Spanish Faculty

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

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.

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.

Ruth Hill, Professor of Spanish
Research: Colonial and Transatlantic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Early Modern Science, American Studies, Modernity Studies.

María-Inés Lagos, Professor of Spanish
Research: 20th century Latin American women writers, women's autobiography, and US Latinas.

Fernando Operé, Professor of Spanish
Research: Colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American narrative, poetry, historical novel.

Ricardo Padrón, Associate Professor of Spanish
Research: Colonial historiography; cartography &literature; Golden Age lyric and epic poetry.

Gustavo Pellón, Associate Professor of Spanish
Research: Contemporary Spanish-American novel, Caribbean literature, comparative literature, translation, and literary theory.

Randolph D. Pope, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Chair. 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.

Joel Rini, Professor of Spanish
Research: Spanish historical grammar, Spanish diachronic morphology and syntax.

Emily Scida, Associate Professor of Spanish
Research: Historical and comparative Romance linguistics, historical syntax, dialectology, Spanish and Portuguese syntax, and relational grammar.

Donald Shaw, Brown-Forman Professor of Spanish.
Research: Modern Spanish and Spanish American Literature, Borges, the Generation of 1898.

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.

Alison Weber, Professor of Spanish
Research: Heresy, mysticism, religion and society, Cervantes, and Spanish Golden age literature.

Italian Faculty

Enrico Cesaretti, Associate Professor of Italian
Research: 19th and 20th century Italian literature, avant-garde movements.

Cristina Della Coletta, Professor of Italian
Research: 19th and 20th century Italian fiction, historical narratives, Italian film.

Deborah Parker, Professor of Italian
Research: Italian Renaissance art and literature; Michelangelo; humanities computing; film theory..

Adrienne Ward, Associate Professor of Italian
Research: 17th and 18th century Italian literature and culture.

† Tibor Wlassics, William R. Kenan Professor of Italian.
Research: Dante, Galileo, Verga, Pavese, 20th century Italian poetry.

Portuguese Faculty

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.

Professors Emeriti

Juan Cano Ballesta

Kenneth Chastain

Arnold A. Del Greco

Javier Herrero

Donald McGrady

Recent Visiting Professors and Writers in Residence

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

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.