ROMÁN DE LA CAMPA, Professor and Chair
Ph.D. 1977, University of Minnesota
Román de la Campa is Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Comparative Literature. He has written and edited books on theater, literary theory, cultural studies, and testimonio. His essays have appeared in more than 20 journals in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. His current research looks at the ways in which theoretical discourses... [MORE]		  
   

LOU CHARNON-DEUTSCH, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. 1978, University of Chicago
Lou Charnon-Deutsch's earliest training was in the School of Chicago Criticism that strongly influenced her first book, a structuralist study of the artistic short story of 19th century Spain. By the mid-eighties, however, she broadened her interests to include applied feminist theory and psychoanalytic... [MORE]

 
VICTORIANO RONCERO-LÓPEZ, Professor
Ph.D. 1987, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain);
Ph.D. 1988, University of Illinois
Born in Valdepeñas, Spain, Victor Roncero-López is a graduate of Spanish and American universities. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) and at High Point, North Carolina. Since 1995, he has been Associate Professort... [MORE]
MALCOLM K. READ, Professor
Ph.D. 1976, University of Wales
Born in Derby, England, Malcolm Read graduated from the University of Bristol in 1967. Between 1968 and 1980, he was Assistant Professor in Spanish at the University College of Wales, Aberystweyth. He was Visiting Professor in New Zealand in 1977-78, whither he returned on a permanent basis in 1980. He remained in New Zealand until 1993, except for one year spent as a Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica...[MORE]
BENIGNO TRIGO, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1992, Yale University
Trained in Modernismo and fin-de-siècle Spanish American literature, Benigno Trigo's theoretical interests have been greatly influenced by fin-de-siècle issues such as the role of language and writing in the construction of subjectivity and interdisciplinarity. He has been particularly interested in the problem of differentiating between bel-letristic and scientific discourse...[MORE]
KATHLEEN M. VERNON, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. 1982, University of Chicago
Since receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, Kathleen Vernon has worked in both her teaching and research to develop an inter-disciplinary and broadly contextual approach to the study of modern Hispanic litera-ture and culture...[MORE]
ANTONIO VERA-LEÓN, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1987, Princeton University
Antonio Vera-León's research is concerned with the 19th-century Caribbean, especially Cuba, and the interrelation between visual culture and literature in 20th-century Latin America. Much of Vera-León's research on the 19th century is mainly concerned with the formation of a "national" narrative tradition within a colonial situation...[MORE]
LILIA DELFINA RUIZ-DEBBE, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1996, University of Geneva, Switzerland
With a strong foundation in the cognitive epistemology of Piaget at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Lilia Ruiz-Debbe did her first research on the processes of language structures. At present, her research involves Interlanguae Studies and Second Language Acquisition...[MORE]
DANIELA FLESLER, Assistant Professor
PhD. 2001, Tulane University
Daniela Flesler is Assistant Professor of Spanish at SUNY Stony Brook with a specialization in Contemporary Peninsular Studies. She received her Ph.D. from Tulane University in 2001. Her work focuses on issues of transnationalism and migration, national and regional identities, the rewriting of Spanish history, and Spanish Orientalism....[MORE]
FLORA KLEIN-ANDREU, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1973, Columbia University
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Flora Klein-Andreu received her Ph.D. in General
Linguistics, with Spanish as her language of specialization. She has taught
at Hunter College, Georgetown University, the University of Caracas
(Venezuela), and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona [MORE]
FRANCISCO ORDÓÑEZ, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1997, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Francisco Ordóñez was trained in the study of formal linguistics. His specialization has been the comparative study of the syntax of Spanish, its varieties and other Romance languages such as Catalan, French, Italian and Occitan dialects. His present research involves the study of the syntactic differences of the dialects of Spanish spoken in Latin America and Spain.
ADRIAN PEREZ-MELGOSA, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1995, University of Rochester
Adrian Pérez Melgosa is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at SUNY Stony Brook with a specialization in Contemporary Hispanic Cultural Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Rochester. His work explores the intervention of visual and written fiction narratives on the shaping of collective identities in the Americas and Europe. . .[MORE]
GABRIELA POLIT-DUEÑAS, Assistant Professor
Ph.D 2002, New York University
Specializing in contemporary Latin American narrative, Gabriela Polit Duenas' studies also include political science and philosophy. Her work focuses gender and the politics of literary writing in twentieth century caudillo novels. In addition, she has published works on Ecuadorian literary criticism. Currently her interests include violence and novels that deal with narcotraffic.
     
   
   
  COOPER, HELEN. PhD Rutgers University. 19thC British and Colonial Studies, Caribbean Literature, Feminist and Post-Colonial Theory, Cultural Studies
  DAVIS, MICHAEL. PhD UCLA. Urban history; the American West; Climate history since 1800.
  GOOTENBERG, PAUL. PhD University of Chicago. Modern Latin America, economic and political economy, the Andes and Mexico, history of drugs.
  HARVEY, ROBERT. PhD University of California, Berkeley. 20th-century and contemporary literature in French and English; Critical theory, film.
  KAPLAN, ANN. PhD Rutgers University. 19th-and 20th-century American literature; feminist theory (psychoanalysis and postmodernism); women in film; cultural studies (multiculturalism, popular culture).
  KAPLAN, TEMMA. PhD Harvard University:
Spanish and Latin-American social history
  LEDGERWOOD, MIKLE. PhD University of North Carolina: Director of the Language Learning Center;
Semiotics, Education and Technology.
  MARSET, JUAN CARLOS. PhD Columbia University. Aesthetics and Philosophy; Literature & Culture of Early Modern Europe; María Zambrano's philosophy and poetry. Media studies: film, advertising, visual arts; Contemporary Music.
  NAVAJAS, GONZALO. PhD University of California, Los Angeles. Eighteenth to twentieth-century Spanish literature, modern intellectual history, and film.
  OLIVER, KELLY. PhD Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Twentieth-century French philosophy, continental feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, Nietzsche, phenomenology, and race theory.
  RESINA, JOAN. PhD U.C. Berkeley and University of Barcelona. Modern and contemporary European narrative, Literary Theory, History of Ideas, Film Studies, Iberian Cultural and Political History, Catalan Studies.
  SILVERMAN, HUGH. PhD Stanford University.Contemporary literary/art/film/cultural theory; Continental philosophy and criticism; Interdisciplinary studies in philosophy, literature and culture; History of literary and aesthetic theory; the philosophical essay.
  VASVARI, LOUISE. PhD University of California, Berkeley. Medieval literature, literature and folklore, literature and linguistics, translation theory, Romance philology; Semiology, art and literature, sexuality and literature.
     
   
   
  LASTRA, PEDRO. University of Chile:
Spanish American literature; history of literature.
    JAMES B. McKENNA, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University:
20th-century Hispanic culture and literature.
  RIVERS, ELIAS. Ph.D., Yale University:
Golden Age literature; the poetry of Garcilaso; literary theory.
  SABAT-RIVERS, GEORGINA. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University:
Spanish-American colonial literature; Spanish and Spanish-American Baroque poetry.
  NUNES, MARíA LUISA. Ph.D, City University of New York;
19th- and 20th-century Luso-Brazilian literature and women's studies.