Hispanic Studies Faculty

Eleonora Bertranou     #2773   Quad 257E, SJU
B.A. Education,  University of Iowa
M.A. Spanish,  University of Iowa
Ph.D., Spanish, University of Minnesota
Academic interests:  Hispanic civilizations and cultures.
Immigration, revolution, civil war, genocide

Patricia Bolaños    #5061    Richarda P17, CSB
B.A. Psychology, McGill University
M.A. Hispanic Studies, McGill University
Ph.D. University of Kentucky
Academic Interests: Programs abroad, poetry, 20th-century Spanish literature, and Spanish women writers

Bruce Campbell    #2727    Quad 253D, SJU
B.A. (Spanish and Government) College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
M.A. (Spanish Language and Literature) Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Ph.D. (Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Academic interests include cultural politics in Latin America, globalization, public art and social movements, contemporary narrative in the Americas, and popular cultural practices.

Nelsy Echávez-Solano   #2230     Quad 253A, SJU
B.A. Spanish, University of Minnesota
M.A. Hispanic Linguistics, University of Minnesota
Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Second Language Acquisition; University of Minnesota,
Academic interests: implementation, facilitation, and evaluation of technology-enhanced language learning in beginning foreign language classes; the role of error correction in language learning; the use of Spanish Creoles in contemporary Latin America, Caribbean Spanish, Latin American theater, and Latino theater in the United States.

Angela Erickson-Grussing    #5130   HAB 134, CSB
B.A. in Spanish, Gustavus Adolphus College
M.A. in Spanish (linguistics), San Diego State University
Professional interests: second-language pedagogy, technology's role in the foreign language classroom, language acquisition theory, applied linguistics, Spanish syntax, phonology and phonetics

José Antonio Fábres    #5166    Richarda P19, CSB
B.A.    Northeast Missouri State University
M.A.   University of Kentucky
Ph.D.  University of Kentucky

Marietta Franulic     #5584   Richarda P14, CSB
B.A. Spanish and Latin American Studies, Arizona State University
M.A. Spanish, Latin American Contemporary Literature of Women, Arizone State University
Academic Interests: Spanish American Women's Literature, Film, Art and Music

Tania Gómez       #5154     Richarda P1, CSB
B.A. English as a Second Language, Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia
M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language and a Foreign Language, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN
M.A. Hispanic Linguistics, University of Minnesota
Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics and Luso-Brazilian Literature, University of Minnesota
Academic Interests: Design and evaluation of technology-enhanced language learning in beginning foreign language classes, sociolinguistic aspects of the Spanish language, Spanish in the USA, Spanish in Immersion Schools and pragmatic aspects of the Spanish language

Christina Hennessy    #5658  Richarda P21, CSB
B.A. French and Greek Literature and Linguistics. University of Athens, Greece.
MA. Translation and Interpretation (Spanish, French, English, Greek) Instituto Universitario de Lenguas Modernas y Traductores, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. Completed all the PhD Courses in the Dept of Spanish Literature at Universidad Complutense, Madrid. 
Ph.D. Hispanic and Luso- Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, University of Minnesota.
Academic interests: twentieth century peninsular literature and comparative literature, Spanish theater, Spanish cultural studies, mythology, literary theory, film studies and translation. Published the following two book translations from Greek to Spanish: PREVELAKIS, Pandelis, El ángel en el pozo. Madrid: Clásicas, 2000. URANIS, Kostas. España: sol y sombra. Madrid: Cátedra, 2001 (wrote introduction study).

Alexis Howe     #5052     Richarda P20, CSB
B.A. Spanish and Latin American Studies, St. Cloud State University
M.A. Hispanic Literature, University of Minnesota
Ph.D. in progress, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, University of Minnesota
Academic Interests: Contemporary Latin-American literatures and cultures, human rights, Chilean post-coup narratives, the representation of trauma and mourning, testimonio

Roy Ketchum     #5272     Richarda P18, CSB
B.A. Program of Liberal Studies (Great Books Seminar), University of Notre Dame
M.A. Hispanic Literature, University of Minnesota
Ph.D. (in progress) Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Linguistics, University of Minnesota
Academic interests: Contemporary Latin-American narrative with emphasis on Southern Cone literature and culture, Latin-American cultural studies, film, poetry, revistas culturales, collective memory, legacies of authoritarianism, globalization, migrations

Sarah Kraemer Schaaf   #5271     Richarda P37, CSB
B.A. Spanish and Cultural Anthropology, Saint Cloud State University
M.A. Hispanic Linguistics, University of Florida
Academic Interests: Sociolinguistics, Spanish in contact with English, Heritage Speakers of Spanish, SLA, Dialectology

Marina Martín    #3078    Quad 477, SJU 
Licenciatura, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Ph.D. University of Virginia 1990
Interests: Filsofía, literatura, arte

Elena Sánchez Mora    #3076    Quad 469, SJU
Education: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
M.A. History
M.A. Hispanic Literature
Ph.D. Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures from the University of Minnesota
Academic interests: Spanish Women Writers of the XIXth and XXth centuries,
Hispanic Popular Culture, Images of God and Christ in Spanish and Latin American poetry, Voice of children in Latin American Narrative.

Corey Shouse Tourino   #2728    Quad 257D, SJU
M.A. University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. Candidate University of Pittsburgh
Academic interests: 20th-century Latin-American fiction, the post-boom novel, film studies, testimonio, cultural studies

Vilma Walter    #5991    HAB 105A, CSB
M.A. in Second Language Education: Spanish/ESL from St. Cloud State University
B.A. from Eastern Kentucky University.
Attended Universidad del Pacífico, Lima-Perú
Research Interests: Chinese immigration to the Americas. Changing roles of women in Latin America. Cultural and linguistic differences in Spanish speaking countries.

Gladys White    #3107    Quad 475, SJU
B.A. Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
M.A. University of Washington
Ph.D. Stanford University
Specialization: Literature of the Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Spanish American Literature

Thorpe Running, Professor Emeritus of Spanish
B.A. Concordia College
M.A. University of Wisconsin
Ph.D. Inter-American University
Ph.D. in Spanish at University of Minnesota
Interests: 20th century Latin American Literature and Contemporary Poetry from Latin America

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