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

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

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

 

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

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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@

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

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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@

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

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

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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@

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

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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@

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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

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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MONICA P. VICENTINI Visiting Faculty in Portuguese PhD State University of Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil) Portuguese language, Applied Linguistics and Brazilian Culture. monica.panigassivicentini@

Courtesy Appointment

 

 

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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