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Gabriela Basterra Literature and philosophy, ethical and poetic subjectivity, comparative literature, rhetoric, poetry, tragedy, psychoanalysis, ethics and politics.
Ana María Dopico Comparative studies of the Americas, theory and history of the novel, Cuban and Caribbean Culture, nationhood and imperialism, syncretism and visual culture, memory and popular culture, national poets, public intellectuals and cultural genealogies, U.S. Latino cultures, North-South studies/cultural politics of the global South, gender and narrative, psychoanalysis and social mythologies.
Georgina Dopico-Black Early-modern Spanish literature
Alexandra Falek Latin American Cultural Studies; Latin American Cinema; Visual and Performing Arts; Memory Studies; Border-Crossings and Migration; Translation
James D. Fernández literature, history, and culture of modern Spain; autobiography; cultural relations between Spain and Latin America; visions of Spain in the United States.
Sibylle Fischer Caribbean and Latin American literatures (Spanish, Portuguese, French); culture and politics in the nineteenth century; literature and dictatorship; literature and philosophy; cultural, aesthetic, and political theory; the Black Atlantic; the Haitian Revolution.
Gabriel  Giorgi Literature from the Southern Cone; biopolitics; queer theory and gender studies; literature and philosophy; critical theory.
Kenneth Krabbenhoft Early-modern Spanish rhetoric and poetics (Góngora, Quevedo, Gracián); the Western mystical tradition, especially the Spanish 16th century and the kabbalah of the Spanish diaspora; Portuguese and Brazilian literature (Clarice Lispector, Sofia de Melo, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago); science-fiction; and translation.
Jo Labanyi Spanish literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries; film, especially that of the early Franco period; gender studies; popular culture; memory, especially in relation to the Spanish Civil War.
Jill Lane Latin American Theater And Performance
Jacques Lezra Comparative literature and literary theory; Shakespeare; the literary and visual culture of Early Modern Europe.
Jordana Mendelson Early twentieth-century visual culture in Spain
S.J. Pearce Hebrew and Arabic literature of Iberia, mester de clerecía, 12th- and 13th-century Castile, the translation movement, history and literature of the "tres culturas," literary representations of Alexander the Great, history of literature, historical readings of literature, codicology Anticipated degree date is August 2011. (BA is from Yale, 2005, MA from Cornell, 2009.)
Marta C. Peixoto Brazilian literature, literary theory, gender theory, modern poetry.
Mary Louise Pratt Latin American literature since 1800; contemporary Latin American narratives and the neo-liberal crisis; postcolonial criticism and theory; cultural studies; women and print culture in Latin America; travel literature; literature and colonialism; cultural theory.
Eduardo Subirats Spanish intellectual history; the Counter Reformation and the colonisation of Spanish America; the Enlightenment; avant-garde theory; artistic movements in Spain and Latin America; modern Latin American and Spanish essay.
Diana Taylor Latin American and U.S. theatre and performance, performance and politics, feminist theatre and performance in the Americas, Hemispheric studies, trauma studies.
Juan de Dios  Vázquez Latin American literature; Mexican cultural history; trauma studies; law and literature, public intellectuals; guerrilla warfare; film studies.

Clinical Professors

Maria de Lourdes Dávila 19th and 20th Century Latin American Literature; focus on Southern Cone, Puerto Rican Literature, Latino Studies, Literary Criticism, Aesthetics and Interartistic Studies, Popular Culture, and Translation.
Mariela Dreyfus Aesthetics and Poetics of Modernism; Tradition and Revision in Latin American Poetry; Politics and Gender in Latin America Women Writers; French and Latin American Surrealism; Contemporary Latina Writers; Literary Theory.
Judith K. Némethy Foreign language methodology, study abroad, second-language acquisition, curricular planning, teacher training, migration, ethnic and minority studies, émigré literature.
Lila Zemborain Twentieth-century Spanish-American Poetry; relationships between visual arts and contemporary Spanish-American poetry.
María José Zubieta Foreign Language methodology, second language acquisition