Our faculty has expertise in many fields of study and theoretical approaches, producing research that is often informed by multidisciplinary perspectives. Many of our faculty members hold joint or adjunct appointments or have affiliated status in other departments and programs.
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Adjunct, Linguistics
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
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Department Chair, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Latino Studies
Research Interests
Caribbean literature and culture; Cuban studies; contemporary Latin American narrative; Latin American anthropology; radio and media theory; Latin American avante-gardes
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Provost Professor
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
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate: Latino Studies
Research Interests
Heritage Language Research and Pedagogy; Latinos and Spanish in the US; Critical Language Awareness; Morphosyntactic variation; Andean Spanish
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Research Interests
sociolinguistics; phonological variation; phonological acquisition; experimental phonetics; second language phonology; Spanish pronunciation; syntactic variation
Associate Professor (Profesora Titular), Spanish and Portuguese
Fulbright Scholar Liaison, IUB & IUNW campuses
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2024-2025
On Research Leave during 2024-2025
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
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
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
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Academic Director, IU Mexico Gateway
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
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Core Faculty: Medieval Studies Institute
Affiliate: Renaissance Studies Program
Research Interests
medieval and renaissance Spanish literature
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
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
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
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
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Catalan Program
Research Interests
Catalan culture and politics; theories of architecture; post-Marxism and deconstruction; war theory and globalization
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Research Interests
18th and 19th century Iberia, gender and sexuality, new materialisms, medical humanities
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Affiliate: Cultural Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; West European Studies
Research Interests
Spanish American literature and culture; Transatlantic Studies; Modernism
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
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
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Resident Director of the Madrid Program 23-24
Adjunct faculty: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Research Interests
Second language acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Bilingual lexicon; Semantic network development; Spanish pedagogy
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests
Latin American contemporary cinema
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
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
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Chair, Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Portuguese Program
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
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Hispanic Literature Program
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
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Graduate Studies
Director, Hispanic Linguistics Program
Research Interests
experimental spanish phonology; phonetics; variation
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