People

Professors

Gerard Aching 19th and 20th-century Caribbean literatures and intellectual history; theories of modernism and modernity in Latin America; slavery and philosophy; visual regimes and politics in Caribbean popular cultures.
Helene M. Anderson Romanticism and the formation of the national canon in Mexico, contemporary women writers of Mexico, politics and literature in Latin America.
Gabriela Basterra Literature and philosophy; modern and contemporary literature in Spanish; tragedy; poetry; ethical philosophy; psychoanalysis; ethics and politics.
Diana Taylor Latin American Theater And Performance
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
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.
Jacques Lezra Contemporary and early-modern comparative literature, philosophy, lexical culture and visual studies; Cervantes; trans-national drama (Italy-Spain-England-France). Theory of ideology; the materialist tradition; ethics and aesthetics.
Jill Lane Latin American Theater And Performance
Jordana Mendelson Early twentieth-century visual culture in Spain
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.
H. Salvador Martínez Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature and Culture, Romance philology; Textual criticism; Latin and Vernacular Historiography; Cultural inter-relations in Medieval Spain; Intellectual history; Social and political philosophy; Revolutionary movements in medieval Spain
Sylvia Molloy comparative American literature, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, autobiography, fin-de-siècle literatures.
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.
Kathleen A. Ross Colonial Latin American Studies; Translation Theory and Practice; Gender Studies; Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature.
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.
George Yúdice Latin American Avant-Gardes, Cultural Studies, Cultural Policy 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, second-language acquisition, curricular planning, teacher training, ethnic and minority studies, émigré literature.
Lila Zemorain Twentieth-century Spanish-American Poetry; relationships between visual arts and contemporary Spanish-American poetry.