Faculty

Claudia Aburto Guzmán

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Latin American culture, Latin American literature, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women’s history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

Baltasar Fra-Molinero

Professor of Hispanic Studies

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

David R. George Jr

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

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

Francisca López

Professor of Hispanic Studies

20th and 21st century Spanish literature and culture, cultural representations of history, discourse analysis, feminist analysis, gender studies, memory studies, narrative fiction, television

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

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