Departmental Faculty

Scholarly Interests: Sociolinguistics in Caribbean Spanish; Second language acquisition and teaching; Spanish for heritage speakers; Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Caribbean Spanish

Scholarly Interests: Bilingualism, pedagogy, phonology, code-switching, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics

Scholarly Interests: Gender and sexuality theory; Western intellectual history; psychoanalysis; deconstruction today; philosophy and politics of language; translation theory; animal studies and ecocriticism; postcolonial studies; 19th-century French poetry and poetics; women writers; Enlightenment literature and philosophy

Scholarly Interests: History and theory of the emotions; Medieval rhetoric and poetics; Literature, philosophy and theology; Iberian Studies

Scholarly Interests: Portuguese Language and Literature Creative Approaches; Lusophone Literature; Brazilian Modernismo; Contemporary Portuguese Poetry; Comparative Literature.

Scholarly Interests: Inflationary Media and Disinformation; Cervantes; Early Modern Literature; Fantasy and Horror/Terror; Cultural Theory

Scholarly Interests: Modern and Contemporary Italian and French Studies; Critical Theory; Architecture; Film and Visual Studies

Scholarly Interests: Modern Spanish and Catalan literature and culture; Ecocriticism; Spatial analysis; Theories of narrative

Scholarly Interests: Early modern Italian literature and religious life; satire, comic, and mock-heroic literature; early modern doubt; history of the book; literature and the visual arts.

Artistic and Scholarly Interests: Francophone, Africana, and Caribbean studies; decolonizations and globalities; disability studies; gender studies; performance studies; subjectivity and embodied knowledge; public representation and perception

Scholarly Interests: Wars of Religion; Print Culture and History of the Book; Early Modern Philosophy and Political Thought; Satire and Irony; Intellectual History and Literary Theory

Research Interests: Creole Languages; Descriptive & Theoretical Linguistics; Linguistic Typology; Extensible Lexical databases and Corpora; Experimental data; Language Change; Language Acquisition; Morphological Complexity

Teaching and Research Interests: Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP); Spanish for the Health Professions; Medical Spanish; Spanish for Pharmacy; community-engaged experiential learning; generative-AI applications in advanced pedagogical tool development; transdisciplinary approaches to language education; applied humanities; health humanities; proficiency-based language instruction; assessment methods in LSP domains; intersections between linguistic proficiency and culturally competent medical education in navigating social and structural determinants of health.

Scholarly Interests: Literature and the Other Arts; Psychoanalysis, Modern Literatures (in French, Portuguese, Spanish, English) and Philosophy; Sexuality Studies and Critical Theory; Women Writers and Film Directors; Art, Art Theory, and Aesthetics; the Ethics of Psychoanalysis and Schizoanalysis; Environmental Art.

Scholarly Interests: Urbanization and Modernization of Latin America since 1850; Critical Border Studies; Political Theory; Latin American Cultural Theory; Post-Humanism and Media Theory; 19th and 20th century Latin American literature and culture; Critical theory; Poetics; Modernism and Avant-Garde; Argentina; Brazil; Mexico

Scholarly Interests: Variationist socio-linguistics; Contact linguistics; Morphosyntax; Language change; Afro-diasporic Romance vernaculars; Pidgin & Creole languages; Spanish in the United States

Scholarly Interests: Modern and Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film; Romanticism; Realism; Avant garde movements; Feminism

Scholarly Interests: Colonial Latin American literature; Nahuatl Studies; Early Modern Spanish literature

Scholarly Interests: Constitutional Law; Contracts; Corruption; Despotism; Discrimination; Ethics; French and Francophone Studies; Health and Environmental Justice; Human Rights; Indigenous Legal Traditions; International and Comparative Law; Law and Humanities; Legal and Political Theory; Migration; Transitional Justice

Scholarly Interests: Syntax; Syntax-semantics interface; Syntax-pragmatics interface; Creole languages; Martinican Creole; Regional varieties of French

Scholarly Interests: Early modern Italian literature, culture and conduct manuals; Satire; Chivalric poems; Gender studies

Scholarly Interests: Latin American Cultural Studies; Race and Capitalism; Indigeneity; Financialization; Critical Border Studies; Abolition; Mexico; Brazil