Patrícia Amaral

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Director, Graduate Studies

Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics

*2021-2022 Senior Faculty Fellow, Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH)

• pamaral@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-8577
• Global and International Studies Building 2139

Affiliate: Cognitive Science Program; Institute for European Studies 

Research Interests
syntax-semantics interface; language change (syntactic and semantic change); romance linguistics; experimental pragmatics; language contact

Anke Birkenmaier

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Department Chair, Spanish and Portuguese

• abirkenm@iu.edu
• (812) 855-0639
• Global and International Studies Building 2176

Affiliate: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Latino Studies; American Studies

Research Interests
Caribbean literature and culture; Cuban studies; contemporary Latin American narrative; Latin American anthropology; radio and media theory; Latin American avante-gardes

Deborah Cohn

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• dncohn@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-5993
• Global and International Studies Building 2161

Adjunct: Comparative Literature; English; Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society

Affiliate: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS); Latino Studies; English; Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society

Research Interests
comparative literature of the Americas; Faulkner and Spanish American literature; Mexican intellectual infrastructure and Cold War cultural relations between Spanish America and the U.S.; Cold War cultural diplomacy

Leslie Del Carpio

Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• ldelcarp@iu.edu
• (812) 855-1514
• Global and International Studies Building 2118

Affiliate: Latino Studies 

Research Interests
Heritage Language Research and Pedagogy; Latinos and Spanish in the US; Critical Language Awareness; Morphosyntactic variation; Andean Spanish

Manuel Díaz-Campos

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• mdiazcam@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-5462
• Global and International Studies Building 2153

Research Interests
sociolinguistics; phonological variation; phonological acquisition; experimental phonetics; second language phonology; Spanish pronunciation; syntactic variation

Melissa Dinverno

Associate Professor (Profesora Titular), Spanish and Portuguese

Fulbright Scholar Liaison, IUB

• mdinvern@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-5270
• Global and International Studies Building 2107

Affiliate: Institute for European Studies; Gender Studies

Research Interests
20th-century Spanish literature, film and culture; memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; textual/editorial theory; archival studies

Patrick Dove

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• pdove@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6136
• Global and International Studies Building 2171

Affiliate: Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities

Research Interests
20th-century Spanish-American narrative; literary theory; philosophy; political thought and literature

J. César Félix-Brasdefer

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Director, Undergraduate Studies

Academic Director, IU Mexico Gateway

• cfelixbr@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-9551
• Global and International Studies Building 2135

Adjunct: Second Language Studies; Linguistics

ACTFL OPI Tester: Spanish with Full Certification

Research Interests
pragmatics; discourse analysis; pragmatic variation; speech act theory; (im)politeness; interlanguage pragmatics; instruction of pragmatics

Ryan Giles

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• rdgiles@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-4878
• Global and International Studies Building 2109

Core Faculty: Medieval Studies Institute

Affiliate: Renaissance Studies Program

Research Interests
medieval and renaissance Spanish literature

Laura Gurzynski-Weiss

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• lgurzyns@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6392
• Global and International Studies Building 2127

Affiliate: IU Cognitive Science Program

Research Interests
instructed second language acquisition; interaction and TBLT research; individual characteristics/differences; feedback perception and use; teacher cognition; research and teaching methodology

R. Andrés Guzmán

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• riguzman@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-4250
• Global and International Studies Building 2159

Affiliate: Latino Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Cultural Studies; American Studies  

Research Interests
U.S. Latina/o and Latin American literature and culture; border studies; political theory; psychoanalysis; marxism; political economy

Edgar Illas

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Director, Catalan Program

• eillas@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-8907
• Global and International Studies Building 2105

Research Interests
Catalan culture and politics; theories of architecture; post-Marxism and deconstruction; war theory and globalization

Rhi Johnson

Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• rhirjohn@iu.edu
• Global and International Studies Building 2112

Research Interests
18th and 19th century Iberia, gender and sexuality, new materialisms, medical humanities

Alejandro Mejías-López

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• amejiasl@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-1059
• Global and International Studies Building 2167

Affiliate: Cultural Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; West European Studies

Research Interests
Spanish American literature and culture; Transatlantic Studies; Modernism

Kathleen Myers

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• myersk@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-5027
• Global and International Studies Building 2100

Adjunct: History

Research Interests
colonial and contemporary Mexican cultural studies; chronicles, indigenous texts, popular and visual culture; ethno-history and cultural geographies in contemporary Mexico and Spain; early modern Hispanic women and religion

Luciana Namorato

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Resident Director of the Madrid Program 23-24

Adjunct faculty: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

• lnamorat@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-1061
• Global and International Studies Building 2147

Affiliate: African Studies; Critical Race and Postcolonial Studies; Institute for European Studies; Latino Studies Program

Research Interests
Brazilian and Portuguese literatures and cultures; Brazilian Modernism; contermporary Latin American narrative, gender studies

Jonathan Risner

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Director, Hispanic Literature Program

• jtrisner@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-5732
• Global and International Studies Building 2163

Research Interests
Latin American contemporary cinema

Olimpia E. Rosenthal

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• orosenth@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-8807
• Global and International Studies Building 2141

Affiliate: American Studies; Critical Race; Postcolonial Studies Program; Renaissance Studies Program

Research Interests
comparative colonial cultural studies; postcolonial theory; Andean literature and visual culture; critical race studies

Estela Vieira

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Associate Chair, Spanish and Portuguese

Interim Director, Portuguese Program

• evieira@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-6143
• Global and International Studies Building 2149

Affiliate: Comparative Literature; Institute for European Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; African Studies

Research Interests
Portuguese and Brazilian literatures and cultures; nineteenth-century literature, film, and women writers

Steven Wagschal

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

• swagscha@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-1623
• Global and International Studies Building 2133

Affiliate: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Cognitive Science; Renaissance Studies Program

Co-Chair: College of Arts and Sciences’ Themester 2018 “Animal/Human”

Research Interests
early modern Spanish literature and culture; cognitive approaches to literature; philosophy and literature; art and literature

Erik W. Willis

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Director, Hispanic Linguistics Program

• ewwillis@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-8494
• Global and International Studies Building 2122

Research Interests
experimental spanish phonology; phonetics; variation