Faculty

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Baltasar Fra-Molinero

Professor of Hispanic Studies

bframoli@bates.edu | 207-786-6050

Cervantes, Global Hispanophone Studies, literature and culture of Equatorial Guinea, Literatures of the African Diaspora in Spanish, race and religion in early modern Spain and Spanish America, Spanish, Spanish and Spanish American Renaissance and Baroque studies, Spanish baroque theater

Christine M. Martinez

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

cmartinez@bates.edu | 207-753-6934

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

dgeorge@bates.edu | 207-786-8347

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

Cristina Morales Segura

Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

cmoralessegura@bates.edu | 207-786-6086

America-Spain relationships, cultural studies, film studies, intersections of law and literature and media culture, literary analysis

Karen Melvin

Thomas Hedley Reynolds Professor of History

kmelvin@bates.edu | 207-786-8208

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

spridgeo@bates.edu | 207-786-8352

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

Gabriel Z. Bloomfield

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

gbloomfield@bates.edu | 207-786-8277

16th- and 17th- century English poetry, early modern British literature and culture, gender and sexuality, history of religion, poetry and poetics, protestant reformation, Shakespeare

Charles I. Nero

Benjamin E. Mays '20 Distinguished Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

cnero@bates.edu | 207-786-6415

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

Kirk D. Read

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

kread@bates.edu | 207-786-6280

early modern French literature (1500-1700), early modern medicine and midwifery, femininity, French renaissance poetry, gender, intersexuality, literary analysis, masculinity, medical and anthropological readings of literature, sex and sexuality, women writers

Zen T. Kuriyama

Assistant Professor of Music

zkuriyama@bates.edu | 207-786-6418

choral music, classical voice, conducting, English musical nationalism, Gerald Finzi, historical musicology, Jewish studies, Jewishness and antisemitism in nineteenth and twentieth-century European musical culture, music theory, sacred music