Andrew Anderson

Andrew Anderson

Professor of Spanish

Research: Spanish poetry and drama in the 1920s and 1930s, the historical avant-garde, Lorca.

  • Office: Wilson 116
  • Phone: 924-7276
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: aaa8n@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Monday/Wednesday/Friday
  • Office Hours (time): 9:00-10:00 am

Cesaretti, Enrico

Enrico Cesaretti

Associate Professor of Italian

Research: 19th and 20th century Italian literature, avant-garde movements.

  • Office: Wilson 128
  • Phone: 4-7534
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: efc4p@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Tuesday/Thursday
  • Office Hours (time): 2:00-3:00 pm

Daniel Chávez

Assistant Professor of Spanish and American Studies

Research: Contemporary Mexican and Mexican American literary and cultural studies, Latin American film and new media studies.

  • Office: Wilson 127
  • Phone: 924-4651
  • Email: dchavez@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Tuesday/Thursday
  • Office Hours (time): 4:00-5:30 pm (T) & 1:00-2:30 pm (R)

Della Coletta, Cristina

Cristina Della Coletta

Professor of Italian

Research: 19th and 20th century Italian fiction, historical narratives, Italian film.

  • Office: Wilson 125
  • Phone: 4-4645
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: cd4y@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Tuesday/Thursday
  • Office Hours (time): 2:00-3:00 pm

Michael Gerli

Commonwealth Professor of Spanish

Research: Medieval and early modern Iberian literature and culture.


David T. Gies

Commonwealth Professor of Spanish

Research: Enlightenment and Romantic Spanish literature, contemporary Spanish culture.

  • Office: Wilson 123
  • Phone: 4-4652
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: dtg@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Monday
  • Office Hours (time): 2:00-4:00 pm

Haberly, David

David Haberly

Professor of Portuguese and Associate Chair

Research: Luso-Brazilian literature, race and gender in nineteenth-century New World literature, Brazilian popular culture, and Catalan literature.

  • Office: Wilson 111
  • Phone: 4-4650
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: dth@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Wednesdays
  • Office Hours (time): 1:00-2:00 pm

Ruth Hill

Professor of Spanish

Research: Colonial and Transatlantic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Early Modern Science, American Studies, Modernity Studies.

  • Office: Wilson 126
  • Phone: 4-7003
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: rah8t@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Monday
  • Office Hours (time): 12:00-1:00 pm

Lagos, Maria-Ines

María Inés Lagos

Professor of Spanish and Department Chair

Research: 20th century Latin American women writers, women’s autobiography, and US Latinas.

  • Office: Wilson 117
  • Phone: 924-4649
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: lagos@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Monday/Wednesday/Friday
  • Office Hours (time): 3:15-5:00 pm (M/W) & 12:45-1:45 pm (F)

Opere, Fernando

Fernando Operé

Professor of Spanish

Research: Colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American narrative, poetry, historical novel.

  • Office: Wilson 110
  • Phone: 4-4653
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: fo@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Tuesday/Thursday
  • Office Hours (time): 11:00-1:00 pm

Ricardo Padrón

Associate Professor of Spanish

Research: Colonial historiography; cartography & literature; Golden Age lyric and epic poetry.

  • Office: Wilson 201
  • Phone: 4-7543
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: padron@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Mondays/Wednesdays
  • Office Hours (time): 4:00-5:00 pm

Deborah Parker

Professor of Italian

Research: Italian Renaissance art and literature; Michelangelo; humanities computing; film theory.


Pellon, Gustavo

Gustavo Pellón

Associate Professor of Spanish

Research: Contemporary Spanish-American novel, Caribbean literature, comparative literature, translation, and literary theory.

  • Office: Wilson 122
  • Phone: 4-4655
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: pellon@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday
  • Office Hours (time): 3:00-4:00pm (M/W) & 3:20-4:20 pm (T)

Randolph D. Pope

Commonwealth Professor of Spanish

Research: Autobiography, Cervantes, 19th- and 20th-century Peninsular and Latin American novel, contemporary Spanish culture, comparative literature, cultural studies, literature and the arts, and literature and philosophy.


Rini, Joel

Joel Rini

Professor of Spanish

Research: Spanish historical grammar, Spanish diachronic morphology and syntax.

  • Office: Wilson 120
  • Phone: 4-4657
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: jr6b@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Tuesdays/Thursdays
  • Office Hours (time): 2:00-3:00 pm

Scida, Emily

Emily Scida

Associate Professor of Spanish

Research: Historical and comparative Romance linguistics, historical syntax, dialectology, Spanish and Portuguese syntax, and relational grammar.

  • Office: Wilson 119
  • Phone: 4-4646
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: escida@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Monday/Wednesday/Thursday
  • Office Hours (time): 12:30-1:30 pm (M), 3:30-4:30 pm (W) & 9:00-10:00 am (R)

Shaw, Donald

Donald Shaw

Brown-Forman Professor of Spanish

Research: Modern Spanish and Spanish American Literature, Borges, the Generation of 1898.

  • Office: Wilson 109
  • Phone: 4-4658
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: dls6h@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays
  • Office Hours (time): 10:00-11:00 am

Fernando Tejedo-Herrero

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Research: History of the Spanish language, contemporary Peninsular Spanish language, dialectology, sociolinguistic approaches to language change, and historical lexicography.


Ward, Adrienne

Adrienne Ward

Associate Professor of Italian

Research: 17th and 18th century Italian literature and culture.

  • Office: Wilson 129
  • Phone: 4-7542
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: aw7h@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Monday/Thrusday
  • Office Hours (time): 3:00-4:00 pm (M) & 2:00-3:00 pm (R)

Weber, Alison

Alison Weber

Professor of Spanish

Research: Heresy, mysticism, religion and society, Cervantes, and Spanish Golden age literature.

  • Office: Wilson 212
  • Phone: 4-4647
  • Mail: P.O. Box 400777
  • Email: apw@virginia.edu
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  • Office Hours (day): Tuesday/Thursday
  • Office Hours (time): 9:50-10:50 am (T) & 2:00-3:00 pm (R)

Professors Emeriti

  • Juan Cano Ballesta
  • Kenneth Chastain
  • Javier Herrero
  • Donald McGrady

Recent Visiting Professors and Writers in Residence

  • Roger Wright (U. of Liverpool), Spring 2008
  • Diamela Eltit, Spring 2007
  • Pia Barros, Spring 2007
  • Laura Freixas, Spring 2006
  • Antonio Skármeta, Spring 2006
  • Konrad Eisenbichler (U. of Toronto), Fall 2002
  • Mempo Giardinelli (Argentina), Fall 2002, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008
  • Robin Fiddian (Oxford University), Spring 2002
  • Charles A. Longhurst (University of Leeds), Spring 2001
  • Randolph Pope, (Washington University), Spring 2000
  • Manfred Tietz, (University of Bochum), Spring 2000
  • Peter Armour (U. of London), Spring 1998, Spring 1995
  • Andrew Anderson (U. of Michigan), Spring 1998
  • Mempo Giardinelli (Argentina), Spring 1997
  • Antonio Cisneros (Peru), Spring 1996
  • Rosa Montero (Madrid), Spring 1994
  • Antonio Muñoz Molina (Madrid), Spring 1993
  • In an earlier period, Carmen Martín Gaite, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Isabel Allende have also been visiting professors in our department.