Master of Arts in
Spanish

Faculty

Anastasio, María José. Ph.D., State University of New York (Buffalo). Academic interests: Contemporary novel and cinema of Spain, and Spanish popular music.

Cao, Antonio F. Ph.D., Harvard University. Academic interests: nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish peninsular poetry and theater, particularly the works of Federico García Lorca. He also works on contemporary Cuban theater.

DaSilva, Zenia. Ph.D., New York University. Academic interests: Cervantes, nineteenth-century peninsular literature, and the Latin American novel through 1950.

Janer, Zilkia. Ph.D., Duke University. Academic interests: Puerto Rican nationalism and United States colonialism in Puerto Rican history and literature. Her current research is on French cuisine and modernity.

Lledó-Guillém, Vicente. Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley. Academic interests: Medieval Castilian and Catalan literature, Golden Age Spanish Literature. Romance Philology and the politics of language in the Romance World.

Marval McNair, Nora. Ph.D., New York University. Academic interests: twentieth-century literatures of Argentina and Uruguay, the Spanish Generation of the '98, and semiotics.

Sampedro Vizcaya, Benita. Ph.D., New York University. Academic interests: Colonial Spanish America, Spanish colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa, Postcolonial, Decolonization, and Imperial Studies, and literary theory.

Van Bishop, Tracy. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Coordinator of the Spanish Language Program, and departmental advisor for double majors in Spanish and Secondary Education.

Zapata, Miguel-Angel. Ph.D., Washington University. Academic interests: Latin American poetry, cultural studies of the Andean region, and comparative studies of Latin American, American, and European poetry.