Cynthia Carosella
Instructor of Spanish
Tris Faulkner
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Phone:
269-337-7324
Email:
Office:
Dewing 203B
Personal Website:
B.A., Spanish Language and Literature and International Studies, Louisiana State University
M.A., Interpreting and Translation Studies, Wake Forest University
M.S., Spanish Linguistics, Georgetown University
Ph.D., Spanish Linguistics, Georgetown University
Teaching
SEMN-129-01: All Speech is Legitimate!: The Fallacy of “Broken” Language
SPAN-4xx: Topics in Spanish Linguistics (course topics and title will vary based on the particular trimester/academic year, as well as student/professor interests).
SPAN-493: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
SPAN-205: Linguistics, Identity, and Health
Research
My research investigates the semanto-pragmatics of “non-standard” grammars (e.g., non-standard variation between subjunctive and indicative), with the objective of helping to eliminate harmful and discriminatory ideas about “wrong”, “incorrect”, or “bad” language; that is to say, there’s no such thing as “bad” language! In my work (focused mainly on variation in mood, tense, and aspect), I focus on how the meanings of these forms are influenced by socio-pragmatic context. My investigations incorporate the use of corpora and human participants.
Although my research has centered mostly on Spanish or Romance, I also do work on English and Jamaican Creole.
Ivett López Malagamba
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Co-Chair, Department of Spanish Language and Literatures
Ph.D., Hispanic Language and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
Designated Emphasis in Film and Media Studies
B.A., Peninsular and Latin American Literatures & Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Teaching
SPAN492: Senior Seminar (Topic: Contemporary Latin American Women Writers)
SPAN495: Indigeneity in Latin America
SPAN485: Undoing the Nation: 20th- and 21st- Latin American Cultural Production
SPAN455: Latin American Documentary Film
SPAN445: Visual Practices in Latin America
SPAN401: The Spanish-Speaking World on Film (Latin America)
SPAN301: Introduction to Hispanic Literatures
SPAN203: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN201: Intermediate Spanish
SPAN200: Intermediate Spanish in the Dominican Republic (Winter 2019)
SPAN101: Beginning Spanish I
Research
20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Literature and Visual Culture
Katie MacLean
Associate Professor of Spanish
Co-Chair, Department of Spanish Language and Literatures
B.A. (combined honors) French and Spanish, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada)
M.A. Spanish, Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada)
Ph.D. Spanish and Latin American Studies, Duke University (Durham, NC)
Diomedes S. Rábago
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., Modern Languages, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico
M.A., Spanish, Western Michigan University
Ph.D., Hispanic Cultural Studies, Michigan State University
Teaching
SPAN206: Business Spanish
Research
Class identity and representation in Latin American literature and film.
Sociological and historical approaches to literature.
Enid Valle
Professor of Spanish
BA, Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (Puerto Rico)
MA, Comparative Literature, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
PhD, Romance Languages (Spanish) The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Carlos Vázquez Cruz
Assistant Professor of Spanish
PhD in Romance Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MFA in Spanish Creative Writing, New York University
BA in Spanish Education, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Teaching
Research
Research Interests:
Hispanic Queer Literature
Hispanic Digital Humanities
Hispanic Contemporary Literature
Hispanic Writers in the US
Afro-Latin American Artists and Writers
The Critical Study of Masculinities in Literature, Music and ICT’s
Selected articles:
“Evolución tecno-digital y disrupción locativa en novelas gays hispánicas (1967-2016)”. Ometeca, vol. 25, Winter 2020-21, pp. 67-96.
“Abniel Marat: poeta, homosexual y revolucionario”. Journal of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, Series 3, no. 7, September 2017, pp. 14-26.
“Querido José Luis: ‘A veces llegan cartas…’ como las suyas”. Cruce: Contemporary Sociocultural Critique, March 2018, pp. 62-74. Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico.
“Seis veces Isadora”. Cuadrivium, vol. 11, no. 17, Winter 2015 – Spring 2016, pp. 132-40. University of Puerto Rico at Humacao.
“Del amor romántico a la pornografía: el tránsito poético de Juanmanuel González-Ríos”. Hispanic Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 93-100. Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
“El artificio como artefacto: los hilos poéticos de Aún entre mis manos”. Exégesis: Journal of the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, vol. 21, no. 64, 2009, pp. 72-80.
“Frutos (sub)terráneos: del huerto poético de Martínez-Márquez, a la frescura de su mesa”. Luciérnaga: International Book Review Journal, año 4, no. 11, mayo – agosto 2007, pp. 28-39. University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla.
Selected books:
Las siete Partidas. San Juan: Riel Editores, 2022. (novel) [forthcoming]
Silente. San Juan: Isla Negra Editores, 2022. (poetry)
Ares. San Juan: Isla Negra Editores, 2014. (poetry)
Malacostumbrismo. San Juan: Erizo Editorial, 2012. (stories)
Sencilla mente. Arecibo: Sótano Editores, 2010. (poetry)
La mirilla y la muralla: el estado crítico. Arecibo: Sótano Editores, 2009. (literary criticism)
Dos centímetros de mar. San Juan: Editorial Tiempo Nuevo, 2008. (novel)
8% de desk-cuentos (Asado a las doce). Massachusetts: CBH Books, 2006. (stories)
Mikela Zhezha-Thaumanavar
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Emily Fink-Craig
Office Coordinator, Languages Division