612-625-6883 Email: ferra007@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • autobiography • contemporary Spanish peninsular literature • contemporary Spanish women writers • exile literature • feminist theory • literary theory and criticism • narrative constructions and representations of memory |
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Ana Paula Ferreira Professor and Chair Fall 2009 Office Hours: TUES: 4:30-5:30pm and THURS: 11:00am-12:00pm and by appointment Offices: 51 Folwell and 117 Folwell Phone: 612-626-6909 Email: apferrei@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • Feminist and Gender Studies • Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures • Critical Race Studies • Colonial/Postcolonial Studies • Medieval and Renaissance Literatures |
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Ana Forcinito Associate Professor Fall 2009 Office Hours: MON & WED: 1:20-2:20pm Office: 33 Folwell Phone: 612-625-1014 Email: aforcini@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • 19th and 20th century Latin American literature • testimonio • Latin American film • Southern Cone • gender studies • cultural theory • subaltern studies • memory studies • Human Rights |
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Michelle Hamilton Associate Professor Fall 2009 Office Hours: MON: 12:00-1:00pm & WED: 1:20-2:20pm Office: 26 Folwell Phone: 612-625-6661 Email: hamilton@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • Cultural Contact in Medieval Iberia • Literary Theory and Cultural Studies • Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe • The Medieval Mediterranean and its Legacy • Sephardic Traditions |
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| Jaime Hanneken Assistant Professor Fall 2009 Office Hours: MON: 11:00am-1:00pm Office: 27 Folwell Phone: 612-626-2540 Email: hanne045@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • Contemporary Latin American literature • Culture Francophone literature • Culture Postcolonial studies • Globalization • Latin American vanguardias • Discursive appropriations of Paris in Caribbean, Latin American, and African contexts • Uses and limitation of metropolitan literary • Cultural theory in peripheral contexts |
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Carol Klee Professor Fall 2009 Office Hours: by appointment Assistant Vice President for International Scholarship Director, European Studies Consortium Office: 4E Folwell Phone: 612-625-9521 Email: klee@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • Spanish language contact • sociolinguistics • content-based language instruction |
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Raúl Marrero-Fente Associate Professor of Spanish & Law Fall 2009 Office Hours: THURS: 5:00-6:00pm Office: 29 Folwell Phone: 612-626-8029 Email: rmarrero@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • Trans-Atlantic studies • Colonial Latin American literature and culture • Early Modern Spanish literature and culture • Colonial and Post-colonial studies • Global studies • Feminist and Gender studies • Critical Race Studies • Human Rights • Law and literature |
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Francisco Ocampo Associate Professor Fall 2009 Office Hours: TUES: 2:00-3:00pm Office: 4F Folwell Phone: 612-625-5822 Email: focampo@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • language and ideology • language variation • relationship between syntax, cognition and discourse • word order in spoken Spanish |
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Joanna O'Connell Associate Professor Fall 2009 Office Hours: TUES & THURS: 9:30-11:00am Office: 13 Folwell Phone: 612-625-0110 Email: oconn001@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • African and Caribbean writing in French and English • indigenous revitalization movements and writing • issues of colonialism, race and nationalism • Latin-American literature and culture • Mexico • the Caribbean • women's writing • feminism and feminist theory |
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Luis Ramos-Garcia Associate Professor Fall 2009 Office Hours: Span 3972, MON: 10:00am-1:50pm Span 392, WED: 10:00am-11:00am Office: 2 Folwell Phone: 612-625-3039 Email: laramosg@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • 18th-20th century peninsular literature • 20th century Latin American literature • Hispanic cultural studies • shantytown cultural manifestation • US Latino theatre • women's studies • contemporary Latin American theater • Latin American popular music • Human rights |
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Nicholas Spadaccini Professor Fall 2009 Office Hours: TUES & THURS: 11:45am-12:30pm Office: 15 Folwell Phone: 612-625-0732 Email: spada001@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • comparative literature • colonial Spanish-American literature • Cervantes' novel and theater • early modern Spanish literature and culture • postcolonial theory • sociohistorical approaches |
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Maria Antonia Calvo Adjunct Associate Professor Fall 2009 Office Hours: THURS: 10:00-11:00am Office: 331 Folwell Phone: 612-625-1837 Email: macalvo@umn.edu |
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Amy Kaminsky Professor, Dept. of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Affiliate Senior Faculty Member Office: 425 Ford Hall Phone: 612-624-7319 Email: kamin001@umn.edu |
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Barbara Weissberger Associate Professor Email: weiss046@umn.edu Scholarly Interests: • ethnicity • gender • Isabella the Catholic • Spanish literature • Spanish romance |
Antonio Ramos-Gascon ramos006@umn.edu |
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