Faculty

All emails addresses end with: @stonybrook.edu

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LENA BURGOS-LAFUENTE Associate Professor PhD 2011, New York University Caribbean and Latin American literatures, Poetry, Modern transatlantic literatures, Poetics and Literary Politics. lena.burgos-lafuente@ ___________________

JOSÉ CHUECA Lecturer PhD 2020, Stony Brook University Contemprary Latin American literature and visual studies jose.chueca ___________________

AURA COLON Lecturer M.A. Universidad de Puerto Rico / Stony Brook University Caribbean and Latin American Literature, Transatlantic Studies and Migration aura.colon@ ___________________

ZAIDA CORNIEL Lecturer PhD 2015, Stony Brook University Caribbean literature and culture. Theater. zaida.corniel@ ___________________

ELENA DAVIDIAK Lecturer PhD University of Iowa Linguistics, language acquisition,  bilingualism and multilingualism elena.davidiak@ ___________________

PAUL FIRBAS Associate Professor PhD 2001, Princeton University Colonial Latin American literature and historiography, the colonial city, textual scholarship, history of the book and media, modernity in the Andes paul.firbas@ ___________________

DANIELA FLESLER Professor PhD 2001, Tulane University Contemporary Spanish Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Migration daniela.flesler@ ___________________

PATRICIA MARÍA GAMBOA Lecturer PhD 2022, University of Kentucky 19 th and 20 th centuries Peninsular Literature, Philosophy, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Fantastic Literature, Experiential Learning. patricia.mariagamboa@ ___________________

FERNANDO LOFFREDO Assistant Professor PhD 2010, University of Naples Federico II Mediterranean and Colonial Latin American Visual Culture, Sculpture and Urban Space, Art and Poetry in the Early Modern World fernando.loffredo@ ___________________

SEBASTIÁN LÓPEZ VERGARA Assistant Professor  PhD 2023 , University of Washington. Latinx and Indigenous Diaspora Studies sebastian.lopezvergara@ ___________________

JOSEPH M. PIERCE Associate Professor PhD 2013, The University of Texas at Austin Contemporary Southern Cone and Latin American Literatures, Narrative, Autobiographical Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Kinship Studies joseph.pierce@ ___________________

LUIS RODRÍGUEZ CHAVES Lecturer PhD 2021, Stony Brook University 20th Century Post-War Spanish Narrative,  luis.rodriguezchaves@ ___________________

VICTORIANO RONCERO-LÓPEZ Distinguished Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies PhD 1987, Universidad Complutense PhD 1988, University of Illinois Picaresque Literature, Quevedian Studies, Humanism Victoriano.Roncero-Lopez@ ___________________

LILIA DELFINA RUIZ-DEBBE Director of Spanish Language Program PhD 1996, University of Geneva Applied Linguistics, Teaching Methodology lilia.ruiz-debbe@ ___________________

JAVIER URIARTE Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies PhD New York University 19th and 20th centuries Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures and cultures, travel writing, war and modernization, spatial imagination in Latin America, the Amazon. Javier.Uriarte@ ___________________

KATHLEEN M. VERNON Professor PhD 1982, University of Chicago Spanish and Latin American cinema, popular and material culture; gender studies; literary and cultural studies. kathleen.vernon@ ___________________

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AFFILIATED FACULTY

MOHAMAD BALLAN Assistant Professor Dept of History PhD University of Chicago Medieval Mediterranean; borderlands; political thought; Islamic history; medieval Iberia; sectarianism and  intercommunal relations; early modern Europe; intellectual networks; philosophy; historiography; Ottoman Empire; late antiquity mohamad.ballan@ ___________________

NANCY HIEMSTRA Associate Professor Dept of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Political, cultural, and feminist geography; migration, immigration, gender, race, Latin America, and feminist epistemology and methodologies. nancy.hiemstra@ ___________________

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VISITING FACULTY

RODRIGO VIQUEIRA Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 24 and Spring 25) PhD 2024, Washington Univerity in St. Louis Modern and contemporary literature and cultures of the Southern Cone and Brazil, sound studies, media theory, race, Latin American cinema, and popular culture. rodrigo.viqueira@ ___________________

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Courtesy Appointment

AURELIE VIALETTE

Visiting Associate Professor (courtesy appointment F24-S27, non teaching)
PhD 2009, University of California, Berkeley.
19th century Iberian Cultures, Working class Culture, Catalan Studies, Gender Studies, Transatlantic Studies (Mexico).
Email: see Yale Univ web page

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Emeriti Faculty

LOU CHARNON-DEUTSCH

Professor
Ph.D. 1978, University of Chicago
Nineteenth-century Fiction, Spanish Women's Fiction, 19th and 20th century, Feminist Theory
lou.deutsch@stonybrook.edu

ROMÁN DE LA CAMPA

Professor
1976 Ph.D. University of Minnesota.
Literary theory and Latin American cultural studies. He is currently Professor at UPenn.
rdlcampa@sas.upenn.edu

PEDRO LASTRA

Professor
Universidad de Chile
Poesía latinoamericana y literatura colonial. He is currently director of de Anales de literatura chilena
analesdeliteratura@uc.cl

MALCOM K READ

Professor
Ph.D. 1976, University of Wales
Golden Age Literature, Marxist Criticism, Psychoanalysis
malcolm.read@stonybrook.edu

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IN MEMORIAM
 

ADRIÁN PÉREZ-MELGOSA

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1995, University of Rochester
Cinema and Literature of the Americas, Cultural Studies
Link to Obituary