
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

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)

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.
- Office: Wilson 124
- Phone: 4-7503
- Mail: P.O. Box 400777
- Email: gerli@virginia.edu
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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

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

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)

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.
- Office: Wilson 121
- Phone: 4-4654
- Mail: P.O. Box 400777
- Email: dwp7k@virginia.edu
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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.
- Office: Wilson 130
- Phone: 924-7543
- Email: rpope@virginia.edu
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- Office Hours (day): Monday/Wednesday
- Office Hours (time): 4:00-6:00 pm

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

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)

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.
- Office: Wilson 108
- Phone: 924-7478
- Email: lft5p@virginia.edu
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- Office Hours (day): Tuesday/Thursday
- Office Hours (time): 12:00-1:30 pm

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)

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.