Spanish faculty and their teaching and research areas

Dr. Eugenia Afinoguénova Assistant Professor Resident Director, MU Study Center in Madrid (2005-2007) Ph.D. 1999; Georgetown University 20th-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Cultural Studies European Intellectual History Film Studies Literature and Visual Arts
Dr. Raquel Aguilú de Murphy Associate Professor Ph.D. 1984; University of Wisconsin-Madison 20th Century Latin American Drama 20th Century Latin American Short Story
Dr. Pilar Bellver Assistant Professor Ph.D. 1997; University of Pittsburgh Hispanic Languages and Literatures Certificate in Cultural Studies 20th Century Latin American Literature First person narratives by US Latina writers Contemporary Mexican border narrative
Dr. Germán Carrillo Associate Professor Ph.D. 1969; University of Illinois, Urbana 20th-Century Literature in general (Peninsular and Latin American) Specific Studies on some of the writers of "the boom" and "post-boom": the 80's and the 90's Gabriel García Márquez as special topic Colonial Latin American Literature
Dr. Belén Castañeda Associate Professor, Chair Ph.D. 1987; University of Wisconsin-Madison 20th Century - Spanish American Narrative Mario Vargas Llosa Spanish and Spanish American Civilization Generalist
Dr. Dinorah Cortes-Velez Assistant Professor Ph.D. 2006; University of Wisconsin-Madison Colonial Latin American Literature Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz New Spain Baroque of Indies and Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Female Writing
Dr. Scott Dale Associate Professor Ph.D. 1997; University of Pennsylvania 18th and 19th-Century Literature of Spain Epistolary and Travel Literature Modern Peninsular Novel
Dr. Armando González-Pérez Professor Ph.D. 1970; Michigan State University Medieval & Renaissance Spanish Literature Spanish & Spanish American Poetry Afro-Hispanic Literature Caribbean Literature
Dr. Todd Hernández Assistant Professor Ph.D. 2004; University of Kansas Foreign Language Education Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Methodology Classroom-based Second Language Acquisition Language Assessment
Dr. Jason Meyler Assistant Professor Ph.D. 2006; State University of New York - Stony Brook US Latino Literature Latin American Modernismo Music and Film emphasizing a pan-American perspective Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry with an Andean concentration Twenty-First and Twentieth Century Latin American, Latino and Chicano Theatre
Dr. Anne Pasero Associate Professor Ph.D. 1979; University of Southern California Golden Age Spanish Literature 20th-Century Spanish Literature Hispanic Poetry
Dr. Julia Paulk Assistant Professor Ph.D. 2003; Indiana University - Bloomington 19th Century Spanish American Narrative Inter-American Studies Antislavery Literature of the Americas
Dr. Eufemia Sánchez de la Calle Associate Professor Ph.D. 1990; Michigan State University 20th-Century Narrative of Spain
Dr. Barry Velleman Professor Ph.D. 1974; University of Wisconsin-Madison Descriptive Spanish Linguistics (Morphology and Syntax) Development of Hispanic Grammatical Tradition and Intellectual History Pedagogy

Dr. Eugenia Afinoguénova

Assistant Professor
Resident Director, MU Study Center in Madrid (2005-2007)
Ph.D. 1999; Georgetown University

20th-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Cultural Studies
European Intellectual History
Film Studies
Literature and Visual Arts

Dr. Raquel Aguilú de Murphy

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1984; University of Wisconsin-Madison

20th Century Latin American Drama
20th Century Latin American Short Story

Dr. Pilar Bellver

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1997; University of Pittsburgh

Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Certificate in Cultural Studies 20th Century Latin American Literature
First person narratives by US Latina writers
Contemporary Mexican border narrative

Dr. Germán Carrillo

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1969; University of Illinois, Urbana

20th-Century Literature in general (Peninsular and Latin American)
Specific Studies on some of the writers of "the boom" and "post-boom": the 80's and the 90's
Gabriel García Márquez as special topic
Colonial Latin American Literature