Full-time Faculty

Carrie Bonilla

Basic Spanish Program Coordinator

Associate Professor

Spanish: Second language acquisition, individual differences, explicit and implicit instruction, third language acquisition, community-based learning

Carla F Burns

Associate Professor

Spanish

Antonio Carreño-Rodríguez

Associate Professor

Spanish: Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Colonial Spanish-American literature and historiography, Modern Spanish Peninsular literature and culture, cultural studies, comparative literature, literary theory, performance studies, and popular culture.

Jennifer Leeman

Professor

Spanish: Spanish in the US; heritage language education; critical, antiracist language teaching; ethnicity, race, and language in censuses; language and social justice

Lisa M. Rabin

Associate Professor

Spanish: Film history, film reception, "useful" film, Latin American film and other forms of mass media, Latin American literature, service-learning.

Esperanza Roman-Mendoza

Spanish Program Coordinator

Professor

Spanish: E-learning, Distance Education, Applied Linguistics, Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Artificial Intelligence and Language Learning

Ellen Johnson Serafini

Director of Graduate Programs

Associate Professor

Spanish: Task-based Language Teaching; Critical Language Pedagogy; Community-Based Learning; Learner Individual Differences; Critical Language Awareness; Heritage Language Education.

Colleen A Sweet

Associate Professor

Spanish: Language teaching and methodology, Latin American Colonial Literature, Critical approaches to literary analysis.

Alexia D Vikis

Assistant Professor

Spanish

Ricardo F Vivancos-Pérez

Associate Professor

Spanish: Latina/o/x Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Latin American Studies, Iberian Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Migration Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, LGTBQIA+ Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, Panhispanic Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Editing & Publishing